"Turkish Kurd leader confirmed detained in Germany
25/01/2005 AFP
BERLIN, Jan 24 (AFP) - 17h13 - A suspected leader of a Turkish rebel group has been arrested in southern Germany, a spokesman for prosecutors in the city of Nuremberg confirmed on Monday.
Remzi Kartal, a deputy chairman of KONGRA-GEL, the new name of the Kurdistan Workers� Party (PKK), was arrested on an international warrant issued by Turkey on suspicion of being a member of a terrorist organisation, he said.
The PKK is also considered a terrorist group by the European Union and the United States.
Kartal is based in Brussels but was in Germany to attend a cultural function when he was detained at a Nuremberg train station, according to the MHA news agency, which is close to the group.
The PKK took up arms for self-rule in Turkey�s mainly Kurdish southeast in 1984, with the conflict claiming some 37,000 lives since then. It called off a five-year unilateral truce with Ankara on June 1. "
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