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Abdullah CalanAbdullah calan (b. 1948) is the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Biography Abdullah calan was born in Omerli, a village in the Halfeti-District, Province of Urfa, in the Southeast of Turkey in 1949. Leaving his village after secondary school, he studied Political Sciences at the University of Ankara. He successfully completed his studies and entered the civil service in Diyarbakir. Influenced by the organisation, Abdullah calan became an active member of the Democratic Cultural Associations of the East, an association supporting the Kurdish people's demands through terorism. Before the military coup in 1980, in 1978 the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, was founded with Abdullah calan being the party leader, a post he retains until today. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) started their attacks against the local governments and people in 1984 to separate the southeast region and build a Kurdish country. As a result of KADEK/PKK's attacks approximately 30,000 people have died Although PKK declared unilateral ceasefires to stop attacks in several occasions, none of them were actually implemented and in some cases were political tactics. Until 1998, Syria was harboring the leader of PKK. As the situation got worse in Turkey, the government openly threatened Syria not to support the terorist group. As a result of this, Syrian government forced calan to move out of the country instead of handing him to the Turkish authorities. At first calan went to Russia, from there he moved to various countries, including Italy (was in a luxirious villa for about 2 weeks) and Greece. Finally he was captured in Kenya in a joint operation between two intelligence agencies (CIA and MIT). Agents then flown back to Turkey for trial. After his capture, the 15 year violence ceased although, there had been several isolated incidents, often by groups posing as the PKK. calan has been held under solitary confinement on Imrali Island in the Turkish Sea of Marmara since he was captured in Kenya on the February 15, 1999. Though initially sentenced to death, this sentence was commuted into life-long aggravated imprisonment when death penalty was conditionally abolished in Turkey in August 2002. On March 12 2003, the European Court of Human Rights issues a non-binding ruling that he did not receive a fair trial and his human rights were violated by the delay in bringing his case to court. Current Situation of imprisonment of Abdullah calan - Since his capture from Kenya in a joint operation between the CIA and MIT (Milli Istihbarat Teskilati) in February 1999, Abdullah calan is imprisoned on the Island of Imrali, in the Sea of Marmara. He is the only prisoner on the fortress.
- The cell in which calan is imprisoned is sized at 13 sqm. All sanitary facilities are located in the same cell.
- Abdullah calan has officially the right to meet his lawyers every week at Wednesday
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