Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Reuters: OcaIan talks of political solution to war<br />
Öcalan: 'I am saying if the military <strong>de</strong>struction against us and be ready for a<br />
. .. political solution."<br />
Tur~sh state s~ps operations He said Ankara'~ efforts to impose a military<br />
agamst US and if they are solution in the Kurdish conflict could never<br />
ready for a political solution, wO~iœd if a 1993 threat he ma<strong>de</strong> to wage all-out<br />
then we are ready for a cease- war on Turkey, including attaçks on tourist sites,<br />
fire or peace as an organization' was still on the PKK agenda; Öcalan replied:<br />
"Since the Turkish state <strong>de</strong>clared a whole war<br />
By Haitharn Haddadin agai~st us, we ~ having a ,!hole war against the<br />
Reuters StaffWriter Turkish state... 'We are havmg a war to hurt the<br />
IN THE BEKAA VALLf:Y, Lebanon- .Turkish economy and to l<strong>et</strong> it be known interna-<br />
Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Öcalan called on tionally that there is a war in Turkey and that the<br />
Tuesday for a ceasefue in the separatist war with Tur~sh state is not a tourist area."<br />
Turkey and said he was ready for peace if Ankara Öcalan, with the PKK red banner behind him,<br />
was ready for a IX!liticalsolution. said Turkish forces had <strong>de</strong>stroyed all economic<br />
"I am saying if the Turkish state stops opera- potential in Kurdistan. "They even bum horses<br />
tions against us and if they are ready for a politi- andhomes ...not eyen Kurdish names are allowed<br />
cal solution, then we are ~dy for a ceasefue or in Turkey," said ÖCalan,s~ng in Turkish.<br />
peace as an organization," ÖCalan, who heads the Dismissing Ankara s recent campaign<br />
Kurdistan Wolkers Party (PKK), told Reuters in launched with 35,000 troops against his guerrillas<br />
eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. .in northern Iraq as a failure, Ocalan said he sus-<br />
More than 15,000 people have been killed in pe<strong>et</strong>ed Turkey might repeat the operation. "Our<br />
Turkey since 1984 when the PKK took up arms e!esence in northern Iraq is strong ... They<br />
for a separate Kurdish state in the southeast. (Turkish troops) feel the need to enter northern<br />
"If Ankara continues its campaign ag,ainst the Iraq to be. successful," Öcalan said. "They are<br />
IÇurdish people, the Kurdish people will fight," preparing a bigger operation.<br />
Öcalan said. "The Turkish state should stop all "The PKK presence in northern Iraq became<br />
StateMinister Hacaloglu: There are 295 uni<strong>de</strong>ntified corpses<br />
Turlcish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Algan Hacaloglu, state minister<br />
res~nsible for human ri2hts, said, while visiting<br />
the <strong>Institut</strong>e of Forensiç "Medicine in Istanbul on<br />
Monday, that forensic examination had revealed<br />
that the <strong>de</strong>aths of 295 uni<strong>de</strong>ntified corpses had<br />
occurred in "unnatural" circumstances. Hacaloglu,<br />
cornrœnting on the case of Hasan<br />
Ocak, SaId that no blame attached to the forensic<br />
<strong>de</strong>partment but that there was a gap in the chain<br />
b<strong>et</strong>ween the prosecutor's office, forensic medicine<br />
and the police <strong>de</strong>partment He said that Hasan Ocak<br />
died as a result of torture or "at least bis <strong>de</strong>ath was<br />
not from natural causes."<br />
Twenty-nine year-old Hasan Ocak.disappeared<br />
in Istanbul on March 21, and bis <strong>de</strong>ad body was<br />
found later, without i<strong>de</strong>ntification, in the Beykoz<br />
district. The body was examined by the forensic<br />
<strong>de</strong>partment and later buried, still uni<strong>de</strong>ntified. On<br />
larger as a result of the operation. Wç.established<br />
many important strategic places," Ocalan said.<br />
"We managed to draw people's attention to<br />
us."<br />
Turkey <strong>de</strong>clared the northern Iraqi campaign,<br />
which en<strong>de</strong>d on May 2, as a compl<strong>et</strong>e success,<br />
~llying 555 PKK fighters and 61 soldiers died.<br />
Ocalan said Ankara reversed the actual casualty<br />
figures.<br />
He put Turkish <strong>de</strong>aths at 800 a~ainst 60 PKK<br />
<strong>de</strong>ad. Turkish military sources Said on Monday<br />
the number of troops m Turkey's eastern Tunceli<br />
province would be boosted to 45,000 as part of<br />
t~e army's bid to finish off the Kurdish rebels.<br />
Ocalan warned the Kurdistan Democratic Party<br />
of Iraqi Kurdish chief Massoud Barzani against<br />
joining Turkish forces in the war against the<br />
PKK, saying they would be finished if they<br />
did.<br />
He said Ankara had offered the KDP control of<br />
strategic points along the Turkish-Iraqi bor<strong>de</strong>r to<br />
stol' cross.frontier raids by the PKK. "I don't<br />
thitik Barzani will accept," he ad<strong>de</strong>d. Reuters correspon<strong>de</strong>nts<br />
were driven from Beirut to a secr<strong>et</strong><br />
PKK locati.9n in the Bekaa Valley for the interview<br />
with Ocalan, and waited for hours before he<br />
showed up with three bodyguards armed with<br />
AK-47 assault rifles.<br />
April16 bis family saw a photograph taken by the<br />
forensic <strong>de</strong>partment and i<strong>de</strong>ntified the body as<br />
Ocak. The remains were exhumed and taken to the<br />
Gaziosmanp~ district where the family lived and<br />
which in March had been the scene of massive<br />
unrest b<strong>et</strong>ween local people and police.<br />
Minister Hacaloglu said the number of uni<strong>de</strong>ntified<br />
corpses had recently risen to 295 and.that he he<br />
would take the matter before the cabin<strong>et</strong>..<br />
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