Kurdish representatives in Australia discussed the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan with Labor Party Melbourne Federal MP Peter Khalil and Green Party state MP David Shoebridge.

The meeting in Sydney was held online due to coronavirus measures. Spokespersons of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) and the Democratic Kurdish Community Federation (DKTF) stressed that the isolation imposed upon the Kurdish People's Leader does not serve peace.

Recalling the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) report on the conditions on the Imrali prison, the Kurdish delegation condemned the CPT which did not visit Imralı prison island nor met with Öcalan’s lawyers during its latest visit to Turkey.

According to Kurdish representatives, Melbourne MP Peter Khalil vowed that they would bring these reservations and demands to both the party agenda and the parliament and would discuss the issue with their partners in Europe.

KNK and DTKF spokespersons had an online meeting with New South Wales MP David Shoebridge of the Green Party.

During the meeting the delegation informed Shoebridge about the hunger strikes carried out by political prisoners in protest at the isolation and rights violations in Turkey’s prisons.

MP Shoebridge told the Kurdish spokespersons that as the Green Party, they were aware of the isolation imposed upon Abdullah Öcalan and that he was himself a human rights defender. Shoebridge was cited as saying "Isolation is a form of torture and it is never acceptable." Shoebridge remarked that his party would evaluate both the hunger strikes and the isolation within the party and address them in federal and state parliaments.