The Kurdish Friendship Group held a panel at a women's festival held in Genoa, Italy. Journalist Zehra Doğan and writer Antonella de Biasi were among the speakers at the panel on the Kurdish issue and isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Posters of Abdullah Öcalan were hung in the hall where the panel was held.

After the speeches all participants raised the photos of Abdullah Öcalan.

The panel was attended by many women and ended with the slogans of "Viva Öcalan" and "Jin, jiyan, azadi".

The 14th edition of the Festival of Excellence for Women opened in Genoa and awarded Zehra Doğan the Hypatia 2020 Award.