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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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”.

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

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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.

“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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.