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