"Turkey says won't retry Kurdish rebel leader-paper
20 May 2005 09:10:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
ANKARA, May 20 (Reuters) - Turkey will not retry jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan after Europe's top human rights court ruled his 1999 prosecution was unfair, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was quoted as saying on Friday.
But Gul did not rule out taking up an alternative recommendation from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the original case against Ocalan be reopened.
'The court said retry him or reopen the file due to this or that procedural inadequacy,' Milliyet daily quoted Gul as saying in an interview with television station Kanal D."
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