NEWS CENTER – Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç responded to request for Öcalan to meet with journalists and politicians and said, “What needs to be done within this legal framework can be carried out.”
The Minister of Justice issued a statement following the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party’s (DEM) request for the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan to meet with individuals, journalists and politicians he designates.
Tunç said: “The regulations regarding how inmates in prisons can have meetings are already outlined in the law. What needs to be done within this legal framework can be carried out.”
The Minister of Justice also responded to a question from journalists regarding the “right to hope” and said, “There is no such situation or discussion.”
During a meeting with Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç on April 24, the İmralı Delegation of the DEM Party requested that Abdullah Öcalan be allowed to have meetings with journalists and politicians on the İmralı Island Prison, where he has been since 1999.
RESPONSE FROM DEM PARTY
In response, DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan posted the following on her virtual media: “Dear Minister, regardless of the debate on the right to hope, your tone in this process is far from the constructive language we need and, unfortunately, has poisonous effect. As a society, we expect you to use your representative power to establish justice. We need law and democratic consensus not polemics.”