Abdullah Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949 in the village of Emara in the town of Khalafti in the (Urfa) Roha region.He is one of seven children of a poor, working family. He studied primary school in the village of Jebin, completed his preparatory studies in the town of Nizip in the city of Gaziantep, and in 1968 he completed secondary school at the Anatolian Vocational School of Surveying Engineering in Ankara, Armenia, adjacent to his village.He joined the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University in 1970, but later enrolled in the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1971 at Ankara University after being influenced by the Turkish revolutionary left led by Mahir Jayan. He finished his graduation with distinction.He participated in many political activities during his university life, and his first political activity was with the Turkish Revolutionary Left, which had a positive position regarding the right of the Kurdish people to self-determination in 1970 AD. He was arrested in April 1972 after holding a protest demonstration against the killing of Mahir Jayan and his companions. The nine.In Newroz in 1973, he formed an intellectual group of six people under the slogan “Kurdistan is a colony and requires freedom.” In 1975, he became president of the Higher Democratic Culture Education Association in Ankara.Ocalan, along with twenty-three of his companions, founded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party on November 27, 1978 in the village of Vis in Diyarbakir. On July 2, 1979, he entered Kobani, after the Turkish state committed massacres against the Kurdish people and arrested PKK cadres. The leader predicted With a military coup in Turkey, which happened, he began diplomatic work and worked to prepare the party for the next revolutionary phase at that time.Through an international conspiracy and as a first step, he was taken out of Syria on October 9, 1998, and on February 15, 1999, he was kidnapped in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and handed over to the Turkish state.On April 28, 1999, he was brought to a mock trial before the Turkish state on charges of high treason against Turkey in accordance with Article (125) of the Turkish Penal Code. He was sentenced to death on June 29, 1999 on charges of establishing and managing an armed terrorist organization, despite its lack of jurisdiction. According to what is established in public international law.Since that time and to date, Leader Ocalan has been in a solitary room on Imrali Island and in strict isolation.  With his enlightened thought and unlimited wisdom, he was able to thwart the conspiracy in achieving its goal, as he made the notorious Imrali prison a radiant center for free thought, from which the light of the philosophy of democratic civilization and the theory of the democratic nation radiated, while he proposed democratic confederation as a solution and a concept that contradicts the concept of the nation-state. By adopting and adopting it, every group, ethnicity and culture canA religious group, an intellectual movement, and a semi-independent economic unit to express itself. As a lofty goal and the greatest virtue that can be done for a society is to bring it to a free political, moral, democratic, ecological society in which the sexes are equal, and from here comes the great importance of his legal pleas and volumes of thought and philosophy, including, but not limited to, the Manifesto of Democratic Civilization.

It is a group that includes Syrian democratic figures, from Kurds, Arabs, Syriacs and other components. It was founded on 10-9-2019. With the aim of achieving freedom for Leader Abdullah Ocalan, which is considered the legal gateway to achieving the freedom of the peoples of the region, spreading civil peace and a culture of brotherhood, and consecrating the principles of democratic rights that a free life requires, in knowledge and practice.

Reasons for forming the initiative:

Leader Abdullah Ocalan is a rebel against all forms of domination and oppression of peoples and nations. He is a philosopher, thinker, people’s leader, and the creator and owner of the democratic confederal system.

– He was kidnapped in an international conspiracy unparalleled in contemporary human history, through violation of all laws and conventions related to human rights and international and humanitarian laws.

The formal trial by the Turkish state of Leader Ocalan and the lack of justification, especially the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, specifically Article 4 thereof, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, specifically Article 7 thereof, the European Convention on Human Rights, specifically Article 6 thereof, and the American Convention. Human Rights, specifically Article 8 thereof, and other international agreements, covenants and charters, especially the United Nations Charter.

What prevented him from his family, relatives, and lawyers was nothing but a reflection of that. He has been subjected to isolation, deprivation and torture for 24 years. His situation portends a real danger.

The exceptional status of Imrali Prison violates all international laws and conventions, as it relies on a system of illegal isolation and torture.

-The sensitivity of the leader’s status, his importance and his weight among the Kurdish people and all democrats in the world.

-The leader’s constant and repeated calls for peace and his ability to play the role of peace sponsor starting from Kurdistan and Turkey.

-His special status in Rojava resulting from his stay in Syria for nearly twenty years and the establishment of strong relations with our Kurdish people in Rojava and the components of Syria, including the Kurds, Arabs, Syriacs, Armenians, and others.

– The utmost and strategic importance of the thought and philosophy of Leader Abdullah Ocalan, given that it is the most appropriate solution for the Kurdish people and all peoples yearning for freedom, democracy, and constitutional rights.

-Great popular pressure in Syria and the world, to demand the freedom of leader Abdullah Ocalan.

– A call to freedom, thinkers, academics, jurists, lawyers, politicians, clerics and celebrities in the world.

– The subjective, human and moral feeling about the importance of the leader’s ideas and philosophy in solving human issues and because of his freedom’s crucial role in establishing peace and security and spreading and disseminating the culture of coexistence and brotherhood of peoples in the region.