The minister, Ali Fallahiyan, is suspected of having ordered the 1992 killing of a Kurdish exile here.

The prosecution had also said that Abbas Rhayel, a Lebanese citizen, had been one of two gunmen who shot the Kurdish exiles to death.

The party is also very active among Iraqi Kurdish exiles; its head of abroad committee is based in the UK.

Later, he hunted down rare copies of a magazine published by Kurdish exiles in the 1920s.

Mr. Majid, said one Kurdish exile in Paris, "will try to destroy the people.

Kurdish exiles in Europe have contributed millions of dollars to his movement, some of it voluntarily and the rest under threat.

On the contrary, the Government says it has taken in more than one million Kurdish exiles already, and it appears to be working hard to feed and shelter them.

She herself appeared on British television with Kurdish exiles on April 3 and called on allied leaders to do something quickly.

There is no Saddam there," said a Kurdish exile who calls himself Ismail said as he stood only 100 yards from the border.

Officially, a Turkish Embassy spokesman here said, the presence of Kurdish exiles here is an "internal affair of Greece."