Baykal: They didn't even call him a 'terrorist'

Leader of the Republican People's (CHP) Party, Deniz Baykal, has criticized in the strongest terms the recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights concerning former PKK head Abdullah Ocalan. Part of what Baykal said following the decision by the ECHR was as follows:"Maybe you in your comfortable armchairs in Europe would like to sit back and watch the Ocalan matter the same way you watch a horror film, but we, as a society who has actually experienced the horror of Ocalan, prefer not to live it again. In the decision, Ocalan is not even referred to as the leader of a terrorist group. In 1992, they (the ECHR) referred to 'Carlos' as a terrorist, but they don't do the same for Ocalan. That person was caught at the Greek Embassy, where he had with him a Greek Cypriot passport. Now, are we really not going to question the decision of a court which had judges from Greece and Armenia in it, a court which couldn't call him a terrorist? The court has struck a serious blow to the global war against terror with this decision. I cannot stand the double standard which is being used against Turkey. It is the right of a country which was left alone for 15 years, during which it lost 30,000 of its youth in the fight against this terror, to tell the world how it feels. The administration must not let Turkey be dragged through those bloody pages again." Â