On the 22nd anniversary of the February 15 conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, La Marseillaise newspaper was published with the headline "Freedom for Öcalan".

The newspaper, featuring a picture of Abdullah Öcalan in its full-page headline, devoted 4 pages to the subject.

The special issue covered various stories under subheadings: "The story of the Kurdish Mandela", "Regional political officials and associations demanding his freedom", "Öcalan's ideas go beyond the borders (interview with Eyyüp Doru)", "Why should we remove the PKK from the list of terrorist organizations?”, “Öcalan generation: These young people mobilized for a political solution in Kurdistan…” and “Our freedom and theirs are intertwined”.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Léo Purguette, wrote the following in Monday’s special issue; "It is time for France to remove the PKK from the list of terrorist organizations and take action for the freedom of Öcalan, the Mandela of the Kurds.”

La Marseillaise newspaper was founded by the insurgents during the Nazi occupation in 1943 as the regional newspaper of the south. The communist-leaning newspaper opened its doors to components of all social movements in 1997. Distributed in Bouches-du-Rohne and Var regions, the newspaper also has a weekly version in the Occitanie district.

In recent weeks, high profile newspapers in many countries of Europe have given wide coverage to declarations demanding the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.