Ocalan to HDP: Don’t visit anymore, assume I’m dead

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — In their latest meeting on April 6, 2015, Abdulla Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), reportedly said the Turkish government is impeding the resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey, a member of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) delegation visiting the Turkish Imrali Island where Ocalan is imprisoned said on a TV program on CNN Turk on Monday.

HDP member Sirri Surayya Onder quoted Ocalan as saying the resolution of the Kurdish question will end in Turkey at the hands of the Turkish state because the Turks are not “‘serious.’”

“Ocalan told us that the [Turkish state] is not serious in resolving the Kurdish question, and that ‘maybe this is our last meeting,'” Onder said.
 
“‘If they end the process and resume conflict and do not allow you to visit me, assume I am dead and visit me no more,’” Onder quoted Ocalan as telling the HDP delegation.

Meanwhile, Parvin Buldan, another member of the HDP delegation, talked about Ocalan on Turkish Hayat TV Monday, saying, “We are trying to ask about the situation and health of Ocalan in the jail through other prisoners there.”

Clashes between the PKK and Turkey resumed in late June following escalation from both sides.

On October 10, the PKK unilaterally declared a truce with the Turkish state because of fresh parliamentary elections in the country, but the Turkish army continued launching its operations against the PKK.