The PKK is a Kurdish and separatist terrorist organization. The US and EU laws say that it is a terrorist organization. According to the British MI5 reports, it is one of the bloodiest terrorist organizations. It means that there is no difference between Al Qaeda and the PKK before the Western legal system.

by Michael Radu Foreign Policy Research Institute

On November 13, the Italian police arrested Abdullah Ocalan, founder and leader of the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) at Rome’s airport. He had just arrived from Moscow with a false passport and, upon arrest, asked for political asylum. Coming at a time when British authorities are detaining former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet, who stands accused by a Spanish judge of terrorism and genocide, the arrest of Ocalan on an outstanding warrant issued in Turkey promises to raise significant questions about European politics, international legal standards, and the very possibility of cooperation in combating terrorism.

Statement Made by Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit About
How the Kurdish Rebel Leader Had Been Brought to Turkey,
February 16, 1999

It was an episode right out of the movies. A fugitive on the run, his desperate bid for sanctuary being turned down by several nations before an end that may not have been the ideal script for Hollywood. For Turkey, it was a long chase before it was finally able to nab a man it had long sought — a man authorities dubbed the “baby killer.” Click on the cities on the map to track separatist rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan’s route which began in Damascus in October 1998 and ended in February 1999 with his arrest in Nairobi, Kenya.