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<p>We are aware of the concerns expressed by hunger-strikers around the isolation
of Abdullah Öcalan. Similar concerns were also considered by the Council of Europe's
Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in their report, published in March
2018, of their April 2016 visit to the prison in which Mr Öcalan is held. We encourage
Turkey to adopt the CPT's recommendations. With regard to the decades of conflict
in Turkey, we have consistently urged an end to PKK violence and for both sides to
return to a peace process. PKK violence has cost the lives of some thousand members
of the Turkish security forces and scores of civilians since July 2015.</p><p> </p>
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