Kurds Call for Ocalan's Release

27/12/2002 KurdishMedia.com - By Nermin Osman
Sulemani-Kurdistan (KurdishMedia.com) 27 December 2002: This is not a drama or a film; it is a real story, which shows the extent of Turkey’s hatred of Kurds.

On 21 December 2002 Anwar Rahim Muhammad Amin reached the international Turkish-Iraqi border to cross from north Kurdistan to south, into the Kurdistan de facto state with his family (a wife and two children) in his own car.

Due to a car accident Amin lost his life, his children were injured and his wife escaped unharmed.

Amin is from Sulemani and has been living in Italy since 1980. After receiving the heart-breaking news, Amin’s family went to receive his body across the border.

The family wanted to bury Amin in Sulemani and arrange a customary funeral service for him. Amin’s brother crossed the border to north Kurdistan to collect Amin’s body.

The Turkish authorities refused to allow the body into Kurdistan de facto state because his children were Italian nationals and, according to Turkey, foreign nationals are not allowed to enter Kurdistan de facto state.

After five days of waiting the family has given up and now are trying to bring Amin’s body with his children via Syria.

As Amin is from a well-known Kurdish family, the news has shaken the city. The people of Sulemani are outraged of the Turkish authorities behaviour. Amin’s relatives pointed out that this behaviour shows how much the Turkish authorities hate the Kurds.

http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=3278

CIA, Mossad, involved in Ocalan capture, Kenyan sources claim

NAIROBI, Feb 18 1998 (AFP) - Kenyan sources are claiming that America's CIA was involved in snatching Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan from Nairobi on Monday, and some maintain Israel's Mossad was also involved, but details of the abduction remain murky.

What has become clear is that Kenya's security services were deeply involved, despite point-blank denials by Foreign Minister Bonaya Godana at a press conference on Tuesday.

Both the US Central Intelligence agency and the Mossad have a strong presence in Nairobi, using it as their east African headquarters, intelligence sources say.

This presence has been beefed up since car-bomb attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam on August 7 last year which left 224 people dead, 12 of them Americans, and some 5,000 injured.

The day after those attacks the Israelis sent a specialised army team to Nairobi which took over the search for survivors in the debris.

Washington accuses fugitive Saudi Arabian multi-millionaire Osama bin Laden of masterminding the bombings, and the CIA and Mossad are concentrating their efforts here on monitoring Arabs in east Africa, and African Moslems who might have ties with Arab terrorists.

Intelligence sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say it was the Americans who tipped off the Kenyans to Ocalan's presence here -- he was sneaked into the country by Greek diplomats, arriving on a private plane under an assumed name -- and that the Israelis were also aware of his presence.

The Americans and the Israelis then put diplomatic pressure on Kenya to return Ocalan to the Turks, they say.

http://www.angelfire.com/space/discover_turkey/kurds/apo/Kidnap.htm