While the Qers branch of the Great Freedom March was welcomed with great enthusiasm in Bazîd, where they passed through Îdir, DEM Party Bitlis Deputy Huseyin Olan said: "The dreams of the mentality that said 'Imaginary Kurdistan is buried here' have been shattered."
A lawsuit was filed against 71 people who protested in Kadıköy district last year regarding the international conspiracy launched against PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan on October 9, 1998.
Great Freedom Marcher DEM Party Deputy Zeki Irmez stated that the isolation imposed in Imralı has spread to Turkey and said that everyone must take action against it.
IHD Istanbul Branch President Gulseren Yoleri stated that they asked the CPT to visit Imralı, where multiple rights violations took place, and to take some coercive measures on the government.
ESP executives, who went on a 3-day hunger strike for the freedom of PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan, said: "The person who will bring peace is Ocalan" and saluted the "Great Freedom March".
The hunger strike in prisons demanding "Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan and a solution to the Kurdish issue" has entered its 69th day.
The situation of Rojnews editor Süleyman Ahmet is unknown. Ahmet is reportedly being held in the unofficial detention center of KDP's intelligence agency Parastin.
Stating that migration continues in the cities hit by the earthquake, Veysel Moray from the Mezopotamya Migration Monitoring and Research Association emphasized that non-governmental organizations must produce solution-oriented policies against this situation.
Socialists in Europe started a 3-day hunger strike simultaneously in the cities of Cologne, Paris, London and Basel against the isolation of PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
After the military operation launched in Bagok Mountain rural area, 5 rural neighborhoods were declared "Temporary Special Security Zone".
Explosion sounds are rising in the rural areas of Bagok Mountain, where a military operation has been launched.
Kasım Karataş, who was released from prison after 33 years, said: "Our only wish is for Mr. Abdullah Ocalan to regain his physical freedom."
The Wan branch of the “Great Freedom March” was welcomed in Şemzînan with the slogan “Bijî berxwedana zindanan (Long live resistance of the dungeons)”. After the welcome, the marchers danced the "freedom" halay.
Speaking at the "Great Freedom March", DEM Party Deputy Omer Ocalan said: "The only interlocutor for the solution of the Kurdish issue is Mr. Ocalan. Our struggle will continue until freedom is achieved."
Qers, where Abdullah Ocalan started his Eastern tour in 1976, became the first stop of the Great Freedom March after 48 years. Ömer Ocalan, one of the marchers, said, "If only Qers Castle had a tongue, it could tell how the Kurds sprouted with the seeds of freedom sown that day."