Newroz Uysal: Turkey cannot ignore the right to hope

Newroz Uysal: Turkey cannot ignore the right to hope

Newroz Uysal, MP for Şırnak (Şirnex) from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), and one of Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers, spoke to ANF about the Turkish government’s continued exclusion of Abdullah Öcalan from the “right to hope” in its newly submitted “action plan” to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerning aggravated life sentences. She said: “If the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe does not s…