Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan, on death row in a Turkish prison since his abduction from outside the Greek embassy residence in Kenya in 1999, has written a book accusing US, Israeli and Greek intelligence of manipulating him to provoke civil war in Turkey, a press report said yesterday.
According to the Turkish Hurriyet daily, the 54-year-old leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claims he was handed over to Turkish agents by the three countries' secret services in the hope that Ankara would execute him, thus sparking an all-out Kurdish uprising. Ocalan reportedly attributes the conspiracy's failure to the vigilance of Turkey's armed forces. "During my imprisonment in Turkey, I have not been exposed to any torture or any maltreatment," he is said to have added.

After being smuggled into Greece by sympathizers in early 1999, Ocalan was spirited out by the government and unsuccessfully hidden in the Nairobi embassy. In the ensuing crisis, three top ministers lost their jobs.