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Turkey: Kurdish politician arrested over
petrol bomb attack on bank
12.3.2007
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March 12, 2007
ANKARA, March 12, -- Turkish police detained
14 people, including a Kurdish politician, in
connection with a petrol bomb attack on a bank in
the northwestern town of Gebze, officials said
Monday.
Police raided the Gebze offices of the pro-Kurdish
Democratic Society Party (DTP) after seeing several
"suspicious looking people" enter the building one
day after Saturday's attack, the Kocaeli governor's
office said in a statement carried by the Anatolia
news agency.
It said 14 people, including Meral Kurum, the DTP
chairwoman for Gebze, were detained.
The statement said police seized five petrol bombs
along with documents and banners praising jailed
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, whose outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has waged a bloody
22-year campaign for self-rule in southeast Turkey.
The DTP, Turkey's main Kurdish party, is frequently
accused of supporting the PKK. Several of its
members have been prosecuted for links with the
group, which is blacklisted by Ankara, the United
States and the European Union.
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.
AFP
** 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.
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
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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