Peoples’ Platform Europe – Μέρα 3η
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As my friends already mentioned, on this day Öcalan was kidnapped.
This international conpsiracy is closely related to all the problems the people in the middle east face. We have to understand the struggle of Öcalan and the Kurdish people in order to understand the significance of his capture.
After he was imprisoned, I was on a team of lawyers that visited him on Imrali, and I actually witnessed the process of his writing these books.
The period and era of this international conspiracy. The real socialist system was supposedly defeated and capitalist powers were supposedly victorious. At this time the USA and Israel coordinated this interantional conspiracy, but also with the cooperation of the European powers,
On the Turkish-Syrian border Turkey amassed troops and started to do maneuvers on land and sea in order to intimidate Syria and the Syrian regime forced Öcalan to leave. He had to leave so that he wouldn’t become the cause of a problem to Syria. He had an invitation to Greece. After he arrived in Greece he was told he couldn’t stay there. Then he was in Russia and Italy. It was during this time that the only place where there was the premise of a legal system was Italy where he was able to apply for asylum. However, the US predient put pressure on Italy and he had to leave and then go to Russia and then Greece, and then finally he was “kidnapped” to Kenya. One of the reasons they sent him out of Europe is that the European powers wanted to seem as if they had nothing to do with this.
For example, Germany had issued a warrant of arrest for Öcalan, so when he arrived in Italy they cancelled it so they wouldn’t have to arrest him.
So why did the European powers align against Öcalan? The global capitalist powers had a plan to redesign the middle East and this conspiracy was the beginning of this project. Kurds were living in the middle of the middle East, so for anyone to do anything in the middle east they would have to deal with the Kurds. By getting rid of Öcalan they could continue their plans. This has been called the beginning of the Third World War. The US wanted to erase his influence. He was contacted by the US and told that they expected him to be on their side.
I would also like to talk about the island of Imrali. It used to be a low-security prison. By the time he was captured the island was completely rebuilt. The meaning of the island: a former Turkish prime minister was hanged on this island. It was given to the MGK, and it is also a No-Fly-Zone of 5km. The regime also made exceptions to Turkish law that only applied to the island. Öcalan described it as a coffin.
MGK is responsible for what Öcalan eats, how he sleeps. It is composed of three rooms, and he has a 12 m2 room where he is kept for 23 hrs. For one hour he is brought to a yard with tall barricades where he cannot see anything but the sky.
With the conspiracy of Imrali island Turkey wanted to kill all hope for theKurdish people. Itwas very painful for Kurds, because people remembered everything that had been done to Kurdish leaders in the past.
Öcalan said the easy thing is to die on this island, but the difficult thing is to survive and to live on the island. And that is what he did.
In my first meeting with Öcalan I realized he has deeper concerns than his own life. He was talking about Kurds as the target of genocide. But neither the coffin, nor the international conspiracy, nor anything else could succeed.
In one meeting he said I want my people to cross this river and survive. This was the struggle of Öcalan. The resistance is an intellectual resistance, and a mental resistance. He had a strong will and he made his identity as leader of the Kurdish people through strong will.
We need to remember that he tried to keep his rhythm. He wakes up early and plans his day and uses it very efficiently. That’s how he could survive 26 years in that cell. As a prisoner Öcalan always managed to stand. He was like an iron that the system of Imrali couldn’t melt. They couldn’t change him in the way that they wanted. That is the kind of leadership we are talking about.
He has to have a strong leadership 24/7. He said I will never show them any weakness, and I will live every day in resistance. For 26 years he did this. He read many books. And when he met with lawyers he always wanted to discuss this reading, because it was the only way to have dialogue.
It wasn’t a pure academic work. His priority was the freedom of the people, and he wanted to find answers, such as for why the Kurdish people were facing so many enemies, and what role capitalist modernity had.
Sometimes with family visits he was also discussing these intellectual developments. In one of the pictures you see of him you see his shelf. This picture was submitted to the international court. After the bookshelf was published they took away the bookshelf and he was only allowed to have three books at a time.
Even when they would send newspapers they would cut it up and control what he read. We couldn’t send him anything. He was never given much opportunity to write down things himself. After a while the authorities also started to take away our notes, so we told him. And he answered, don’t you have a mind? You can memorize everything I say, so we learned how to do that.
When we met him we could see he had an amazing mind. He was citing things from a book that he read years ago. And he would also ask details about all kinds of people he had met a long time ago and he remembered their names. When talking with us he would remember things and say: “you said this and that a year ago”.
It was not just a talent, but it was about taking you seriously.
But I have to say that despite these conditions Öcalan always had a revolutionary feeling in every cell of his body. His thoughts were written in a notebook, and after that we typed them and published them, but after that he was never given a notebook.
When we wrote his notes he kept a date for every day. And we came across the words on first of May we realized it wasn’t part of the defense, but so we published it as a statement for May 1st.
Everything he would write he was carefully structuring.
Sometimes, as punishment, he was given “solitary confinement”. But he is already the sole prisoner, so what that meant is that they took away his pen, his paper, etc.
So he published 13 volumes of his defense. About 7,000 papers. One of his defense wasn’t given to us. If we consider everything he wrote it was over 10,000 papers. But he is still writing.
DEM Party visited them and he said he had a project about Marx. The dialogue with his lawyers should be seen as a process of production of his ideas.
Up to 2015 we were given the opportunity to visit Öcalan regularly. We documented the visits.
What I want to say is that he produced a huge amount of work. As lawyers we had to prepare extensively for the meetings, and organize ourselves, so that we would not waste any of his time.
About the isolation I would like to tell you one anecdote I have never published.
We would be given one hr to meet him, for exmaple, we would meet at 13:00 and it would be over at 14:00 and they would come 5 minutes before the end.
Just one time the guard didn’t remember to tell him. And then when he came Öcalan said we had not spoken because we were waiting for you to tell us. And the guard said you are acting as lawyers and you were already speaking, but Öcalan raised his voice and he fought for 15 more minutes to speak.
Everything we accomplished as Kurdish people was with our fingernails, and Öcalan did the same thing: fought for 15 more minutes with his fingernails.
In 1999 Öcalan was saying I am alive, I am fighting, and you will see the outcome of it. And for the last 26 years we can say this.
We could say the Kurdish movement is having the strongest time in its history. The philosophy of Jin Jiyan Azadi became global slogans. Or the Rojava revolution has also been a focus.
Mr. Öcalan, after 26 years, is still working for the faith of his people, and he never gave up, and he is still focusing with all of his depth, focus and courage. And we can say that the resistance is continuing to this day.

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