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[email protected] ”Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan — Peace in Kurdistan“ First Signatories in 1999 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire On Human Rights Day: “The Time Has Come—Freedom (Nobel Peace Prize, Ireland), Dario Fo (Nobel Prize in for Abdullah Öcalan” Literature, Italy), Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Nobel Peace Developments in recent decades have proven that without solving the Prize, Argentina), José Ramos-Horta (Nobel Peace Kurdish question many of the problems in Turkey and the Middle East Prize, East Timor), José Saramago (Nobel Prize in cannot be solved. Abdullah Öcalan is not only a strong leader and a symbol Literature, Portugal), Danielle of freedom for Kurds, he is also the only person who has proposed a Mitterrand (Foundation France Liberté, France), comprehensive program to achieve democratization and peace in the region. Ramsey Clark (form. Attorney General, USA), Uri Avnery Therefore, since Abdullah Öcalan was abducted and placed in İmralı Island (Gush Shalom, Israel), Noam Prison in 1999, the Kurdish people and their friends around the world Chomsky (Linguist, Publicist, MIT, USA), Alain Lipietz (MEP, struggle to end his isolation and imprisonment, while promoting a just and France), Pedro Marset Campos (MEP, Spain), Lord political solution to the Kurdish question. Eric Avebury (House of Lords, UK), Harry Cohen (MP Labour, UK), Cynog Dafis (MP The last mass protest that aimed to end the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan Plaid Cymru, Wales, UK), Lord Raymond Hylton (House of occurred in 2018/19, when Leyla Güven, an MP of HDP (Peoples’ Lords, UK), Lord John Democracy Party) initiated a hunger strike.