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The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office has had a suspected member of the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) arrested at Frankfurt Airport. The man has been imprisoned in Italy since mid-June based on a European arrest warrant and was subsequently transferred to Germany, the office in the city of Karlsruhe said on Monday. He is accused of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization. From January 2014 to July 2015, the Turkish national is alleged to have been active full-time in the PKK, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said, which described him as “a sector leader.” For instance, he alle…

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