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Every year since the abduction and imprisonment of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan 23 years ago, an international peace delegation has collected evidence on the treatment of political prisoners in Turkey, reports Peter Boyle.
The Imrali delegation, as has become known, is named after Turkey’s high security island prison where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan has been detained in cruel isolation for 22 years. Laura Quagliuolo, editor and author of children’s books and an activist in Rete Jin, an Italian network of women in support of the Kurdish women’s movement, was part of the 2021 Imrali delegation. It has recently published its report. Quagliuolo told Green Left, that once again, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government had ignored their requests for discussions and to visit the imprison...