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	The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan
		Ocalan's misadventures and the end of his career -- and perhaps his life, given the possibility of his receiving the death penalty -- are a significant victory for international efforts to control terrorism.
		Ocalan's second in command was recently captured; Turkish tactical intelligence has improved dramatically, suggesting popular dissatisfaction with the insurgent movement; Iraqi Kurds have eliminated the PKK's local presence in that country; and without a Syrian base, income from heroin trafficking may have been limited.
		The trial of Abdullah Ocalan presents an ideal opportunity for a nation built on democracy (even as imperfect as Turkey's may be) to draw the line, once and for all, between legitimate political activism and murder.
	www.jerrypournelle.com /reports/jerryp/ocalan.html (2073 words)

	Human Rights First \| Media Alert \| Turkey \| Abdullah Ocalan - PKK \| June 1999
		Ocalan’s detention, and the persecution of members of his defense team render a fair trial nearly impossible without the quick intervention of the Turkish government.
		Ocalan’s lawyers are being denied full access to the written records of interrogation sessions carried out in the period immediately following his detention on February 14, 1999.
		Ocalan was held incommunicado without access to lawyers for nine days, in violation of both Turkish law and international human rights standards.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /media/2001_1996/ocalan0599.htm (389 words)

	CNN/TIME In-Depth Special - The Ocalan Trial - Who is Abdullah Ocalan?
		Ocalan was born in 1948 in the village of Omerli in southeastern Turkey, close to the Syrian border.
		Ocalan fled Turkey before the 1980 military coup and lived in exile, mostly in the Syrian capital Damascus and in the Lebanese plains under Syrian control, where he set up his PKK headquarters and training camps.
		Ocalan, a heavily built man with a thick fl mustache, propagates a Cold War brand of nationalism mixed with Marxist-Leninist doctrine that in many ways belongs to another era.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/ocalan/stories/ocalan.profile (967 words)

	ABDULLAH (APO) OCALAN - PKK - TERRORISM : Who is Abdullah Ocalan?
		From his bases in Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Ocalan conducted a ruthless campaign, ostensibly for Kurdish independence but, as widely available PKK internal documents suggest, the ultimate goal is the creation of a Maoist state in areas of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.
		Indeed, the similarities between the PKK and the Shining Path are striking: like the latter's founder, Abimael Guzman, Ocalan is a Maoist with global leadership ambitions; their tactics are particularly bloody, even by terrorist standards, and the main victims are civilians who refuse to submit to their groups.
		In fact, the orthodox communist Giuliano Psiapia, one of Ocalan's lawyers, used to be chairman of the Italian Parliament's Justice committee.
	pkk.ataturk.org /whoisapo.shtml (784 words)

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		Ocalan, the inexorable machinery of Kemalism has systematically ground all due process of law underfoot in the determined march towards the delivery of a guilty verdict and the death sentence.
		Ocalan in the media which seriously prejudiced the case; pronouncements had been made on the merits of the case in advance of proceedings; military operatives have been present on Imrali Island from the outset.
		Ocalan recognized that just as prior to his capture, the sole hope of justice being done for the Kurdish cause as much as for himself, lay in initiatives to internationalize debate on the political bases of the case.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99mid/Turkey:_A_Mockery_of_Justice (2318 words)

	Biographical Notes On Abdullah Ocalan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Abdullah Ocalan was born to a poor peasant family in the Omerli, in the Urfa prefecture, in 1948.
		Abdullah Ocalan, together with Mazlum Dogan and Mehmet Hayri Durmus published a booklet called "The Manifesto" outlining the main tasks and perspectives of the revolution in Kurdistan.
		Abdullah Ocalan, in the 20 years of his struggle against the enemy and especially against the cultural, economic and political deprivations imposed on the Kurdish people by the enemy, has shown himself to be a national leader who is greatly respected by the Kurdish people in all four parts of Kurdistan.
	www.homepagez.com /bamerdiyo/apo-bio.htm (1071 words)

