B3-1256/93

Resolution on kidnappings by the PKK

The European Parliament,

A.shocked by all the kidnappings of travellers and notably those of citizens of Member States of the Community, by the PKK in Eastern Turkey,

B.insisting on the common interest and duty of the EC and its Member States to resist blackmail by terrorists,

C.recalling its resolutions on the problem of the Kurdish minority in Turkey,

1.Condemns the kidnapping of people who do not even have anything to do with the conflict between the Turkish Government and the PKK;

2.Points out that these outrages can only reduce public sympathy for the Kurds in Member States;

3.Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, EPC, the Government of Turkey and the PKK office in Brussels.