Turkey's circumvention "right to hope" law has become exposed

The occupying Turkish state continues to impose a system of torture and extermination on leader Abdullah Ocalan, disregarding international human rights laws and treaties. It prevents him from meeting with his family and lawyers and rejects all requests for visits. 

Lawyers from the al-Tabqa canton clarified that the deprivation of the "right to hope" contradicts the international laws that the Turkish occupation authorities have signed.

The lawyer Shadi al-Ibrahim said in this regard: "According to the European Court of Human Rights, there is a law called 'the right to hope' that has been established and approved by several countries, including Turkey, which considers itself a partner in enacting this decision, as it seeks to present itself as a pioneering country in the application of humanitarian laws in public."

Ibrahim added: "When Turkey agreed to this law, it did not apply it to leader Abdullah Ocalan; because its implementation would lead to his release. Today, the leader has met all the conditions of the law, whether it is the passage of 20 years since his abduction or reaching the age of 70.

He pointed out that the occupying Turkish state hastened to impose what is called "disciplinary sanctions" and works to extend them from time to time, yet these sanctions are in violation of Turkey's own laws. The aim of Turkey is to circumvent the law of the right to hope, but this trick has become transparent to the entire world.

Ibrahim called on the international community to stand against these violations and to first reveal them to the Turkish people, so they understand the seriousness of the legal violations by the regime in Turkey and bring them to light.

For his part, human rights activist Ahmed al-Khadr said: "The life sentence for leader Ocalan without conditional release contradicts Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights." "While the Turkish state insists on following oppressive policies that violate all international and humanitarian values and laws, this is met with international complicity expressed through unjustified silence."

Al-Khadr wondered why there is this international silence regarding the leader, despite the fact that he has every right according to the law.

Human rights activist Abdel Hamid al-Khamri emphasized the importance of intensifying legal and human rights efforts and filing lawsuits extensively with the Human Rights Organization, demanding the release of leader Abdullah Ocalan, after this period of time and the implementation of the "right to hope" law.

T/ Satt.

ANHA