German decision on Kurds assailed

Ankara - Turkey yesterday condemned a German decision to redesignate Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a "criminal…

Ankara - Turkey yesterday condemned a German decision to redesignate Turkey's separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a "criminal", rather than a "terrorist" organisation.

"Tolerating this terrorist organisation will only encourage the group and terrorism," a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr Necati Utkan, told a news briefing.

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