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French Police Arrest 13 Kurds in Paris for
Financing PKK
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February
5, 2007
Paris, --
French police have arrested 13 Kurds from Turkey as
part of an investigation into financing Kurdish PKK
rebels (Kurdistan Workers' Party), a police official
said.
Twelve Turks and one Australian, all of Kurdish
origin, were arrested in various suburbs of Paris on
Monday morning, said the official,
whose name can't be used because of police rules.
The arrested Kurds appear to be linked to the PKK,
the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group based
in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and South-East Turkey
that supports the creation of a Kurdish state, the
official said, though the investigation was still
under way.
"These are people we suspect of funding the PKK," a
spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutors' office said.
The arrests were part of an investigation that began
last July when two Turks were arrested after trying
to change 200,000 euros into dollars in a Paris
bureau de change, police said. |
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All of those arrested were in France legally, police
added.
More than 30,000 Turkish soldiers and PKK guerrillas
have been killed since 1984 when the PKK took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Turkey is home to some 20 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey
PKK Banned in Turkey, listed by the European Union
and United States as a terrorist organization
Reuters
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The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan"
Southeast Turkey. The Kurds have no rights in
Turkey.
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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