‘The ‘Tîrêjên Rojê’ Campaign launched by the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (TJK-E) on 2 September as part of the ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’ was declared to the public in front of the United Nations (UN) Office in Geneva, Switzerland.

Responding to the call of the Kurdish Women's Union of Switzerland (YJK-S), women gathered at Nations Square, where the UN Office is located in Geneva. The attitudes of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), the Council of Europe and the European Parliament towards the isolation of Öcalan were exposed with banners representing the ‘three monkeys’.

A press statement was made after a minute of silence in memory of journalists Gulistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn, who were killed in an UCAV attack by the occupying Turkish state on 23 August in Sulaymaniyah.

Helin Sağlam read the press statement in French on behalf of YJK-S. Sağlam drew attention to the resistance of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı and said that Öcalan put forward a women's libertarian, ecological and democratic life model as an alternative to capitalist modernity and for this reason he has been under absolute isolation for more than 25 years.

Helin Sağlam continued: “Abdullah Öcalan's freedom is of vital importance for the peaceful solution of the Kurdish question, democratisation of Turkey and peace in the region. Abdullah Öcalan produces policies in favour of negotiation and dialogue against violence and conflicts. He continues to inspire women's movements around the world as he defends a model of life in which women take the lead against patriarchal oppression. The philosophy of Democratic Confederalism offers a vision of a world based on nature, society and direct democracy as a way of life. This vision has been realised in Northern and Eastern Syria. For all these reasons, we renew our call to the CPT, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the UN and all authorised institutions and organisations. Implement your own laws, put pressure on the Turkish state to implement its own laws and engage in dialogue. Guarantee that the Turkish state respects human rights and international norms.”

After Helin Sağlam's statement, YJK-S spokesperson Selma Sürer made a speech. Selma Sürer gave information about the ‘Tîrêjên Rojê’ campaign and stated that this campaign is a possibility of salvation for all humanity, women and nature by shedding light on all the darkness created by the capitalist system.

Selma Sürer said that the campaign would continue uninterruptedly with actions and activities until 12 October and called on all women, especially Kurdish women and all women in favour of democracy, to support the campaign.

YJK-S members then performed a short skit. The women then visited the tent in front of the UN Office, where the sit-in protest demanding Abdullah Öcalan's freedom has been held every Wednesday since 25 January 2021.