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	CNN - Ocalan awaits trial on Turkey's Imrali prison island - February 18, 1999
		Ocalan was captured at or near the Greek Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, this week in a Turkish undercover operation that triggered a domestic crisis in Greece.
		Imrali, which is peppered with pine trees and sandy beaches, was chosen in part for its comfortable facilities.
		It was built for vacationing judges and their families, and is considered suitable to host the army of Turkish officials and security forces who will be sequestered with Ocalan for his trial.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9902/18/turkey.ocalan.02 (565 words)

	A European torture prevention group traveled to the prison island of Imrali today - Human Rights Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		AP 02-MAR-99 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A European torture prevention group traveled to the prison island of Imrali today to inspect conditions under which Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is being held, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
		The 15-member committee of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe was the first group of foreign officials to be allowed to see Ocalan since his capture Feb. 15 in Kenya.
		The heavily guarded prison island of Imrali, in the Sea of Marmara, has been declared off-limits and foreign groups have been denied access.
	www.hr-action.org /archive1/990306asp1.html (319 words)

	Kurdish Info - Prevention to the lawyer to go Imrali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The leader of SDP had declared that they would visit the leader of the Kurdish people Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali, where he is imprisoned.
		Although the lawyers applied to the public prosecutorship of the province, they did were rejected to implement the interview on the grounds that there are problems with the ship to cross the sea.
		The lawyers contacted to the public prosecutor and informed the officers to allow them to go to Imrali but they were replied that they would not be able to go there even if they were allowed by the prosecutor.
	www.kurdishinfo.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3152 (327 words)

	freedom for ocalan - peace in kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to the Internal Regulations of Imrali Closed Prison, prisoners held at the establishment are entitled to one weekly visit of one hour by their relatives, as well as one visit of the same duration by their lawyers.
		The island of Imrali is located in a restricted military zone (covering the adjoining sea within a radius of 3 miles) and all access to it is controlled by the Bursa Regional Gendarmerie Command.
		On the other hand, according to the Chief Public Prosecutor of Bursa, transport to Imrali Island was the responsibility of the military authorities, and therefore the use of other means of transport was within their control.
	www.freedom-for-ocalan.com /english/aktuell/briefing/br_250204.htm (3096 words)

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		As soon as the applicant was detained, the island of Imrali was decreed a prohibited military zone.
		The last visit by the CPT delegates to Imrali Prison, of which the applicant is the sole inmate, took place during their visit to Turkey from 2 to 14 September 2001.
		The applicant said that lawyers wishing to enter or leave the island of Imrali, which had been decreed a prohibited military zone, required the permission of a “crisis desk”, which was not a judicial authority.
	hei.unige.ch /~clapham/hrdoc/docs/ocalan.html (15457 words)

	Kurdish Info - Lawyers of Ocalan: Ocalan is the person to stop the clashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dündar stated that all the politics in Turkey has started over Imrali and said that last developments have served for the compilation of the conspiracy on Ocalan.
		Korkut stated that Imrali has been claimed to be a prison but there is no regulation about it and she said:
		Imrali trial tries to become a lawful trial within isolation politics.
	www.kurdishinfo.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2711 (1105 words)

	Access to Imrali island prison denied to IHD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A group of IHD officials were denied access to the Imrali island by the land officers in Gemlik.
		IHD Board has decided to form an investigation committee of 12 to visit Imrali Prison upon a recourse by the lawyers of Abdullah Ocalan who are concerned for their defendant’s conditions in the prison.
		According to Alatas, lawyers of Abdullah Ocalan to were not permitted to go to the island due to bad weather conditions.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=6199 (281 words)

	Ocalan Defense Lawyer Thrown into Prison -- Justice for the Kurdsand Turkey - Human Rights Action
		The context of the application was to visit Abdullah Ocalan who is held in Imrali island, to find out about his health and to remind him of his rights under the domestic and international law.
		We later found out from the members of the press that one of the female police officers whom we had approached and asked to meet with the chief of district security was herself in fact the chief of district security.
		URGENT APPEAL Abdullah Ocalan must immediately be taken out of Imrali and be transferredto a prison where he can have access to his lawyers and be visited by hisfamily.
	www.hr-action.org /archive1/990302akin1.html (1824 words)

