RELATIVES OF KILLED TURKISH SOLDIERS DEMONSTRATE AFTER OCALAN VERDICT UPHELD, 1999-11-25 (photo)

Relatives of Turkish soldiers, killed in clashes against Kurdish rebels, raise their fists against a picture of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan while demonstrating outside the appeals court in Ankara November 25. The portrait showing Ocalan with blood trickling from the sides of his mouth, poised over a savaged victim reads in Turkish "The nation gave its decision", "The good ones were sentenced to death as long as the bad ones live." Turkey's appeals court upheld a death sentence on Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday bringing the Kurdish rebel leader a step closer to the gallows. The five judges unanimously said that the June trial of Ocalan, captured by Turkish special forces in Kenya, was fair. FS/ME