‘Freedom for Öcalan’ vigil launched in Vienna

The ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ vigil started in Vienna will last two months.

Democratic Kurdish Society Center (DTKM) has started a vigil in Austrian capital city Vienna to demand freedom for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan who is held in aggravated isolation in the İmralı Island Prison in Turkey.

The vigil is planned to last two months, till the last week of December, and is set to be organized by a commission under DTKM in front of the Vienna Karlplatz Opera House at between 14:00 – 17:00 every Saturday and Sunday.

In its first week, the vigil was started by women’s movement Avesta. Activists unfurled a banner reading “Freedom for Ocalan, status for Kurdistan” and handed out leaflets informing about the isolation of the Kurdish leader.

Speaking on behalf of DTKM, Osman Yıldırım highlighted Turkey’s efforts to deepen the İmralı system on the 20th anniversary of the international conspiracy against Öcalan.

Addressing to all the Kurds living in Europe, Yıldırım continued; “Let’s fill the squares to crush the isolation that is being imposed on the whole Kurdish people and all Middle Eastern peoples in the person of our Leader.”

The statement ended with the announcement of a demonstration to be held in front of Vienna Stefhanplatz Dom church at 12:00 next Saturday.

The vigil will be taken over by the youth’s movement next week.