Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA<br />
STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
Villagers seek news<br />
.of missing relatives<br />
By Sinan Yùrnaz<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Relati~es of people alleg~dly kidnapped<br />
by thesecunty forces are continuing to<br />
engage in various activitles around the country aimed<br />
at trying to secure news of those who have gone<br />
missmg without a trace.<br />
One group, who traveled to Ankara from the<br />
provincial capital of DiyarbaIar, held a press conference<br />
on Wednesday and produced a list of the names<br />
of 20 people who they ~aid had gone missing.<br />
Indicatlng that they were villagers eVIcted from.therr<br />
homes during operations carried ou.t by sec~rity<br />
forces a¥ainsttlie outlawed separatist Kurdistan<br />
Workers Party (PKK), the group, ma<strong>de</strong> up of old<br />
men and women in tradition dress, plea<strong>de</strong>d for help to<br />
obtain news of their immediate relatives.<br />
The group, villagers of Kurdish origin, held their<br />
press conference at the office of the Human Rights<br />
Âssociation and had to speak throuclt an interpr<strong>et</strong>er<br />
because they knew no Turkish. Tney alleged that<br />
their children had been roun<strong>de</strong>d up and taken away<br />
by the security forces some time ago, adding that that<br />
was the last they ever heard of!hem.<br />
The vilIa2erSsaid th<strong>et</strong> warited to know where their<br />
children were being he d if they were still alive, or ...<br />
where they had been buried if they were <strong>de</strong>ad.<br />
Tne group said the security forces had rai<strong>de</strong>d their<br />
village of Toreli, attached to DiyarbaIar's Lice district,<br />
on May 18 and had assembled everyone in the<br />
village square..<br />
They alleged that the soldiers then burned down<br />
the village. One of the villagers, ~akir Yolur, said the<br />
soldiers had taken away his son Seyithan Yolur and<br />
two other people, adding that no news had been heard<br />
. from any of these people since. Another villager,<br />
Abdurrezak tI'ek, said his two sons had been taken<br />
away in a similar fashion, adding that ifhis sons are<br />
guilty. of anything they should be punished appropriately<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rthe law and if not they should be<br />
r<strong>et</strong>urned.<br />
Harnze Çiçek, another villager, said security forces<br />
.had arrested her son Tahsin (,:içek and released him<br />
later only to come back and arrest him again. She<br />
said that along with her son they had also taken her<br />
grandchild Cayan Çiçek, who was blind. Another vil-<br />
.. lager, Arife 'rekdag, who alleged one of her sons had<br />
fallen victim to a mystery killing, said when she<br />
inquired about the fate of her other son who was<br />
taken away, the security forces repeatedly told her<br />
that he had join~d ~~ PIq(. Sec~ty forces ~.nyth~t<br />
.there are extrajudicial kidnappmgs and killIngs ID<br />
Turkey and say that villagers often allege that their<br />
children, who have joined the PKK, have been kidnapped<br />
by the Turkish security forces. .<br />
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Irak-Kur<strong>de</strong>s<br />
Bombar<strong>de</strong>ments irakiens au Kurdistan, selon l,'opposition<br />
NICOSIE, 29 juin (AFP) - L'armée irakienne a bombardé à l'artillerie.<br />
lour<strong>de</strong> jeudi la région est du Kurdistan, dans le nord <strong>de</strong> l'Irak, tuant un<br />
civil <strong>et</strong> en blessant onze, selon une <strong>de</strong>s principales formations <strong>de</strong><br />
l'opposition. .<br />
"Le pilonnage a commencé vers 6h30 (04h30 à <strong>Paris</strong>) prenant notamment<br />
pour cible le'centre <strong>de</strong>s transports publics <strong>de</strong> Chemchemal", une <strong>de</strong>s gran<strong>de</strong>s<br />
villes du Kurdistan, à l'ouest <strong>de</strong> Souleimaniye, a précisé un communiqué <strong>de</strong><br />
l'Union patriotique du Kurdistan (UPK <strong>de</strong> Jalal Talabani), reçu à Nicosie.<br />
"Ces atrocités font partie <strong>de</strong> la campagne <strong>de</strong> terreur <strong>et</strong> ,d'intimidation<br />
contre le peuple kur<strong>de</strong>",ajoute le texte, appelant la communauté<br />
internationale "à empêcher le gouvernement irakien <strong>de</strong> persister dans son<br />
mépris <strong>de</strong>s droits élémentaires <strong>de</strong> l'Homme <strong>et</strong> <strong>de</strong>s conventions<br />
internationales".<br />
Le Kurdistan irakien est dirigé par l'UPK <strong>et</strong> son rival, le parti<br />
démocratique du Kurdistan (PDK, <strong>de</strong> Massoud Barzani), <strong>de</strong>puis qu'il échappe<br />
au contrôle <strong>de</strong> Bagdad à la suite <strong>de</strong> l'insurrection kur<strong>de</strong> à l'issue <strong>de</strong> la<br />
guerre du Golfe (janvier-février 1991)~<br />
Bagdad a appelé à maintes reprises l'UPK <strong>et</strong> le PDK au dialogue, mais les<br />
<strong>de</strong>ux formations ont fait la sour<strong>de</strong> oreille jusqu'ici.<br />
Des affrontements sporadiques entre UPK <strong>et</strong> PDK ont fait <strong>de</strong>puis un an <strong>de</strong>s<br />
centaines <strong>de</strong> morts.<br />
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AFP /J00245/291634 JUN 95<br />
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