"UPI Terrorism Watch
By JOHN C.K. DALY
UPI International Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Australia has designated the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, as a terrorist organization under Australia's counter-terrorism laws.
In announcing the government decision Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock noted that the PKK has recently been responsible for a number of attacks on both civilians and security forces in Turkey. The British, U.S., Canadian and European Union governments already list the PKK as a proscribed terrorist organization.
In an attempt to avoid further proscription, last April the Turkish media reported that the PKK, which in late 2003 changed its name to KONGRA-GEL, had been reconstituted, reportedly on the demand of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, captured by Turkish intelligence in February 1999. "
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