One man's hero is another's terrorist - that's OK, says top court
by Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has protected the right of Turkish prisoners to openly honour a Kurdish leader, in its recent judgements.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
“He had praised the imprisoned leader of the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party], Abdullah Öcalan by using the honorific ‘sayın’, meaning esteemed”, the ECtHR judgement read. “[He] was found guilty of breaching a prison order by the Bolu F-type Prison Disciplinary Board…[and] was sentenced to 11 days’ solitary confinement”.
Mr. Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founders of…