Arts and Culture

The world of culture, with its diverse, beautiful and creative forms of expression, has also shown its solidarity against Öcalan’s isolation.

On stage, plays such as “La celda sin noche” by playwright Galder Irusta, performed in the theater network of the Basque Country and was co-produced by Basque autonomous institutions. In Norway, a play titled ’Baqorban”, directed by Pia Maria Roll also sought to draw attention to the cause.
Musicians and composers have shown great solidarity in the struggle for the respect of human rights: in addition to the exceptional chamber opera “Öcalan” by
the Texan Nathan Felix, concerts have been organized in Italy, Spain, France and Germany with large audiences and will continue to be organized in the future.

Comic book authors also participated in their own way. Award-winning Scottish graphic novelist Sean Michael Wilson and illustrator Keko prepared “Freedom
Shall Prevail: The Struggle of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish People”: the first graphic novel to explore the life and struggle of Abdullah Öcalan. It was published on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

The famous Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare has drawn about and for Öcalan on several occasions.