Thousands embark on the perilous journey to the west.
Turks protest against hidden forces in the south-east. The 900 refugees whose ship was beached on the French Riviera at the weekend are the visible tip of a much larger exodus fleeing harassment by Saddam Hussein, Kurdish sources said yesterday. Turkey's death sentence against the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was challenged in the European Court of Human Rights yesterday. Abdullah Ocalan must not hang. The dam the Turkish government plans to build across the Tigris river at Ilisu in Anatolia has two main functions.