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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.
May 7, 2024 · Abdullah Öcalan (born April 4, 1948, Ömerli, Turkey) is the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish nationalist organization, who became widely known as the strongest advocate for Kurdish sovereignty.
Mar 21, 2013 · Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was banished to his island prison 14 years ago, narrowly escaping the gallows. Greyer and tempered by long...
Following a consultation between Abdullah Öcalan and his lawyers on 22 May 2019, Öcalan issues a statement calling for the mass hunger strike resistance against the isolation to be brought to an end.
Mar 29, 2023 · Twenty-five years ago, Syrian authorities asked Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, to leave the country. Turkey was mobilising troops at the border, sending a clear ultimatum to Damascus: either to kick Öcalan out, or face war.
Abdullah Öcalan is a Kurdish militant who, as leader of the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK), led an armed campaign against the Turkish government until his capture and imprisonment in 1999.
A founding member of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan was born in a Kurdish Turkish village in 1948. Öcalan is often referred to as Apo (Kurdish for Uncle) in popular Kurdish culture.
Nov 30, 2022 · Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdish PKK organization, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), accusing Greece of violating his rights during his stay in the country.
Abdullah Öcalan: A Quarter of a Century in Prison. by Raúl Zibechi, Montevideo. Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | Raúl Zibechi. “As Öcalan’s biography shows, his imprisonment and the perseverance of the Kurdish people helped to spread the philosophy of a movement that was little known twenty-five years ago and that today, together with ...
Aug 23, 2020 · Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been held in İmralı F High-Security Prison since 1999. He has been kept in isolation for years, serving aggravated life imprisonment.
