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Kurdish Öcalan was arrested by CIA secret services, Mosad and Turkey in Kenya

25
years ago

15 February 1999,

The curved Abdullah Öcalan was arrested in Kenya in cooperation with CIA secret services, Mosad and Turkey. The CCP was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, leader of the movement. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. On one island he remains in prison, isolated for years. The anti-capitalist is passionate and the oppression that patriarchy exerts on women is at the forefront of his analysis.

On this day
1537Inquisitor Zumarraga, Bishop of Mexico, wrote the longest text in the oldest Basque country, eight years before Etxepare
1898U.S. warship Maine exploded in Havana and the United States accused Spain of "aggression"
1990The Basque Parliament proclaimed the right to self-determination
200325 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq

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1999-01-06
Disguised as Reyes Magos supported Basque prisoners chained on the outskirts of the Spanish Congress
1999-01-30
They published the first issue of the newspaper 'Gara' after thousands of citizens bought shares.
1999-02-07
The Government of Ukraine again threatened the launching of the third reactor at the Chernobyle nuclear plant
1999-02-15
Kurdish Öcalan was arrested by CIA secret services, Mosad and Turkey in Kenya
1999-03-20
The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse
1999-03-24
NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia
1999-04-05
Entrepreneurs chained to the hospital bed of the Basque prisoner Esteban Nieto
1999-06-19
The Supreme Court declared Southern Municipalities illegal to act only in Basque
1999-06-29
Turkey sentenced Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan to death
1999-07-22
Woodstock festival begins in New York, which would be a disaster
1999-08-12
Farmers dismantled the McDonald’s building in Millaun, France
1999-08-20
Action disguised as 'Giraldilla' at the opening of the World Athletics Championship
1999-08-26
The second war in Chechnya began when Russia began the invasion of the country
1999-10-25
Ten members of Itoiz Solidarios hanged in London's giant noria
1999-11-16
Aratz Gallastegi refused to play with the Spanish rugby team
1999-11-18
Bilbaíno Iñigo Egiluz and Colombian Jorge Luis Mazo were killed by Colombian paramilitaries
1999-11-25
Solidarity with Itoiz occupied the International Court of Justice in The Hague
1999-11-30
Battle of Seattle begins
1999-12-12
30,000 tons of fuel were dumped by the oil tanker Erika on the Breton coast
1999-12-23
Olentzero hung on the wall of Algeciras prison to free local prisoners

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-02-06
Police killed 15 people on Tarajal beach in Ceuta
25
years ago
1999-02-15
Kurdish Öcalan was arrested by CIA secret services, Mosad and Turkey in Kenya
25
years ago
1999-02-07
The Government of Ukraine again threatened the launching of the third reactor at the Chernobyle nuclear plant
35
years ago
1989-02-14
Iranian imam Khomeini ordered the writer Salman Rushdie to be murdered for his novel 'Satanic verses'
40
years ago
1984-02-25
Death of Eugenio Gutierrez Tigre in Idauze-Mendin GAL
40
years ago
1984-02-16
Spanish police killed Iñaki Ojeda in Barakaldo negotiating her surrender
40
years ago
1984-02-08
Bixente Perurena Peru and Angel Gurmindo Stein were killed by the GAL in Hendaia
45
years ago
1979-02-12
The World Climate Conference met for the first time in Geneva
45
years ago
1979-02-03
Ecologists managed to stop a convoy from Lemoniz to the Ascó II nuclear power station in Tarragona.
45
years ago
1979-02-03
100,000 women took to the streets against restricting their rights in Tehran
55
years ago
1969-02-04
The choirs of Santa Águeda boycotted the song
55
years ago
1969-02-04
Jasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestine Liberation Organization
70
years ago
1954-02-19
Socrates, footballer, doctor and activist is born against the Brazilian dictatorship
70
years ago
1954-02-11
In the Canary Islands, a concentration camp for the LGBTI group was opened.
75
years ago
1949-02-18
From Vienna to Euskal Herria the first train filled with Austrian and German children
80
years ago
1944-02-09
Gypsy boxer Rukeli was killed by the Nazis in Neuengamm concentration camp
85
years ago
1939-02-24
Supreme Court banned “fallen arms strikes”
85
years ago
1939-02-22
Antonio Machado died in exile in Northern Catalonia
90
years ago
1934-02-12
Struggles between Socialists and Fascists begin, also known as the Civil War of Austria
100
years ago
1924-02-19
Amale Arcelus is born in Donostia, the first woman in Basque on the radio
105
years ago
1919-02-05
The Canadenca de Barcelona starts a strike for eight hours
110
years ago
1914-02-20
Born the writer Julia de Burgos
115
years ago
1909-02-17
At 80, the head of the apaches named Gerónimo died.
150
years ago
1874-02-21
Bilbao's siege begins in the civil war known as the Second Carlist War
210
years ago
1814-02-26
The City Hall banned the organization of dances, tamboriles and more on carnivals
230
years ago
1794-02-19
47 young people from Itsasu deserted from the French army fleeing the Baztan
245
years ago
1779-02-14
Hawaiians killed colonizer James Cook
375
years ago
1649-02-07
They decided to abolish the monarchy in England and cut King Charles I's head, accusing him of violating citizens' rights and freedoms.
415
years ago
1609-02-13
The Inquisition questioned six citizens of Zugarramurdi in Logroño
500
years ago
1524-02-27
In Hondarribia there were only fighters for Navarre, with the city besieged by the Spaniards.