THE HAGUE - Dutch Supreme Court decided on Friday to extradite Nuriye Kesbir, a member of the terrorist organization PKK who was living in the Netherlands, to Turkey.
If the Dutch Justice Ministry upholds the verdict, Kesbir will be extradited to Turkey.
Dutch Supreme Court found prosecutor's opinion rightful and decided to extradite Kesbir to be tried in Turkey.
In her last defense, terrorist Kesbir asked the court not to extradite her and claimed that she feared of ''being tortured and not being tried fairly.''
The court delegation stated that being feared of trial and torture was not an obstacle before extradition.
Nuriye Kesbir was captured in the fall of 2001 when she was trying to enter the Netherlands illegally. She was released in December 2003 despite Turkey's request for her extradition.
Amsterdam Court returned Turkey's request for Kesbir's extradition to be tried by Turkish courts. Turkey had asked the Netherlands to extradite Kesbir on charges of being involved in at least 25 terrorist attacks, some of which were staged on military targets, between 1993 and 1995 and which claimed many lives.
The prosecutor's office appealed this verdict of the Amsterdam Court and the Supreme Court of the Netherlands considered the verdict invalid.
Nuriye Kesbir, who did not join the first hearing of the Supreme Court, was detained again in the hearing that was held in March 2003.
After the Dutch Supreme Court decided to extradite her to Turkey, Kesbir announced in the hearing that she would go on a hunger strike.
After the verdict was unveiled, Kesbir's lawyers told reporters that they would immediately file another lawsuit in case the Dutch Justice Ministry upheld the verdict.
Kesbir's lawyers stated that they would apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) if they could not change the verdict in the new lawsuit they filed.
(BRC-AÖ) 07.05.2004