1.   Kurdish separatists have abducted a Japanese tourist and are demanding money for his safe return.

2.   Army tactics in the war against Kurdish separatists often seem at least as brutal as those used by the separatists themselves.

3.   By that, Hogir and other Kurdish separatists explained, they want a trial in which Ocalan would not be charged for any killings.

4.   Four provinces remain under emergency rule despite two years of calm after the Kurdish separatists guerrillas laid down their weapons after the arrest of their leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

5.   He helped form a left-leaning party and organized a campaign to gather one million signatures protesting the war against Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey.

6.   In its war on Kurdish separatists it has turned southeastern Turkey into a killing field, destroying villages and driving out the civilian population.

7.   It also threatens to polarize Turkish politics by driving Kurdish dissent out of normal political channels and into the violent arms of Kurdish separatists.

8.   Kurdish separatists here are fighting the Turkish army, and four of the nine provinces in the project area are under emergency rule.

9.   Kurdish separatists living in Germany lashed out at Israel because they mistakenly suspected its Mossad helped a Turkish commando team capture their fugitive leader, Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya.

10.   Others, like Turkey, concerned with its own Kurdish separatists, worry that recognition would set a precedent and embolden other splinter movements.