The P.K.K. recruitment of Kurds in Greece is an overlooked link in the vicious cycle of refugees and revolution across Europe's southeastern frontier.

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The E.R.N.K.'s induction ceremonies are just the tail end of the process for turning refugees into revolutionaries. The real indoctrination and recruitment goes on at places like Lavrion, 45 km southeast of Athens, one of about five main refugee camps for the 100 or so Kurdish asylum seekers arriving each month.

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"This is the greatest help that Greece is providing us," says Ferzeyn Iskender, a self-proclaimed P.K.K. loyalist at Lavrion.

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Turkey says Greece is aiding and abetting the P.K.K., citing the confessions of P.K.K. members as proof. "We are just stating what P.K.K. terrorists captured in Turkey are saying," says Sermet Atacanli, a spokesman for Turkey's Foreign Ministry. "They have been trained in Greece, both ideologically and militarily." "Lies, lies, lies!" responds Greece's fiery Foreign Minister, Theodore Pangalos [view note below], to accusations of Greek involvement. Western diplomats monitoring the P.K.K. say there's no hard evidence substantiating such accusations, but that "there is a gray area in the field of financial support."

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In the U.S., such open P.K.K. activities would be a breach of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996 and would bring prison sentences of up to 10 years for those perpetrating them. But in Greece, the P.K.K.'s terrorist fire spreads virtually unchecked.