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REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKAÇAPÊ~RMSTA STAMPA~DENTRO DE LA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZET; Turkish Daily News FRIDA Y, JUNE 23, 199~ The cost olDEP closure was high The closure of the pro-Kurdish DemOcracyPm:tY(DEP) and the jailing of its members have all turned out to be grand mistakes committed by the Turkish govetnment, which is now trying to salvage somethingfrom theruins. . At the time, former Chief of Staff Gen. Dolan Gürel} had encouraged Prime Minister Tansu Ciller to throw the DEP deputies out of Parliament and silence the pro-Kurdish voicein the house. Ciller went out of h~r way to oblige Güre, and the Parliament voted at first to lift .the immunities ohome DEP deputies who were immediatelyjailed. ' Soon after, the Constitutional Court closed down the DEP and thus all the remaining deputies lost théir seats in Parliament. But just before the supreme court decision, other DEP deputies who realized they too could be jailed simply fled to' European countries where they are nowliving in exile.. Later the DEP deputies were convicted on charges of being part of a terrorist organiza~ tion, namely the Kurdistan Workèrs' Parly (PKK) .. What has happened since has amounted to an~phillstruggle for Turkey. . The six former DEP deputies' who are living in exile are d playing havoc with e Turkey's interests in the West. They itorial are appearing before various forums and fueling anti-TÜrkish sentiment. They were at the ...• ß.\ir, Western' European ~"i'1\t.~") ""'. ;...•. f " ., .Îi. ',;J"d" ( Union Assembly where Prime Minister Ciller made her address on Tuesday. They are active at the E u r o' pea n' Parliament and By lInur the Council of Europe. Çevik Instead of being regarded as terrorist collaborators they are 8:ccepted~ "victims of racism" and poOrpar- . hamen.tanans who have been denied their .basic rights ... This is the core reason why the Europeai1 Parliament has turned against us and is blocking our membership in the customs union. The plight of the DEP deputies has becomé a major obstacle in our relations with. pr8:cticallyevery parliament in Europe and lt will be very hard to undo this. rurkey faces'a dilemma in this area which it cannot solve. It cannot simply change its laws and free the DEP deputies because the Parliament will never accept such changes. Even üthis was done the government would ~ accuse~of "treason".by certain influential ëir1:lesand' itcannot;afford this at pres'ent. So we are left with the problem of having to brave the waves of criticism levelled at us from all quarters in Europe and also balance this with the ultra-conservatism that runs the country. The price paid for the DEP adventure has been too heavy... -------_._-----------------------_._-----_.~._---_._--"---- -....- ...-------- L'Humanité • 23 juin 1995 Grève en Thrquie P LUS. de. cinq cent mille fonctionnaires turcs ont observé un arrêt de travail. mercredi pour réclamer le droit de grève et la mise en place de négociations collectives. Les manifestants ont dansé dans les rues, de la capitale turque, provoquant de gigantesques embouteillages. Le jour même, l'Assemblée nationale avait rejeté un amendement constitutionnel prévoyant le droit pour les travailleurs de participer aux discussions salariales. La Constitution particulièrement réactionIlaire de 1982, imposée par les militaires après leur coup d'Etat de 1980, est consi~ rée comme un des obstacles à la démocratisation du pays. Sa réforme est réclamée par la population, mais aussi par les institutions européennes : l'Assembléede Strasbourg exige une modification complète des institutions turqueS, notamment dans le domaine des libertés et. des droits de l'homme, av~nt d'approuwr l'union douanière prévue pour janvier 1995 avec la Turquie. Le premier ministre turc, MoYTansu Ciller, avait promis que la' Constitution serait rapidement amendée. De toute évidence, M'" Ciller a du mal à tenir cette promesse qu'elle a pourtant renouvelée mardi à Paris lQrs de ses rencontres avec Alain Juppé et Jacques Chirac, en marge d'une réunion de l'UEo. Forte du soutien de Washington, qui fait pression en fawur d'une admission rapide de la Turquie dan~"Union européenne, elle a maintenu sa politique de force à l'égard des Kurdes et brandi la menace d'une victoire de l'intégrisme si les Européens ne se montraient pas assez compréhensifs. FRANÇOISE GERMAIN-ROBIN ~-----------_._--- ----------~------------------------------' 181
REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKAÇAPÊ~RNISTA STAMPA~DENTRO DE LA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZETi 18 Turkish Probe June 23,1995 Human Bights Diary IHO report: No Improvement In human rights In Turkey- April and May saw no improvement in the human rights situation in Turkey, according to a Human Rights Association (IHO) report released on June 40. Execution without trial, torture or time spent in custody resulted in the death of 20 people over the two-month period, according to the report. Also, there were 14 unsolved killings during April and May and 26 people went missing while in custody, the report says. The number of "criminals of thought" in prison is given as 157. The IHO document notes that "criminals of thought" were fined TL 6 billion and the total léngth of prison sentences of the 157 detainees is 66 years. The reports also indicates that 50 books and publications were confiscated in the period arid that 75 individuals from the media were taken into custody. The number of villages burned down and evacuated was 29, according to the report. Also, 20 police raids were organized on associations, 'unions, and publishing houses and 22 bomb attacks were carried out. The IHO's document claims that eight associations, foundations and publishing houses were closed do~n in the two-month period. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Akm Birdal, the chairmanof the IHO, said the association was under increased pressure. He also criticized the deportation of intemational human rights' association members from Turkey, refe~ring to Amnesty International's representative, Helmut Oberdiek, who had to leave the country on June 12. With respect to the debates on constitutional amendments, Birdal said the planned changes were not an ade. quate responseto Turkey's needs. "The 1982 Constitution should be changed as a whole. The planned changes would not be a step toward a rea! shake up of the legal structurenor would they be a step toward democratization," said Birdal. The IHD leader continued that while the debates on constitutional amendments continued, the authorities should be more sensitive to the civil servants and workers who staged a sit-in protest in Ankara to demand the right to collective bargaining negotiations and to strike. "The natural result of being a democratic and opeÄ society is thé establishment of democratic controls on the army and the bureaucraêy," added the chairman. (Turkish Daily News, June 21) Interster TV news :coordlnator taken Into custody- Ardan Zenturk, news coordinator of the Interstar TV channel, was taken into custody by police for questioning about a program on the attack against Professor Yuda Yürüm, an academic and leader of Ankara's small Jewistfcommunity, who 'was'slightly injured in a car bombing in Ankara on June 7, the Anatolia news agency reported on June 16. During the pr6gJ:8l11lsmet Calisir claimed responsibilityfor the attack and also confessed to having taken part in murdeqlild having caused bodily harm.,After the program six people, including Interstar announcer $eyda Açlkol and reporter Nafiz Akyüz, were taken ,into custody. (Turkish Daily News, June 17) Pollee officers on triai for 'murder- A criminal court in Istanbul's KadIkOy district has started to hear the case against 19 police officersch!irged with killing four people in a raid on a house. One of the dead was Sabahat Karatai, the wife of Our=sunKaratai wh9-""as the leaçler of the outlaw!3d Revolutionary Left (Dev-Sol), the Anatolia news age'1CYrèported oil ~U;,e 15. The court decided, for sec~rity reasons, to have a closed trial. Special sec,urity measures ~ave peen taken by Istanbul police a!lq ar~nd: ~OOsuspects have been taken into custody. These include OIÇay M~f81of,Özgür Gelecek magazine and Gülmisar Baiar of the New Democrat , Youth magazine, secuiity offiç.als Said. Sevè'nteÈln lawY~rs'from Germany, England, Greece and the ,~therlands were presen~ as obs~rvers. The press was banned from,the court. (Turkish Daily News, June 16) Helsinki Watch suspends activities In Turkey- The renowned human rights watchdog group Helsinki Watch has announced that it is süspending its activities in Turkey, the Analolta news agency reported on June '16. Anatolia cited a statement from Helsinki Watchissued by the Turkish Human Rights Foundation which . said that the decision was based on a long statement ~"ven to the press r~cently by Interior Minister Nahit Menteie when he receiveda':l official from the New Y rk-based organization in Ankara. The statement, quoted by Anatolia, reported remarks by Mente~e, hen he was receiving Helsinki Watch official . Christopher Panico. Mente~e reportedly announced that Helsinki Watcn supported Turkey's fight against separatist terrorism. Anatolia said these statements were the, reason the organization decided to suspend activities in Turkey. Mente~e had told reporters'just priQr to the mêeting that Panico had arrived in' An1
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