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Friday, 26 November, 1999, 22:28 GMT

Special report: The Ocalan file

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
Ocalan figurehead

Hero or hate figure?
Abdullah Ocalan is the main architect of armed Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and has been wanted in Ankara for two decades.

Trial and verdict

Death sentence
The Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, is sentenced to death by hanging for treason by three Turkish judges. (29 June 99)

Arrest
Ocalan arrest

The story of his capture
If the capture of Abdullah Ocalan were fiction, it might be a bit hard to believe: Jeremy Bowen in Turkey.

Europe's dilemma

The Kurds
Kurds gun

Turkey's Kurds tell their story
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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