101.   The alleged attack was part of Turkish security forces action against militant Kurdish separatists seeking an independent state.

102.   The case before the European human rights court concerns alleged attacks by Turkish security forces action against militant Kurdish separatists seeking an independent state.

103.   The assembly has several times protested to Ankara over the jailing of eight Kurdish parliamentary deputies accused of supporting Kurdish separatists, and has called for their release.

104.   The injured True Path deputy was Sedat Bucak, head of a Kurdish clan, who has some thousand pro-government village guard militiamen fighting Kurdish separatists under his orders.