Die globale Kampagne für die Freiheit des kurdischen Repräsentanten Abdullah Öcalan stößt in Norwegen auf großes Interesse. Über sechzig Prominente haben die Petition unterzeichnet, darunter Abgeordnete, Intellektuelle und Kunstschaffende. In dem Text wird Öcalan als Schlüsselfigur für eine Demokratisierung der Türkei und den Frieden in Kurdistan bezeichnet.

In Norwegen wird die Kampagne von einem siebenköpfigen Komitee geführt. Das Komitee besteht aus Menschen aus der norwegischen und kurdischen Community und sammelt Unterschriften.

Bei einigen der Unterzeichnenden handelt es sich um folgende Personen:

Petter Eide Member of Parliament – The Socialist Left Party

Bjørnar Moxnes Member of Parliament – Red Party Leader

Nicholas Wilkinson Member of Parliament – The Socialist Left Party

Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes Member of Parliament – The Socialist Left Party

Elias Tchaba (Unge Beirut) Artist

Kariane Westrheim Head of the EUTCC

Haci Akman Professor University of Bergen

Kjersti Ericsson Professor of Criminology

Jorun Gulbrandsen Educator and Author

Dag Solstad Author

Therese Bjørneboe Editor

Jan Olav Andersen Union leader in the Electricity and IT Association

Tore Linné Eriksen Historian and professor

Torstein Dahle Assistant Professor

Thomas Hylland Eriksen Professor of social anthropology

Knut Nærum Author

Seher Aydar Deputy Member of Parliament

Petter Gottschalk Professor

Heidi Marie Kriznik leader of the Norwegian Writers' Association

Magnus Engen Marsdal Head of Manifest tankesmie

Martin «Don Martin» Ahzami Raknerud Rapper (Artist)

Hanan Bennammar Visual Artist

Jan Erik Vold Author

Knut Kjeldstadli Professor

Bernt Hagtvedt Professor

Olav Asheim Professor

Sofia Rana Oslo City council representative

Heidi Larsen Deputy leader Akershus Socialist Left Party

Heming Olaussen Politician

Sara Baban Theater Artist

Pia Maria Roll Theater Artist and film director

Iman Meskini Actor

Marlon Langeland Actor

Helle Siljeholm visual artist/choreographer

Kai Johnsen Theatre director/Professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Tore Vagn Lid Theatre director/Professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Sigbjørn Skåden Sámi writer

Ketil Lund Former Justice of The Supreme Court of Norway and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists

Magnus Myhr Artist

Egill Pálsson Artistic director at Hålogaland Theatre

Ali Djabbary Artist

Martyn Reed Founder and Director of Nuart

Mette Brantzeg Theatre director

Rawdna Carita Eira Sámi writer

Tina Sofie Frostrud slam poet/artist

Theodor Barth Professor of Theory and Writing (Dr. Philos. Anthropology)

Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Anders Eiebakke Visual Artist

Siri Austeen Artist

Carle Lange Civil architect/professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer Artist

Erling Folkvord Former MP & Writer

Fadlabi Artist, Writer and Performer

Øystein Grønning Architect. Urbanist MNAL, head of AKULBI

Siri Broch Johansen Play Writer

Truls Lie chief editor Ny Tid og Modern Times Review

Sindre Bangstad Anthropologist

Asbjørn Grønstad Professor University of Bergen

Vanessa Baird Artist

Stig Berntsen Chief shop steward in the Trade Union / Deputy leader of the Trade Union Health, Social and Welfare

Mariann Enge editor and critic

Marius Kolbenstvedt Theatre Director

Shwan Dler Qaradaqai Visual Artist