STRASBURG, — Following the historic march from Geneva to Strasbourg in the last winter and the 52-day-long hunger strike in Strasbourg, Kurds kick-start an indefinite event titled as ‘Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan Vigil’ on 25 June 2012.The campaign is aimed at urging the European Council, European Parliament, European Union countries and western countries like the USA to “stop their political, military and economic support to Turkey, for the freedom of the Kurdish Leader Mr Abdullah Ocalan and for the recognition of the Kurdish peoples’ status in all parts of Kurdistan”.
The Vigil is reported to continue until the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan is released and obtains his freedom.
The organisers pointed out that “with this event, we wish to express that we feel with each passing day we will progress Mr Ocalan closer to freedom and due to this, as foremost being the Kurdish women, men, teens, kids, and revolutionaries, intellectuals, democrats and progressivists from Turkey as well as friends of Kurdish people, we will be watching at the Vigil Point in front of Council of Europe”.