"The call lasted about 20 to 25 minutes. We had gone to the prosecutor's office with my son, Abdullah Ojalan's lawyer and two MPs for having a conversation, but only I spoke to him. We were not allowed to hold discussions with the rest of our companions. I asked him about his health. He replied, "I am well." The Coronavirus (Crewid-19) has not spread to Imrali Island. There is no problem at the moment on the island, but no one knows what will happen tomorrow," Mehmet Ocalan, Abdullah Ocalan's brother, said a statement in reference to the telephone call with the imprisoned PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Orensel newspaper quoted Mehmet Ocalan as saying about Ocalan’s conversation with him that, "he had a message for Kurdistan Region. He saluted brother Barzani (KDP leader Masoud Barzani), Nechirvan Barzani, the family of Talabani and all the personalities fighting in the region. The recent issue in Qandil was also discussed. I told him there were tensions between the Peshmerga forces of the KDP and the PKK fighters and he said: "International countries can encourage tensions, but the Kurds need unity. If the Kurds do not unite in the different regions they live, some international countries will promise some Kurds to have their country, provided that they remove one Kurdish movement.”

"These forces have been using Kurds for the past hundred years to serve their own interests. If the Kurds do not unite, one will be breakfast, one lunch and the other the dinner of the international powers," Ocalan told his brother in the phone conversation.

Abdullah Ocalan further added that " a 10-point protocol was signed in 1982 with Edris Barzani’s father (who may God has mercy on), and it stipulated no bloodshed among Kurds. The families of Barzani and Talabani vowed to play a leading role in unifying the Kurds. The Mountain Qandil was also a party to the protocol. The protocol emphasized negotiation and dialogue among Kurds must continue and they should avoid shedding each other's blood. In case of any lose the Kurds would lose together."

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