For a peaceful democratic solution
The Freedom for Öcalan UK Trade Union Campaign welcomes recent positive developments in the ongoing peace and reconciliation efforts between Türkiye and Kurdish representatives. On 12 May 2025, the Kurdistan …
On 27 February 2025, imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan made a historic call titled “Peace and Democratic Society”, ushering a new process of democratic transformation aimed at resolving the Kurdish …
UK trade unions have a long-standing history of standing in solidarity with oppressed peoples worldwide and advocating for justice. For years, the movement has been actively involved in the Freedom …
Trade unions will re-double efforts to support the Kurdish political movement and all those in Turkey who are calling for peace, democracy, equality and human rights and are opposing the …
A huge thank you to the GMB union and its General Secretary Gary Smith for this action in support of the campaign and calling for the freedom of Öcalan, despite …
Many thanks to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), who held a fantastic action calling for the Freedom of Abdullah Öcalan at the 2022 conference in Stone, Staffordshire. …
The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen trade (ASLEF) union called for the release of Abdullah Öcalan at their 2022 conference held in Bournemouth. The union has been a …
Trade union general secretaries wrote to the UK Turkish ambassador condemning Turkey’s illegal invasion and Northern Iraq and incursions into North and East Syria and rejecting the Turkish states labelling …
At the NEU conference in Bournemouth of the National Teachers Union, the delegates took part in a fantastic solidarity action for the campaign and called for the release of Abdullah …
We are holding a fringe at the TUC on Monday lunchtime (12.30) in the Hilton Hotel Brighton in the Regency room. Below is the flyer and some social media memes, it would …