41.   One passenger was once kidnapped by Kurdish rebels.

42.   Opposition also comes from within the military and the police, which have both suffered heavy casualties from clashes with Kurdish rebels and left-wing extremists.

43.   Other European governments have joined Italy in urging that Turkey re-examine its policy toward the Kurdish rebels.

44.   One of them, Sedat Bucak, is chief of a pro-government Kurdish militia that has been helping the army fight Kurdish rebels.

45.   Reports of how the government fought Kurdish rebels in Batman have led to a series of revelations about actions taken in other Kurdish provinces.

46.   Tensions also are rising in northern Iraq following Turkish attacks on Kurdish rebels there.

47.   Syria has denied supporting Kurdish rebels.

48.   The border region is near the area where Turkey conducted a week-long air and ground attack on Kurdish rebels based in Northern Iraq.

49.   The Kurdish rebel leader was quoted as saying suicide-bomb attacks might take place in Turkey against foreign vacationers as well as in Germany itself.

50.   The investigator is also said to have concluded that the government spent millions of dollars on efforts to assassinate Kurdish rebel leaders and overthrow the government of Azerbaijan.