A lawyer by profession, author Heinz Jürgen Schneider, known in Germany for his detective novels, spoke to ANF about the state of health of the Kurdish people's leader, which has caused serious concerns recently.

Stating that he has been trying to follow the issue of the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan and the lawlessness in Imralı for a long time, Schneider said that the Federal German Government should act for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and reminded the Merkel government of what was done for the Russian opposition activist Alexei Nawalny.

Schneider called on the Merkel government to bring Kurdish people's leader, who has health problems like Nawalny, to Berlin and be treated there. After being poisoned by the Putin administration last year, Nawalny was brought to Berlin by private plane on the initiative of Germany and received treatment there.

Schneider asked Germany to put political pressure on the Turkish state for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan adding that "If such a thing is not done, then Germany's different approaches towards Nawalny and Abdullah Öcalan are nothing but hypocrisy."

Who is Heinz Jürgen Schneider?

Heinz Jürgen Schneider, who lives in Hamburg, Germany, worked as a lawyer for many years. In recent years, Schneider, who quit working as a lawyer and started writing novels, is known for his crime novels. His books consist of the trilogy "Scheune Death" (Tod in der Scheune), "Death in Hafenkai" (Tod am Hafenkai) and "Death in Ballnacht" (Tod in der Ballnacht), which took place in Germany in 1933. In recent years Schneider has  published "In the Land of Lies" (Im Land der Lügen) and "20 Million" (Zwanzig Millionen).

A group of German lawyers led by Heinz-Jürgen Schneider and another lawyer from Hamburg, Britta Eder, filed a criminal complaint against Erdogan and other Turkish state officials in 2011. Schneider stated that the criminal complaint demanding their arrest was not accepted by the Federal Attorney General's Office in Karlsruhe.