FreeOcalan 4PoliticalSolution – a campaign video
Abdullah Öcalan is a Kurdish political leader seen by millions of Kurds globally as their political representative. In February 1999 he was abducted in an international intelligence operation and sent to Turkey. Öcalan has been in prison now for twenty-five years, barred from all contact with the outside world for years at a time. He…
‘I went to see Abdullah Öcalan three times’: an interview with a former member of the CPT
Jean-Pierre Restellini visited Abdullah Öcalan in prison three times as a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). In this interview for Medya Haber he talks about those visits in 1999, 2010, and 2013, in which Öcalan, who he describes as ‘a very sympathetic person’, became a ‘good friend’.…
Art and Culture for Öcalan’s freedom
Calling all artists and other creators of culture With Kurdish culture denied and banned by the Turkish state, campaigning through art sends an extra-strong message. The campaign for the Freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is calling on creative friends to use their skills to help highlight the campaign, FREEDOM FOR ABDULLAH ÖCALAN: A POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR…