The Turkish Government is not planning to modify the sentence of outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan from life imprisonment to house arrest, daily Hürriyet cites Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish prime minister as saying.
“House arrest for Öcalan is not a question. Everything is so clear on this subject,” Erdoğan said yesterday during a press conference in Senegal, where he is wrapping up a three-country African tour.
However, the prime minister appears to have given into one concession. Erdoğan said he had ordered a television be placed in Öcalan’s room on İmralı Island, where the outlawed leader is serving a life sentence.
“The room where Öcalan stays is a 12-meter square. He has had a radio and [officials] will replace it with a television,” Erdoğan said.
House arrest for jailed PKK leader not even an option, Turkish PM says
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