A central march and rally are taking place in Cologne, Germany today as part of the international campaign ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a political solution to the Kurdish question’ launched on 10 October 2023. The demonstration is organized by the democratic Kurdish institutions and organizations in Europe and is supported by internationally renowned politicians, intellectuals, writers, academics and artists.

Tens of thousands of people from many countries started to gather in Cologne early in the morning. The meeting place for the march and rally organized to mark the 25th anniversary of the handing over of Abdullah Öcalan to Turkey on 15 February 1999 by an international conspiracy was in front of the DGB-Haus.

With posters and banners of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, countless people from Kurdistan and their friends in solidarity then gathered in the Siegburger Str Deutzer Wert on the banks of the Rhine where the rally is to be held.

Tens of thousands then started to march with giant posters of Abdullah Öcalan.

The mass continues marching over the Severinsbrücke bridge, carrying banners reading “Freedom for Öcalan”, “Free Öcalan”, chanting “A thousand salutes to İmralı”, “Biji Serok Apo” (Long Live Leader Öcalan).