Submitted on Monday 21st December 2015
Rejected on Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Free Abdullah öcalan from prison
Öcalan was arrested in 1999 by the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT) with the support of the CIA in Nairobi and taken to Turkey, where he was sentenced to death under Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which concerns the formation of armed organisations.
The sentence was commuted to aggravated life imprisonment when Turkey abolished the death penalty in support of its bid to be admitted to membership in the European Union. From 1999 until 2009, he was the sole prisoner on the İmralı island, in the Sea of Marmara.Öcalan admitted the previous violent conduct of the PKK, but says that the period of armed warfare was defunct.The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has resulted in over 40,000 deaths, including PKK members, the Turkish military, and civilians, both Kurdish and Turkish.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This is not something that the UK Government or Parliament have the power to do.
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