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Article: PKK dissidents urge a descent from the mountains: Chris Kutschera talked to former members of the PKK who, having given up armed struggle, hope to play a full role within Turkish civil society, allowing Kurds to reach their aims through democratic means.(Party Patriotic and Democratic of Kurdistan )
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- The Middle East
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- July 1, 2005
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AS THE EUROPEAN COURT OF Human Rights (ECHR) ruled the trial of Abdullah Ocalan, had been unfair, some of the former PKK leader's 'closest lieutenants' were establishing a new political organisation, the Party Patriotic and Democratic of Kurdistan (PPDK) and voicing serious criticisms of their former leader.
They accuse Ocalan of being a "despot comparable to Stalin or Hitler", who, they claim, ordered the murder of a number of dissidents.
These accusers are not small fish: They include old PKK cadres Nizamettin Tas, Shahnaz Altun and even Osman Ocalan, a brother of"Apo" (Abdullah Ocalan's nickname).
Born in 1961 in Varto, in the eastern part ...