"Ocalan verdict puts Turkey under pressure
By Gareth Jones
ANKARA (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court declared the 1999 trial of Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan unfair on Thursday, pressuring Turkey to defy nationalist anger and order a retrial in support of its EU ambitions.
Ankara signalled Ocalan could indeed be tried anew. But it moved quickly to assure Turks who revile him as a terrorist bent on dismembering their nation that he would not walk free.
'Whether this dossier is reopened or not, the matter (of Ocalan's guilt) is a closed one for the nation's conscience,' Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said during a trip to Hungary."
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