Banned Kurdish party member to be tried for murder in Germany 

 KARLSRUHE, Germany, Sept 6 (AFP) -  A Turkish national has been ordered to face
 trial in Germany for allegedly carrying out an assassination for the banned Kurdistan Worker's
 Party (PKK), the public prosecutor's office said Thursday.

 The 37-year-old suspect is accused of killing a Kurdish man who broke with the PKK and
 criticized as authoritarian the leadership of PKK chief Abdullah Ocalan.

 More than 36,000 people were killed in a 15-year struggle by the PKK against Turkish rule in
 the primarily Kurdish southeast of the country.

 The PKK announced that it was giving up the armed struggle after Ocalan called for peace
 following his capture by Turkish authorities in 1999. Ocalan was later sentenced to death for
 treason.

 The PKK was outlawed in Germany in 1993.
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