France convicts 11 Kurdish PKK members of terror financing
Deemed a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union and Turkey, the Kurdistan Workers' Party has been waging a decades-long armed struggle against Ankara for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority. – AFP pic, April 15, 2023.
A FRENCH court yesterday convicted 11 alleged members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party on charges of terror financing for its campaign to seek autonomy for the minority in Turkey’s southeast. The accused, all Kurds from Turkey who speak little or no French, are suspected of being part of a network that seeks a so-called revolutionary tax, or “kampanya”, from the Kurdish diaspora.
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