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Interesting side fact: The Palme murder was long blamed on the Kurdish organization PKK which got banned as a "terrorist" organization in Europe around 1993/94 as a result.

To this day, the German government (one might assume on "request" of the Turkish government) uses that ban to prosecute anything even remotely dealing with Kurdish organizations - even things such as a depiction of Öcalan's face are banned.

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I assume this the same Kurdish group that has been fighting Turkey for decades, and in Iraq, the one the us allied with to fight Isis? Turkey of course accuses them of all bad things. Maybe it was Turkey. The US never really satisfactorily has gotten past our own JFK murder even though they caught the person.

Yep, exactly this Kurdish group - although to be precise, the ISIS fighters were the YPG/YPJ; these are loosely associated with the PKK which is still enough for the German government to say PKK = YPG. Utterly ridiculous.

You don't think it was all the bombs in Turkey and in other countries that gave it that designation?

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