As we approach the 11th anniversary of the Vigil for Öcalan outside the Council of Europe – and following on from a day’s conference in the European Parliament on the law and prisons in Turkey – we held a (multilingual) press conference at the Vigil. The speakers were MEPs François Alfonsi from Corsica, who is a member of the European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament, and Chris MacManus from Ireland, who is a member of the Left Group; the academic, Louis Lemkow from Catalonia, who was one of the speakers at the conference; and Zübeyir Aydar from the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK).