PKK members' hearing postponed for 3 months in Brussels

By Ata Ufuk Seker

BRUSSELS (AA) - A Brussels court Tuesday adjourned for three months the hearing of 33 PKK members who were taken into custody in 2010.

The hearing was closed to the press, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Remzi Kartal and Zubeyir Aydar, two top members of the terrorist group PKK in Europe, are among the defendants, the source added.

They are charged with falsifying identity documents in Belgium, using violence, racketeering, financing the PKK, using a radio station in the town of Denderleeuw as a PKK contact bureau, and spreading the terrorist organization's propaganda.

In March 2010, Belgian police launched an investigation into the PKK and raided 18 houses in several provinces. During the operations, Kartal and Aydar were arrested, but then were released by the court pending trial.