Publication entitled “The leader of the PKK, Ökalanis suing Greece” it says in his adventure from Europe to Africa, where he was captured by the Turks.

In the subtitle it says:

“About 24 years ago (Amdullah Ocalan) Abdullah Okalan he sought asylum in Athens in vain. The founder and head of the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK was issued a life sentence in Turkey in 1999.

Now Öcalan is appealing against Greece to the European Court of Human Rights, because then the Greek government refused to accept him.”

His response Gerd Hohler from Athens to German Editors’ Network (RND) refers to the case of his appeal Abdullah Okalan against Greece at the ECtHR, describing the events leading up to February 16, 1999, when the Turkish Secret Service (MIT) kidnapped the leader of the PKK in Nairobi.

Since then Ökalan he is in Turkish prisons, but now his lawyers are appealing against Greece to the ECtHR, because, as they claim, Greece, by refusing to grant him asylum, violated the European Convention on Human Rights.

The response refers in detail to the history of the case, from the moment Ökalan he was deported in 1998 from Syria, under pressure from Turkey, seeking asylum in various countries where he was not accepted, until he finally arrived at Athens Airport with the help of PKK supporters in Greece.

The Prime Minister at the time, Kostas Simitis, as noted in the response, did not want to risk tension with Ankara, so he tried to find asylum in another country, to no avail.

Then there is talk of the decision of the then Foreign Minister, Theodoros Pagalos, to hide Ökalan in Kenya, and in the consultations held with the Ambassador of Greece in Nairobi, Giorgos Kostoulas, but also the identification of Ökalan from the C.I.A and the information of Ankara by the Americans.

The response notes that initially Ökalan was sentenced by Turkey to the death penalty, due to high treason, but after the abolition of the death penalty in the country, the leader of the PKK is serving a life sentence. Now his lawyers are suing Greece at the ECtHR, after unsuccessfully appealing to the Greek Judiciary in 2008 and 2017, while the verdict is due next year, the response concludes.

SOURCE: Gerd Hohler – German Editors’ Network (RND)

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