The Netherlands has become the latest EU country to refuse entry to the fugitive leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party

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Series Details 04/02/99, Volume 5, Number 05
Publication Date 04/02/1999
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Date: 04/02/1999

Abdullah Ocalan in a bid to avoid a diplomatic row with Turkey. The Dutch authorities refused to grant landing rights to a private charter plane carrying Ocalan earlier this week.

A lawyer for the Kurdish leader said that he had been hoping to raise the Kurds' plight with the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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