Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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KDP talks bor<strong>de</strong>r security<br />
with Turkey; PUl( to curb<br />
PKK with 'diplomacy'<br />
TDN with wire dispatches .<br />
ANKARA- A <strong>de</strong>legation of senior envoys from the<br />
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) clos<strong>et</strong>ed with Turkish<br />
Foreign Ministry officials here Thursday for the second day"<br />
running to discuss the terms of its cooperation to make thé<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r secure after Turkey winds up its cross-bor<strong>de</strong>r operation<br />
against the Turkish Kurdish rebels m northern Iraq.<br />
Meanwhile, a rival Iraqi Kurdish group, the Patriotic Union<br />
of Kurdistan (PUK), announced that It would not use arms but<br />
diplomacy to keep the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party<br />
(PKK) guerrillas from harassing.Turkey from Iraq, Agence<br />
France Presse said.<br />
After a third round of negotiations b<strong>et</strong>ween the KDP officials,<br />
a KDP source told tile TDN that although there had<br />
been consi<strong>de</strong>rable progress since a me<strong>et</strong>ing last month in<br />
Salahuddin, northern Iraq, the <strong>de</strong>tails of the projected cooperation<br />
had y<strong>et</strong> to be hamIllered out. The KDP team is heaâed<br />
by Sami Abdurrahman, a senior member of the party's politi-<br />
CID bureau, and inclu<strong>de</strong>s Nechirwan Barzani, die nep1tCwof<br />
party lea<strong>de</strong>r Massoud Barzani. Turkey has asked the KDP and<br />
PUK to bury their feud and cooperate to keep the PKK out of<br />
the bor<strong>de</strong>r area. The projected scheme involves patrollin,g of<br />
Turkish Dairy News<br />
FRIDAY,MAY5,1995<br />
me DOraerDyme Iraqi Kurdish ~hmergas (fighters).<br />
KDP negotiators have asked, in r<strong>et</strong>urn, cash support and<br />
Ankara's acquiescence to the rebuildin~ of 300-odd bor<strong>de</strong>r<br />
villages <strong>de</strong>stroyed by Saddarn Hussein s forces in the past.<br />
They also calion Ankara to recognize the regional government<br />
Iraqi Kurds have s<strong>et</strong> up in the north un<strong>de</strong>r Western millt!lIYprotection.<br />
Ankara has been avoiding any <strong>de</strong>alings with<br />
the- Iraqi Kurds in the past, fearingit would fuel the separatism<br />
of its own Kurds and hann its precarious ties with<br />
Baghdad. While the KDP apparently agreed to bor<strong>de</strong>r ~ls<br />
"not to please Turkey but beCause of its own responsibility' to<br />
make tlie bor<strong>de</strong>rs safe for neidlbors," PUK loo~ed averse to<br />
any armed confrontation with the PKK it might entail.<br />
PUK lea<strong>de</strong>r Jala! Talabani told AFP that "We don't view<br />
the PKK as terrorists, but as a political organization. We can't<br />
l'revent them from using our area for attacks insi<strong>de</strong> Turkey br.<br />
fildIting them, but by convincing them on a diplomatic level. '<br />
''We won't allow the PKK to use our PUK-controlled area for<br />
attacks against Turkey. We have always ma<strong>de</strong> that clear,"<br />
Talabani told AFP. But he urged '1'urkey to cooperate with,<br />
our regional government and to recognize It."<br />
. Ta!äbani's remarks caused an angry reaction in the Turkish.<br />
press which published selected Jlarts and said they bore out'<br />
Turkey's suspicions about the pux. lea<strong>de</strong>r seen in the past as<br />
secr<strong>et</strong>ly collaborating with the PlOC Talabani has ~lStently<br />
rejected the charges of plaYÏ!!ga double game arid the si<strong>de</strong>s<br />
broke ice last week when a Foreign Ministry <strong>de</strong>legation m<strong>et</strong><br />
with Talabani in Erbil.<br />
SATURDAY. MAY 6,1995<br />
Turkish Dairy News<br />
Turkish- US tra<strong>de</strong> cost Turkey<br />
$9.8 billion.over eight years<br />
Turkish<br />
Daily News<br />
WASHINGTON- B<strong>et</strong>ween 1987 and 1994<br />
Turkey imported goods from the United States<br />
worth $9.8 billion more than Turkish exports to<br />
the United States, according to the official figures<br />
published in "U.S. Global Tra<strong>de</strong> Outlook 1995-<br />
2000," a report issued by the U.S. Department of<br />
Commerce.<br />
Turkey, nominated by the United States last'<br />
year as one of the ten "Big Emer~ing Mark<strong>et</strong>s"<br />
(BEM), lost $1.2 billion in 1994 ID its bilateral<br />
tra<strong>de</strong> with the United States. China, another BEM,<br />
had a surplus of $106.2 billion in the 1987-1994<br />
period in its tra<strong>de</strong> with the United States.<br />
The following BEM countries exported more to<br />
the United States than they imported in 1994:<br />
Brazil, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and South<br />
Korea.<br />
Turkey was ranked 32nd in the list of importers<br />
of U.S. goods b<strong>et</strong>ween 1988-94. In 1994 alone,<br />
Turkey Imported$2.75 billion worth of U.S.<br />
goods. .<br />
The top importer was Canada, with $114.4 bil~<br />
lion worth of goods in 1994, followed by Japan,<br />
Mexico, Britain, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan,<br />
France, N<strong>et</strong>herlands and Singapore in the top ten.<br />
Turkey ranked 43rd in the world in terms of<br />
exports to the United States b<strong>et</strong>ween 1988-94.<br />
Turkey exported $1.6 billion worth of goods to the<br />
United States in 1994.<br />
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