Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA<br />
STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
Constitutional<br />
Courtre-elects<br />
tt<br />
GÜDgör Oz<strong>de</strong>n<br />
Another term: Öz<strong>de</strong>n was<br />
re-elected to post of presiding<br />
judge with majority vote<br />
. Turkish Daily News..<br />
ANKARA- Yekta Güngör Oz<strong>de</strong>n was reelected<br />
to the post' of presiding judge of ~he<br />
Constitutional Court on Thursday, extendmg<br />
his term in office until1997, when he is expected<br />
to refire. . ,<br />
Öz<strong>de</strong>n's term in office expired on May 7. He<br />
was elected in ~e ~rst roun.d by an abs?lute<br />
majority vote, which ISessentlal for a candidate<br />
to be elected. Although there has not been an<br />
official statement, the general secre:<br />
.tary of the Constitutional Court, Ali<br />
Kadri Ediz announced after the election<br />
that Ö~<strong>de</strong>n had been re-elected.<br />
Öz<strong>de</strong>n, 'speaking to jou~nalists<br />
after the election, said the<br />
Con'stitutional Court was a fully<br />
in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt and imp~al i~stitulio.n .<br />
whicn fulfilled its dutles with sensItivity.<br />
He also said the elec~on had •<br />
been conducted in a <strong>de</strong>mocratlc manner<br />
by the members of the court:<br />
"The Constitutional Court IS the<br />
guarantee of everybody's rights and<br />
freedoms. That is why ~9ple shouldnot<br />
~ to un<strong>de</strong>rmine It, Oz<strong>de</strong>n said.<br />
After expres~ing th~tlife was<br />
becomino more difficult IIITurkey as<br />
the number of reliable institutions<br />
<strong>de</strong>clined, Öz<strong>de</strong>n said: "The<br />
Constitiitional Court is a united one.<br />
:Th<strong>et</strong>e is no differences b<strong>et</strong>ween the<br />
members. If I am elected today, it<br />
can be someone else in the future. I<br />
am goino fo continue my work from<br />
where 11eft it when my office term<br />
expired on May 7. I wish happy days<br />
[QI' the rest of the Turkish people." A<br />
rather interesting comment o~ the<br />
elections came from Güven Dmçer,<br />
th~ <strong>de</strong>puty chairman. of the<br />
Constitutional Court. Pnor to the<br />
election he told journalist. that outsi<strong>de</strong><br />
powers were trying to control<br />
the Constitutional Court. He la~er<br />
clarified his statement, indicating<br />
that by ou~i<strong>de</strong>rs he meant newspaper<br />
~olumms~s... .<br />
.' Dmçer sal~ that Oz<strong>de</strong>n received<br />
six votes, while he got four and the<br />
.other' candidate, Selçuk Tüzün, only<br />
one. ..<br />
Öz<strong>de</strong>n lashed back at the cntlcs,<br />
saying that no one could influence<br />
thë court.and its <strong>de</strong>cisions were taken<br />
in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>ntly.When asked if S?in~<br />
of the court members had received<br />
telephQ.necalls telling them.whom to<br />
elect, Oz<strong>de</strong>n said not to believe such<br />
rumors.<br />
"Isupport Ata~rk's ten<strong>et</strong>s, secularism<br />
and human rights. I am a partial<br />
person. when it com~~ to these<br />
issues," said Oz<strong>de</strong>n. Pohl1cal party<br />
lea<strong>de</strong>rs sent congratulation messages<br />
to Öz<strong>de</strong>n. Deputy Prime Minister.<br />
Hikm<strong>et</strong> Ç<strong>et</strong>in stated in his message<br />
that he wasproud of the<br />
Constitutional Court, which he<br />
<strong>de</strong>fined as the protector of the <strong>de</strong>mocratic<br />
secular regime in T!lrlc~.<br />
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),<br />
Chairnian Alparslan Türke~ al$,osent<br />
a IIlessage wishing ~uccess t~ Oz<strong>de</strong>n.<br />
Oz<strong>de</strong>n was born III 1932 m Tokat.<br />
He graduated from the Ankara Law<br />
Faculty in 1956. He was elected to<br />
the Constitutional Court in 1979. He<br />
becaine the <strong>de</strong>puty presiding judge in<br />
1988 and presldingjudge in 1991. .<br />
Rival Kurds take feuds to<br />
airwaves illnorthern Iraq<br />
Vel<strong>de</strong>: We aren't a state so we can't<br />
establish officialcontacts with other<br />
international stations nor travel abroad<br />
By Tolle Aram propagandaspouted by the rival tek vi-<br />
Agence France Presse<br />
sion stations.<br />
SALAHUDDIN - The small hill The KDP and PUK are locked in a<br />
town of Salahuddin in northern Iraq - year-long feud over power-sharing and<br />
has become home to three different taxfevenues, which has cost more than .<br />
television stations as rival Kurdish fac- 2,000 lives according .to Kurdish<br />
lions take their bitter power struggle to sources and has carved up northern<br />
the airwaves. Iraq into different zones. .'.<br />
The Iraqi National Congress, a All thiS is reflected in the output of<br />
coalition of groups opposed to the rival factions' TV channels..<br />
Baghdad, and the Kurdista.n "We are so fed up with the propa-<br />
Democratic Party (KDP) have theIr ganda yourec'eive on all stations.<br />
own channels based in private villas in, Every tun<strong>et</strong>hey start to talk about (l?lthe<br />
former summer resort. Meanwhile itics we switch on our satellite," Said a<br />
the KDP's rival, the Patriotic Union of . 25-year-old aid worker in the main<br />
Kurdistan (PUK), broadcasts on its, town of Arbil.<br />
own two stations from other areas of . Like all the northern Iraqi channels,<br />
northern Iraq un<strong>de</strong>r its control. KTV relies on satellite chaJl{lelsfor its<br />
Television bosses face a host of international news and does very few<br />
problems trying to broadcast from ~e of its own reports. Besi<strong>de</strong>s its threeregion,<br />
which came un<strong>de</strong>r Kurdish daily news bull<strong>et</strong>ins, its airtime is<br />
control in the aftermath of the 1991' filled with foreign science programmes<br />
Gillf War 'but is not recognised as a and soap operas and Kurdish music ~~<br />
separate slate. "We ar.en't a state so ~e 'd<br />
can't establish offiCiaI contacts With V1 I~~~ained passive even in the face ~<br />
other international stations nor travel of Turkey's massive six-week military ~<br />
abroad," said Christopher Yel<strong>de</strong>, direc- incursion into northern Iraq to hunt ~<br />
tor of the KDP's flfst channel, KTV. down PKK militants, launched on ' ~<br />
"We have to make the best of these M h 20 ~<br />
politicallimitations." Howev~r one ~f The KDP's second channel Gulan ~<br />
the bigoest problems for the viewers IS tried to break the mould when it was ~<br />
what they say _is ail endless stream of established in Arbil a year ago, and ~<br />
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