Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocalan
Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan born April 4, 1948), is the founding leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the USA, NATO and the EU.
PKK
In 1984 the PKK initiated a campaign of armed conflict comprising terrorist attacks against government forces and civilians[5][6][7][8] in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey in order to create an independent Kurdish state. More than 30,000 people were killed mostly by attacks of PKK against civilian targets and also their clashes with Turkish Army since 1984.
PKK has been known as one of the terrorist organisations by several states and international organizations such as Turkey,[9] the United States,[10] the European Union, Syria,[11] Canada, Iran and Australia.
Capture and trial
Until 1998 Öcalan was harboured by Syria. As the situation deteriorated in Turkey, the Turkish government openly threatened Syria over its support for the PKK. As a result of this, the Syrian government forced Öcalan to leave the country, but did not hand him to the Turkish authorities.
Öcalan went to Russia first and from there he moved to various countries, including Italy and Greece. In 1998 the Turkish government requested the extradition of Öcalan from Italy where he was at the time. He was at that time defended by the high-profile German attorney, Britta Böhler who argued that he fought a legitimate struggle against the oppression of his people. He was captured in Kenya on February 15, 1999, whilst being transferred from the Greek embassy to the Nairobi international airport, in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT). He was then flown back to Turkey for trial. His capture led thousands of protesting Kurds to seize Greek embassies around the world.[12]
Since his capture Öcalan has been held under solitary confinement as the only prisoner on the İmralı Island in the Turkish Sea of Marmara. Despite the fact that all other prisoners formerly at İmralı were transferred to other prisons, there are still over 1000 Turkish military personnel stationed there guarding him. He was sentenced to death, but this sentence was commuted to life-long aggravated imprisonment when the death penalty was abolished in Turkey in August 2002.[13]
Since his imprisonment there have been long running campaigns by Kurdish exile groups and others in various countries demanding his release although most observers regard this as extremely unlikely to happen in the forseeable future given the attitude of the Turkish authorities and large sections of the Turkish public. Indeed the decision not to proceed with the death sentence was met by protests by Turkish nationalist groups. This is in sharp contrast to the view taken by Kurdish activists who regard him as their leader, a political prisoner and even a man of peace.[citation needed]
Though it could not have been possible to obtain a hair sample from Öcalan, due to his visits being held behind a glass screen, even when talking to his lawyers,[14] in 2007, lawyers acting for Öcalan, claimed to have produced results from laboratory tests on his hair which appeared to show high levels of toxic metals. The Turkish government has sent a medical team to the imprisoned Kurdish separatist leader amid these claims and the tests proved that no indication of toxins or abnormality was found.[15][16] A ministry statement suggested the lawyers were trying to revive international interest in their client after the Council of Europe ruled the previous month that the rebel leader was not entitled to a retrial.
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Love to hear all the excuses in the world by the Socialists. A Socialist Kurd, who was absolutely ass raping the Turks, and what do our Greek Socialist friends do, hand him over to the Turks. Welldone dickheads.