Aysel Doğan, who had come to Turkey from Europe as a member of the Peace Group on the call of the Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan in 1999, but was arrested in the scope of KCK operations, remains in a critical situation.

The peace envoy jailed in Diyarbakır E Type prison had been suffering from serious health problems when she was finally referred to the Oncology Unit of Ankara Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Health Training and Research Hospital late April. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and at the 3rd stage of the illness.

Doğan was operated and the tumors were removed, however she continued to be in critical condition as her illness advanced over other parts of her body. She was insistently denied release despite the warning of doctors that she must urgently be released and receive chemotherapy treatment, and two separate rulings by the Supreme Court that her rights had been violated.

Doğan has today been taken under chemotherapy treatment at the Zekai Tahir Burak Hospital at 9.30 this morning.