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  1. Kurdistan Workers Party leader arrested

    November 12. Ocalan had been forced to flee from Syria after the Turkish government pressured the Syrian ... government to deny PKK fighters sanctuary on its territory. Turkey had threatened war against Syria. Ocalan ... between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and the former Soviet Union. During that time more than 2000 villages ...

  2. International briefs: Turkey/Kurdistan; PNG; Namibia; US bank and the Nazis

    members of the separatist organisation who fled from Syria into northern Iraq", Sezgin told the ... Anatolia news agency. In October, Syria agreed to Turkey's demand that it cease allowing PKK rebels ...