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Kurdish protesters outside the Greek Embassy in west London, the day after PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in February 1999
INTERNATIONAL organisations including the UN were accused of complicity in the “conspiracy” that led to the detention and jailing of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan 21 years ago today.
Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP for Agri, Abdulla Koc, made the remarks in a panel discussion in the city on the issue of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder’s continued detention and isolation.
He branded the treatment of Mr Ocalan — who has been held in solitary confinement on Imrali island since 1999 — a “crime against humanity” and a breach of the Turkish constitution.
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