Turkey sentenced eight Kurdish political activists to three years and nine months imprisonment on Friday. Turkey's court official said they were sentenced for aiding armed Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey. The eight were from the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the main Kurdish party in Turkey. The try against them started after a militant from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) implicated them in his testimony. Although they rejected the charges, the court found them guilty of "aiding and abetting a terrorist organization". The sentence is to be appealed in the future for the PKK militant who accused them in the first place later retracted his testimony.