Such a series of disquieting incidents, far from secret, should suggest that European political parties or newspapers approached by the PKK or its satellite organizations would do well to observe a modicum of caution. Particularly since the judges of Europe, however well-disposed they may be toward the Kurds, have confirmed how dangerous Ocalan's Party is. In April 1995, several PKK militants were brought before the Paris Correctional Court on extortion charges. For the judges, the PKK is a "perfectly structured organization," a clandestine one, whose main activity, that of armed struggle in Turkey, is accompanied by acts of violence against people and property, particularly in France, such as the murder of renegades or the occupation and destruction of Turkish diplomatic missions or businesses." As early as November 1993, the decision that ordered the dissolution of Yek-Kom and the Kurdistan Committee stipulated that: [these two entities] "give the appearance of combat units or private militias, due to the paramilitary training in training camps, obedience, and discipline to which their members are subjected, and the insurrectionist motives that characterize them, and that make them suitable for commando actions...in France, or from French territory, they engage in schemes designed to provoke acts of terrorism in France or abroad."

And that's not all. On November 12, 1992, the Tehran Islamic fundamentalist daily Kayhan reported that after fights, the PKK guerrillas are finishing off their own wounded. According to an account by Hosni, a l9-year-old Syrian Kurd, found dying by Peshmergas in Iraq: "There were 18 of us wounded, and we couldn't walk anymore. Each of us received a bullet in the head. I was the only one who survived." Apo's party employs these practices in Europe too. In March 1994, in Dusseldorf, Germany, Ali A., age 32, and Hassan H.G., age 40, PKK cadres, were sentenced to life in prison for having strangled a "traitor" to the PKK with a rope and having shot two others to death.

Finally, the PKK openly wages indiscriminate terrorist campaigns in Turkey, planting bombs on the streets of cities or resort towns. One such attack was in February 1994. The unit in charge of these attacks is named "ARGK Metropolitan Vengeance Groups."

Despite this, the PKK still has friends in Europe. In March 1992, some Greek Socialist deputies held a press conference with the PKK in the Biqa Valley. In April 1994, ERNK opened its "Greece and Balkans Office" in Athens. During the opening ceremony, a Deputy Chairman (PASOK) of the Greek Parliament and four Socialist deputies heard Ali Sapan, widely known as the head of the PKK in Europe, read a message from Ocalan. In March 1995, a Socialist International (SI) commission on "on the Kurdish question in Turkey and Iraq" met in Vienna. Seated around the table were representatives of the Socialist Parties of Germany, Denmark, France (Alain Chenal), Sweden, and Switzerland. On the Kurdish side, according to an SI communiqué, were leaders of the DEP and the ERNK (PKK fronts) and the PUK (Iraq, headed by Jalal Talabani, now financed and armed by the Islamic Republic of Iran(1)), without any other Turkish or Kurdish representative. In June 1995, four Greek deputies from PASOK held a "political" meeting with Ocalan, then shook his hand for the cameras.

(1) See, in particular, the news item of July 15, 1995, from the Egyptian press agency MENA [Middle East News Agency], an impartial source on this matter. It reveals that Islamic Iran is supplying Talabani with sizable quantities of heavy weaponry to help him gain mastery over the lawless area of northern Iraq.