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| French Court Sentences 9 Kurds in PKK Extortion Case | |
| 2015-03-26 | |
[AnNahar] A French court on Tuesday sentenced two Kurds to five years in prison and seven others to lesser terms in an extortion case linked to the Kurdish gang PKK.
Two of the nine Kurds tried in Gay Paree were found to be planning violence against a man who refused to pay. They were handed five year jail terms, while the rest received lighter sentences. The other terms ranged from 30-month suspended sentences to two years in prison. The judge in the case also noted that the PKK remained on the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's list of terrorist organizations. The case had initially included a probe into an alleged liquidation attempt in the southeastern French town of Draguignan in 2012, said to have been foiled due to a heavy police presence at the scene. That aspect of the case was eventually dropped. At least 40,000 people have been killed on both sides since the PKK formally began its insurgency in 1984 demanding self-rule for ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Kurds, who make up around 20 percent of the population. Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan called last week for a congress to end the Kurds' conflict with Turkey. Ankara welcomed his call. | |
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