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Osman Ocalan, brother of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned since 1999
Turkish newspaper “Zaman” reported on Tuesday that Osman Ocalan, brother of Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan, recently met with an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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The newspaper quoted Osman Ocalan as telling official television in its Kurdish version that “he met a few days ago with one of Erdogan’s advisers and discussed with him a series of current affairs, in addition to the situation of the Workers Party of the Kurdistan”.
Osman Ocalan said that he “does not support the measures taken by the HDP,” and stressed that he “supports the territorial integrity of Turkey.”
Regarding the arrest of former HDP chairman Salahuddin Demirtaş since 2016, Ocalan said that “Demirtaş’s stay in prison is unacceptable. If Turkey talks about the existence of the law, it should release him.”
According to the daily Zaman, “Erdogan is employing Ocalan’s brother to take the pulse of the Kurdish street to find out the possible consequences that can result from opening a new page with the Kurds at a time when he speaks of his intention to make amendments in the area of the judiciary that could benefit the detained Kurdish politicians. ” .
And Abdullah Ocalan, 72, founder and first leader of the PKK, is currently incarcerated in a high-security prison on the island of Imrali in the southern Sea of Marmara, after he was sentenced to death in April 1999 for high treason for Turkey, before Turkey converted the death penalty to life imprisonment in 2002. The policy of abolishing the death penalty and trying to harmonize it with the laws of the European Union.
Source: Zaman
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