Leader
Saturday May 14, 2005
The Guardian
Six years ago, Turkish secret agents pulled off a stunning coup by flying to Kenya to snatch the man who launched the Kurdish rebellion in 1984. Today, Abdullah Ocalan is behind bars, the only inmate of an island prison in the Sea of Marmara. The state security court later commuted his 1999 death sentence for treason to a life term - part of the price to be paid for the promise of European Union membership. Now Turkey faces a tough new test with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Ocalan's original trial was unfair. "
