28.02.2025 17:40
The delegation of the Democratic Regions Party (DEMP) shared the written message of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in Turkish and Kurdish following their third visit to İmralı. While the repercussions of this message continue, new details regarding the meeting on İmralı Island have also begun to emerge.
In his expected call through the İmralı delegation of the DEM Party, Abdullah Öcalan, who met for the third time, requested that all groups of the terrorist organization PKK lay down their arms and dissolve itself.
ASKED ABOUT BAHÇELİ'S HEALTH CONDITION
While the echoes of this bombshell message continue, Tülay Hatimoğulları, Co-Chair of the DEM Party, shared new details regarding the meeting in İmralı. Speaking to T24's YouTube channel, Hatimoğulları stated, "Öcalan heard that Devlet Bahçeli was ill and asked us about his health condition; we told him that he was getting better."
DID NOT MENTION THE 'RIGHT TO HOPE'
Responding to the question of whether Öcalan had a request regarding the 'right to hope', Hatimoğulları said, "Mr. Öcalan did not touch on these issues during the meeting, saying things like 'take me out of İmralı, let me benefit from the right to hope.' His only request was to create the conditions for the requirements of the call he made to his organization to be fulfilled, both in terms of the state and in the meeting he would have with his own organization. He conveyed this to us in practical terms."
"A RECORD WAS TAKEN BUT WE DON'T HAVE IT"
When asked about the microphone in front of Öcalan, Hatimoğulları said: "The information sent to our delegation was that the call would be recorded on video. We believed that too. The statement made by the minister at the last minute was not seen as very correct by us either. Öcalan said, 'don't get caught up in the method.' Yes, a record was taken there, but we don't have it."
"HE WROTE THE LETTER IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING"
Hatimoğulları stated that Öcalan wrote the letter in his own handwriting, saying, "He wrote the letter by hand. We did not intervene in the content. If it had been audio, it would have appealed more to the feelings of the Kurdish community. If it had been visual, it would have reflected positively. He says, 'My call must be understood well.' In the first meeting, he said, 'The way to solve the Kurdish issue is to remove it from violence and conflict and to bring it to a political and legal dimension.' This message is exactly the same."