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Special report: The Ocalan file
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As Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan waits in prison to see if the Turkish authorities will carry out a death sentence pronounced against him, BBC News Online's special coverage looks back at the events surrounding his arrest and trial:
Kurdish figurehead
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Abdullah Ocalan is the main architect of armed Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and has been wanted in Ankara for two decades.
Trial and verdict
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The Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, is sentenced to death by hanging for treason by three Turkish judges. (29 June 99)
- Picture gallery: The verdict
- Text of the verdict
- Face to face with Ocalan
- Timeline: The Ocalan file
- Your views: Should the death penalty be carried out
Arrest
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If the capture of Abdullah Ocalan were fiction, it might be a bit hard to believe: Jeremy Bowen in Turkey.
- Arrest sparks fury: Story in pictures
- TV footage of Ocalan's return
- The Israeli link
- Ocalan fallout hits Greece
- How Turkey got its man
- Europe's dilemma
The Kurds
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Chris Morris visits villages in south-eastern Turkey where support for Kurdish independence is rooted in their experience of Turkish rule.
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