Information and liaison bulletin - Institut kurde de Paris

Contents :
• WASHINGTON: THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS HE IS “HAPPY”
FOLLOWING HIS DISCUSSION WITH GEORGE W. BUSH AGAINST
A BACKGROUND OF TURKISH THREATS AGAINST IRAQI KURDISTA
• IRBIL: PRIME MINISTER NECHIRVAN BARZANI STATES THAT THE OIL
CONTRACTS SIGNED WITH FOREIGN COMPANIES WILL BE CARRIED OUT
• ANKARA: AMERICAN AND TURKISH GENERALS DISCUSS MILITARY
COOPERATION AGAINST THE PKK
• THE TURKISH CONSTITUTIONAL COURT WILL RULE ON THE BANNING
PROCEDURE BEING INITIATED AGAINST THE PRO-KURDISH PARTY
FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (DTP)
• IRAN: THE IRANIAN SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS THE DEATH SENTENCE
ON THE KURDISH JOURNALIST ADNAN HASSANPUR AND SENDS MARIVAN
HIVA BOTIMAR FOR TRIAL
• IRAQI KURDISTAN WELCOMES CHRISTIAN REFUGEES
• READ IN THE TURKISH PRESS: THE KURDISH QUESTION SEEN BY
THE TURKISH GENERALS.
• AS WELL AS …
WASHINGTON: THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER SAYS
HE IS “HAPPY” FOLLOWING HIS DISCUSSION WITH
GEORGE W. BUSH AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF
O
TURKISH THREATS AGAINST IRAQI KURDISTAN
N 3 November, Turkish Administration, while promising
Prime Minister, Recep American support in the fight
Tayyip Erdogan, went on an against the PKK, is urging restraint
official visit to the United on Turkey, for fear of destabilising
States to hold discussions with US one of the rare regions of relative
President George W. Bush in the calm in Iraq. Before the meeting at
course of the 5 November summit the White House, the Turkish
meeting in Washington. The Bush Prime Minister, who is faced with
an angry public opinion after a
series of bloody attacks by the
PKK, had warned that Turkish
patience was “at an end”. Before
flying to the United States, he had
indicated that he expected “concrete
measures” against the PKK
from Mr. Bush. “Our visit is taking
place at a time that (Turko-American)
relations are going through a serious
test”, he had declared to journalists
at the airport. On 2 November, in
Ankara, the US Secretary of State,