Turkey Arrests Soldier Released By

[kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu]

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Turkey Arrests Soldier Released By Rebel Kurds

Turkey Arrests Soldier Released By Rebel Kurds 

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Dec 12 (Reuter) - A Turkish security court on
Thursday arrested a Turkish soldier, released this week by Kurdish
rebels who had held him hostage, for praising the guerrillas in a
televised speech, a court official said. 

The soldier, Ibrahim Yaylali, spoke in a complimentary way about his
life with the rebels on the Kurdish-language MED-TV, a channel banned in
Turkey for being a tool of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the
official at the Diyarbakir court told Reuters. MED-TV broadcasts from
Europe by satellite. 

The official gave no more details. 

Yaylali and five others had been held hostage by the PKK in
Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq for 18 months until an Islamist MP and
their families travelled to the region to take them back earlier this
week. 

More than 21,000 people have died during the 12-year conflict between
security forces and PKK guerrillas, fighting for autonomy or
independence from Ankara. 

In the latest fighting, the emergency rule governor's office of
Diyarbakir said in a statement on Thursday that security forces had
killed 32 Kurdish guerrillas in a week of clashes in southeast of the
country. 

The statement said the clashes took place in six southeastern provinces.
It gave no figures for military casualties. 


-----------------------------------------------------------------
Arm The Spirit is an autonomist/anti-imperialist information
collective based in Toronto, Canada. Our focus includes a wide 
variety of material, including political prisoners, national 
liberation struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism, 
the fight against patriarchy, and more. We regularly publish our 
writings, research, and translation materials in our magazine and
bulletins called Arm The Spirit. For more information, contact:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P7 Canada

E-mail: ats at etext.org
WWW: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats
FTP: ftp.etext.org --> /pub/Politics/Arm.The.Spirit
ATS-L Archives: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~archive/ats-l
-----------------------------------------------------------------

++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
   ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++
     ++++ see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ++++