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ANKARA, Sept 6 (AFP) - 14h31 - Turkey on Tuesday
welcomed a decision by Germany to ban the publisher
of a newspaper seen as a mouthpiece of the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), a rebel group considered a
terrorist organization by Ankara.
The foreign ministry said the ban was a "resolute
move" by the German government against the PKK and
expressed hope that "it would set an example and
lead to concrete results in preventing all the
activities of the terrorist organization in Germany
and across Europe."
The E. Xani publishing company, based in
Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt, produced the
Turkish-language daily Ozgur Politika which had a
print run of 10,000 copies.
German Interior Minister Otto Schily described the
paper as "the mouthpiece" of the PKK, which is also
considered as a terrorist group by the European
Union and the United States.
Turkey has long accused European and neighboring
countries of tolerating PKK activities on their
soil.
AFP
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