TRADE unionists and Green Left MEPs demanded freedom for Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan yesterday.

Mr Ocalan has been held in Turkey’s Imrali island maximum-security prison since his 1999 kidnapping in the Kenyan capital Nairobi by the Turkish MIT spy agency, allegedly with CIA support.

The 14th Brussels conference on the Kurdish national question was called by the EU Turkey Civic Commission and supported by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group of MEPs.