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First of all thanks to everyone who has taken part in or supported the work our unions are undertaking in the campaign to win freedom for Abdullah Öcalan who is …
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News from the Freedom for Öcalan campaign
First of all thanks to everyone who has taken part in or supported the work our unions are undertaking in the campaign to win freedom for Abdullah Öcalan who is …
Ross Greer MSP has demanded answers from Facebook-owned social media giant Instagram after its censorship of pro-Kurdish Instagram posts. Two of his posts referring to imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan …
We are excited to invite you the next panel discussion titled ‘Kurdish Struggle for Democracy in Turkey’ organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Kurds and the Kurdish Peoples …
The historic hunger strike by Kurdish politicians and activists around the world has ended on its 200th day at the request of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, in a statement presented by …
On Tuesday, 7 May 2019, representatives of the 2019 International Peace Delegation to İmralı travelled to Strasbourg, France to meet with representatives of the office of the Secretary-General of the …
Is the isolation of Öcalan over? The Minister of Justice of Turkey, Abdulhamit Gül made a statement on 16 May 2019, declaring that the ban on lawyers being allowed to …
The co-chairs of the Freedom for Ocalan campaign, Christine Blower of NEU and Simon Dubbins of Unite, have issued the following statement on this week’s events and restated the call for the release of Mr Öcalan. This has …
Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers hosted a shock press conference today in Istanbul after two of his four-man team were allowed to spend an hour with Mr Öcalan at Imrali prison on …
The recent conference of the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) gave support to the Kurdish community living in Scotland and offered solidarity to the hunger strikers demanding an end to the isolation …
Plaid Cymru call for UK Government intervention as Welsh-Kurdish hunger striker Imam Sis from Newport in ‘critical condition’ Plaid Cymru has called on the UK Government to intervene ‘with urgency’ following …