Jailed PKK Leader Ocalan Assigned to Formal Role, Turkish Official Says
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“Öcalan’s appointment to the commission is a necessity, not a privilege. There is nothing illegal about it.”
But he will not be allowed to leave his prison.
The leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, prisoner, will participate in the work of a subcommittee responsible for overseeing the disarmament of the Kurdish armed group, today announced a high adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The peace process in Turkey to end the conflict with the PKK entered a new phase, with the announcement by a prominent adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Thursday, of the official participation of the PKK's imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan in a subcommittee on disarmament, in a move aimed at giving him a more active role in the process of ending a decades-long conflict.
A development that would have seemed extremely difficult until a few years ago is now taking on an official dimension in Turkey. Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and historical leader of the PKK, is set to participate in the work of a subcommittee tasked with monitoring the process of laying down the organization’s weapons. The development was announced by Mehmet Uçum, a senior advisor to … The article Historic reversal in Turkey: Öcalan returns and…
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