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