Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan given new 6-month ban on lawyers’ visits

Abdullah Öcalan has been given a new 6-month ban on lawyers’ visits. Asrın Law Office will appeal to the Constitutional Court against the decision.


ANF
NEWS DESK
Thursday, 21 November 2024

According to Mezopotamya Agency, Abdullah Öcalan and the other three prisoners in Imrali, Ömer Hayri Konar, Veysi Aktaş and Hamili Yıldırım, have been given a new 6-month ban on lawyers’ visits.

The lawyers of Asrın Law Office applied to Bursa 2nd Execution Judgeship for a visit with Öcalan and the other prisoners, but instead they learned that a new 6-month ban had been given to their clients on 6 November. The lawyers were not informed about the reason for the ban.

The objections to the decision were rejected by Bursa High Criminal Court. The lawyers will now appeal to the Constitutional Court (AYM) against the decision.

Internationalist activists: Abdullah Öcalan's thoughts and philosophy give us hope

Expressing that the aggravated isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is against international law, internationalist activists said, “Abdullah Öcalan's thoughts and philosophy give us hope. We must fight together for his freedom.”


DENİZ İKE-ZİLAN KARATAŞ
COLOGNE
Thursday, 21 November 2024,

Tens of thousands of Kurds friends participated in a march and rally in Cologne, Germany on 16 November as part of the ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’ campaign that was launched globally in October 2023. The internationalists who participated in the rally conveyed the message ‘Abdullah Öcalan's greeting is the light of women's struggle’.

Internationalist activists Min Sommer and Sarah Berg, who participated in the rally, spoke to ANF and stated the following: “We must fight together for the physical freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and take a decisive stand.”

Min Sommer noted that Öcalan has been in isolation for 26 years in violation of all international laws and said, “The German government and the European Union talk about democracy and human rights, but they do nothing about it. They are acting in their own interests because they are continuing their arms deals with the Turkish state. They consider these relations with Turkey more important than the protection of human rights. This is because big German companies benefit from these relations. This is why the repression of the Kurds is increasing in Germany and this is a great hypocrisy. The international community and Germany must take action to end the isolation and ensure the physical freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.”

Sarah Berg, another young internationalist, stated that she participated in the rally for the physical freedom of Öcalan and said: “We came together here today for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and the crowd gathered here shows how important this demand is. Millions of people do not accept and condemn the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and the practices against international law. The existence and freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is a great source of hope for us internationalists. His thoughts and philosophy give us hope. We want to fight for this together and that is why we are here today.”

Colectiva Las Kompas vows to continue the struggle for ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan’

Colectiva Las Kompas expresses their anger at the Turkish state's continued isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and emphasises that they will continue to struggle together for his freedom.


ANF
NEWS DESK
Thursday, 21 November 2024

The Mexico-based women's collective Colectiva Las Kompas sent a letter to the Kurdistan Women's Freedom Movement and the people of Rojava.

In a letter sent by comrades of the Kurdistan Women's Movement in Abya Yala, the Collective expressed their happiness after learning that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is in good health and, but said they are very angry and resentful that the Turkish state continues to keep Öcalan in isolation and under constant torture. “For this reason, together with you, our comrades, we will continue to demand his freedom,” said the letter, which further included the following:

“We also see that the bombings of the fascist Turkish state have intensified in order to destroy the Kurdish people's struggle for freedom and the Autonomous Administration experience in Rojava, which has raised the hope of all peoples. We also see ourselves in this barbarity. Today, a massacre is also taking place in Mexico. With the help of the government, the war, which supposedly appears to be between the drug cartels, is in essence being waged against our peoples. In this context, murders of indigenous leaders, human rights defenders and journalists who protect the land are increasing. The Mexican state and gangs are forcibly arming young people. With these pressures, they force people to flee and leave their territories. Thus, they are trying to destroy the Zapatista autonomy and the resistance of indigenous peoples, which is the hope for our region. The Zapatistas have a new generation of youth and children who are trained to build a new world; they want to eliminate them.

The same thousand-headed monster (Hydra) is chasing us all over the world, but it cannot destroy us. We are outraged at all the suffering that has brought tears to our eyes in Rojava, Chiapas and many other places. We know that the source of all the disasters we are experiencing is this damned patriarchal capitalist system. We see that this monster tries to neutralise our resistance by creating in us a sense of helplessness. But at such moments, we turn to your struggle and draw strength and energy from your struggle and resistance. Your struggle insisting on love, honour and free coexistence in the midst of evil and war is a source of inspiration for us.

And here we are. We are with you in our territories, in the spaces of indigenous communities, in the cities and suburbs.”

The collective concluded its letter by recalling the words of Bety Cariño, the murdered female pioneer in Mexico: “As our sister and comrade Bety Cariño says, ‘We sow dreams and reap hope’ and we send our love, resistance and rebellion energy to you through this letter. Freedom for Öcalan, Jin, Jiyan, Azadi.”