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Ocalan calls for Kurdish action on Isis
The imprisoned PKK leader has urged for resistance against Isis militants in Syria
IMPRISONED Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan urged “all-out resistance” by the Kurdish nation yesterday against the Islamic State (Isis) jihadist group that is seeking to overrun Kurdish forces in Syria.
Mr Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on a prison island near Istanbul, issued the call to arms through his lawyer Mazlum Dinc.
“I call on all Kurdish people to start an all-out resistance against this high-intensity war,” he declared.
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