Turkish Composer Charged For Aiding

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Subject: Turkish Composer Charged For Aiding Kurd Rebels

Turkish Composer Charged For Aiding Kurd Rebels 

ANKARA, April 24 (mainstream media wires) - A Turkish state security 
court has charged a top musician and human rights activist with giving
false passports to two former Kurdish guerrillas, the media said on 
Thursday.  The court in Istanbul refused to comment on the charge, but 
the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet said Sanar Yurdatapan was accused of "aiding 
an illegal group". Police detained him at Istanbul airport on returning 
from Germany with two false passports prepared for former Kurdistan Workers 
Party (PKK) members, the Turkish media reported. "My brother Sanar Yudatapan 
was arrested on April 22, but I was not informed under what accusation," Onur 
Yurdatapan told Reuters. Yurdatapan, one of the country's most famous popular 
music composers, is a human rights activist who has often criticised the 
treatment of Turkey's Kurdish minority.