GERMANY was accused of doing authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bidding on Friday after the jailing of a Kurdish activist for three years and five months on terror charges.

Gokmen Cakli was found guilty of membership of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a proscribed organisation in Germany, with his sentence being handed down by a Koblenz court after a four-month trial.

He was arrested at the railway station close to Frankfurt airport in January 2020 with prosecutors accusing him of taking part in “propaganda events” and organising fundraising for the PKK in central Germany between April 2018 and June 2019.