Abdullah Öcalan

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Minister Gül: Ban on Öcalan Lifted; Lawyer Sarıca: Ban Still in Effect

CONTROVERSY OVER LAWYERS' VISITATION BAN ON ÖCALAN

Minister Gül: Ban on Öcalan Lifted; Lawyer Sarıca: Ban Still in Effect

While Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül has announced that the ban preventing imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from meeting his lawyers has been lifted, lawyer Rezan Sarıca has stated that the ban has still been in effect in a de facto manner.

Öcalan's Lawyer: 'The Meeting Was Not Related to İstanbul Election Rerun'

Öcalan's Lawyer: 'The Meeting Was Not Related to İstanbul Election Rerun'

Attorney Sarıca responded to the claims that their meeting with the PKK leader for the first time in eight years was related to the repeat elections in İstanbul.

9 May 2019 Hikmet Adal

Hunger Striking MPs Expect 'Isolation Declaration' From Government

Hunger Striking MPs Expect 'Isolation Declaration' From Government

HDP MP Leyla Güven, who is on the 181st day of her hunger strike, and three other hunger striking HDP MPs have said that they expect the government "to declare that the isolation on Öcalan is lifted" to end their strikes.

‘Hunger Strikes Shouldn’t Be Brought to the Point Where They End in Deaths’

HIS LAWYERS MET ÖCALAN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2011

‘Hunger Strikes Shouldn’t Be Brought to the Point Where They End in Deaths’

After imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has met his lawyers for the first time since 2011, the lawyers have held a statement for the press and shared the details of their meeting. Lawyers could meet Öcalan after making 810 applications.

6 May 2019 Hikmet Adal,Ferid Demirel

His Lawyers Meet Abdullah Öcalan

His Lawyers Meet Abdullah Öcalan

Lawyers from the Law Bureau of This Age (Asrın Hukuk Bürosu) have announced that they had a meeting with imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on May 2. The lawyers will make a statement for the press today at 3 p.m. local time in Turkey.

One More Inmate Claims Own Life in Prison

One More Inmate Claims Own Life in Prison

Medya Çınar has ended her life in protest of the isolation conditions imposed on PKK leader Öcalan. The PKK has released a statement, calling an end to "individual acts."

Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds Acquittal for ‘Freedom to Öcalan’ Petition

Supreme Court of Appeals Upholds Acquittal for ‘Freedom to Öcalan’ Petition

The 8th Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the verdict of acquittal given by the local court in a lawsuit filed for “terror propaganda.” Speaking to bianet, lawyer İnayet Aksu has defined the ruling as “just and libertarian.”

15 March 2019 Tansu Pişkin

Constitutional Court: Indefinite Telephone Ban Violates Freedom of Communication

Constitutional Court: Indefinite Telephone Ban Violates Freedom of Communication

Announcing its judgement on Aktaş, a convict in İmralı Prison, who was banned from making phone calls for a year, the Constitutional Court has ruled that his “freedom of communication” has been violated. Aktaş will be paid 4 thousand TRY in damages.

HDP Applies to Parliamentary Human Rights Committee for Investigation in İmralı Prison

HDP Applies to Parliamentary Human Rights Committee for Investigation in İmralı Prison

HDP MP Gülüstan Kılıç Koçyiğit has made an application to the Human Rights Inquiry Committee of the parliament, demanding that the İmralı Prison, where PKK leader Öcalan resides, be investigated by a delegation.

21 January 2019

Abdullah Öcalan Meets Brother Mehmet Öcalan After 28 Months

Abdullah Öcalan Meets Brother Mehmet Öcalan After 28 Months

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP Leyla Güven has been on a hunger strike for 67 days for the purpose of the removal of the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

14 January 2019

Statement by HDP About ECtHR’s Ruling on Öcalan

Statement by HDP About ECtHR’s Ruling on Öcalan

HDP MPs have made a statement for the press about the ruling of the ECtHR, which has rejected the application of “ill-treatment and torture” submitted by Öcalan. The MPs have stated, “The ECtHR has given an unserious verdict.”

ECtHR Rejects Ill-Treatment Application of Öcalan

ECtHR Rejects Ill-Treatment Application of Öcalan

European Court of Human Rights has rejected the application of Abdullah Öcalan, who previously applied to the court, claiming that he was subjected to ill-treatment by prison wardens during a search conducted in his cell.

27 September 2018

56 Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Edirne Prison

56 Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Edirne Prison

56 prisoners, who have protested PKK Leader Öcalan not being allowed to meet his lawyer and family, have gone on hunger strike.

24 October 2017

Hunger Strike Ends Following Meeting with Öcalan

Hunger Strike Ends Following Meeting with Öcalan

It has been announced that the hunger strike has ended upon the message of Abdullah Öcalan be shared with public.

12 September 2016

Abdullah Öcalan’s Message to be Read Out in Diyarbakır

Abdullah Öcalan’s Message to be Read Out in Diyarbakır

Returning from İmralı, it is expected that Mehmet Öcalan will share the details of his meeting with Abdullah Öcalan after he meets 50 volunteers on hunger strike.

