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To the Freedom for Öcalan campaign

About us

The Freedom for Öcalan campaign is a UK trade union-backed initiative to secure the release of imprisoned Kurdish political prisoner Abdullah Öcalan.

In 2017 the annual meeting of the TUC voted unanimously for a motion calling for Mr Öcalan's immediate release and a return to peace talks between Turkey and representatives of the Kurdish people.

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About Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan is the recognised leader of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and beyond. He speaks for the Kurdish people’s aspirations for freedom from political and cultural oppression, for democracy and peace.

From his prison cell, Öcalan has led a campaign for peace and a democratic solution. He has written books explaining his ideas on how democratic peace can be achieved through a process of negotiation. His ‘Road Map to Peace’ has inspired millions of Kurds, in Turkey and beyond, to seek the democratic path to freedom within the existing borders of the country. 

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Supporters

I am extremely proud that last year our union’s conference endorsed a resolution demanding that the Turkish authorities uphold human and workers’ rights and seeking a democratic settlement with its Kurdish majority which must include Ocalan’s release.
Manuel Cortes
General Secretary TSSA
Visiting hunger striker Leyla Güven with the peace delegation for freedom for Öcalan. Leyla is on her 100th day. An elected member of the Turkish Parliament, she is asking that her country recognises its own laws on human rights & lets Abdullah Öcalan have visiting rights. We must get the international community,& especially the EU, to recognise its responsibility & stop turning a blind eye on Turkish matters because of fears of mass immigration.
Maxine Peake
Actor & Playwright
We appeal to the government of Turkey to immediately break the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, and thus open up the way for peace negotiations. Öcalan has been held in a state of aggravated isolation since 2015, and has not been allowed to contact a lawyer since 2011, in violation of the most basic human rights. The policy of isolation that has been imposed upon Öcalan, and the three others imprisoned on İmralı Island, is not only in violation of International Law and the European Convention on Human Rights, which Turkey is obliged to uphold as a member of the Council of Europe.
Tony Burke
Assistant General Secretary Unite the Union

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