Kurdish Rebels released

Tuesday 20 October

Yesterday a judge decided to release five Kurdish militants who had entered Turkey as part of a PKK “peace group”.

The five Kurds had been welcome by many supporters of the PKK when they crossed the frontier from Iraq.

According to the Turkish Government The PKK is a terrorist organization and its leader Abdullah Ocalan has been imprisoned since 1999.

The PKK has been struggling for 25 years to obtain the autonomy of south-east Turkey in a war that has claimed 40,000 lives.

Now, Turkey is seeking a peaceful solution to stop this war and two months ago, Mr. Erdogan, the Prime Minister elaborated a peace plan but he didn't detail the measures of the peace package. He wanted to be supported by the opposition.

The peace plan proposed to make a bigger place to Kurdish culture and to free all prisoners. But Turkish nationalist politicians claim they do not want to give in to Kurdish terrorists.

Victoria

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8315926.stm