THE nephew of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan accused international human rights organisations and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture today of ignoring his plight.

Omer Ocalan, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP for Urfa province in southern Turkey, urged the global institutions to take action to stop the Turkish state from continuing to keep him in isolation in breach of international law.

The Kurdish leader was allowed to meet his lawyers for the first time in nearly eight years in 2019 and was also permitted a brief visit by his brother Mehmet.