Imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on İmralı Island in the Sea of Marmara since February 1999. He is serving a life sentence for violating Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code. Initially, he was sentenced to death, but the conviction was commuted to a life sentence in October 2002.

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