Introduction

Undisputed leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), Abdullah
Ocalan said Apo ("uncle" in Kurdish), is a central figure of nationalism
Contemporary Kurdish. Born in 1948, Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999
the prison island of Imrali in the Marmara Sea, managed by the MGK (Council
national security). According to Guillaume Perrier in Le Monde
November 6, 2008, the prisoner of luxury every day costs a whopping
60,000 euros to the Turkish taxpayer and mobilizes a thousand men
his person.