‘I am a Democrat and Revolutionary’: Important Messages from Abdullah Ocalan
Mehmet Öcalan met the PKK leader on 11 September 2016 after an 18 month isolation and ban on communications imposed by the Turkish government. Mehmet Öcalan said the Kurdish leader did not want to meet him when he was finally allowed access to Imrali. According to brother Öcalan, it had normally taken the PKK leader 5 minutes to come to previous meetings over the past 18 years, but took him 30-40 minutes this time, and only after he was convinced by prison administrators. Öcalan said his brother was furious at recent developments, adding: "I already guessed that he did not want to come out…