ANKARA, March 2 (AFP)A prosecutor in Istanbul is seeking up to four years in jail for
 the director of a publishing house for printing a book by condemned Kurdish rebel leader
 Abdullah Ocalan, the Anatolia news agency reported Friday.

 In his indictment, the prosecutor accused Eylem Tandogan, who heads the Mem publishing
 house, of "aiding and abetting a terrorist organization" and "spreading propaganda aimed at
 harming the indivisibility of the Turkish Republic," the report said.

 Tandogan could face from one and a half to four years imprisonment if convicted.

 No date date was announced for the start of the trial.

 The book in question, "How to live", was penned by Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan
 Workers Party (PKK) in 1996, but was published in Turkey only in December last year, long
 after he was put in solitary confinement in a Turkish island prison.

 The two volume book consists mainly of the rebel leader's personal opinions and criticism of the
 traditional structure of the Kurdish society.

 After dodging Turkish authorities, Ocalan was captured in Kenya in an undercover operation and
 hauled back to Turkey in February 1999 to face trial for leading an armed campaign for self-rule
 in southeast Anatolia.

 He was sentenced to death for treason in June 1999, but his execution was put on hold by
 Ankara in January last year to allow the European Court of Human Rights to rule on his
 complaints against his arrest.

 Ocalan later called for peace and the PKK declared an end to its 15-year war in September
 1999 and promised to seek a peaceful and democratic resolution to the conflict.

 But the powerful Turkish military has snubbed the PKK's truce as a "ploy by the terrorist
 organization" and has called on the rebels to surrender or face the army.
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