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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basin Ozeti families. If they are guilty, they will face a proportionate penalty, serve it and that's all... What's being done to these soldiers and their families now is nothing less than summary execution. Without knowing the conditions of the Oct. 21 night when the PKK ambushed their unit; without having any idea of the psychological condition of these eight sons and in total ignorance of the threat they faced while they were in the hands of the PKK, people are accusing them of not behaving properly while they were hosta TODAYS ZAMAW November 8 . 2007 ges. How sad it is for a deputy prime minister or a justice minister and even a president to express doubt about the loyalty of our people under arms towards our state? How sad it is to see a justice minister saying "I could not feel happy with the release of them (soldiers)?" Or, how said it is to see a party leader who himself had once traveled to the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, inspected a "guard of honor" of the separatist gang, shook hands with the chieftain of the group and than claimed he did all those things as a "journalist" and "for news" can now say that he would prefer the eight soldiers were killed by the PKK? Whereas, instead of making such lofty accusations against the released soldiers, we must be able to develop an understan¬ ding that should aim to win back even those on the mountains engaged in terro¬ rism. After all, though criminal and must be punished, they are sons of mothers of this country as well.. Evren regrets ban on public use of Kurdish language Leader of the coup d'état in September 1980 and seventh President of Turkey Kenan Evren has said it was a mistake to ban the public use of the Kurdish language in schools, official settings and non-music broadcasts. In an interview on Wednesday with Milliyet daily's columnist Fikret Bila, Evren said he regrets imposing a ban on public use of the Kurdish language through Arti¬ cle 26 of the 1982 Constitution, which stated that no language prohibited by law shall be used in the expression and dis¬ semination of thought and that any writ¬ ten or printed documents, phonograph record s, magnetic or video tapes and other means of expression used in contra¬ vention of this provision shall be seized. Evren said his observations during a visit to the eastern provinces triggered his decision to ban the use of Kurdish in pu¬ blic places. "Once I paid a visit to an ele¬ mentary school in a village in one of the eastern provinces. I asked one of the students to read a text aloud, but both her reading and pronunciation was very bad. Then we figured it out that many teachers in the East and Southeast carried out schooling in Kurdish language." Christian Science Monitor^***^ November 08. 2007 Confessing that banning the Kurdish lan¬ guage was not a proper step to be taken on the path toward modernization and democratization, Evren added: "This ban was removed in 2002 through reforms implemented for Turkey's accession to the European Union. Anyway, we should have never imposed such bans." The former general also contended that civil servants serving in the eastern and southeastern regions should speak Kur¬ dish besides Turkish with the objective of developing closer ties with locals and furnishing better service to residents. Upon a question as to whether it would be necessary to permit education in Kurdish to help civil servants learn this language, Evren said: "Schooling in the Kurdish language cannot be permitted; yet there are language courses where Kurdish is taught freely. Those who wish to learn this language can apply to such courses." Despite the soft stance he seems to have adopted towards the Kurds, Evren expres¬ sed, on the other hand, that it was Tur¬ key's mistake not to execute the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ôcalan. "I am in favor of the execution of those who deserve it," he said. Turkish-Kurd tensions spill into Europe's streets Protests across the continent have turned violent in some cities, including Berlin, where more demonstrations are planned for this weekend. By Rantv Islam I Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor Berlin - The simmering tensions in Turkey's Kurdish southeast are not only playing out along the country's border with Iraq, where the military has amassed tens of thou¬ sands of troops following renewed clashes with Kurdish rebels holed up in Iraq's mountainous north. They're also spilling onto the streets of Euro¬ pean cities from Berlin to Brussels to Innsbruck, Austria. This weekend, authorities are braced for another round of protests in the 62 German capital, where two weeks ago Turkish ultranationalists attacked a Kurdish cultural center, wielding machetes and injuring dozens of people. Last weekend, some 600 mainly Kurdish protesters returned to Hermannplatz - a square in Berlin's heavily immigrant Neukôlln district - to inform the public of their view: that Turkey is still repressing the Kurdish people. "It's been going on for years. The recent threat of Turkish military incursions into northern Iraq to attack us is just the last straw," says Ah¬ med, a young man handing out pro- Kurdish leaflets. With 2.5 million residents of Turkish origin, including an estimated 400,000 who identify themselves as Kurdish, Germany is home to the largest expatriate community from Turkey and is perhaps the most visible Euro¬ pean arena for Turkish-Kurd tensions. The expat violence has prompted politicians including the German interior minister to warn against the Kurdish conflict spilling over to Ger¬ many and other European countries. So far there has been no indication that the clashes were planned. But that does not mean that no group has an interest in using them for their purposes, says Suleyman Bag, Berlin correspondent for Zaman, a conser¬ vative daily newspaper in Turkey. In particular he refers to the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), an organiza¬ tion outlawed in Turkey and Germany
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basin Ôzeti and classed by the US and the Euro¬ pean Union as a terrorist group. Taking a softer stand on Kurdish interests than previous administra¬ tions, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has made unprecedented gains in Kurdish strongholds in recent elections at the expense of Kurdish parties. The trend extends to Kurdish rebel groups such as the PKK, which has become a lot less popular with Kurds, maintains Mr. Bag. By "internationalizing" the Kurdish conflict the PKK hopes to mobilize new support, he says. &**
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