	KEO - POLITICS
		Abdullah Ocalan says he was born in 1946 or 1947, to a poor family at Omerli, a village near Urfa.
		Abdullah Ocalan frequently displayed a tendency to megalomania which amazed foreign journalists, who would watch with disbelief as the party's top leaders stood seemingly in awe while the "chairman" spoke or clapped frenetically when he scored a goal during a football game organised for the benefit of a television crew.
		Ocalan holds that a revolutionary struggle goes through three different stages: during the first period of "strategic defence" the leadership should "before anything else convince the people that they must be defended and that they must defend themselves." The following stages are the periods of "strategic balance" and "strategic offensive".
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/politics/analysis/analysis-046.html (2043 words)

	Statement from the lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan
		However, when we entered the building where Abdullah Ocalan is being kept we had no doubt that we would be received by civil servants and guards under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice.
		We find ourselves in a situation of grave concern in our undertaking to defend the cases concerning Abdullah Ocalan, as equally on the issue of the hearing, and as his lawyers, are being restricted and threatened from undertaking that defence.
		When we sought to see Abdullah Ocalan on 22 February 1999 and 24 February 1999, on both occasions under the auspices of the Justice Ministry Ankara State Security Court Prosecution and the Mudanya Republic Prosecution, our meeting were prevented and as a consequence we find ourselves up against unlawful procedures.
	www.xs4all.nl /~kicadam/pers/1999/28e0299.html (1817 words)

	A GILDED PRISON FOR ABDULLAH OCALAN
		Before having been arrested in February 1999 in Kenya, Abdullah Ocalan had been on the agenda for weeks due to his demand as an asylum seeker in Italy.
		Ocalan is considered responsible for the death of 30 thousand innocent people.
		Ocalan has a bed, table, toilet, shower, sink and an air conditioner, all of which being “the best quality” in his 13 sq.
	www.geocities.com /badeplt/articles/yaldiz_e.htm (294 words)

	E-Notes: The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan and the Future of Counter-Terrorism - FPRI
		Relentlessly pursued by a succession of Turkish governments from across the political spectrum, the Maoist leader unsuccessfully sought asylum in various European countries— all of which recognized that he was now a liability not worth the risk to their political and economic relations with Turkey or the United States.
		Ocalan’s misadventures and the end of his career — and perhaps his life, given the possibility of his receiving the death penalty— are a significant victory for international efforts to control terrorism.
		If terrorism is morally and legally wrong — and Ocalan is clearly a terrorist, no matter what his goals may have been — he should be tried as a criminal and not as some kind of “misguided” political activist.
	www.fpri.org /enotes/balkansturkey.19990218.radu.ocalancounterterrorism.html (2036 words)

	PKK Pledges to Lay Down its Arms for Good
		Ocalan is a military commander in the PKK, and claimed to be speaking on behalf of the organization's leadership council, of which he is a member.
		Abdullah Ocalan, founder and chairman of the PKK was sentenced to death for treason by a Turkish court in June.
		Osman Ocalan said that the withdrawal had been slowed by continual pursuit by Turkish forces and by the difficulties of the terrain, but that the withdrawal should be completed by the end of the year.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=317 (411 words)

	Assembly of Turkish American Associations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		From his bases in Syria and Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Ocalan conducted a ruthless campaign, ostensibly for Kurdish independence but, as widely available PKK internal documents suggest, the ultimate goal is the creation of a Maoist state in areas of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.
		Indeed, the similarities between the PKK and the Shining Path are striking: like the latter’s founder, Abimael Guzman, Ocalan is a Maoist with global leadership ambitions; their tactics are particularly bloody, even by terrorist standards, and the main victims are civilians who refuse to submit to their groups.
		In fact, the orthodox communist Giuliano Psiapia, one of Ocalan’s lawyers, used to be chairman of the Italian Parliament’s Justice committee.
	www.ataa.org /ataa/ref/pkk/articles/whoisocalan.html (753 words)

