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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8690

22 April 2004
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/TURKEY: Disappointment and concern after latest verdict against Leyla Zana - Commission warns Ankara: "No accession negotiations with countries holding political prisoners"

Brussels, 21/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has "strongly condemned" the verdict of the State Security Court, which confirmed on Wednesday in Ankara the 15-year prison sentence against four former Turkish MPs from the pro-Kurdish Democracy party (DEP), the best-known of which is Leyla Zana. Ms Zana (who won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Human Rights in 1995), Hatip Dicle, Orhan Dogan and Selim Sadak were handed down fifteen-year sentences at their original trial in...

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