Original sentence: He successfully completed his studies and entered the civil service in Diyarbakir influenced by an ideology similar to the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan became an active member of the Democratic Cultural Associations of the East, an association promoting the rights of the Kurdish people.In 1978, two years before the military coup in 1980, the Kurdistan Workers Party was founded with Abdullah Öcalan being the leader.The PKK has on several occasions declared unilateral ceasefires, but none of them were actually implemented, and in some cases it has been argued that they only served to support political tactics
Edited sentence: He successfully completed his studies and entered the civil service in Diyarbakir.However, this right is often denied to him, and he sometimes stays months without being able to see anybody.In 1978, two years before the military coup in 1980, the Kurdistan Workers Party was founded with Abdullah Öcalan being the leader (his supporters call him Serok Apo).Influenced by the situation of the Kurdish people, who were denied the right to live according to their own cultural identity (Kurdish language was banned for use in the streets, Kurdish names were forbidden) by the Turkish state, Abdullah Öcalan became an active member of the Democratic Cultural Associations of the East, an association promoting the rights of the Kurdish people.Officially, these restrictions are blamed by turkish authorities on "bad weather conditions".The PKK has on several occasions declared unilateral ceasefires, all disregarded by the turkish state.The turkish state has argued that they only served to support political tactics