nationalist movement, could bring an end to 14 bloody years of separatist conflict in southeast Turkey. Ocalan, also known as "Apo", faces trial for treason to Turkey, which regards him as a terrorist responsible for the deaths of 29,000 people in the conflict. "We vowed we would get him wherever he was in the world. We have carried out our promise," Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, his voice choked with emotion, told a news conference. The country`s most wanted man in theory could face the death penalty but Turkey has not executed a prisoner since the early 1980s. Kurds briefly occupied a dozen Greek diplomatic missions in Europe on Tuesday in anger at the Greek role in Ocalan`s capture. The guerrilla leader had been holed up for 12 days in the Greek embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Greece said he disappeared on the way to the airport while accompanied by Kenyan security officials. A Greek lawyer for a Kurdish group said on Tuesday that rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was forced out of the Greek embassy in Nairobi and did not leave willingly as the Athens government said. "He was forced to leave the embassy," Failos Kranidiotis, a lawyer for ERNK, the political wing of Ocalan`s outlawed PKK, told a news conference in Athens. Ocalan was asked to leave the embassy on February 5, soon after his arrival, despite the fact no country would take him. One of the small Kurd group accompanying him threatened to shoot herself in the head to stop the Greek authorities from throwing him out causing chaos at the embassy, Kranidiotis said. The Greek government said earlier that Ocalan ignored embassy staff advice and made his own negotiations with Kenyan authorities. Turkish authorities released few details of his capture in an operation that Ecevit said was known in advance to only 10 people in Turkey. Anatolian news agency said Ocalan arrived at Istanbul airport in the early hours of Tuesday morning on a plane that then took off to a secret location in Turkey. Ocalan, 51, had been searching for a safe haven since Syria threw him out of Damascus under Turkish pressure last November. He failed to find long-term refuge in Italy, Russia, the Netherlands and other European countries. Analysts said Ocalan`s demise could be a fatal blow to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group which he founded. The rebels have lost ground in recent years under a series of heavy Turkish offensives that have often spilled over into northern Iraq, where the PKK has bases. The MED-TV Kurdish television channel, based in Europe, broadcast nationalist songs and marches on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said grim-faced Kurdish nationalist supporters gathered at branches in southeast Turkey of the People`s Democracy Party, which faces a ban for alleged links to the guerrillas. Turkey has paid little attention to Western complaints that it has abused human rights and democracy in its determination to quash Kurdish separatism. Rights groups say troops forcibly evacuated around 3,000 Kurdish villages in the mid-1990s in a drive to dry up support for the lightly-armed PKK fighters. The army, the second biggest in NATO, has scored considerable successes in the field since then. Special forces captured Ocalan`s former number two in northern Iraq last year. Fighting has almost come to a halt except in a few mountain strongholds close to the borders with Iraq and Iran. The PKK vowed to set up a Kurdish state along Marxist lines when it took up arms in 1984 but in recent years it has watered down its demands to Kurdish self-rule or cultural rights. Successive Turkish governments, influenced by the powerful military, have refused to negotiate with the rebels.