Kurdish Mayor Jailed In Turkey For Supporting Kurdish Rebels
Thursday November 20th, 2008 / 11h28
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP)--A Kurdish mayor in southeastern Turkey was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for urging support for separatist Kurdish rebels in an interview with a French news channel last year. The court in Diyarbakir convicted Ahmet Ertak - the mayor of nearby Sirnak and member of Turkey's main Kurdish party, the Democratic Society party, or DTP, - under a provision penalizing diffusing propaganda for outlawed groups. In the 2007 interview with France-24, Ertak had said that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, waging a separatist campaign "should be supported as the PKK supported the Kurdish people." His lawyer said they would appeal the sentence. The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish government and much of the international community, took up arms for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast in a conflict that has claimed some 44,000 lives. The DTP is facing a possible ban by the constitutional court for alleged links with PKK rebels. The party, which urges a peaceful resolution to the violent conflict in the southeast, denies the allegations. Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=ZeJWYD76SSUIrDh7xN%2BBbg%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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