Example sentences for: ocalan

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

  • Ocalan was arrested in Italy at Germany's request, but Bonn has now dropped its request for his extradition and has jointly proposed with Italy that he be tried for terrorist crimes by a currently nonexistent international tribunal.

  • In Paris, Le Figaro reported that Europe was "mobilizing" to save Ocalan and commented on its front page that Turkey has every reason to show generosity toward the Kurds: "It is in a position of strength on the ground, and it knows that a gesture of appeasement would convince the European Union to look more favorably on its application to join, which has been on the table since 1987."

  • The Italian papers, which see Turkey's human rights record as a serious impediment to its ambition to join the European Union, reacted with outrage Friday to a photograph issued by the Turkish government showing Ocalan blindfolded and manacled in front of the Turkish flag.

  • In Paris, Le Figaro said that Ankara should "judge Ocalan with all the guarantees due to him, to prove that Turkey is a state founded on the law."

  • The LAT observes that in none of this is the U.S. saying it didn't help locate Ocalan.


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