An asset freeze imposed on the banned Kurdish organization PKK was not sufficiently substantiated. This is clear from a judgment of the EU court in Luxembourg.

The Kurdish Workers' Party PKK has been wrongly listed on the EU terror list between 2014 and 2017. That was the judgment of the Luxembourg European Union court.

The EU court therefore annulled the underlying decisions of the Member States for procedural errors. In the view of the Court, the Council of the Member States has not provided sufficient reasons in necessary regulations and decisions as to why it lists the PKK on the list.

However, the verdict has no concrete effect, as there is a new resolution on the list of terrorists for 2018, which the ruling does not call into question.

For the PKK, the entry in 2002 on the terrorist list is important. It resulted in frozen accounts and other assets in the EU.

The EU accuses the PKK of fighting armed violence and attacks on a Kurdish state or autonomous region in southeastern Turkey. The conflict with the Turkish government has already killed tens of thousands of people.