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

Besidèthe miiitary meims, the KDP
,sources have been calling for the restoration
of the political dialogue between the two ,
.countries toL~eÏf former levels, noting ,that
"it has been two years, since an Iraqi
Kurdish leader (MassoudBarzani) arrived
'in Turkey and was received by Demirel in
Istanbul.
, The sudden responsiveness of the
Turkish officials to the Iraqi Kurdish calls;
for haste in cooperation followed a spate of
PKK attacks.
As the Turkish security forces concentrated
their summer offensive in the rugged
eastern province of Tunceli against the elusive
PKK militants, the consecutive rebel
attacks against army posts on the Iranian
and Iraqi borders showed that the PKK still
had some punch, and more importantly,
seemed to be wresting back the initiative m
their ll-year-old separatist war which
claimed about 16,000 lives so far.' '
The soberingattacks came on JU,ne 16
when strong ~ebel units attacked the Erenler
army post on the Iranianborder where they
killed five soldiers and wounded six others,
and the Ortaklar gendarme'post on the Iraqi
'border near the Iraqi post where they killeâ
two non-commissioned officers 13 soldiers.
'The rebels lost 16 of their numbers iil the
two attacks.
, The suspicions immediately turned to the
PKK rebels getting entrenched in Iran'
alongside the border. ' ,
A visit to the a~cked post on the Iranian
border by Presidellt,Süleymim Demirel an4"
his publicly-aired anger at the preseIfce of.
:PKK separatists in Iran broughta profusion
of denials from Tehran officials. Alaeddin
Brucerdi, the deputy Jranian foreign minis-;
,ter on T~sday h~ded D~mirel a messag~
from Iranian PreSident Ali Akbar Hashemt
Rafsanjani in which he reportedly discount-
'ed any official tolerance of the PKK presence
in Iran. In the message; sent in re~lyto
the one Demirel sent to RlifsanjaIll last
week, the Irani'an president, also reportedly
oppose