DEM Party delegation go to İmralı
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Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Imrali Delegation travelled to İmralı Island to meet with Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Imrali Delegation travelled to İmralı Island to meet with Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Language associations and organisations want the obstacles to education in mother language to be removed in the “Peace and Democratic Society Process”.
Dozens of political parties, associations, civil society and legal organisatios from different circles will follow the ceremony to be held by the PKK in the Federated Kurdistan Region.
Writer Debbie Bookchin, former Icelandic Minister Ögmundur Jónasson, and American musician Quincy Saul stated that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s recent message conveys a universal appeal and called for concrete steps to be taken.
Former İzmir Metropolitan Mayor Tunç Soyer is among 99 individuals referred to the court with a request for arrest. Reacting to the situation Soyer said: "There is not a single question in our case file that lacks an answer."
In Izmir, 137 people, including former Mayor Tunc Soyer, have been referred to the courthouse following their detenditon.
Abdullah Öcalan's family and his guardian Mazlum Dinç applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate requesting a meeting.
A one-month visitation ban has been imposed on prisoners at Van High Security Prison.
Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of the Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO), stated that the reason for the regime’s increased repression is to prevent anti-regime protests. He said: “The Islamic Republic is at its weakest point. And if new protests break out, it's impossible to know whether they will manage to control it.”
Stating that they are hopeful for the Kurdish national unity in the Federated Kurdistan Region, KNK Co-Chair Ahmet Karamus said: "There is a possibility for a solution there. As Mr Öcalan said, the construction of a democratic nation should be realised wherever Kurds live."
"Kurds no longer have a chance to refrain from, delay or postpone national unity," said Mehmet Ali Aydın, a member of the Secretariat of the Democratic Unity Initiative.
Intellectuals travelling to Turkey as part of the "I want to visit Öcalan" campaign said: "The main goal is the freedom of society together with Abdullah Öcalan. Women can lead this."
The European delegation, which organised a "Round Table" meeting in Istanbul, emphasised that Abdullah Öcalan is a "global leader" and discussed what activities could be carried out to solve the Kurdish issue.
DEM Party convened to evaluate the developments within the scope of the "Peace and Democratic Society Process".
IHD Istanbul Branch Chair Jiyan Tosun stated that steps should be taken immediately for the release of ill prisoners: "Ill prisoners cannot wait for September and October. Their lives are in danger."