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The trial of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), began on 31 May 1999 and concluded on 29 June with a death sentence for treason and separatism. Öcalan was captured in February 1999 in Nairobi, Kenya and extradited to Turkey. He was imprisoned on the İmralı island in the Sea of Marmara
Abdullah Öcalan is a founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant group that initially aimed for an independent Kurdistan but later adapted its demands to focus on cultural and political rights for the Kurds. [3] He led the PKK and its struggle from bases in Lebanon and Syria until he was expelled from Syria in October 1998 ...
[113] [114] From 27 July 2011 until 2 May 2019 his lawyers have not been allowed to see Abdullah Öcalan. [115] From July 2011 until December 2017 his lawyers filed more than 700 appeals for visits, but all were rejected. [116] There have been held regular demonstrations by the Kurdish community to raise awareness of the isolation of Öcalan. [117]
Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, jailed 25 years ago, is again a focus of attention in Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally raised the possibility of his release in ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group's disbandment after his next meeting ...
Five people, including a baby boy and little girl, were found dead with gunshot wounds Saturday night inside an Atlanta-area apartment in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
[citation needed] PKK's chairman, Abdullah Öcalan, was proud of being from humble origins. It characterized its struggle mainly as an anti-colonial one, hence directing its violence against collaborators , i.e., Kurdish tribal chieftains, notables with a stake in the Turkish state, and also against rival organizations.
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