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REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ~RIVISTA STAMPA~DENTRO DE LA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZET; Turkish Dairy News TUESDAY, MA Y 2. 1995 us: Iran supports terrorism in Turkey President Clinton will ban all trade with Iran Turkish Daily News WASHINGTON- President Bill Clinton is expected to sign an executive order this week to ban all trade with Iran, which is already on the State Department's list of seven nations which are declared "state sponsors of terrorism." All U.S. companies, including their overseas subsidiaries, will be banned from importing anything from Iran. The order also bans all U.S. exports to Iran except food and medicine. The ban will take effect 30-days after Clinton signs the executive order. Clinton's order is expected to eliminate about $3.5 billion dollars worth of Iranian oil purchased every year by U.S. ~ompanies: U.S. finns also refine 21 percent of Iran' s Oll producl1on. Sen. Alfonse D' Amato (Republican) has also proposed a similar trade embargo ort Iran, proposing to cut off trade relations with any foreign [mns that trade with Iran. Speaking at a State Department press briefing to explain the president's decision, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said "Iran's backing for international terrorism is pervasive. . It has supported. violence across the Middle East, in Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria and now in Gaza." In a speech he gave at the World Jewish Congress in .New York City on Sunday to 6,000 Holocaust survivors, Clinton said that "Iran has broadened its role as an inspiration to terrorists." Christopher added that "Iran is the primary patron of terrorists trying to derail the Arab-Israeli peace process." Among the terror organizations that receive "funds, training, and political support from Iran," Christopher cited ''Ramas., Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Ahinad Jibril's Popular Front." He said the U.S. was also worried that Iran would one day get nuclear weapons. "For years Iran has been trying to purchase heavy water research reactors that are best s~ii,ed to producing weapo~s-grade. plutonium. not ele
Çiller signals end to Turkey's N. Iraq drive Visit: KDP delegation in Ankara to discuss ways to prevent establishment of PKK bases in the future Turkish Daily News ANKARA- Prime Minister Tansu Çiller on Tuesday signalled an end to Turkey's military Workers' campai~p against Party (P1\K) taraets Kurdistan in northern Iraq, saying only a few thousand troops remained "Only in the reaion, three of our battalions (about 4,000 troops) are still there, and they will b~ pulled back as soon as they finish their job," Çiller told her True Path Party's parliamentary group. In another indication of an imminent end to the operation in northern Iraq, the MilitaryPress Center, set up in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on March 20 to brief the media' on the campaign, was closed on Tuesday'. Military spokesman Colonel Dogu SilahçlOglu toldthe last session at the Press Center that 555 PKK militants had been confmned killed in the northern others had been cau~ht. ' Iraq operation , and 13 He put the Army s death toll at 61, including four officers: 185 SilahçlOglu soldiers added., have been wounded In action, " Howeyer, i.n contra~t to offiCiaI figures, Çiller said ~~e had received mformatlOnthat as many as 1,3'00 PKK rrnlitants may have been killed in the clashes. ' Deputy Prime Minister Hikmet Çetinsaid on Tuesday that contrary to expectations by Western countries, no civilians were injured during the Turkish Army's operation in northern Iraq. "I congratulate the armed forces for the care they have showed on this issue," Çetin said at his coalition partner Republican People's Pany parliamentary group meeting. " ' Turkey's operation in northern Iraq started on Marcn 20 when 35,000 troops stormed into the region to fight the PKK. Çiller said Turkey would fumly mamtain its right to defend itself against separatist terrorism, adding incursions 'into northern Iraq could be repeated in the future if need~d. "The ()peration IS being successfully finalized with the objectives reached," she said, adding, "As a result the terrorists have totally lost their logistic support from the region." Çillèr said the