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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8312

5 October 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey
Commission welcomes commutation of death sentence for Abdullah Ocalan

Brussels, 04/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday evening a declaration by Commissioner for Enlargement, Günter Verheugen, welcomed the decision by the Turkish State Security Court to commute the death sentence against the leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, Abdullah Ocalan, to life imprisonment. The Commissioner said, "I welcome this decision which is clearly in line with the spirit of the recently adopted reforms in Turkey". The European Commission had earlier approved the reforms by...

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