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Turkey accused of expelling
Iraqi and Iranian refugees
World Refugee survey cites teachers murdered by PKK
Turkish Daily News
those Iranians applying for refugee status
WASHINGTON-According to a World were approved.
Refugee survey released bj' the U.S. But government officials said that
Committee for Refugees (USCR), Turkey ITanians said "they were not involved in
is expelling Iranians and Iraqis after inad- any crime or politIcal associations in Iran,
equate refugee screening. that they diël not fear persecution if
The report also focused on those "inter- returned to Iran and they Just did not like
nally displaced" as a result of the military the Iranian regime and wished to travel
operations against the outlawed Kurdistan abroad to Western countries."
Workers' Party (PKK.) "The population "No country would grant asylum on the
of the city of Siirt has grown from 70,000 b.asis of such statements," the Turkish
to 130,000; DiyartiakIr has swelled from officials claimed.
300,000 to 900,000; Adana from 900,000 "In early January, Amnesty
to 1.5 million;, and Mersin's population International reported that [Turkish]
had increased from 550,000 to police took to the border and expelled to
1,000,000," the report noted. Iran two Iranian asylum seekers who had
"Some portion of the internally dis- sought UNHCR/rotection in Turkey. In
placed have also fled from threats and ter- an apparent qui i pro quo, in March, Iran
rorist acts committed by the PKK, particu- reportedly turnea over four members of
larly its campaign of assassination of the PKK to Turkey," the report said.
political opponents and schoolteachers," Iraqi refugees also complained about
the report SaId. similar lowrates of acceptance by Turkey.
"Accusing teachers of promoting "In 1994, 2,414 persons approached the
Turkish I>ropaganda and culture, the PKK UNHCR office seeking recognition as
has killeô hunëlreds in recent years, caus- refugees ... At the end of the year only 444
ing an estimated4,000 schools to close remained in Turkey."
anël other teachers to flee the area ... It USCR said to the Turkish government,
appears that many of the displaced are "we would like to support efforts to
noncombatants fleeing both sides, particu. encourage other governments, such as our
larly persons who are pressured to Join the own, to n~~ettlemore refugees currently in
government-sponsored village guards." Turkey. '
However, if your government moves
Iran and Iraq unilaterally to forcibly return refugees,
As to Iranian refugees in Turkey, the international support for Turkey is not
report noted that only 46.5 percent of likely to be forthcoming."
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, nINE 1, 1995
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Turkey Bans Arms From Denmark
ANKARA - Turkey said Wednesday that it had banned arms.
and military equipment purchases from Denmark, a NATO ally,
lifter Copenhagen halted sales to Ankara .
Nurettin Nurkan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that
penmark had "lost the quality of being a reliable partner in
.nilitary procurements.
Denmark stopped the sales this month because of Turkey's sixweek
military operation in northern Iraq against separatist rebe!
Kurds. Turkey ended the incursion on May 2. (Reuters)
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