	Jailed Kurdish leader Ocalan complains of health problems, warns of clashes
		In a statement made available to AFP by his lawyers on Sunday, Ocalan urged the Council of Europe to send an inspection mission to the Imrali island prison in the Marmara Sea, where he is the sole inmate.
		Ocalan said that because of intensive humidity in Imrali, he was suffering from chronic angina, which also gave him a throat infection and was sometimes leaving him breathless and was interrupting his sleep.
		Ocalan has been in Imrali since 1999 when he was sentenced to death for leading the PKK's 15-year armed struggle for Kurdish self-rule in southeast Turkey, which has claimed some 36,500 lives.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/ag/Qturkey-kurds-ocalan.R4BX_DaA.html (405 words)

	CNN - Turkey stifles Kurdish protests, begins Ocalan interrogation - February 18, 1999
		After lying in the boat blindfolded and handcuffed, as he was in the aircraft that flew him from Kenya, he was led ashore wearing a hood.
		For security, the island's 250 regular prisoners were transferred, and their guards were replaced by special security forces.
		Imrali, peppered with pine trees and sandy beaches, was chosen in part for its comfortable facilities.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9902/18/turkey.ocalan.03/index.html (635 words)

	Lawyers prevented from seeing PKK leader
		They point out that while the Turkish authorities talk about a fair trial and transparency, the fact that the lawyers right to meet their client is being violated at the beginning of the process demonstrates the danger that the trial may be rushed through behind closed doors.
		The PKK leader's lawyers draw attention to the fact that his detention on Imrali Island is in itself a factor that constitutes an obstruction to a fair trial.
		The lawyers add that for as long as Mr Öcalan is on Imrali Island there will be a constant process of detention and interrogation, not of formal arrest, and that this will be impossible to monitor.
	www.xs4all.nl /~kicadam/pers/1999/25e0299.html (707 words)

	Ocalan trial
		The article mentions some important points often ignored by the Western media such as "the cruelty of the Turkish state and its military representatives" and the "chance (for Kurds) to educate their children and broadcast in Kurdish dialects; the opportunity to be proud of their cultural heritage without fear of persecution".
		Imrali looks rather pleasant at this time of year - a rocky outcrop topped with green, in the middle of the Sea of Marmara.
		It is usually a relaxed open prison, where inmates spend their time herding sheep or looking after cattle.
	www.lobbyforcyprus.org /press/press1999/Obs060699.htm (956 words)

	Access to Imrali Island Prison Denied for IHD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A group of IHD officials were denied access to the Imrali island.
		IHD Board has decided to form an investigation committee of 12 to visit Imrali Prison upon a recourse by the lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan who are concerned for their defendant’s conditions in the prison.
		According to Alataş, lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan to were not permitted to go to the island due to bad weather conditions.
	www.bianet.org /2005/05/01_eng/news53630.htm (243 words)

	PKK TERROR - The Truth About The Pkk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ocalan interestingly was able to replay the message to the PKK despite strict military control.
		Ocalan aims to be treated as an "active terrorist leader" in Imrali.
		He is trying to utilize this process to provide himself with better imprisonment conditions.
	www.pkkterror.com (103 words)

	Pressstatement of Mr. Öcalan's lawyers
		We are being attacked and threatened in plain view of the public opinion, since the last week, ever since we applied to the State Security Courts (DGM) to defend Mr.
		The fact that we were attacked for the second time in Mudanya, just two days after the initial attack which prompted Prime Minister Ecevit to state that "the lives of [Öcalan's] lawyers were secured," is a clear indication of the influence that these invisible forces wield within this administration.
		The context of the application was to visit Abdullah Öcalan who is held in Imrali island, to find out about his health and to remind him of his rights under the domestic and international law.
	www.xs4all.nl /~kicadam/pers/1999/02e20399.html (2246 words)

