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Kurdish rebels release kidnapped Turkish
policeman
27.1.2006
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ANKARA, Jan 27, -
Turkish Kurdish rebels have released a Turkish
policeman in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) after keeping
him hostage for almost four months, human rights
activists said Friday.
The officer, Hakan Acil, was on his way to Turkey,
accompanied by a group of rights activists who
secured his release, a senior member of the Human
Rights Association, Mihdi Perincek, told AFP.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) abducted
the officer in early October near a small village in
the southeastern province of Sirnak, which borders
Iraq and Syria.
The PKK, which has bases in the mountains of
neighboring Kurdistan (northern Iraq), has fought
for self-rule in predominantly Kurdish southeastern
Turkey (Northern Kurdistan) since 1984.
The United States and the EU list Turkey's largest
and most active rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers'
Party, or PKK, as a terrorist organization.
AFP
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