
Relocation on Imrali island aims to address key Kurdish demands in ongoing peace efforts.
Turkey has transferred imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan to a newly built section of the Imrali island prison in an effort to help end decades of conflict.
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Abdullah Ocalan has been imprisoned on Imrali island since his capture in 1999 amid a decades-long conflict between Turkish authorities and the PKK.
Turkey has moved the country’s Kurdish militant leader to a newly built part of an island prison where he has been incarcerated since 1999 as part of efforts to end decades of conflict, a senior Kurdish official said.
Improving prison conditions for Abdullah Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been a key Kurdish demand in the push to end the 42-year-long conflict between the militant group and Turkish authorities.
Ocalan has been imprisoned in a penitentiary on the island of Imrali in the Marmara Sea – which links the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea – since he was captured in 1999.

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