Young women demonstrate for Abdullah Öcalan's freedom in Strasbourg

Young women kicked off their demonstration for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan in Strasbourg's Clebert Square. The action will continue until 7 July.

Members of the Movement of Young Fighting Women (TekoJIN) and internationalist young women started their protests that will continue until 7 July as part of the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question" campaign that was launched globally in October 2023.

For the series of actions organised under the motto Rêwîtiya Azadiyê (Freedom Journey), activists wearing t-shirts with the portrait of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan opened stands with Öcalan's books in Kleber square and in front of Strasbourg central train station. The women told passers-by about the isolation regime imposed on the Kurdish leader in the İmralı Island Prison where he has been held since 1999.

Roj Azad made a statement in Kurdish on behalf of TekoJIN and Elisa Ginzburg in English on behalf of internationalist women.

The statement pointed out that conspiratorial forces sacrifice societies for their own purposes, and that the fact that Abdullah Öcalan, the architect of the democratic modernity paradigm aiming at the freedom of societies, has not been heard from for 40 months is a grave unlawfulness.

The statement emphasised that young women will be in continuous action for the physical freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and said, "With the action we started today, we state that we will participate in the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question" campaign with a stronger will."