{"id":20825,"date":"2010-07-22T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20825"},"modified":"2023-04-08T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T11:09:11","slug":"key-pkk-member-arrested-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/22\/key-pkk-member-arrested-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Key PKK member arrested in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>MILAN &#8211; Do\u011fan News Agency<\/div>\n<p>Nizamettin To\u011fu\u00e7, the chairman of the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe, or Kon Kurd, is among the European leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK, arrested in Venice as a result of a joint operation by the Italian Secret Intelligence Service and the Podova gendarmerie<\/p>\n<p>Nizamettin To\u011fu\u00e7, the chairman of the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe, or Kon Kurd, and four other alleged\u00a0leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK, have been arrested in Venice, wires reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were the result of a joint operation between the Italian Secret Intelligence Service and the Podova Gendemarie.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office in Venice verified that To\u011fu\u00e7 were arrested in accordance with the international warrant issued by an Ankara court on suspicion that he was a member of the PKK. Italian police had already located and shut down PKK camps near the Italian city of Pisa not long ago.<\/p>\n<p>To\u011fu\u00e7, alleged to be a European leader of the outlawed group, is thought to have fled Turkey after the Democracy Party was banned in 1994, and was granted political asylum by the Netherlands in 1995. Turkey could request To\u011fu\u00e7\u2019s extradition, while it would also be possible for the Netherlands to request he be repatriated there.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said To\u011fu\u00e7 arrived in Venice with his wife under the cover of a vacation and is alleged to have been planning to attend a secret meeting thought to have been organized by the PKK.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian office of self-declared \u201cKurdistan\u201d announced that PKK supporters would stage a demonstration July 24 to protest the arrests of To\u011fu\u00e7 and the other four alleged leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=key-pkk-member-arrested-in-italy-2010-07-21\">H\u00fcrriyet Daily<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN &#8211; Do\u011fan News Agency Nizamettin To\u011fu\u00e7, the chairman of the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe, or Kon Kurd, is among the European leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, or PKK, arrested in Venice as a result of a joint operation by the Italian Secret Intelligence Service and the Podova gendarmerie Nizamettin To\u011fu\u00e7, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[1280,3300],"class_list":["post-20825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy-eu-members-european-countries-english","tag-pkk","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}