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December 3, 2006: In the United States, a federal judge has ruled that the President does not have the authority to designate certain organizations as terrorist groups. This ruling is the latest round of lawfare against the war on terror. In this case, two foreign terrorist organizations, the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elan (LTTE), were the beneficiaries of this suit. Why is this case, filed on behalf of the Humanitarian Law Project, important? After all, a number of human rights groups have still been waging lawfare, largely on behalf of al Qaeda. This suit...

Press Release Coalition Provisional Authority Baghdad, Iraq Ambassador Bremer Statement on Terrorist Organizations in IraqBaghdad, Iraq…January 28, 2004 – Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, Coalition Provisional Authority administrator, today issued the following statement on terrorist organizations operating in Iraq: “President Bush has committed to end the use of Iraq as a terrorist haven. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its aliases the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and the Kurdistan People’s Congress (Kongra Gel) are terrorist organizations and have been designated as such under U.S. law. The Coalition Provisional Authority, Coalition forces and Iraqi security forces will treat...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States vowed that an outlawed Kurdish rebel group would not be able to escape US terrorism sanctions by changing its name yet again in an apparent attempt to defy its blacklisting. The State Department said this week's decision by the Turkish Congress for Democracy and Freedom in Kurdistan (KADEK), which had already changed its name from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), to rename itself the Kurdistan People's Congress would make no difference in US policy. "Through its recent actions, the (PKK/KADEK) appears to be making an effort to evade responsibility for its terrorist acts by...

ANKARA - A web-site was prepared to explain massacres committed by terrorist organization PKK/KADEK, foreign supporters of the terrorist organization and Turkish Armed Forces' struggle against it. The web-site includes more than 300 photographs. The web-site ''www.kadek.org'' reminds its readers that Turkey had been exposed to terrorism for long years that had never been experienced before in any country, thousands of innocent people lost their lives in terrorists attacks while thousands of others were maimed, and the country had suffered an economic loss of billions of U.S. dollars. The site stresses that the terrorist organization KADEK had caused more pains...

On Sunday evening, the 29th June 2003, two Kurdish women visited a little Kurdish restaurant in Hamburg in a district mostly inhabited by Turkish, Kurdish and other migrant groups. They had been in the company of other prominent Kurds publicly critical of the KADEK/PKK.

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish guerrillas ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying a provincial governor on Tuesday killing two soldiers in a 10-minute firefight in the troubled southeast of Turkey which borders Iraq (news - web sites), officials said. Another Turkish soldier was injured in the attack launched by around 10 gunmen from dense forest surrounding a narrow road some 22 miles east of the town of Tunceli, according to a Reuters reporter traveling in the convoy. Turkey has launched several operations in recent weeks to track down hundreds of Kurdish militants it says are returning from the mountains of...

KADEK is the new name of PKK. This is a Kurdish terrorist organization, listed as such by the US DoS. This organization has ties to the leaders of the PUK nad the KDP in northern Irak. Turkey has been exposed to terrorism for years that has never been experienced before in any country. This terrorism has shown itself in various forms. Unfortunately, in the end thousands of our innocent people have lost their lives (approx 36000), thousands of people have become disabled, and economic loss worth of millions (that's really billions) of dollars has been realized. Foreword Part 1 -...

In the Qandil Mountains... Separatist Kurds want to use Turkey's rift with the United States over war in Iraq to win U.S. acceptance of their cause and add pressure for Kurdish cultural and political rights. The brother of captured rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan said U.S. anger over being denied use of Turkish territory for its assault on Iraq was a window of opportunity for Turkey's Kurds. Washington has so far backed Turkey in a guerrilla war waged by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK campaign for autonomy in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has claimed over 30,000 lives since 1984,...