Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

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'considerable Turkish progress' SATURDAY.JUNE3.1995
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It also maintains that Ankara has circles as the "tenpercent report"
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not, so far, been able to address its CUls Clinton administration's weight
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By pgur Alanel and Nazlan Ertan / Tur/dsh Daily News
"int~mationally-recognized obl~a- ehind Turkish territorial inteßI& ~ "'O.
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tion to ~rovide for those who irre .s- and, once more, co~dernns the .
said that it was hi.y.hlylikely that U.S.-origin equipment had been
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placed. . . '. as a "ruthles~ terronst grou,t" whi~h
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used in support of urkish operations to evacuate and/or destroy vil- . ~ ~
The report notes that more than p,oses a major threat to urkey s
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tages in Southeast Anatolia, but upheld Turkex's right to use those . 4,000 a~lications cI~ming tOrf:ure . 'sovereignty and territorial. integri~
~eapons for "self-defense and for mternal secunty."'. were fil by 1;lUmanghts or~amza-
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tions between 1991 and 19 4, but A U.S. Embassy source said. that
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late Thursday, the U.S. State Department mamtains that the U.S.-ori- adds that Turkey had taken a number although he could not~udge how the.
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'of steps to stop the practi~. r{(rt - particularly .e part on use
. urdlstan Workers Party (PKK), dunng which uman nghts abuses
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It also notes t1iat extraju'dicial 0 U.S.-supplied equiEment for vil-
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killings, known as "mystery' lage burnings - coul be perceived
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killings," occurred at a high rate until by the Congress, the administration
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e U.S. State Department mrt ~aysthat human rights would be: .the end of 1994 - the total exceed- was.against any "further restriction,
an integral part of the ongoing .S.-Turkish high level dialogue. .
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ing 2,000 over the past three years - cuts, or placing conditions" for U.S. 'i:l
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.but subsequently had decreased. '. aid to Turk~. . .
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0 t e evacuation and/or pr2ress," a U.S. embassy source
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destruction of villages, it adds that sai brushing aside ~ulationsthat ~
alienation in Tu.rkey's Southeastern the U.S. administration "does not the report.had been. elayed because
ha:veany evidence that verifies of disagreement among State
Anatolia region, ; re~s of torture and extrajudicial Dehartment units. . r.I'J.
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ki . gs involving U.S. eguipment." n Washington, Christine Shelly, > ,
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The fifty-page document acknowledges that Turkey has recog- mendation on reinsta~ the 10lricr- also reaf umed continued U.S. suptrJ
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cent of military aid to urkg, w 'ch port for Turkey, which she said
proposals, which, if adopted and implemented, could lead to impor~ had been withheld' by. the ongress offered "concrete responses" to the
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tant positive changes in the situation in the Southeast. until the report was.prepared. Turkey aIletatio~s. .
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"We can and should expect progress," the report said as its bottom had r~ècted the conditional part of S e said that Ankara had known
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Although the tone of the report is considered "lukewarm" by on human rights and the Cyprus coming and.did not expect it to ~
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diplomatic observers, particularly in comparison to the 1994 Annual .question." . change relatIons between the two
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Human Rights Report; it still criticizes Turkey for not supplement- '
the Tur sh Cypriots' and kara's ''Turkey is a very important ~
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ing its militaryapproach to the Southeast problem with a civil
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approach.
"In combatting the PKK, the government of Turkey's approach U. . Confidence Bûilding Measures. she said. . .
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has been largely military. Alone,this cannot succeed," the report It notes that Prime MinIster Tansu "We are commiited to Turkey's
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says: "Turkey needs to combine this with a civil approach to the Çiller is committed to "work toward security in the interests of both the
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a solution to the Cyprus problem." United States and Turkey."
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