	The Show Trial of Abdullah Ocalan in Turkey What lies behind the behaviour of the PKK leader?
		Ocalan described the Turkish soldiers who had fallen in the struggle against the PKK as “martyrs” and conveyed his express apologies to their relatives.
		Ocalan, according to Koydl, was always “a coward attached to the finer things in life.” This merely echoes the line of the nationalist Turkish press—slandering a prisoner who is unable to defend himself.
		Ocalan sits in a glass cage separated from his lawyers, most of whom have resigned from the case in protest against their unceasing harassment.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jun1999/ocal-j08.shtml (1978 words)

	Abdullah Ocalan Must Be Freed! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ocalan was hounded and pursued from one country to another.
		The Turkish ruling classes' true intentions for Ocalan are seen not in their feeble lip-service to legal procedures but in the fact that they have promised a "short, swift" trial, turned away his Dutch lawyers at the country's borders, and arrested 350 members of the pro-Kurdish parliamentary party.
		Abdullah Ocalan must be freed from their clutches.
	www.awtw.org /back_issues/1999-25/Ocalan_eng25.htm (619 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Ocalan Trial Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On the eve of Ocalan's trial, his lawyers have still not been permitted proper access to their client, and are being put at risk of their lives while the judiciary and government remain impassive.
		Abdullah Ocalan left Italy and was apprehended and transferred from Kenya to Turkey on February 15.
		The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture visited Abdullah Ocalan in early March and, though critical of the conditions of isolation imposed on the prisoner, reported that he was not at risk of physical ill-treatment.
	hrw.org /backgrounder/eca/turkey (726 words)

	The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan: An Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The facts regarding the circumstances under which Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (KWP), was captured in Nairobi and flown to Istanbul clandestinely by the Turkish Special Forces are not yet clear.
		The successful capture of Ocalan would be a great morale-booster to the Turkish security agencies and a set-back to the KWP, but, most probably, this may not mean the beginning of the end of the Kurdish insurgency for Turkey, but only the beginning of another phase of it.
		If, instead, they try to humiliate Ocalan and try to wreak vengeance on him for the past misdeeds of the KWP, they would be letting slip an opportunity for a turning-point in their relations with the Kurds and creating more difficulties for themselves in future.
	www.subcontinent.com /sapra/terrorism/tr_1999_02_001_s.html (1470 words)

	Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was formally arrested today on charges of treason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ocalan was brought to Turkey a week ago after being nabbed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi by Turkish commandos.
		Ocalan was already on trial in absentia on charges of treason and separatism, which carry the death penalty.
		The Ocalan case has exacerbated tensions between Turkey and its NATO ally Greece, which gave the rebel leader shelter while he was a fugitive.
	www.hr-action.org /archive1/990223ap1.html (613 words)

	The attack on Abdullah Ocalan (PKK)
		Ocalan, the Kurds of Turkey and the Turks of Greece
		The recent debates provoked by the presence of the leader of the Kurdish PKK Abdullah Ocalan in Italy revealed once again the international community's weakness to agree upon the interpretation of the principles of liberty, equality and solidarity.
		Abdullah Ocalan, has been subjected to an international conspiracy, starting in October 1998 and culminating in the multi-government piracy that hijacked him to Turkey.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/51/index-bbc.html (422 words)

	Understanding the Turkey-Kurd Conflict
		Abdullah Ocalan, leader of rebel group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), was convicted of treason and separatism on June 29, 1999, and sentenced to death.
		Many Kurds feel Ocalan's death would deal a critical blow to their centuries-long struggle to gain a land they can call their own.
		One of Ocalan's aims is to protect Kurds from being forced to learn the Turkish language and abandon the Kurdish culture.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/kurds1.html (465 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Ankara luxuriates in 'victory' over Ocalan
		Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan's arrest more than 14 years after he began his guerrilla campaign for Kurdish independence is regarded by the Turkish government as a resounding victory for it and a crippling blow to the rebels.
		Footage of Ocalan, distributed to the Turkish media showing him on board the private jet which carried him to Turkey, reveals a confused, barely coherent and frightened man, declaring his "love" for the Turkish people and asking to be "of service" to Turkey.
		Ocalan, who is being charged with treason, is likely to be handed down the death penalty by a special State Security Court.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/418/re2.htm (836 words)

