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Ugly past: Why the country was once a haven and hub for fugitives

Felicien Kabuga of Rwanda during his first appearance before the Mechanism for International Tribunals on November 11, 2020, in The Hague. [Courtesy: UN IRMCT]

One evening in 1999, Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) officers arrested Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.

Ocalan was considered a global fugitive who had used the PKK in civil disobedience against the Turkish government which slowly spiraled into violence as it demanded political space for the Kurdish people in Turkey.

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