WikiLeaks may show US has helped terrorist group

Source Sydney Morning Herald

Several of the documents set to be published by WikiLeaks this weekend are believed to show the US has been helping Turkey's Kurdish separatist movement the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party. The PKK is listed as a terrorist group in Turkey, the US, the European Union and Australia. The claim is reported in the London Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. Advertisement: Story continues below Another document is believed to charge Turkey with providing indirect assistance to al-Qaeda. It is believed the document will say Turkey rendered this assistance by failing to control the movement of people across its border with Iraq. A report in The Jerusalem Post said the US military documents referred to the PKK as ''warriors for freedom and Turkish citizens'' and said the US had set free arrested PKK members in Iraq.