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|fullname = Abdullah Öcalan|alias = Apo<br>Tyrant in İmralı|origin = Ömerli, Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey|occupation = Founder and leader of militant organization [[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]], political activist, writer, political theorist|skills = Planning<br>Leadership<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>Military training|hobby = Unknown|goals = To establish the Kurdistan State (Failed)|crimes = Mass [[murder]] (including [[child murder]])<br>Treason<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Drug trafficking]]|type of villain = Terrorist Mastermind}}{{Quote|For peace and brotherhood at the axis of a democratic republic, I am ready to serve the Turkish State, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.|Abdullah Ocalan, quoted in ''Turkish Press Review'', 1 June 1999.}}
'''Abdullah Öcalan''' (April 4<sup>th</sup>, 1948 - ), also known as '''Apo''' (short for both Abdullah and "''uncle''" in Kurdish), is a Kurdish nationalist leader from Turkey and one of the founding members of the militant [[Kurdistan Workers' Party|Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)]].<ref>[https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2001/5258.htm 2001 Report on Foreign Terrorist Organizations]</ref>

From 1978 until his capture in 1999, 4,472 civilians, 3,874 soldiers, 1,225 village guards and 247 police officers died as a result of violent incidents carried out by the PKK, of which he was the leader; There were 6,036 armed attacks, 3,071 bomb attacks, 388 armed robberies and 1,046 people were kidnapped. Claiming that the attacks and deaths were higher than the numbers given, Öcalan stated that these events were a part of the armed struggle carried out by the PKK, that these attacks were carried out in accordance with his orders, and that he was primarily responsible for the organization that carried them out. According to Human Rights Watch, between 1992 and 1995, by the PKK led by Öcalan; At least 768 people, mostly civil servants, teachers and civilians, were extrajudicially executed and killed, and 39 women and 76 children were killed in 25 different massacres carried out by the organization's guerrillas in the same period.

Between 1995 and 1999, 21 different suicide attacks were carried out across Türkiye by the organization's "suicide squads", mostly consisting of women. Amnesty International condemned the human rights violations committed by PKK members, especially against civilians and prisoners. Human Rights Watch also requested that the asylum request of Öcalan, who is thought to have committed a [[crime against humanity]], should not be accepted by any country.

Öcalan was arrested in 1999 by the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT) with the support of the CIA in Nairobi and taken to Turkey, where he was sentenced to death under Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which concerns the formation of armed organisations.<ref>[https://www.hr-dp.org/contents/553|access-date=2021-01-07 Öcalan v Turkey]</ref> The sentence was commuted to aggravated life imprisonment when Turkey abolished the death penalty in support of its bid to be admitted to membership in the European Union. From 1999 until 2009, he was the sole prisoner on İmralı island, in the Sea of Marmara. Öcalan now argues that the period of armed warfare is past and a political solution to the Kurdish question should be developed. The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has resulted in over 40,000 deaths, including PKK members, the Turkish military, and civilians, both Kurdish and Turkish.

From prison, Öcalan has published several books, the most recent in 2015. Jineology, also known as the science of women, is a form of feminism advocated by Öcalan and subsequently a fundamental tenet of Kurdish nationalism.