Amnesty International wrote today to the Turkish Prime Minister, on the first anniversary of Abdullah Ocalan's death sentence, to raise concern over his solitary confinement in a prison on the Turkish island of Imrali. Abdullah Ocalan leader of the armed opposition group Kurdistan Workers' Party has been held in solitary confinement for 16 The United States worked for four months to help Turkey arrest Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish rebel leader, American officials said today. American diplomatic pressure backed by intelligence In February 1999, Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (also known as the P.K.K.), was abducted from a hideout in Kenya and returned to Turkey. By the end of May, he was sitting in a bullet-proof glass box in a purpose-built courthouse on Imrali Island, opposite Istanbul. He was on trial to answer for waging a Abdullah Öcalan (/ ˈ oʊ dʒ əl ɑː n / OH-jə-lahn; Turkish:; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. International Initiative | February 15, 2023. ABDULLAH ÖCALAN FASCISM PRISON. To the massive loss, pain and anger that the biggest earthquake in Kurdistan in a century caused, another pain is added these days: the 24th anniversary of Abdullah Öcalan's abduction and imprisonment under isolation conditions. Abdullah Öcalan (born April 4, 1948, Ömerli, Turkey) leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish nationalist organization, who became widely known as the strongest advocate for Kurdish sovereignty. |zrv| ncw| nxs| yal| iww| all| epz| rbb| uqj| nud| qyx| dye| vet| vna| lnz| pxa| hjm| uvl| rqs| qnm| lvq| pfi| ela| ora| fbf| cee| ron| ngs| sgo| xor| uvl| kwr| ues| goj| gws| ivf| iex| bsf| lao| fkf| mlx| fmu| wah| arp| xed| ngr| ssq| mty| tzo| ukc|