German police have arrested a Turkish resident suspected of leading the German branch of Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), German prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The 47-year-old man, whose name was merely revealed by German prosecutors as "Huseyin A," was detained on Monday in Germany's western city Detmold.
The man was alleged to have led the PKK's underground German organization from June 2007 to June 2008, according to German news agency DPA.
Germany outlawed the PKK, which demands autonomy from Turkey for Kurdish areas, in 1993 and dubbed it an "organized-crime gang."
The PKK renamed itself Kongra-Gel in 2003 but German prosecutors continue to define its leadership circle a criminal gang.
Earlier this month, PKK guerrillas kidnapped three German mountaineers in eastern Turkey and released them on Sunday.
Huseyin faces a charge of leading a crime organization and of exercising duress through a death threat.
Source:Xinhua
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