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PKK REMOVED FROM TERROR LIST
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.04.2008 18:04 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A European Union court on Thursday overturned the
bloc's decision to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its political
wing on the EU terror list.
The Luxembourg-based EU Court of First Instance said that decisions
made by EU governments in 2002 and 2004 to blacklist the two groups
and freeze their assets violated the bloc's law.
It is the latest of several court decisions overturning similar EU
decisions on the grounds that the groups added to the terror list
were not properly informed of the decision to blacklist them nor
given a right to appeal the decision.
The court said the autonomy-seeking PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party,
and its political wing, known as KONGRA-GEL, were not in positions
"to understand, clearly and unequivocally, the reasoning" that led
European Union governments to add them to the terror list.
The PKK was added to the list in 2002, after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Its political wing was added
in 2004. The United States and Turkey also list the PKK as a terrorist
organization.
Fighting between the guerrillas and Turkish troops has claimed more
than 37,000 lives since 1984.
The EU has about 60 organizations and individuals on its terrorist
list, the Associated Press reports.
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.04.2008 18:04 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A European Union court on Thursday overturned the
bloc's decision to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its political
wing on the EU terror list.
The Luxembourg-based EU Court of First Instance said that decisions
made by EU governments in 2002 and 2004 to blacklist the two groups
and freeze their assets violated the bloc's law.
It is the latest of several court decisions overturning similar EU
decisions on the grounds that the groups added to the terror list
were not properly informed of the decision to blacklist them nor
given a right to appeal the decision.
The court said the autonomy-seeking PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party,
and its political wing, known as KONGRA-GEL, were not in positions
"to understand, clearly and unequivocally, the reasoning" that led
European Union governments to add them to the terror list.
The PKK was added to the list in 2002, after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Its political wing was added
in 2004. The United States and Turkey also list the PKK as a terrorist
organization.
Fighting between the guerrillas and Turkish troops has claimed more
than 37,000 lives since 1984.
The EU has about 60 organizations and individuals on its terrorist
list, the Associated Press reports.