KON-Kurd president Nizamettin Toðuç spoke to ANF about is nearly five months in Italy. Toðuç was arrested while on holiday in Italy. The Court in Venice ruled that indeed there was no reason for Toðuç been kept in jail but asked the president of the European Kurdish Federation to remain available in Italy.

The Court in Venice ruled was on 13 August. Toðuç has been in Padova for the past four and a half months. Speaking to ANF Toðuç said that he could not leave Padova, and that he lives like in an open prison. To obtain permission to go to another city he needs to apply to the Court and the bureaucracy involved in getting the permission takes several weeks.