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Turkey grants PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan 1st prison visit in 2 years |
2019-01-13 |
[Rudaw] Abdullah Ocalan, the placed in durance vileBook 'im, Mahmoud! founder and ideological godfather of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was granted his first visitor in more than two years, it emerged Saturday. Mohammed Ocalan was allowed to visit his brother on Saturday at the remote Imrali Island prison in the Marmara Sea, where he has been incarcerated since 1999. News of the visit was confirmed by his nephew Omar Ocalan and Parvin Buldan, chair of ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which has previously mediated between the PKK and the Mohammed Ocalan said his brother is in good health. The His lawyers have not been allowed to meet the PKK leader since July 2011. This is despite 768 requests to see their client. Ocalan founded the PKK in the 1980s, leading an armed uprising against the His struggle is underpinned by the leftist ideology of democratic confederalism, which calls for greater federal devolution of power. His ideas have influenced Kurdish opposition groups in Syria, Iraq, and Iran. It is unclear why the US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced in December the imminent withdrawal of the 2,000 US troops stationed in northern Syria, where they have been supporting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which makes up the backbone of the SDF, fears Turkey will attack them once US forces withdraw. Ankara has repeatedly said it intends to march east of the Euphrates River and crush the YPG, which it views as an extension of the PKK. Turkey has also continued to launch |
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