12 September 2016

Hunger Strike Spreads to Prisons

Hunger Strike Spreads to Prisons

PKK and PJAK members in prison will also join an indefinite hunger strike without rotation launched by 50 people in Diyarbakır last week demanding a meeting with Öcalan.

8 September 2016

50 Volunteers Begin Hunger Strike for Öcalan

50 Volunteers Begin Hunger Strike for Öcalan

50 volunteers including politicians and artists have begun an indefinite hunger strike without rotation, demanding a meeting with Öcalan within the framework of the legal rules.

5 September 2016

HDP’s Response to Minister Bozdağ’s Öcalan Statement

HDP’s Response to Minister Bozdağ’s Öcalan Statement

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has said, “What is the harm in one of Öcalan’s attorneys having a brief meeting in İmralı?” in response to Minister Bozdağ saying “There is no problem with PKK Leader Öcalan’s security”.

5 September 2016

Minister Bozdağ: No Problems with Öcalan’s Health or Security

Minister Bozdağ: No Problems with Öcalan’s Health or Security

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said: “Baseless information is being circulated around Abdullah Öcalan’s health and security,” denying that there was any problem with either.

5 September 2016

Appeal to ECtHR for Retrial of Öcalan

Appeal to ECtHR for Retrial of Öcalan

Attorney Yürekli has said they demanded the Constitutional Court that the PKK Leader Öcalan be retried on the ground of the act passed in 2013 but the court telling it doesn’t try suits antecedent to 2012, and that they have appealed to the ECtHR.

13 June 2016 Ayça Söylemez

Isolation of Öcalan Brought to Parliament

Isolation of Öcalan Brought to Parliament

Submitting a parliamentary question following the transfer of the two imprisoners staying together with Kurdistan Workers’ Party Leader Öcalan, Peoples’ Democratic Party Ağrı Representative Öztürk has noted that “Öcalan was being restrained from exercising his rights awarded by law”.

Akdoğan Stipulates for Resolution Process

Akdoğan Stipulates for Resolution Process

Vice Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan has said, “We are the owner and architect of resolution process and put in effort to carry it through”.

4 November 2015

AP’s Turkey Archive from the Capture of Deniz Gezmiş to 1999 Marmara Earthquake

AP’s Turkey Archive from the Capture of Deniz Gezmiş to 1999 Marmara Earthquake

bianet compiled 13 videos from AP’s archive: the moment when Deniz Gezmiş was captured, 1980 Coup d’état, Erdoğan’s imprisonment, police violence in 1990s and others…

İmralı Delegation: Resolution Process isn’t a Matter of Negotiation

İmralı Delegation: Resolution Process isn’t a Matter of Negotiation

İmralı Delegation stated obstacles should be removed to negotiate with the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and resolution process should be a state policy of new government.

Arınç: Our President Might Be Deformed By His Words

Arınç: Our President Might Be Deformed By His Words

“One of the steps to make concerning the resolution process is to form a monitoring committee. We have a roadmap,” Vice PM Bülent Arınç said as he spoke positively on Öcalan’s Newroz message.

Öcalan's Newroz Message

Öcalan's Newroz Message

"To get over the 90 years Rebuclic history which is full of conflicts, we are walking to future with knitted real peace and universal democratic criterias" Öcalan said in his letter read during the Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır.

PKK Leader to Have a “Secretariat”

PKK Leader to Have a “Secretariat”

5 inmates convicted to life sentence within PKK case is reportedly to serve as the secretariat of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in the upcoming days of Turkey’s resolution process.

HDP: Observation Council Members Not Finalized

HDP: Observation Council Members Not Finalized

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) released a statement denying the allegations that party officials’ meeting with Vice PM Yalçın Akdoğan didn’t finalize on the number and names of Observation Council members to the resolution of Turkey’s Kurdish problem.

KCK: First Resolution, Laying Down Arms Later

KCK: First Resolution, Laying Down Arms Later

KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Cemil Bayık urged the Turkish government to take concrete steps on the resolution before they could lay down arms.

Stakeholder Reactions to Öcalan’s 10 Measures to Resolution

Stakeholder Reactions to Öcalan’s 10 Measures to Resolution

Several stakeholders of Turkey’s resolution process reacted to PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan called for a PKK congress in spring to decide on quitting arms and 10 measures. Here is a compilation by bianet English.

Öcalan Urges PKK Congress to Decide Quitting Arms, Introduces 10 Measures

Öcalan Urges PKK Congress to Decide Quitting Arms, Introduces 10 Measures

Turkish ministers and Kurdish politicians announced that PKK leader appealed to a congress that will decide on leaving arms. Öcalan also introduced 10 measures including a new constitution that would “internalize the resolution of democratic steps and transformations.

Kurdish Delegation Heads to Qandil Mountain

Kurdish Delegation Heads to Qandil Mountain

Following a visit to Vice PM Yalçın Akdoğan, the delegation on the resolution of Kurdish problem in Turkey headed over to Qandil Montain in Northern Iraq - the headquarters of PKK.

13 February 2015

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