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Öcalan was determined to travel to Amsterdam and face the accusations of terrorism. [87] Öcalan's capture led thousands of Kurds to hold worldwide protests condemning his capture at Greek and Israeli embassies. Kurds living in Germany were threatened with deportation if they continued to hold demonstrations in support of Öcalan.
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 ...
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
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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 ...
Öcalan was born on 3 October 1987 in Halfeti, Sanlıurfa, as daughter of Fatma Öcalan, the sister of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. She has a tourism degree from university. [ 2 ] On 23 December 2013, she visited her uncle at İmralı prison and became known to the media after she gave a press statement detailing the conversation ...
She was also engaged in the Kurdistan National Congress. [2] In 2012 she was the speaker of a hunger-strikers who demanded the liberation of the imprisoned Abdullah Öcalan , the founder of the PKK. [ 1 ]
Six months after an American man whisked his infant son out of Italy against the mother's wishes, a federal judge has ruled that she can return with the child to her native Italy.