Daily reminders for the CPT to do their duty
Every day the people who work in the office of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) see the vigil for Öcalan on the path outside. And many times a year the road becomes full of noisy demonstrators with yellow flags bearing Öcalan’s image. Often the Committee is visited by Kurdish politicians and…
Scottish Trade Union Congress passes motion for Öcalan’s freedom
The following motion was passed by the STUC at their Annual Congress in Dundee on 17 April Free Ocalan ‘‘That this Congress notes that the Kurdish question in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey is one of the major unresolved problems of the Middle East. The conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish freedom movement…
Öcalan’s lawyer, Faik Özgür Erol, at the Council of Europe
This is a translation of the speech given by Faik Özgür Erol at the press conference on Political Prisoners in Turkey held at the Council of Europe on Wednesday 17 April 2024 There is a prison in Turkey. Since March 2020, no one from outside has been allowed to enter. It is an island prison…