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KURDISH nationalists marked the 17th anniversary yesterday of Turkey’s abduction and jailing of their leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader was kidnapped by the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (NIO) — reportedly with the help of the CIA — in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on February 15 1999.
NIO deputy undersecretary Cevat Ones told now jailed journalist Can Dundar that Mr Ocalan had stood in the way of US schemes to establish a separate Kurdish state in northern Iraq.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