	Ertugrul ozkok: The first extraordinary visit to Imrali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Senkal Atasagun was the head of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT), a top level MIT authority went to meet with former leader of the PKK terror group, Abdullah Ocalan, on Imrali Island, where he is serving his life sentence.
		This was the first contact with Ocalan that the Turkish government had, outside of the initial questioning of the terror leader.
		I believe that the visit which take place between Emre Taner and Ocalan on Imrali was much more important than the one Taner had with Barzani in Northern Iraq.
	www.turkses.com /issues/pkk/2005oct/ert.htm (689 words)

	Is the person in Imrali, really the creator of the Kurds? (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Imrali says that “he killed the personality of the man”.
		But as far as we can see, he didn’t only kill the man who is committed to him, but also everything which make men a human being such as honor, capability to understand, intelligence, creativity, love, respect, perceiving historyi.e.
		Because almost all Kurdish nationalists except me saying that Imrali has been getting far from acting on behalf of Kurdish interests since 1999 As far as told by the lawyers we had influenced/persuaded the Kurdish nation significantly.
	www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=2146 (819 words)

	PTHE REPORT OF INVESTIGATION & INQUIRY OF THE CLAIMS REGARDING THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE CLOSED PRISON OF IMRALI, ...
		Our delegation went to the Gendarme Contact Office of Gemlik, the place where the lawyers and the members of the family apply to in order to go to the Island of Imrali, on the date of 5 February 2003 and witnessed the treatment practised upon the lawyers and the family for a while.
		Then the delegation had a meeting with the Commander of the Gendarme Contact Office of Gemlik and the Chief of Public Procutor Office of Bursa, Mr.
		Upon the suggestion that he could use the same method as was used by officials in the Island to meet their need for telephone, Mr.
	www.ihd.org.tr /repspec/imrali/resmi.html (782 words)

	Ocalan's trial -- an opportunity for a solution - Turkish Daily News May 28, 1999
		It has been stated that a number of disturbing measures in Imrali and Mudanya, from searching lawyers' clothes four times despite a prohibitory decree, to our shoes being taken off twice and our fingerprints being taken, were initiated by the Crisis Center.
		In other words, a crisis situation must exist in Mudanya and Imrali in order for them to be put under military jurisdiction and for the establishment of a "crisis regime." But in fact, only one person is being tried.
		According to the DGM's regulations, the application of the Ministry of Justice and the decision of the Judges' and Prosecutors' Supreme Council is required.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=12609 (2548 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Ocalan humbled and set to hang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 139-page indictment accuses Ocalan of treason, separatism and direct responsibility for the deaths of nearly 10,000 civilians and members of the security forces killed in PKK attacks.
		The trial, in front of a specially convened State Security Court, is being conducted in a converted cinema on the prison-island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara, some 60 kilometres south of Istanbul.
		Observers at the trial are ferried to Imrali daily from Mudanya on the mainland where diplomats and over 800 journalists, 260 of them foreign, mingle with the chanting, weeping, relatives of those slain by the PKK.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/432/re5.htm (773 words)

