News Center - The Kevana Zerin Women's Culture Movement has released a written statement condemning the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. “No news has been received from leader Apo, who has been held under aggravated isolation, for more than 20 months,” the statement said.

Criticizing the attitude of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), the movement said in the statement, “After the CPT announced that a delegation visited Imrali and met leader Apo, the Kurdish people and their friends learned that the CPT did not meet leader Apo. This caused serious concern and this concern has turned into anger due to the attitude of the international organizations that violate their own law.”

‘The conspiracy continues in different forms’

The statement also said that Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and Kurdish people have been responding to all the tricks by resisting for years. “However, the iinternational conspiracy against our leader, who is the redline for Kurdish women and our people, has continued for 24 years in different forms. This new process, in which the CPT gets involved, poses a serious threat to the physical existence of our leader,” the statement said.

Call on all artists and intellectuals

In the statement, the Kevana Zerin Women's Culture Movement called on all artists and intellectuals, particularly women artists, to fulfill their social duties by taking to the streets until the CPT releases a statement about Abdullah Öcalan and until Abdullah Öcalan meets his lawyers and family members. “If we can produce music, theatre plays, films and art works in Kurdish today, we owe it to the heroes who struggle with the philosophy of leader Apo. We will resist through art until we break the isolation imposed on our leader.”