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It`s no secret that Greek state always supported and still supports PKK in every way possible.
PKK founder/leader Abdullah Ocalan was living in Syria in 1999. Turkish state told Syrian authorities that if they don't arrest him and hand over to us in less than a week, Turkish army will enter their soil to capture him. Syrian authorities got scared and told PKK leader to leave Syria and then his journey to Europe begun. He secretly gone to Armenia and then Russia at first. He stayed there for a while and then he popped out in Rome, Italy. Turkey pressured Italy to arrest him but Italian authorities refused to do that. After some time, PKK leader made a deal with his good old friends, Greeks to offer him protection and hide him from Turkish authorities.
Theodoros Pangalos, foreign minister of Greece in 1999 took over this job with Greek intelligence and he invited PKK leader to stay in Greek islands in undercover. They also gave him Greek passport at that time. When Turkish secret service agents discovered that Greeks hiding him in Aegean islands, Greek government sent him to PKK terrorist training camps in southern Cyprus and also gave him Greek Cypriot passport in there. Here is Abdullah Ocalan`s Greek Cypriot password which has been found in Ocalan`s pocket when he was captured. Take a notice the fake name of kurdish Abdullah Ocalan, Mavros Lazaros ;
After strong pressure from Turkey, this time Greek government secretly sent him to the Greek embassy at Kenya, Nairobi. After few days, Israeli Mossad agents spotted him in the Greek embassy of Kenya and then informed Turkish intelligent service about this. Turkish agents made a deal with Kenyan authorities and finally captured him.
Capture of Öcalan and the resignation of Greek ministers
In 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, was captured by the Turkish Intelligence Service agents in Nairobi, Kenya, while leaving the Greek Embassy. Öcalan was carrying both Greek and Cypriot passports.[7] Fearing a hostile Turkish reaction, three Greek ministers resigned (Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, in charge of the attempt to hide Öcalan at the Greek Ambassador's residence in Kenya and to find him asylum; Interior Minister Alekos Papadopoulos, in charge of the Greek Intelligence Service involved in the operation; and Public Order Minister Philippos Petsalnikos, in charge of the Greek security forces which failed to stop the smuggling of Öcalan into Greece in January 1999).[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek–Turkish_relationsGreek ministers resign over Ocalan
Three Greek cabinet ministers have resigned over their handling of the Ocalan affair as protests continue by Kurdish demonstrators. The Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos and the ministers of public order and the interior were quitting amid accusations that they had "mishandled" the case.
Mr Ocalan had been in the care of the Greek authorities in Kenya at the time of his capture on Monday in as yet unexplained circumstances.
Reacting to the resignations in Greece, Turkey`s PM; Mr Ecevit said Greece was paying the price for helping the PKK and that should be a lesson to any country which supports terrorism.
February 18, 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/281816.stmGreece dogged by Ocalan affair
The Greek Government said on Friday it would guarantee political asylum and protection for two female bodyguards of the Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
The two women and another female bodyguard with a Belgian passport were removed from the Greek diplomatic compound in Nairobi, Kenya, in an operation personally led by the secretary-general of the Greek Foreign Service.
Fresh embarrassment
However, their arrival in Athens promised fresh embarrassment for the government. Along with a Greek intelligence officer, Savvas Kalenderidis, who was sent to Nairobi to protect Mr Ocalan, they are claiming that the PKK leader was misled by the Greek Government and forced against his will to leave the safety of the embassy compound.
This contradicts the official version of events, which is that Mr Ocalan fell into Turkish hands after deciding against Greek Government advice to embark on negotiations with the Kenyans and leave the compound for the airport.
The extent of official help for the PKK leader and his organisation is at the heart of a growing row between Athens and Ankara. Turkey says the Greek Government organised training camps for PKK rebels and that it supplied ground to air missiles for use against the Turkish security forces.
Turkey uses advantage
Turkey says the allegations are based on statements made by Mr Ocalan during his interrogation by the state prosecutor. The Turkish Government is making use of the claims in an attempt to have Greece labelled as a state sponsoring terrorism - pressing home the advantage it secured by snatching the PKK leader from under the noses of the Greek security services.
It has also been claimed that the Greek Orthodox Church funded Kurdish rebels - a claim denied to the BBC by the head of the Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who said that food had been supplied to Kurdish refugees, and nothing more.
The allegations of training camps for the PKK in Greece and arms supply by the Greek Government are not new. They have been regularly made in the past by Ankara and always denied by Athens.
February 27, 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/287232.stm
As stated above, Greek church of Athens also supports PKK terrorists inside the training camps in Greece. During his trial, PKK leader Ocalan said that Greek church in Athens was raising funds for PKK and gave them around 3 million dollars in 1999.
`Greece fed weapons to Kurd rebels'
IT WAS exactly the ammunition Turkey's government wanted in its war of words with Greece over the capture of the Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan.
A Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, said he had told interrogators Greece supplied his Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) with arms. The claim may embarrass the European Union, which yesterday called on Turkey to give Mr Ocalan a fair trial and to let international observers attend, as Greece is a member of the bloc.
"Greece has supported the PKK for years," the paper quoted Mr Ocalan as saying. "Greece even helped us with weapons and rockets." According to the article he said Greece supplied him with the false Cypriot passport with which he travelled to Kenya and supplied the PKK with training facilities.
The rebel leader, who was snatched from Kenya by Turkish special forces last week, is being interrogated before his trial. Turkey blames him for 37,000 deaths in the PKK's 14-year campaign to win Kurdish autonomy in south-east Turkey.
"Greece should be added to the list of countries that support terrorism and harbour terrorists," the Turkish President, Suleyman Demirel, said, according to Turkey's semi-official Anatolia News Agency. "A country like that can only be described as an outlaw state."
23 February 1999
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/gr...s-1072670.html
Then in a weird turn of events, PKK leader Ocalan sued Greece at EU court of human rights for mistreatment towards him at 2008. He said that he was a Greek citizen in 1999 and Greek government failed to protect her citizen`s right by letting Turkish secret service agents capture him in Greek embassy at Kenya;
PKK leader Ocalan sues Greece
The jailed leader of the terror organization PKK is suing Greece for failing to prevent his capture by Turkish officials in 1999, officials said.
Abdullah Ocalan is seeking $25,500 from the Greek government, alleging that Athens betrayed him after offering assurances of his safety, Hurriyet reported Friday.
Ocalan, who led the Kurdistan Workers' Party, commonly known as PKK, is serving a life sentence in a Turkish prison, the newspaper reported.
Ocalan hid in Athens from Turkish officials for two days in January 1999 before Greek intelligence helped him flee to Kenya. He was arrested in Kenya by Turkish agents.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by, among others, Turkey, the European Union and the United States.
12/06/2008
http://www.topnews.in/pkk-leader-oca...-greece-296020
As you can see, Greek church and politicians have such an hatred toward us, so they support anything against us, including terrorism. Their hatred is so big that probably it turns their eyes blind, so Mr. Pangalos and other Greek authorities supported PKK leader even without thinking possible consequences for their own political carrier and more importantly, the fate of their own country.
I remember that 1000s of people in Turkey was doing protests all over Turkey when we discovered that Abdullah Ocalan is hiding with the support of Greece and Cyprus. People clearly demanded from Turkish government to bomb PKK camps both in Greece and southern Cyprus and capture Ocalan who were hiding in Cyprus at that time.
What would happen if we had politicians in Turkey as irresponsible as Greek ones like Mr. Pangalos? Who could stop us destroying their little fake nation called Greece?
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