Istanbul - Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has complained of a weak heart and increased palpitations, one of his lawyers said yesterday after visiting the Turkish island prison where he is being held.
Ocalan (51) is held responsible by Ankara for more than 29,000 deaths as the leader of a 14-year-old guerrilla campaign for self rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. While he awaits trial on treason charges which carry the death penalty he is being held on Imrali, an island jail in western Turkey where he has been the only inmate since his capture by Turkish special services in Kenya two months ago.