The Justice Ministry has been working on a project to bring new inmates to the prison off İstanbul’s coast since an international team found that solitary confinement was detrimental to Öcalan’s mental health. They were brought to İmralı by ferry from Bursa’s Mudanya port. Sources have said the personal belongings of the five new inmates had been sent to the island earlier. Four of the new arrivals are PKK members, while the fifth is a member of the militant left-wing Turkish Workers and Peasants’ Liberation Army (TİKKO). The PKK members were identified as Bayram Kaymaz, Cumali Karsu, Şeyhmuz Poyraz and Hasbi Aydemir; the new fifth inmate was announced as Hakkı Alkan.
Police sources also stated that Kaymaz, who is being transferred from İzmir’s Kırıklar Prison, is paralyzed from the neck down. Three other inmates are scheduled to arrive on the island at a later date, sources say.
There is a prison yard that Öcalan and the newcomers can use in common. Visitors to the island can only enter after passing a highly sophisticated fingerprint identification system. The island is being monitored at all times through security bases at sea, as well as via satellite. Twelve new cells have been built since the Justice Ministry started work to bring in the new inmates.
Meanwhile, Iran and Syria have been handing out harsh punishments to PKK members captured in operations against the terrorist group. According to information from Iranian security sources, a jailed PKK member named İsmail Fattahian was executed in Iran’s Sanandaj Prison last week.
Fettahian was given the death penalty on charges of “participating in bomb attacks on behalf of terrorist organization PKK/PJAK [Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan], murder, armed robbery, terror, kidnapping, extortion of local residents, activities against Iran’s national security and trafficking in drugs to create funding for the terrorist group,” by the Iranian Revolutionary Court.
Other PKK members, identified as Enver Hüseyin Penahi, Ferzad Kemanger, Ferhad Vekili, Eli Heyderiyan, Erselan Evliyayi, Hebibullah Letifi, İhsan Fettahian, Fesih Yasemini, Rustem Arkiya, Şerko Maarfi, Ferhat Çalış, Enver Rostemi, Şakir Baki and Ramazan Ahmet are facing the death penalty, with sources saying these individuals will be executed in the next few days.
In Syria, four PKK members were sentenced to from seven to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of a number crimes including membership in a terrorist organization, armed robbery, kidnap of minors, attempting to annex Syrian territory to a foreign country and inciting the region’s Kurds to revolt against the government.
Benzer Haberler 
National
