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Germany: Kurds to protest against Turkish
military actions in Iraqi Kurdistan
24.1.2008
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January 24, 2008
BERLIN, -- Germany-based Kurds are to
demonstrate in Berlin on Saturday against Turkey's
ongoing military operations in in Kurdistan region
'northern Iraq', the press reported Wednesday.
Organizers expect around 2,000 people, including
German radical leftists and anarchist groups.
Berlin has witnessed a series of violent street
clashes in recent weeks between Turkish nationalists
and supporters of the banned Turkey's PKK Kurdish
rebel group in recent weeks.
In other related news, a former
PKK official was sentenced
to a 33 month jail term by a Berlin court on charges
of being a member of a terrorist group.
The 58 year-old Turkish defendant claimed to be a
regional PKK director in the southern Germany.
since 1984 when the PKK
took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast of Turkey. A
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in southeast of Turkey.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas, the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds,www.ekurd.net
granting them full
political freedoms.
The PKK, listed as a "terrorist" group by Ankara, US
and EU. German officials banned the organization
since November 1993 for "endangering national
security."
irna ir | Agencies
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