Example sentences for: ocalan

How can you use “ocalan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Turkey, the papers say, holds Ocalan responsible for the approximately 30,000 deaths occurring during the Kurdish insurgency.

  • The Independent said that although Ocalan was no saint or democratic hero, hanging him would only make things worse by turning him into a martyr for the Kurdish cause.

  • A story that had been lurking in the back pages for weeks--the saga of on-the-lam Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan--explodes today into everybody's lead with Ocalan suddenly in Turkish custody following his dramatic capture by Turkish operatives in Kenya, and Kurds across Europe rising up in often violent protest.

  • Pinochet was squeezed off the front pages of German and Italian newspapers Monday by the case of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, whom Italy has refused to extradite to Turkey because its laws forbid extradition of anyone to a country that practices the death penalty.

  • The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said Wednesday in a front-page editorial that Germany, which has a large Kurdish immigrant population, has damaged both its own constitution and international agreements on terrorism by refusing to request Ocalan's extradition from Italy last month, when it had an international arrest warrant out on him.


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