	Kurdistan Observer
		What Imrali [Ocalan] wrote about democracy, freedom and law are not more progressive than the thoughts of the former head of the Court of Appeal, Sami Selcuk.
		After his capture and especially during the Imrali trial until the present day, Ocalan has been giving very anti-Kurdish messages and all his policies are serving the Turkish state.
		Ocalan’s messages from Imrali should be denounced and at the very least, the PKK should not treat them as directives.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /kurdistanobserve/12-4-04-from-indep-imrali.html (4632 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-06-08
		IMRALI ISLAND, June 8 (A.A) - The prosecutors set out their case on Tuesday in the trial of Abdullah Ocalan, the head of terrorist organization.
		IMRALI ISLAND, June 8 (A.A) - Cevdet Volkan, Chief Prosecutor of Ankara State Security Court (DGM) and Talat Salk, Republican Prosecutor read out the summing-up of accusations against Abdullah Ocalan, head of terrorist organization, at today's court session.
		It said, ''accused Abdullah Ocalan, in his interrogation held on May 31, 1999 court session, accepted that he was responsible for all the terrorist activities held by the members of the terrorist organization that were realized upon his demands.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-06-08.anadolu.html (10195 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-02-18
		The last stop of the chief terrorist has been Imrali island, the prisoners staying on the island are being transferred to other prisons in Turkey.
		Another judge will be wanted to Imrali Island from Ankara DGM for the demand for the arrest and decision for the detainment will be given there.
		Meanwhile, it was also reported that the first custody period in terrorism crimes was 48 hours and that this date will be increased to seven days in the case of Ocalan, which is the maximum legal time as 48 hours were expired since the time he was taken under custody.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-02-18.anadolu.html (8565 words)

	Rage of the Kurds jolts Europe: 2/21/99
		The main building there serves as an open prison to which pickpockets and other petty criminals are sent to serve sentences under the loose vigilance of friendly guards.
		On Tuesday the principal Kurdish guerrilla leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was brought to Imrali.
		Other prisoners who had been living on Imrali were quickly moved to other prisons, places where there are no sea breezes and no views of passing freighters.
	www.s-t.com /daily/02-99/02-21-99/a02wn010.htm (1710 words)

	PULSE of TURKEY No14
		Before Ocalan was taken to Imrali, he disappeared from the public eye for two days.
		Meanwhile, news was disseminated that a frigate was taking Ocalan from Bandirma to Imrali and that the storm was causing delays to reach the island.
		During this time Imrali Prison was evacuated for security reasons and the judicial interrogation and process began.
	www.turkpulse.com /internation.htm (2356 words)

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		While one uprising is allegedly being tried on Imrali today, it would be a contradictory act to sow the seeds of another new uprising.
		While on the one hand it stages such a trial on Imrali, the Turkish Republic is, on the other hand, making propaganda through the media, claiming that our Party is splitting and disintegrating.
		It is well known that the Imrali trial has come about within the framework of an international decision and plan.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99mid/PKK:_Execute_Ocalan_-and-_Reap_New_Uprising (1151 words)

	BakuSun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ISTANBUL—Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan won’t meet with his lawyers or family members until he is granted the right to see his lawyers more frequently and is allowed a health check by an independent panel of doctors, a lawyer said Wednesday.
		The guerrilla leader, who is held on the prison island of Imrali off Istanbul, is also demanding to have daily access to all newspapers and magazines published in Turkey, to be able to send and receive letters and make limited telephone calls.
		He was sentenced to death in 1999, but this was converted to a life sentence last year amid legal changes by Turkey to fulfill criteria for joining the European Union.
	www.bakusun.az /cgi-bin/ayten/bakusun/show.cgi?code=4647 (421 words)

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		Ahmet Zeki Okcuoglu and Hatice Korkut, who had come to Mudanya four days ago, but could not go to Imrali because they did not have the required permission, came to the town again last morning.
		After the necessary procedures have been made, the lawyers have been brought to the port to be taken to the island under great security measures.
		It is reported that the tapes will be used to record Ocalan's life in Imrali prison island.
	www.milliyet.com /e/1999/02/25/politics/siy03.html (180 words)

	Forthcoming Grand Chamber Jugment - Öcalan v. Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The case concerns an application brought by a Turkish national, Abdullah Öcalan, who was born in 1949.
		He is the former leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and is currently incarcerated in Imrali Prison (Bursa, Turkey).
		On arrival in Turkey, a hood was placed over his head while he was taken to Imrali Prison, where he was held in police custody from 16 to 23 February 1999 and questioned by the security forces.
	www.asmarino.com /InMemoryofAsmeret/_Inmemory/000000de.htm (1149 words)

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