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EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0758 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Abdullah Öcalan · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“Öcalan co-founded the PKK in 1978, was seized in Nairobi on 15 February 1999, sentenced to death in June 1999, and had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment after Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2002; he has been held on İmralı island.”

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