1999. The arrest of Abdullah Ojalan

15 years ago, on February 16, 1999, in the capital of Kenya Nairobi, the leader of the prohibited Kurdish labor party Abdullah Ojalan was arrested by Turkish special services. On June 29 of the same year, he was sentenced to death, replaced by a life imprisonment, which is serving on the island of Imrala. On March 21, 2013, Ojalan announced the need for the Kurds of the transition from the armed struggle to the political.