On capture of Ocalan

On capture of Ocalan

The government of Turkey will be sorry that the leader of the Kurdish underground, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured. The Kurds will express their feelings not only in the streets of Europe but also through terror acts in Turkey.

World opinion tends to see people like Ocalan as freedom fighters. Ocalan's trial will need to stand the test of Western norms. If he is sentenced to death, the leaders of the world will act for his amnesty. The Kurds will take hostages in an effort to win the freedom of their leader. The struggle for Kurdish independence will be renewed... It's questionable if all this is worth the head of the leader of the underground, who was seen as an escaped terrorist.

-- Maariv, Jerusalem