Leader Ocalan's thought represents  glimmer of hope for humanity

 The international conspiracy that targeted the leader Ocalan during the years 1998-1999 brought about a major shift in the development of Kurdish national awareness, as protests against the conspiracy extended to the mountains and plains, squares and prisons, and millions of Kurds rallied around the leader.

 The conspirators did not expect that millions of people would stand up against the conspiracy that took place as an international attack against the Kurdish people and their free future.

 New Stage of Struggle

 The struggle for the freedom of Kurdistan entered a new stage, as the Kurdish people thwarted the conspiracy from the beginning, through their struggle for freedom. The conspirators had hoped to extinguish the flame of the struggle forever, with the kidnapping of the leader Abdullah Ocalan. However, the struggle entered a new stage; because the democratic, environmental and women's liberation model proposed by the leader, not only contributed to the entry of the Kurdish people's freedom struggle into a new stage; but also contributed to paving the way for the socialist and democratic struggle all over the world.

 The “You Cannot Block Our Sun” activities have established a new approach to struggle against capitalist domination. Today, this approach to struggle against genocide, exploitation and conspiracy continues in the mountains of Kurdistan.

The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Kurdish and Kurdistani people declared October 9, 1998 a dark day and launched continuous activities to make their voices heard all over the world.

 “You Cannot Block Our Sun” Protests

 Mehmet Halid Ural closely followed the conspiracy phase that began in October 1998. He held a meeting with his fellow detainees in prison on October 8 and said: “There is a very comprehensive attack on our leader, I am very careful, something must be done for sure, but what is it?”, and launched their operation that very night.

 Ural, who left a letter before his martyrdom which stated: “My anger, hatred and revenge are very great, but in prison I cannot do that against the enemy. Through this operation I want to show my loyalty to you once again, and through this operation I want to show my hatred, anger and malice towards the enemy, and once again I want to take revenge. I did not have the honor of meeting and seeing you, but I always feel you in my heart. Of course, my operation will not force the Turkish state to take any step, but they will see that the Kurdish people will turn the world into a prison for them."

 Signature Campaigns in Northern Kurdistan

 Between February 1 and May 1, 2004, the Independent Youth Movement (BAGEH) submitted petitions titled “Our Will Has Been Taken Over” to the Turkish Parliament as part of the “Freedom for the Leader” campaign. Only in 12 cities and districts in Northern Kurdistan, 94,941 petitions were collected and submitted to the Turkish Assembly.

In Northern Kurdistan, the Free Citizens Movement carried out the “Ocalan My Political Will” campaign between June 2005 and May 2006 in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, collecting 2 million 43 thousand signatures. In Europe, 1 million 200 thousand signatures were collected as part of the same campaign. The signatures were sent to European institutions.

 Death Fast

 Political prisoners also started a hunger strike on September 12, 2012, with the aim of improving the health, safety and physical freedom of the leader Abdullah Ocalan. The event, which later turned into a death fast, concluded with a message from the leader on the 68th day.

 In September 2016, an indefinite hunger strike began in Amed, with the participation of 50 volunteers led by DTK, HDK, KJA, DBP and HDP, demanding a meeting with Leader Abdullah Ocalan. The leader brother, Mehmet Ocalan, went to Imrali on the eighth day of the hunger strike, and the activity concluded after meeting with leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Hunger Strike and Guerrilla Operations

Leyla Guven, the co-chair of KCD, also started an indefinite hunger strike on November 8, 2018 against isolation, after that the political prisoners Yonca Akici, Zülkuf Gezen, Uğur Çakır, Ayten Biget, Zehra Saglam, Medya Çınar, Seraj Yüksek, and Mahsum Bamay set themselves on fire in prison and were martyred. As a result of the hunger strike and death fast, the lawyers met with the leader Abdullah Ocalan 5 times and the hunger strike and death fast were ended at the call of the leader Abdullah Ocalan.

 3 million signatures in NE Syria

 In North and East Syria, the Freedom for Leader Abdullah Ocalan Initiative was founded on October 9, 2019, by many politicians, lawyers, doctors, and Kurdish, Arab, Syriac, and Armenian sheikhs.

On February 14, 2021, the Syrian Lawyers Initiative was founded to protect Leader Abdullah Ocalan. The most important work of these initiatives was that 691 lawyers sent a letter to the Turkish Ministry of Justice on September 19, 2022, requesting to go to Imrali. The initiative also collected 2,646,211 signatures in 2023 in North and East Syria, and sent them to the United Nations Committee Against Torture. In the same year, 1,025 lawyers in North and East Syria and Syria submitted a request to Amnesty International to meet with the leader and end the torture and genocide regime.

 It's Time for Freedom

 On September 10, 2020, the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) launched the "It's Time for Freedom" campaign, and millions of people, including artists, academics, politicians, intellectuals and celebrities, joined it. Marches were organized all over the world despite the Corona virus, and many activities were held in four parts of Kurdistan as part of the campaign.

 On January 11, 2021, the Kurdish Action Group in South Africa (KHRAG) and the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) launched a campaign under the slogan "  Ocalan Freedom represents Equal Peace in Turkey". Many institutions joined the initiative and letters were sent to the United Nations.

On November 27, 2020, political prisoners in prisons in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan also started a hunger strike

 More than 2,000 prisoners in 107 prisons participated in this action, with strikes in Lavrio camp in Greece and Makhmour camp in central Iraq.

 On February 15, 2021, more than a hundred world-renowned artists, journalists and writers published a declaration entitled "Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan".

 For more than 20 years, the leader Abdullah Ocalan hشas turned his presence in the Syrian arena into a source of will and thought for the Kurdish society, in addition to developing national awareness and charting the path of struggle.

 The 2004 uprising was considered a solid foundation for the July 19 Revolution in Rojava.

 The spirit of resistance and uprising that the leader spreaded in Rojava and Syria became the basis for the protection system and the military successes, the leader Abdullah Ocalan became a source of strength and basic morale for the youth who joined with a sacrificial spirit in regiments within the ranks of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Women's Protection Units (YPJ).

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