Turkish spy chief calls for leniency

Ankara - Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) chief said yesterday that it would be against Turkish interests to hang …

Ankara - Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) chief said yesterday that it would be against Turkish interests to hang Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan, sentenced to death last year for treason.

In an unprecedented briefing with selected national newspapers, Mr Senkal Atasagun also said he was in favour of ending a ban on Kurdish language broadcasting and setting up a state-controlled television channel in Kurdish.