Topic: Kurdistan Workers' Party

AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-04 18:10:41

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 ...

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Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-26 08:06:50

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 ...

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AFP American Edition | 2010-02-24 00:10:15

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 ...

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Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-11 12:48:12
<div><p>ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to raise concern about press freedom in the EU candidate country.</p><p>It was not the first time prosecutors in ...
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Ten soldiers killed in SE Turkey bomb: sources

Conde Nast Portfolio | 2009-04-29 04:44:56

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