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Berlin: Germany captures a suspected PKK leader
11.8.2006
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Berlin, Germany,
August 10 , -- German authorities said Thursday they
had captured a suspected ringleader of the banned
Kurdish rebel group PKK who is accused of promoting
and securing financing for the organization.
The federal prosecutor's office in the southwestern
city of Karlsruhe said the 50-year-old Turk of
Kurdish origin was arrested Tuesday and is believed
to have been the leader of the PKK (Kurdistan
Workers' Party) and its political wing KONGA-GEL in
southern Germany since June 2005.
The federal supreme court issued an arrest warrant
for the suspect, identified only as Muzaffer A.,
Monday on charges of managing in a criminal
organization.
He is believed to have organized financing and
propaganda activities for the group and to have
helped smuggle illegal immigrants into Germany.
The PKK carried out a campaign of firebombings on
German and Turkish institutions in Germany in the
1990s and has been banned in the country since 1993.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than
37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took up arms
for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast of Turkey.
AFP
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