Kurdish National Leader Abdullah Ocalan evaluated the arrangements at Imrali during its meeting with his lawyers last Wednesday. Ocalan explained that although they offer it as a development, but it is only an intensified form of solitary confinement. He explained that “This is worse than the previous place. Although they offer it as a development it is the intensified form of solitary confinement. They want to surrender me here by confining me to a narrower environment and by making my conditions even more difficult. Yes, it is more isolated and worse. It is hard to breathe and I feel so blocked.
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‘‘There are sections of the (Turkish) State who are for a solution and sections that are against. Who will come out victorious will depend on the struggle between these two sections. A new phase has been entered. It is important that this phase is comprehended,’’ said Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
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‘The real aim is annihilation’ said Kurdish Peoples Leader Abdullah, and called on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to be ‘serious.’ Öcalan expressed the view that no other groups would come to Turkey and indicated that Erdoğan was attempting to play several different roles, he emphasised that ‘the Kurds wouldn’t concede this goal.’ Öcalan continued by saying that the last stage of the expansion was one of trickery and deception and suggested that the rights given by France to Corsica should also be granted to the Kurds.
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The Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan made some important statements in his weekly meeting with his lawyers. Öcalan conveyed these messages: ‘‘This game will not stick; everyone will lose in this game. I am appealing to Prime Minister Erdoğan; if you do not solve this problem, if you dither, if you resort to demagoguery like in the past seven years and approach the issue flippantly then your situation will be like that of Özal, whatever was done against Özal in the last 48 hours of his life will be done against you. You must be courageous.’’
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