GERMANY BANNED KADEK!..

KADEK determined to be the continuation of PKK that is included in the European Union list of terrorist organizations has been banned in Germany.

The German Minister of Interior Affairs, Otto Schily, who released a press statement after the "Agreement on Cooperation in Fight Against Terrorism and Organized Crime" signed between Turkey and Germany on March 3, 2003, emphasized that "the ban valid for PKK and its proxy organizations since 1993 will be implemented for KADEK, and that the Organization of Caliphate State led by terrorist Metin Kaplan was banned and its asserts were confiscated, and that the terrorist Kaplan will be extradited to Turkey in the forthcoming days".

During the press statement, upon the question by a journalist that "the terrorist organizations, PKK and DHKP-C, were declared to be illegal in both Germany and EU countries. Will KADEK that announced to be the continuation of PKK be declared an illegal organization?", The German Minister of Interior Affairs, Otto Schily said "KADEK that is the continuation of PKK terrorist organization is banned in Germany. But, unfortunately it is not the same in all European countries" and noted that KADEK has to be included in European Union list of terrorist organizations.

The officials of the German Ministry of Interior Affairs who stressed that "the attempts of KADEK terrorists to trigger violence by pleading the prison conditions of PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, will not be allowed, emphasize that those who participated in the actvities organized in Germany by the terrorist organization and about 2 thousand organization supporters who petitioned to the courts saying "I am too a PKK member" will be sentenced to heavy imprisonment and fines, and also their deportation is on the agenda.

On January 16, 2003, Hamburg State Court decided on the imprisonment sentence of those who were determined to have participated in the campaign "I am too a PKK member" organized by the terrorist organization in 2001. The demand of the Attorney Generalship "to sentence Hasan Karagoz, Yavuz Persoglu, Sevda Ozaltun and Mursel Karasu who were determined to have joined the activities organized by the terrorist organization in order to penetrate the PKK ban in Germany and have been in prison since 2001 to imprisonment and heavy fine" was approved by the Hamburg State Court.

It was said in the statement of the Federal Attorney Generalship published in the daily Die Tageszeitung on January 21, 2003 that, "the PKK terrorist organization banned in Germany has changed its name as KADEK since April 2002. The ban on PKK is also valid fro KADEK. Although the organization has changed its name, it maintains its terrorist structure and activities", and the terrorist identity of KADEK was emphasized.

On the other hand, it was made public that all terrorist groups and their proxy organizations that are in the EU and US lists of terrorist organizations, including PKK (newly KADEK) and DHKP-C, wolud be banned and their assets would be confiscated in Holland in the framework of the Anti-Terror Law to be passed in the forthcoming days.

The international public opinion, determined to fight against the global terrorism, expects KADEK that threatens the world nations with "terror" to be included in the EU "list of terrorist organizations".