11.   Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has vowed to wipe out the Kurdish separatists movements that have operated in southeastern Turkey for over a decade.

12.   Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has vowed to wipe out the Kurdish separatists movements that has plagued southeastern Turkey for over a decade.

13.   The attacks have created anxiety that Turkey may face renewed political violence after the nearly two years of relative calm that followed the civil war against Kurdish separatists.

14.   The economy suffered a sharp decline, and death squads emerged as part of the campaign against Kurdish separatists and their supporters.

15.   The Turkish government has been carrying out a major crackdown on Kurdish separatists through the winter.

16.   Turkish warplanes swooped down from the north to target their own Kurdish separatists, who have based themselves in northern Iraq.

17.   Turkey, for example, which has observer status in Oslo, has reportedly sought approval to use mines in its struggle against Kurdish separatists.

18.   A Turkish citizen, accused of raising money for the Kurdish separatists, has been expelled from Romania, the police said Tuesday.

19.   But a leftist group in Greece, the Basque ETA group, and Kurdish separatists in Turkey continued attacking civilian and military targets.

20.   Criminals in Germany have ties with the Italian mafia, Russian gangs, Colombian drug cartels, Kurdish separatists and others, Interior Minister Manfred Kanther said.