	November 20, 1998<Picture>
		Ocalan, whose Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has waged a 14-year separatist war in southeastern Turkey in which at least 29,000 people have died, was seized in Kenya on Monday and spirited to Turkey to face trial and a possible death sentence on charges ranging from treason to murder.
		Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was apprehended by Turkish agents in Kenya Monday and brought to Turkey, where he is to stand trial in early April on terrorism charges.
		Ocalan is to be tried on charges of attempting to divide Turkish territory with the aim of setting up a separate state, for which the Turkish penal code stipulates capital punishment.
	www.siri-us.com /backgrounders/Archives-USDefenseIssues/Kurds--Turkey-Ocalan_2-99.html (10933 words)

	ANC CONDEMNS DEATH SENTENCE ON ABDULLAH OCALAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Firstly, Abdullah Ocalan was abducted from a foreign country by agents in the employ of the Turkish State in violation of the International Law.
		The charges, framed as common law crime, murder, deliberately obscure and seek to deny the root of the conflict in which Abdullah Ocalan and his colleagues are engaged in with the Turkish authorities.
		It urges the Government to use its influence in bi-lateral and multi-lateral relations to ensure that Abdullah Ocalan is not executed and to encourage the Turkish Government to create a climate conducive to genuine negotiations between itself and all organisations representing the Kurdish people, including the Kurdish Workers Party, by releasing all Kurdish political prisoners.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/1999/pr0630.html (387 words)

	June 23, 1999 THE TRIAL OF PKK LEADER ABDULLAH OCALAN: 'WHAT'S AT
		The trial of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) chief Abdullah Ocalan on charges of treason against the Turkish state, which began on May 31 and is set to resume today on the prison island of Imrali after a brief recess, attracted the attention of European media along with a handful of observers from other regions.
		Ocalan who was labeled a "ruthless brute," but rather out of concern that his death would "enrage many Kurds, even those not enamored of the PKK" and make prospects for reconciliation between Turkey and its Kurdish population more remote.
		Ocalan was allowed to talk about a Kurdish 'linguistic and cultural identity' and to recall the secret contacts he had in the past with a series of Turkish prime ministers in order to find a compromise solution.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/1999/06/wwwh9jun23.htm (5385 words)

	The tug-of-war over Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan
		The conflict over the extradition of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the nationalist Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), has grown into a substantial diplomatic and political crisis between governments in Rome, Ankara, Bonn and Washington.
		Ocalan arrived in Rome from Moscow on November 12 and was arrested at the airport by the Italian police.
		Ocalan was forced to flee to Moscow where, despite the support of the Duma, he was denied political asylum, primarily as a result of American pressure.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/dec1998/pkk-d01.shtml (2057 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| PKK's fate in the balance
		Last month, Italian communist parliamentarians invited Ocalan to seek political asylum in the country, and in September, the self-proclaimed Kurdish parliament in exile held a session in the Italian capital.
		Ocalan's spokesman regularly relays messages from the PKK leader to the protesters, many of whom have travelled from other European capitals and some from as far away as Australia.
		Ocalan declared at the time that the PKK was no longer a Marxist-Leninist organisation but advocated "scientific socialism".
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/404/re4.htm (806 words)

	Turkey: PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan could face unfair trial
		Abdullah Öcalan was only granted access to his lawyers 10 days after his arrest, and access since has been limited, with guards present.
		Amnesty International is calling on the Turkish authorities to ensure that communication between Abdullah Öcalan and his lawyers is kept confidential from now on, and that adequate time and facilities are provided for these meetings.
		On 20 May 1999, Abdullah Öcalan's former deputy, Semdin Sakik, and his brother Arif Sakik, were sentenced to death under the same charges Abdullah Öcalan is facing.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/turkey/document.do?id=596FAD2A0D72EF658025690000692F0F (441 words)

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