PKK, waging a separatist war in southeastern Turkey since 1984, was defirutely a terrorist organization and that the world should unite in fighting terronsm. SilahçlOglu denied press allegations that the military operation in northern Iraq had cost billions of dollars, saying the total cost for the campaign was not more than TL 2.8 trillion ($65 million). " Several European countries have been harshly criticizing Turkey because of the operation. To soothe Western fears ' that Turkey would p'rolong Ankara has been saxm,g that its stay in. Ira9i ~er~itory, the operatIOn IS hrrnted.In scopeand duration. l;e.tan, stressi~g that although the Gulf War had come to an end stability has not yet been restored to the region, said no other country apart from Iraq has suffered more from the Gulf War than Turkey. He noted that Turkey has suffered an economic loss of $20 billion . .çetm said that .passage through th~ Hab~r border gate \~'Ith Iraq had been stopped temporanly dunng the operation., but that the gate was later reopened. He said f,000 vehicles could pass through the gate per day and that this would bring trade activity to the region. '. A statement .re!~ased on Tuesday by the General Staff listed large qu~tItJes of weapons and ammunition seized from the PKK m northern Iraq, including I 000 rifles 58 machine guns, 118 rocket launchers, 3,500 RPG-7 rockets and 5,800 anti-t.~ and anti-personnelllÛnes, ' The PKK mIlitants ,were armed with recoil-less auns anti-,ürcraft guns, anti-tank missiles and mortars as w~lI a~ so~histicated night-vision equipment. mine detectors and wrreless sets. "Ço~sidering t~~t these weapons would have been used to kill mn~ent CltlZe~s, thene~d for the operation and the benefits denved from It are obvIOUS;" the statement said. " KDP delegation in Ankara , A delegatIOn headed by Necirvan Barzani starts talks with Tu~kish officials today aimed at preventing the future ' r~~~tabhshment of terrorist bases in Northern Iraq. The VISit was planned during a meeting of Turkish officials' with K,urdistan Democratic . Banaru last month. Party (KDP) leader Massoud Necirvan Barzani, quoted by Agence France Presse said he would ask .Ankara to pay for mpit!a groups and the' . rec~n.structlon of northern In po.licmg the border region. Iraqi Villages if it wants help . .. With~ut ~ash help it will be !mpossible to guard the bor, der agamst mfùtratlon by Turkish Kurd separatists he said. "Nobody. can control the Turkish-Iraqi border area' 100 percent agaInst the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party)," Banaru, nephew of KDP leader Massoud Barzani. said . "If Turkey finances reconstruction of destroyed villages, rrnp~oves road access and finances small camps wecould depl~r cent. al.ong the border and c()ntrol the area up to 70 per- The KDP controls a swath~ of northwestern Iraq ~o~g the border, but Barzani acknowledged it would be. dlnlcult to convince Iraqi Kurd civilians living in the. . reglO!l to support Turkish interests after the lootIng and shelhng Steel." theyhad suffered during Ankara's . "Operation . "The Turks ma4e a,lot of mis~es; Instead ,of ~ulling the Kurds over to thelT Side they made them angry the KDP official said. . . . ' "But still, the peoplehere knowthat the reason for the shelling and lootingis ultimately the PKK." . . TheTurkish offensive, which thé army said it was windmg up Tuesday, was il big failure, Barzani added. The KDP had not been Informed either when Turkish or left northern Iraq, he said. ... troops entered: "I really don't understan~ what the Turkish operation; was ab~ut. Everybody. fought likethat.' understands . that guerrillas , can't . be He also said the KDP did not have much choice in helping Turkey fight fellow Kurds. . "We aren'~ p~sans any more. The time when we could cooperate With this. country and that country and change. relationships from one day to another has passed. "!'iowaday~ we need steady relationships with our neighbonng countnes, whether we want it or not" he added. 1'he v!sit by the KDP delegations follow~ increasing alle-' gallons m Turkey that Ankara wants to draw a new border "Yith Iraq by "taking geographical realities into consideration." Ankara argues that although there is no political dec!sion op this, such a change regIOn easier. would make control in, the 20
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