PRO-KURDISH PARTY CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO SIX-MONTH IMRPISONMENT FOR USING "HONOURABLE OCALAN" EXPRESSION

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 07 2007

ANKARA, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The judge of one of the
courts of the Turkish city of Diarbekir made a decision on sex-month
imprisonment towards Ahmed Turk, the Chairman of the "Democratic
Turkey Party." The reason is that Turk used the "honourable Ocalan"
expression when speaking about Abdullah Ocalan, the Chairman of the
Labour Party of Kurdistan considered a terrorist party in Turkey.

As Turkish Daily News states, the judge emphasized that Turk
obviously expressed words of praise addressed to Ocalan and that it is
"incoherent for a party head whose words influence on the society."

To recap, Ahmed Turk stated during the event organized in the hall
of the Diarbekir theater on January 18 of the current year: "During
this period of time when we do everything for the arms keep silence
and issues are solved with peaceful means, it it noticed that the
society’s anxiety more deepens on the occasion of the policy of
isolution carried on against Ocalan."