Turkish prosecutor has demanded death penalty for PKK leader Ocalan

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   11 October, 1997, Copyright © Turkish Daily News

      Turkish prosecutor has demanded death penalty for PKK leader Ocalan
                                       
     * DGM prosecutor, meanwhile, demanded prison terms, up to eight
       years, for pro-Kurdish DEP deputy Zubeyir Aydar and Mahmut Kilinc,
       writer Yalcin Kucuk and Professor Fikret Baskaya, on grounds of
       disseminating separatist propaganda, being sympathetic to and
       supporting the PKK
       
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   Turkish Daily News
   
   Ankara - The office of the Ankara State Security Court (DGM)
   prosecutor issued court proceedings, on Friday, against the outlawed
   Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Ocalan. Ocalan is
   being accused of making separatist propaganda speeches and of damaging
   the country's territorial integrity, in his statements on the pro-PKK
   Med-TV. The DGM is demanding the death penalty for Ocalan.
   
   The DGM prosecutor, meanwhile, demanded prison terms, up to eight
   years, for pro-Kurdish DEP deputies Zubeyir Aydar and Mahmut Kilinc,
   writer Yalcin Kucuk and Professor Fikret Baskaya, on grounds of
   disseminating separatist propaganda and of being sympathetic to and
   supporting the PKK.
   
   The DGM's four page indictment, prepared by Prosecutor Hamza Keles,
   which accuses Med-TV of being the voice of the PKK, says that the
   defendants participated, either personally or by phone, in a Med-TV
   program aired on Nov. 3 and commended the separatist PKK's activities.
   The indictment also quotes Ocalan as saying that he had planned some
   terrorists activities. Med-Tv has continued its broadcasts from abroad
   despite Turkey's demand that European countries not allow this station
   to broadcast from their territory.
   
   The court session to hear the prosecutor's demand will start on Oct.
   13. An arrest warrant has already been issued for PKK leader Ocalan.
   
   The PKK, headed by Ocalan, is engaged in a bloody separatist campaign,
   against the Turkish government, since 1984 in the southeast of Turkey.

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