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Kurdish leader's nephew arrested in Turkey
26.12.2005
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ANKARA, Dec 26 (AFP) - 9h43 - Turkish police
have arrested a nephew of the jailed Kurdish
separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan on suspicion of
links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
Anatolia news agency reported.
It said the man, identified only as Mehmet A., was
detained late Sunday in the southern town of Adana.
He is accused of recruiting PKK militants, the
agency said.
PKK leader Ocalan was arrested in 1999. He is now
serving a life sentence on the north-western island
of Imrali for "separatism" and "treason". |
Abdullah Ocalan, Kurdish
leader in Turkey |
Some 37,000 people have been killed since 1984 when
the rebels first took up arms for self-rule in
mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey (Kurdistan).
AFP
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