Italy: PKK 'extortion cell' busted, forced revolutionary tax' payments

Italy: PKK 'extortion cell' busted, forced revolutionary tax' payments
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Via AKI:
A group of Kurds belonging to the banned Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) was arrested in Venice on Tuesday on suspicion of extorting money to use for armed operations in their native Turkey.

The suspects are accused by Italian investigators of using violence to force Kurdish immigrants living in northern Italy to pay a ''revolutionary tax'' to fund the PKK's fight against Turkey.

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