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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
ve)'ed are against the presence of Provide Comfort in the
region, while 30.49 approve.
Similar TON surve)'s in the past few years also showed
both the people and the p~liamentarian~ oppose Provide
Comfort. .Turkey' s secunty co~cems l!l nort.hem Iraq
increased ID the past year when nval Iraqi Kurdish groups
started fighting broody battles among themselves, thus creating
a power vacuum in the region.
The forces of Kurdish Democracy Party leader Massoud
Banani and Patriotic Union of KurdIstan boss Jalal Talabani
could not control tpe movements of the separatist Kurdish
terrorists of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) which uses
northern Iraq as a base for its attacks against targets in
Turkey.
In March Turkey sent more than 35,000 troops into northern
Iraq to flush out the PKK. The troops were withdrawn in
May. However, Turkey and the Western powers have failed
to end the fighting between Barzani and Talabani. and thus
bring some stability in the region.
The survey also seemed to strengthen the hands of those
who want closer ties between Ankara and Baghdad as 66.22
percent of the respondents feit Saddam Hussein is no threat to
Turkey. Most of the respondents who answered the survey
also made some interesting comments which showed sympa.
thy for Iraq and some antagonism towards the West. Here are
some interesting quoteS:
• "I would have liked the international community to control
northern Iraq but after seeing the performance of the
international force in Bosnia I realized this was impossible.
For this. reason I say whoeve~ has the sovereign ri~t to rule
in northern IraQ should control the area."
• "Isn't northern Iraq the territory of Irag?' And aren't we
saying we support Ir~'s territorial integrity?'
• ''What liappened ID northern Iraq as Saddam ruled in the
area for so many years? Could SaddaIn secure stability in the
area? So I feel Turkey has to control northern Iraq."
• "Iraq should control northern Iraq but then Baghdad
should give us guarantees that the PKK will not fmd sbelter
in the area." .
• "The region should never be left to the control of Iraqi
Kurds. We feel neither Talabani nor Barzani are dependable. '
• ''Provide Comfort should leave the area because it supports
Kurdish separatists."
• "The Provide Comfort force should leaveas soon as stability
is achieved in northern Iraq."
• "Does the presence of the Provide Comfort force have
any benefits forTurkey? We do not feel it does. As a matter
of fact, while protecting the Iraqi Kurds it is also protecting
the PKK."
• ''We lived with Saddam for so many years. He wasn't a
threat then, so why should he be a threat to us now?"
• "Can Saddam become a threat to Turkey while he has to
strug¥.le with his own problems at home?" .
• 'You can't trustSaddam. He attacked Iran; he attacked
Kuwait so why shouldn't he attack Turkey?"
• "Saddam will sooner or later become a threat to Turkey
and he will raise the water issue."
• "If the coalition forces had not cut Saddam to size in the
Gulf War he may have been a threat to Turkey. But now he
isn't."
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Allemagne-Kurd.es
Fln du moratoire des expulsions de Kurdes dans neuf Etats fédérés
d'Allemagne
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BONN, 12 juin (AFP) - Le moratoire sur les expulsions de Kurdes de
l'Allemagne vers la Turquie a pris fin lundi dans neuf Etats fédérés
allemands sur seize, une prolongation des suspensions n'étant plus possible
légalement, a annoncé l'association de défense de demandeurs d'asyle Pro
Asyl.
Selon Pro Asyl, quelque 4.500 Kurdes sont désormais menacés d'être
expulsés du Brandebourg, de Brême, de Hambourg, de Basse-Saxe, de
Rhénanie~Palatinat, de Sarre, de Saxe-Anhalt, du Schleswig-Holstein et de
Thuringe, des Etats ~édérés gouvernés par l'opposition sociale-démocrate
qui avaient décidé de leur propre chef de prolonger le moratoire levé le 15
mars par le gouvernement de Bonn.
Le moratoire avait été adopté en décembre après que huit députés turcs
d'origine
Ankara •.
kurde eurent été condamnés à de lourdes peines de prison à
Pro Asyl a condamné la fin de ce moratoire en affirmant qu'il s'agit
"d'une déclaration de banqueroute morale et la politique des droits de
l'ho~e de Bonn" •.Selo~ l'associa~ion, la levée de l'arrêt des expulsions
est ~llégale la s~tuat~on des dro~ts de l'homme ne s'étant pas améliorée en
Turquie.
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