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25,000 signatures collected for Ocalan in Adana
Adana, Nov 30 - Over 25,000 signatures was collected
in the last three months for the Kurdish national
leader Abdullah Ocalan by Kurdish activists in the
city of Adana. The signatures campaign "Abdullah
Ocalan is my political volition" is being carried
out by Kurdish activists from different NGOs all
over Turkey and northern Kurdistan (southeastern
Turkey).
The activists in Adana aims to collect 125,000
signatures in the city. Posters will be put up in
different areas of the city and leaflets will be
handed out in the next phase, campaign activists
said. The number of activists will also be
increased.
Until now, 56 City Mayors all over Turkey and
northern Kurdistan have signed the campaign
petitions
Turkish Chief of Staff denies claims of Turkish
generals meeting Barzani
Newsdesk, Nov 30 - The Turkish Chief of Staff denied
on Nov. 26 claims made by media that two Turkish
generals were among the members of a Turkish
delegation who met with the Kurdish KDP leader
Massoud Barzani in the KDP headquarters in
Salahaddin, days before Barzani's trip to
Washington.
"A newspaper claimed that two generals joined the
MIT secretary's visit to Iraq. This doesn't reflect
the truth," the Turkish Chief of Staff said in their
statement, but didn't deny that the meeting had
taken place between MIT and Barzani.
The Turkish intelligence agency MIT's secretary Emre
Taner had together with a delegation visited the
Kurdish KDP leader Massoud Barzani in Barzani's
Salahaddin stronghold in southern Kurdistan
(northern Iraq) before a trip Barzani made to
Washington to meet with the US President George W.
Bush.
JITEM units tried to kidnap former DEHAP Mardin
province chairman
Newsdesk, Nov 30 - Two JITEM units tried to kidnap
the former DEHAP Mardin province chairman Cemal
Veske yesterday evening, the Kurdish news agency
DIHA reported.
Veske told reporters from the Kurdish news agency
DIHA that two cars pulled him to the side in the
entrance to Kiziltepe when he was driving back from
Istanbul to Mardin. The persons in the cars had
presented themselves as plain-clothed Turkish police
officers and had asked Veske to come with them.
Veske called his lawyer during an instance when the
so-called 'police officers' talked with each other.
They immediately pulled Veske out and tried to pull
him to their car when they realized that Veske was
talking on the cell phone. Veske managed to pull
himself loose and escape when his blazer was ripped
apart by the pulling 'police officers'.
Both cars had no plates and the 'police officers'
had never showed any identification, Veske told the
news agency.
"They used to follow my wife and my daughter. The
public opinion must be informed about this. The ones
that tried to kidnap me must know that they will
never be able to scare me. No force can pull us away
from our legitimate struggle," Veske said.
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