DATE=2/17/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-245644
TITLE=BERLIN KURDS SHOOTING (L UPDATE)
BYLINE=JONATHAN BRAUDE
DATELINE=BERLIN
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: THREE KURDISH DEMONSTRATORS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN BERLIN,
AS THEY AND OTHERS TRIED TO STORM THE ISRAELI CONSULATE
(WEDNESDAY). JONATHAN BRAUDE REPORTS BERLIN POLICE SAY ALL
DEMONSTRATORS HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING AND THE SITUATION IS UNDER
CONTROL.
TEXT: REPORTS SAY THE MEN WERE SHOT BY ISRAELI GUARDS AS THEY
TRIED TO STORM THE CONSULATE. THIS HAS NEITHER BEEN CONFIRMED
NOR DENIED IN BERLIN, BUT IN ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN
NETANYAHU SAID THE SHOOTING OCCURRED WHEN DOZENS OF KURDS TRIED
TO ENTER THE BUILDING USING HAMMERS AND CLUBS.
BERLIN POLICE ARE PROVIDING NO INFORMATION AT THIS STAGE AS TO
HOW THE PROTESTERS MANAGED TO GET PAST THEIR OWN GUARDS POSTED
OUTSIDE THE BUILDING. ONE REPORT SAID THE FIRST MAN WAS SHOT
AFTER HE TRIED TO GRAB THE WEAPON OFF AN ISRAELI GUARD.
THE KURDS, WHO HAD EARLIER TAKEN A HOSTAGE IN THE CONSULATE, BUT
LATER RELEASED HER, WERE PROTESTING ALLEGED ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT
IN THE ARREST OF ABDULLAH OCALAN, THE LEADER OF THE P-K-K, THE
KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY.
ISRAEL HAS DENIED ANY ROLE IN MR. OCALAN'S CAPTURE IN NAIROBI OR
HIS TRANSFER TO TURKEY. BUT A KURDISH SPOKESMAN WAS QUOTED BY
GERMAN RADIO AS SAYING THE DEMONSTRATION WAS IN ANGER OVER NEWS
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER BULENT ECEVIT HAD THANKED ISRAELI
AUTHORITIES AFTER THE ARREST.
// REST OPT //
WHEN THE POLICE ARRIVED, MANY OF THE DEMONSTRATORS QUICKLY
DISPERSED INTO THE SURROUNDING STREETS. BUT AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE
WERE INJURED, INCLUDING SOME POLICE OFFICERS, ACCORDING TO
INITIAL REPORTS.
OTHER KURDS HAVE ALSO TAKEN OVER A BUILDING BELONGING TO
GERMANY'S RULING SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN HAMBURG, HOLDING A
HOSTAGE AND CAUSING CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. (SIGNED)
NEB/JB/PCF/RAE/JO
17-Feb-99 1:08 PM EST (1808 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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