1,025 lawyers from Northern and Eastern Syria and other parts of Syria who participated in the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, Solution to the Kurdish Question" campaign applied to Amnesty International.
Within the scope of the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, Solution to the Kurdish Question" campaign, which was launched on 10 October in 74 different cities around the world, 1,025 lawyers in Northern and Eastern Syria and other parts of Syria applied to Amnesty International. Within the scope of the work led by the Syrian Lawyers Initiative to Defend Leader Abdullah Öcalan, 1,025 lawyers signed the petition in November and December. The collected signatures were sent to Amnesty International, along with a message prepared in English.
The signatures were also sent to Asrın Law Office, which provided the legal defense of Abdullah Öcalan.
The message said: “We are a group of lawyers and human rights activists who established an initiative with the aim of securing the release of Mr Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned for nearly twenty-five years.
Mr Öcalan is a political prisoner who fought for the freedom of the Kurdish people with the aim of resolving the Kurdish question in Turkey and in the region more generally.”
