Share postAbdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been held in İmralı F High-Security Prison since 1999. He has been kept in isolation for years, serving aggravated life imprisonment. Öcalan was 29 when he, and 21 others, founded the PKK in 1978. For almost 20 years he ran the … Continue reading PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has been in prison for 21 years