Nakon što su ga 1999. u Keniji uhvatile elitne turske snage, Ocalan je jedini zatvorenik na malom zatvorskom ostrvu Imrali, koje se nalazi na jugu Mramornog mora.
Since being captured in Kenya by Turkish elite forces in 1999, Ocalan has been the only inmate on the small prison island of Imrali, located in the south of the Sea of Marmara.