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Turkey seeks increased' trade
withGulfto compensate for
I losses fromIraqembargo
Agence France Press~ an OppOrtunityfor more expansion~"
CAIRO- Turkey ~ant.s lDcreased .I)emirelstressed that Turkey had no
trade with the Gulf.n~uo~s m compensa- designs on changin,gits border with Iraq
tion for over $20 billIOnm l?sses fr?m a following' its' masstv~ military.action in,
.' U:.N.embargo o~ Iraq, Turkish ~esldent M~ch agai~st Turkish Kurdish sepa-
Suleyman Demirel told a Saudt-owned raUstsoperatmg from northern Iraq. .
. '!1ewspaper on S~nday. . ''Turkey has no regional demands on
"We s~ itas our right a~this time ~o any of its neighbors, including Ïraq. It
confer with our partners ID the (an~t- has no policy for new border arrange-
Iraqi) alliance abOutproper recoml'Cnse ments and no political plaris for expan- .
. for our sacrifices," Demirel said ID an sion," he said. ,
interview with the London-based Arab . But the Turkish president, who had
daily.Ash-Sh~ Al-Awsat. ." ~lier provoked IraQipro~estsafter rais-
"SIDce Turkish trade With the Gulf mg the prospêct of cnangmg the border,
countries has been adversely affected did not rule out new military operations
since the war to liberate Kuwait, we are l!&ainstthe Kurdistan Workers' Party
trying to gear up our economic and trade (PKK)., '
relations with these countries," he said. Turkey "will remain ever ready to
Demirel outlined the effects on overcome any threats to its territorial
Turkey of the embargo imposed on Iraq unity and it will take any action, includfollowing
its August 1990 invasion of ing military, to defend the lives of inno-
Kuwait. cent civilians targeted by terrorists," he
''The continuing embargo on Iraq has said. . .
placed a burden on Turkey's shoulders He defended the March operation in
for more than three years and has led to which Turkey sent 35,000 troops poureconomic
losses costing $20 .billion, in ing over the border into Iraq against the .
addition to the social and political PKK.. "This operation rooted out more .
.cost" . . than 500 terronsts and destroyed all their
Current trade between Turkey and . camps. The PKK is now unable to make
Saudi Arabia is worth "around $2 bil. hit-and-run attacks into Turkish territory .
lion," he said. "And we believe there is' from there," he said.
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Snake plague ratt1es Iraqi Kurds
as five die from venomous bites
By Tolle Aram ing in hervineyaro last week when she was
Agence Fr(J(lce Presse bitten bya one metre(yard)-long snake ..
SUI;A Y¥ANIY ~- A 'plague.of snakes "S~e fainted, but didn't take. the bi.te too
has rattled Kurds hVIDgID northern Iraq senously. She even walked a" few kilomewith
doctors reporting at least five deathS ters (miles). . . .
. and dozens admitted to hospital suffering "Mter we fmally managed to put her in a'
from 'venomousbites. car she diedon the way to Sulaymaniyah,"
The töunuyside around S,ulaymaniyahis her son-in-law Akram' Mahmud Nesrullah
swarming With snakes which have flour- told AFP in Jaffaran, a village 80 kilQmeished
amid a mild winter in the quiet ruins ters (50 miles) southwest of here.' . .'
of hundreds of villages destroyed by Iraqi . Villagèrs blamethe weather as wèll as
forces and abandoned. by Kurdish rest- the forces of President Saddam Hussein for
dents. .' . the plague of poisonous reptiles. ''This year
"We have never before had to treat so we have had a mild winter, and no frost.
many cases of snake-bites as this year. For The snakes were able to survive, said Kamil
some weeks now, 10 people of.all ages, all Ahmad from the remote village of Astei, .
of them villagers, have been admitted dailyabout 60 kilometers (36 miles) southwest of
to hospital," Hemin Pired, a surgeon told SulaJmaniyah.. . .
AFP at thetown's largest hospital. . . "Afterwards we had unusually heavy
Three women, a boy and a girl died in six rains and the grass grew very hi~. A per.
days, he said. "I'm sure there are more . fect hiding place for snakes," ne added ..
cases we don't know about. People from "Pesticides would be the best remedy
some of the remotevillages can't come to' against snakes, but there is none to be found
the hospital because they don't have cars. on the market" .... . .
Even we don't have serum. We only have Residents of even more remote villages
blood, antibiotics and hydrocortisan (an have thoughtaboul leaving their h