Topic: Kurdistan Workers' Party
Police rounded up high-profile Kurds in Belgium on Thursday as part of a Europe-wide investigation into alleged "terrorist" operations, drawing Kurdish ire and Turkish delight. Twenty arrests included ex-lawmakers, according to Turkish sources, after raids that followed an announcement by France on Wednesday that nine Kurds were charged with terror offences, allegedly recruiting fighters for the PKK separatist group ...
ROME (Reuters) - Police said they were arresting 11 people in northern Italy on Friday to break up a network that recruited and trained Kurds for Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The arrest warrants, being carried out in Venice and other northern towns, were issued against 10 Turkish citizens and one Italian, who have been charged with links to ...
The US Supreme Court was urged Tuesday to help pin down the definition of "providing material support to terrorism," a charge widely used in the United States since the September 11, 2001 attacks. In a case brought by both the government and a rights group, the Humanitarian Law Project, the nine justices were called upon to define what kind of ...
