Turkey Wants Death Penalty For Abdu

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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.etext.org>
Subject: Turkey Wants Death Penalty For Abdullah Ocalan

Turkish Prosecutor Has Demanded Death Penalty For PKK Leader
Ocalan
          
Turkish Daily News - October 11, 1997

     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.

(Source: Press Agency Ozgurluk, http://www.ozgurluk.org)