Turkey - Nineteen people are being held hostage
on a ferry by five members of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). One
of them has allegedly claimed to be carrying a bomb and is in the
captain's cabin.
A pro-Kurdish group, the organization
has been fighting for autonomy in Turkey since 1984. Founded in
1978, the group has taken up arms led by its leader Abdullah Ocalan,
who has been in jail since his 1999 arrest. He is facing the death
penalty under a Turkish penal code concerning making an armed gang,
but was commuted to life in prison when the country abandoned its
death penalty. Ever since Kurds and the PKK have called for his
release from prison.
The group has yet to make any demands,
and Turkey's state-run television station Turkish Radio and
Television Corporation (TRT) reports no raids have been planned so
far.
Updates: The place is the Gulf of Izmit and the ferry is called Kartepe.
Video can be seen here
Updates: The place is the Gulf of Izmit and the ferry is called Kartepe.
Video can be seen here
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