Four Kurds remanded in custody in Paris

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   PARIS, July 24 (AFP) - Four Kurds alleged to be militant Kurdish  
separatists were remanded in custody in Paris Friday in connection 
with an incident last month in which Turkish demonstrators were 
attacked with iron bars and knives. 
   Court sources said the four were being investigated for use of  
violence and "criminal association in connection with a terrorist 
operation." 
   Militant Kurds have been conducting a campaign against the  
Turkish government since 1984 to carve a separate state out of 
south-eastern Turkey. 
   Five other Kurds were placed under investigative detention on  
June 25 in connection with an alleged commando-style operation 
against Turks who were demonstrating in Paris against a decision by 
France formally to recognise the Turkish massacre of Armenians 
during World War I as genocide. 
   The National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, on May 29  
approved a bill officially recognizing the Armenian genocide under 
the Turkish Ottoman empire in 1915-1916. 
   Turkey has always denied that a genocide took place.  
   The 1,500 demonstrators were attacked in the middle of Paris on  
June 18 with iron bars and knives by some 60 to 80 people, leaving 
18 injured. 
   The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been leading an armed  
rebellion against Ankara in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of 
Turkey since 1984 with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish 
state. 
   More than 30,000 people have died in the violence.  
  	   	

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