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On Human Rights International Initiative Postbox 10 05 11 • D-50445 Cologne Tel: +49-221-1 30 15 59 • Fax: +49-221-790 76 10 30 www.freeocalan.org • [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. Over three thousand people in Nicholas Rea (House of Lords, UK), Walid Jumblatt (Leader prison and all around the world joined this hunger strike, which lasted two of the Progessive Socialist Party, Lebanon), Rudi Vis (MP hundred days, with eight people losing their lives. As part of the Labour, UK) Paul Flynn (MP International Initiative, we issued the “ for Labour, UK), Máiréad Keane C all Ending the Isolation of (Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland), Abdullah Öcalan and all Political Prisoners,” on 12 January 2019, to direct Domenico Gallo (form. Senator, Italy), Livio Pepino attention to the hunger strike and its demands. There was widespread (Magistratura Democratica, Italien), Xabier Arzalluz support around the world, and, on 23 January 2019, fifty Nobel Prize (President PNV, Spain), Tony laureates declared statement that they supported our call. As Benn (MP Labour, UK), Alain with a separate Calles (President MRAP, a result of the hunger strike, the isolation of Öcalan was temporarily lifted, France), Gianna Nannini (Singer-songwriter, Italy), allowing his lawyers to visit him five times. Geraldine Chaplin (Actress, Spain), David MacDowall (Writer, UK), Dietrich Kittner However, despite the repeated promise of the Turkish authorities to no (Cabaret artist, Germany), Alice Walker (Writer, USA), longer enforce arbitrary restrictions on Öcalan’s legal right to receive visits Franca Rame (Writer and actress, Italy), Chris Kutschera from his family and lawyers, in 2020, Öcalan was allowed only one visit (Writer, France), Prof. Dr. and one telephone call. Kurdish people recognize the connection between Jean Ziegler (MP and Publicist, Switzerland), Prof. the aggression they experience and Abdullah Öcalan’s aggravated isolation. Dr. Angela Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz, Hence it came as no surprise to them that Öcalan’s isolation is accompanied USA), Prof. Dr. Norman Paech by Turkey’s invasion of several cities in Kurdish-populated northern Syria, (International Law, Germany), Prof. Dr. Werner air strikes against the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq and mass arrests, Ruf (International Law, Germany), Prof. Dr. Gerhard extra judicial killings, and torture of Kurds in Turkey. Stuby (International Law, Germany), Hans Branscheidt (medico international, Ger- Despite being bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and many) thus the decisions of Council of Europe bodies, including the CPT, Turkey is unhindered in its continued use of İmralı Island Prison as a site of lawlessness. The longer Öcalan can be kept in isolation without Turkey receiving any sanctions from Europe, whose human rights criteria Turkey committed itself to meeting, the more Turkey feels that it can repress and attack Kurds without experiencing any repercussions. In the message Öcalan delivered to his lawyers during their first visit after the hunger strike, he reiterated his call for social reconciliation and peace International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan—Peace in Kurdistan” 2 negotiations: “The creation of geographies based on ethnicity and a single nation is an inhuman fabrication of modernity that denies our roots and our origins,” he wrote. “A great responsibility falls on all of us to create an equal, free and democratic country of all peoples and cultures.” Today, 10 December 2020, marks seventy-two years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. We have again not heard from Abdullah Öcalan, and today marks thirteen days since a new hunger strike began in prisons all over Turkey. We insist that Öcalan can and must play a central role in any effort to end the isolation of the Kurdish people and to create an environment where all people in Turkey and the greater Middle East can coexist peacefully. Our demand for Öcalan’s freedom finds increasing support as he makes his way into different intellectual and political milieus through his books, translated into a number of languages, and the implementation of his philosophy in different locations. It is due to the resonance of his ideas in the hearts and minds of people that our latest appeal for Öcalan’s freedom was signed by a diversity of democrats, defenders of peace and activists from around the world. We call on everyone to push this demand forward and to not let up until the regime at the İmralı Island Prison is brought down and our goals are achieved: Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan. International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan” Cologne, 10 December 2020 International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan—Peace in Kurdistan” 3 Signature Campaign The Time Has Come: Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Between 2013 and 2015, a staggering 10.3 million people worldwide signed the following state"ent: I su##ort the demand “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and the political prisoners in Turkey”. Öcalan’s freedom will mark a brea%through for the democrati*ation of Turkey and peace in Kurdistan' $ore than five years later, this is still true. In 2015, after Turkish President Recep Ta''ip Erdo+an ended se&eral years of talks between the (urkish state, Abdullah Öcalan, and the PKK, he launched a new stage of aggressive and violent escalation in Turke', Ira-, and S'ria! In recent months Erdo+an waged war not onl' against the Kurds but all the neighbours of Turke' including Libya C'prus the border with Greece and Nagorno2 Karabakh3Artsakh! $eanwhile, the people of North and East S'ria inspired by Öcalan and his prison writings, have transformed their land into a ma4or bastion of peaceful coe5istence and de"ocracy despite Turke'6s constant and ongoing military attacks! Öcalan’s ongoing incarceration and the inhu"ane isolation to which he re"ains subjected the massive repression inside the Kurdish regions of Turke' and the attacks on North and East S'ria are all aspects of the sa"e o&erall approach ta)en by the Turkish state: to attack the forces of de"ocracy and especiall' the Kurds b' all means possible! 7nfortunatel', international institutions have refrained fro" providing an ade-uate response to this deteriorating situation and the Council of Europe along with the European Court for Hu"an Rights and the Co""ittee against Torture (CPT: have all failed to guarantee e&en the most basic hu"an rights for Abdullah Öcalan on İ"ralı Island! Abdullah Öcalan is the most important s'"bol of the struggle against the repression of freedo" and de"ocracy in Turke' and the wider Middle East. His firm stand for peaceful coexistence, his relentless efforts for a peaceful resolution of the conflict between the Kurds and the Turkish state have pro&en to be effective. This makes his freedo" e&er more important for all peace2loving people! ?is is wh' we sa': The Time Has Come—Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan! Please su##ort us with your signature and join the struggle for freedom, democracy and peace for the Kurds and all peo#les of the Middle East' Carry this message to your local councils, assemblies, trade unions, community organizations, parties and persuade them to join the worldwide chorus of voices for Öcalan’s freedom. Signatories by 10 December 2020 Organisations Associazione Giuristi Democratici (@e"ocratic Law'ers: Ital'; COBAS (Confederation of trade unions: Ital'; COBAS teachers, Ital':; CSDA (Coordination for Support of Afghan wo"en) Ital'; CUB (trade union confederation) Ital'; Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC: Ital'; PSI 9Italian Socialist Party, Parma branch:A Potere al Popolo! 9Power to the People, Parma branch:A Scuola popolare Antonio Gramsci, 0hilarza SardiniaA Sinistra Italiana (Italian Left, part':A USI – CIT 9trade union) Ital'; Sindicatos de Trabajadores de la Enseñanza (.(Es2Intersindical: Spain; Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera, Spain; Confederación General der Trabajo en el Estado Español (C0(: International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan—Peace in Kurdistan” 4 .pain; Confederación Intersindical, Spain; Intersindical Valenciana, Spain; Asociación Libre de Abogadas y Abogados (A/A: Spain; Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (C1(:, Spain; CGT Metal $adrid Spain; CNT Norte, Spain; CNT Santander; Sindicato de administración pública, C0(, BarcelonaA Endavant (OSAN), CataloniaA Festiclown, Galicia; Pallasos en Rebeldia, Spain; Coordinación de Apoyo al Pueblo Mapuche, Madrid Spain.
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