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Austria extradites suspected Kurdish
separatist leader to Germany
14.6.2006
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BERLIN, June 14,
2006 (AFP) , - A member of the banned Kurdish rebel
group PKK has been extradited from Austria to
Germany where he has long been sought for militant
attacks, the federal prosecutor's office said on
Wednesday.
The 51-year-old man arrived in the western German
city of Karlsruhe on Tuesday and appeared before an
investigating judge who ordered that he be arrested,
it said.
The man was detained in Vienna at the beginning of
the year on an international arrest warrant issued
by German authorities eight years ago.
He is believed to have been the leader of the PKK
(Kurdistan Workers Party) in the northern German
cities of Hamburg, Kiel and Bremen in 1993 and 1994
and to have taken part in a spate of attacks, the
prosecutor's office said.
The PKK carried out a campaign of firebombings on
German and Turkish institutions in Germany in the
mid-1990s.
Its bloody separatist campaign in southeastern
Turkey has claimed nearly 37,000 lives since 1984.
AFP
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