PKK DEMANDS OWN APOLOGY FROM ISRAEL Israel should apologize to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, for its role in capturing the group’s leader, a high-ranking member of the organization has said. The statement from Murat Karayılan comes in response to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s suggestion that Israel could establish contact with the PKK in the face of the mounting diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel. "The PKK is not the [kind of] movement that would allow itself to be used against some other state. If the Israeli state wants to establish relations with the PKK, it must first apologize to the PKK and the Kurdish people for its role in the capture of the PKK’s leadership through an international conspiracy and handing [them] over to Turkey," Karayılan said, according to the pro-Kurdish Fırat News Agency. | 
