RIGHTS > PKK leader applies to Turkey’s Constitutional Court

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Imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has applied to the Turkish Constitutional Court over a ban that prevented the publication of his work, “The Kurdish Manifesto,” daily Hürriyet reported.

Öcalan reportedly applied individually and listed himself as the wronged party as he was unable to secure the necessary permissions to publish his writings as a book.

The court found some documents missing from his application and offered Öcalan time to provide them. Official processing of the application will begin once the application is fully completed.

If the court decides in favor of Öcalan, “The Kurdish Manifesto” will be published in his own name.

Öcalan is currently serving a life sentence in İmralı.

January/29/2013

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Turk Uzan

2/20/2013 1:59:08 AM

Xir Nuk, HO REALLY... looks at the election results .. looks at % of voters BDP got .. I guess ... a most of these 10 million supporters of Ocalan forgot to vote that day? Their supporters are definitely growing (Thank the AKP for that) and we can see that back in the number of independents in the parliament which seems to increase each elections. But at the moment Ocalan's supporters aren't even close to 10 million. PS. Hitler had also millions of supporters and still has,

Xir Nuk

1/29/2013 7:32:18 PM

mara mcglothin, you are comapring orange with onion, do these convicted for serious crimes in the USA have any supporters? at least 10 million Kurds from Turkey are supporters of Ocalan.

mara mcglothin

1/29/2013 3:09:25 PM

People who are convicted for serious crimes in the USA are NOT allowed to profit from their misdeeds! He and his followers should simply be happy that he is still alive and leave it at that. Convicted criminals don't have the same rights as law abiding citizens. They lost their rights when they committed their crimes.

T.C

1/29/2013 11:39:05 AM

A convicted mass murdering criminal who is serving life in jail, meaning 'till you die'... has no and deserves no rights to speak of. And where would you suggest the proceeds of his version of 'Mein Kampf' go, to fund more terrorism and deaths of Turkish citizens? Anyone who even considers anything in the favor of this monster should be locked up for treason! Erdogan can criticize other nations on their handling of mass murderers (Norway) which pale in comparison, yet does nothing about his own

Engin Atik

1/29/2013 11:26:11 AM

Apparently he already published something similar in August 2009 under the name "Problems of Turkey's Democratization and Solution Models in Kurdistan (Road Map.)

Ryan McCoy

1/29/2013 10:53:08 AM

Why not let him publish it all this Talk about democracy and freedom, the man serving life in prison what harm can the Book do??

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