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Kurds in Paris demonstrate for Ocalan's release

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Some 1,000 Kurdish citizens held demonstrations on Saturday afternoon in Paris, calling for the release of the leader of the Kurdistani Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, who was arrested in Kenya on February 15 and taken to Turkey.

The demonstrators chanted slogans that called for freeing Ocalan. The protest was called for by the Kurdish assemblies union in France.

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