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High-ranking PKK
Member Jailed For Three Years in Germany
AFP
July
10, 2002
A high-ranking member of the outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers
Party (PPK) was jailed for three years and three months by an appeals court in western Germany on Wednesday.
The Duesseldorf tribunal handed down its sentence after the 45-year-old man admitted to running the regional arm of the PKK
in the Rhine valley.
The judges also ruled that the man, whose identity was not disclosed, had helped to forge documents so that PKK members
could enter Germany illegally.
Based in Turkey, the PKK was banned in Germany in 1993 after a wave of terrorist attacks here. But since 1996, the German
authorities consider the group a criminal organisation rather than a terrorist group.
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