Kurds and their supporters in France, Germany and Switzerland on July 8 over new death threats against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah 脰calan, who has been imprisoned by the Turkish state for the past 24 years.
The latest death threats came in the form of anonymous letters delivered through the tight security system in the Imrali Island prison, where 脰calan is being held in isolation.
In a on Sterk TV, Sabri Ok, a member of the executive of the Kurdish Democratic Communities Union (KCK) revealed that, while letters from 脰calan's lawyers and family were routinely blocked and he has been deprived of all contact with them for the past 28 months, the anonymous threatening letter was allowed through by the prison authorities. It read: 鈥淲e will administer a poison that will lead to your demise. Even the insects that feed on your corpse will be poisoned and perish.鈥
Ok said that such threatening letters 鈥減lay with 脰calan鈥檚 psychology, his mental health, his physical health鈥.
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) 鈥 which unites Kurds living in exile 鈥 has on the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Union and the United Nations to organise an urgent ad hoc mission to visit 脰calan.
The last contact 脰calan had was a short phone call with his brother on March 25, 2021.
鈥淎lthough the lawyers have continuously applied to the relevant authorities in Turkey as well as to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in order to be allowed to see their client, they have not received any replies,鈥 the KNK said.