Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
Hussein SlnJarl: Iraqi Kl,Irds' S<strong>et</strong>tlement<br />
with Baghdad will helprecluce th.<br />
PKK and fun<strong>de</strong>manm".<br />
thraat for Turk<br />
.-<br />
Ayvaz Gôk<strong>de</strong>mir<br />
divi<strong>de</strong>d."<br />
Then, he ad<strong>de</strong>d for a finishing touch: "I dp<br />
not know wh<strong>et</strong>her they are proStitutesor not I<br />
am not keeping track of who is ... playing<br />
around with whom in the European circles."<br />
Finally, when he consented to an apology,<br />
his written statement was no more than hillhearted.<br />
"I have learned with regr<strong>et</strong> that some of the<br />
newspaper accounts of the remarks I have<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> in response to a citizen's question in<br />
Kilis have created some touchiness," he said.<br />
"If it will make up for their taking offense due<br />
to this misun<strong>de</strong>rstanding, I apologIZe."<br />
Speaking to Milliy<strong>et</strong> earlier, the minister<br />
maintained that he did not know if they were<br />
prostitutes, but he did not think the term was an<br />
msult.<br />
The apology, such as it was, satisfied<br />
Pauline Green, the lea<strong>de</strong>r of the Euro-parliament<br />
Socialists, and Catherine Laluffilere of<br />
European Radical Alliance. However, German<br />
Green Oaudia Roth told Yeni Yuzyil that SÀe<br />
would sue the minister. Female members of the<br />
Republican People's Party (CHP), the junior<br />
coalition partner of the Gök<strong>de</strong>mir's True Path,<br />
also launcbed their own protest.<br />
"His remarks has not only offen<strong>de</strong>d us, the<br />
women of CHP, but all Turkish women,': a<br />
,statementsaid. "Gök<strong>de</strong>mir should apologize to<br />
tile three female <strong>de</strong>puties and respectfully<br />
salute those intelligent and mo<strong>de</strong>m <strong>de</strong>puties<br />
who are the pri<strong>de</strong> of Europe." Not every one.,is<br />
an~ about the remarks. A journalist from. a<br />
pnvate TV channel reported that scores of<br />
faxes in support of Gök<strong>de</strong>mir's remarks were<br />
transmitted to their officts in Ankara and<br />
Istànbul.<br />
'There is no reason for me to resign, and the<br />
prime minister has not asked me for that," said<br />
G~k<strong>de</strong>mir, who leaves today for Kazakhstan<br />
WIthPresi<strong>de</strong>nt Süleyman Demirel.<br />
Kurdish politician:<br />
It is not the West's, but<br />
Iraq's interests are supreme<br />
Disillusioned Kurd urges<br />
s<strong>et</strong>tlement with Baghdad<br />
Challenge: Iraqi Kurds now<br />
want peace with Saddam;<br />
anyone thinking otherwise<br />
is 'welcome to conduct a poll'<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA-The Iraqi Kurds are fed up with<br />
their warring lea<strong>de</strong>rs, are disillusioned with their<br />
<strong>de</strong>mocratic experiment and are overwhelmingly<br />
longing for a s<strong>et</strong>tlement with. Baghdad tliat<br />
wotild ensure them "a b<strong>et</strong>ter life instead of slo-<br />
Former Kurdish Minister<br />
Hussein Sinjarl<br />
gäns," a former senior Iraqi Kurdish politician said. .<br />
Hussein Sinjari, a one-time minister in the regional Kurdish<br />
government' and a founding member of Jalal Talabani's<br />
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who resigned in January<br />
in protest at Kurdish infighting, sai~ the p~sent situation ~as<br />
causing people to look for alternative parues and lea<strong>de</strong>rship.<br />
"If we are not careful, this willlead to the rise of national<br />
extremism 'a la PKK' or religious extremism "a la Islamic<br />
fundamentalism.' We should not forg<strong>et</strong> that Islamic Iran is<br />
.n~xt dopr," Sinjari said.<br />
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