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Every year since the abduction and imprisonment of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan 23 years ago, an international peace delegation has collected evidence on the treatment of political prisoners in Turkey, reports Peter Boyle.
The Imrali delegation, as has become known, is named after Turkey’s high security island prison where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has been detained in cruel isolation for 22 years.
Laura Quagliuolo, editor and author of children’s books and an activist in Rete Jin, an Italian network of women in support of the Kurdish women’s movement, was part of the 2021 Imrali delegation. It has recently published its report.
Quagliuolo told
Green Left, that once again, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government had ignored their requests for discussions and to visit the imprisoned Kurdish leader.
“The Turkish state has never answered the requests of the several delegations that were asking to visit Öcalan or to meet with Turkish authorities, even if in the delegation there were professors, MP s and other important people. Not this time as well.”
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The Indian peoples’ historic uprising needs global support
Screen cap from the ILPS webinar launching of February 2021 Global Month of Solidarity with the Indian Peoples on February 4. (L-R: Yasmin Ahmed (Moderator), Liza Maza (ILPS General Secretary), Gautam Mody (General Secretary of New Trade Union Initiative), V,. Shankar (President, All India Central Council of Trade Unions), Prof. Radh D’Souza (Professor of Law at University of Westminster), Victor Garces (ILPS Vice Chairperson for Internal Affairs), Kiran Kumar Vissa (State Convener, Rythu Swarajya Vedika), Len Cooper (ILPS Chairperson)