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Turk~hDairy News
OSCEdelegation meets emergency
rule governor in DiyarbakIr
Erkan: Since 1984, a total of 4,025 people, including 452
women and 450 children T
have been killed in massacres
by the PKK. and 4,471 civilians have been injured
TDNParli~ment 'Bureau . He noted that 1,154 terrorists had turned
ANKARA- A delegation from the themseIves in to the security forces. He said
Organization of Security and Cooperat.io~ in nearly 3,000 people from the security forces
Europe (OS CE) on Thursday vls.\ted had been killed durin~ the clashes.
Emergency Ru.1e ~egi.onal Governor Unal In reply to a questIOn, Erkan saiJ ~hat.no
Erkan .at hIS offIce III DIyarbakIr. one in Turkey had ever been put on tnal Just
The delegation, which arrived in Turkey because of their Kurdish origin.
last Monday, is paying a one-week visit on He stressed that terrorism was being used
the invitation of Parliament Speaker as a tool by the PKK to divide Turkey.
Hüsamettin Cindoruk. He said while thePKK argued thatit repre-
During his meeting with the OSCE deleg~- sented the Kurds, it had in fact killed 5,000
tion led by Willy WImmer, the deputy presl- people of Kurdishorigin. Erkan continued
dent of the OSÇE Parlia.mentafl~ns' that the people did not support the terr~rist
Assembly, Er~an saId Tur~ey IS determ!ned organization whi,ch he noted ~mtaI.n~d
to fight terrons.m and that It would contIllueSyrian, Iraqi, Iraman and ArmenIln ongm
the struggle untIl the problem was solved. militants.
He bnefed the delegation about the activi- He recalled that the PKK had camps in
ties of the ou.tlawed K~rdistan Workers' Syria, that it took shelter in Iran andin nort~-
Party (PKK) In the regIOn and the battle ern Iraq, that it had opened bueaus In .
against that organization. Greece, that it had founded a so-caled "par-
Erkan said that since 1984, a total of 4025 liament-in-exile" in the Netherlandsand that
. people, including 45~ women and 459. chil- it extorted money from people in Gemany.
dren, had been killed III massacres earned out Erkan said mere statements mad by the
by the PKK and 4471 civilians had been West were not sufficient and that snctions
injured. There was documented proof that should be applied against Syria for llowing
these attacks w~re the.work o~th~ PKK. the PKK to set up camps and tht arms
.Erkan continued that wlthlllthe past sources should be cut off.
decade, a total of 8,512 separatist terrorists He added that in order to prevenUe PKK
had been killed in the clashes between the to make use of the power vacuum in lorthern
• sec.urity forces a~~ the PKK and that 194 ter- Iraq, Iraq's territorial integrity sbuld be
. ronsts had been IllJured and 1787 arrested. respected.
FRIDA Y, MA Y 5, 1995
HADEP officials charged
and formallyarrested
Turkish DailY News
ANKARA- Leading offi- .
cials from the pro-Kurdisb
People' s Democracy Party
(HADEP) who were detained a
week ago have been formally
charged and placed under
arrest, sources from the party
told the Turkish Daily News
on Thursday.
Among those charged are.
HADEP Dep\!ty Chairmen'
~ehabettin Ozarslan and
Hikmet Fidan, Assistant
Secretary-General Seyhmuz
Cagro and a member of the
party's Ankara provincial
administrative board, Ferhat
Türk.
The charges brought by the
State Security Court were not
immediately apparent but the
lawyers of the HADEP officials
were barred from entering
the courtroom under the
Law on Combatting
Terrorism. .
Observers say this gives an.
indication of what the HADEP
officials have been charged
with.
HADEP's precursor, the
Democracy Party (DEP), was
closed by the constitutional
court last year and its deputies
were charged and convicted to
harsh prison sentences on the
grounds that they had links
with the outlawed Kurdistan
Wôrkers' Party (PKK).
The DEP case has been
made the litmus test for
democratization. by the.
European Parliament,which
has announced its intention.
not to ratify a customs. union
accord Turkey cOlicluded with
the European Union in March
until the DEP deputies are
released. The charging of the
HADEP officials is expected
to further complicate Turkey's'
ties with Europe.
This development comes at
atime when the Parliamentary
. Assembly of the Council 9f
Europe has recommended a
suspension of Turkey's membership
u!lless significant
movement is made inthe
direction of democratization
- with particular reference to .
the Kurdish' problem - by
June.
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