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A Czech citizen detained in Turkey for
Kurdish PKK propaganda
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March 5, 2007
Ankara, Turkey, -- A citizen of the
Czech Republic has been taken into custody in the
eastern Anatolian province of Artvin on charges of
spreading propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK) and its jailed leader Abdullah
Öcalan.
The unidentified Czech citizen went into a
coffeehouse on Friday night and shouted, “Live
Kurdistan, live Apo” -- using the nickname for
Öcalan -- the NTV news channel reported yesterday.
He was taken into custody after villagers complained
about him, alleging he also insulted Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic.
The Artvin governor confirmed the incident, NTV
said, while noting that the Czech citizen was
expected to be deported.
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,
which demands for independence for the southeastern
and heavily Kurdish Anatolia region
The United States and the European Union, like
Turkey, class the PKK as a "terrorist organisation"
todayszaman com
** 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.
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)
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