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.US on PKK: 'We believe in redemption'
By Ugur Alanel! TurlcishDai/yN~ws
WASHINGTON- A senior U.S. State Department official,
reacting to ~e news that Abdullah ÔCalan, leader of the out~
lawed Kurdistan W~r~ers' P!'flY(PKK) has offered a ceasef~
and asked for a politIcal solution to the ll-year-old terrorts't
bloodbath in the southeastern Turkey, said "we believe in
redemption."
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. ~t:nasked to elaborate further, the official repeated' tlIat
Dev-Sol and PKK were terrorist organizations and"'we don't
talk to, terro~st organiza~ions." But he also mentioned AI-
Fatah. 'We did not (leal WIththem when they were involved in
terror."
Th~ officiaI added that when Yasser Arafat had renounced
terronsm, the U.S. had also changed its position. If someday
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the PKK and Dev-Sol als.prenouhced terror and
became peaceful, the US attitude might also
change, lie'said.
When th~ Turkish Daily News asked what
~oul~ constitute. such a drastic change in orgamzational
behavI~r, the official said that,"that is
not a hard questIon to answer. Actions count
not words.
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You know Jwhen a' terrorist organization
renounces terrorism]."
Turkey ~n Tuesday dismissed the PKK's call
for ceaseflre. and negotiations. Government
~pokesm!ll YIldmm Aktuna said "our struggle
IS not WIth the Kurdish people. It is with the
PKK terrorist.organiz~tion, .and th~ armed strUggle
.agal~st this terronsm wIll contInue until terror
ISfimshed."
Rival Iraqi Kurdish factions to
hold special parliament session
Agence France Presse
between the two sides locked in a bitter
SALAHADIN, Iraq- Rival Kurdish factions
are to hold a special meeting of parliaenues
since May 1994. About 2,000 have
struggle over power-sharing and tax revment
to extend its mandate in the absence of died according to Kurdish estimates.
planned elections put off because of violent
Necim Omar Surtshi, the head of the
fighting, Kurdish sources said
Wednesday.
Kurdistan Conservative Party told AFP the
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
two sides had aweed to the meeting "to prevent
the crumbling of the democratic exper-
and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
share power in the parliament elected in iment."
1992 In Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, The session will be held on neutral
but which is not internationally recognized.
PUK-controlled Arbil, where the parliament
ground in the village of Daraben, between
Saturday's special assembly, the first this is based, and KDP-controlled Salahadin,
year, is expected to extend parliament's Surtshi said.
mandate for a year. Elections had been Kurdish factions took control of northern
scheduled in June, but have been made Iraq after Baghdad's defeat by a US-led
impossible by the continued clashes coalition in the 1991 GulfWar.
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rURQUIE-IRAK
Ankara veut une pacification
de la frontière
m La Turquie tente de convaincre les États-Un'Is de la nécessité.
d'un .. plan de paix .. dans le nord de l'Irak, en complément- de,
"opération Provide Comfort, a déclaré le numéro deux turc, Ozdem
Sanberk.Cette déclaration Intervient alors qu'une délégation amé-
'lcalne dirigée par Mark Parris, spécialiste du Proche-Orient au
ponsell national de sécurité, était à Ankara pour rencontrer .ë:tes
~esponsables turcs. Après la vaste opération militaire qu'elle a thenée
dans le nord de l'Irak contre les bases des rebelles du Parti
des, travailleurs kurdes (PKK), la Turquie cherche une formule lui
permettant de rendre sa frontière Imperméable aux infiltrations des
séparatistes kurdes. D'autre part, au moins huit personnes, dont' un
~nfant, ont été tuées hier par l'explosion d'une bombe près d'~e
écol~ primair&.àB/ltm~n d,OS le sud-est du pays.
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