BURSA - The Bursa Criminal Court of Peace no:1decided to confiscate the year 2002 diaries which were published in Kurdish and were distributed during a regional congress of the People`s Democracy Party (HADEP) in northwestern province of Bursa on charges that those diaries made propaganda of the terrorist PKK organization.

Sources said on Wednesday that the Bursa Security Department had
investigated those diaries which had been distributed during HADEP`s
congress in Bursa on January 20.

In these Kurdish appointment books which were published in Istanbul, February 15, the date when head of terrorist PKK organization Abdullah Ocalan was captured in Kenya by Turkish special forces, was marked in black.

Following its examination, the Bursa Security Department denounced it to the Bursa Prosecutor's Office on charges that ``it makes propaganda of the terrorist organization``.

Upon the Prosecutor's Office's request, the Bursa Criminal Court of Peace no:1 ruled for confiscation of these appointment books.

Officials at the Security Department said that confiscation had started and the investigation was under way.