Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REvuE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
General StatT<br />
<strong>de</strong>clares N.lraq<br />
operation over<br />
Turkish Daily N~s<br />
ANKARA- Turkey has officially compl<strong>et</strong>ed<br />
its cross-bor<strong>de</strong>r operation against the seI>aratist<br />
Kurdish rebels in nortliern Iraq with<br />
the r<strong>et</strong>urn of the last of the 'troops which took<br />
part in the massive push, the Turkish General<br />
Staff announced onThursday.<br />
The announcement said the pullback had<br />
been compl<strong>et</strong>ed on Tuesday - seven weeks<br />
after the incursion - but the operations were<br />
being continued against the separatists insi<strong>de</strong><br />
Turkey. .<br />
On Wednesday, Defence Minister Mehm<strong>et</strong><br />
Gölhan also noted that the withdrawal had<br />
been compl<strong>et</strong>ed and "not one Turkish soldier<br />
remained in Iraq" although Deputy Prime<br />
Minister Hikm<strong>et</strong> Ç<strong>et</strong>in later said that some<br />
troops might be remaining.<br />
On March 20 Turkey sent 35,000 troops<br />
40 kilom<strong>et</strong>ers into Iraq over a 220-kilom<strong>et</strong>er<br />
str<strong>et</strong>ch of the bor<strong>de</strong>r to dislodge the<br />
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) separatists,<br />
from their mountain bases and hi<strong>de</strong>outs.<br />
The troops have killed at least 555 separatists<br />
and captured 13, military officials<br />
announced, putting Turkey's losses at 61 soldiers<br />
killed and 178 injured.<br />
The incursion evoked a strong reaction in<br />
the West but Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, on<br />
announcing a partial withdrawallast month,<br />
said Turkey would not hesitate to send the<br />
troops back into northern Iraq if the rebels<br />
attempted to r<strong>et</strong>urn to the bor<strong>de</strong>r area.<br />
To bar the separatists from again entrenching<br />
themselves on the bor<strong>de</strong>r, Turkey has<br />
started talks with two rival Iraqi Kurdish<br />
groups, Mas'soud Barzani's Kurdistan<br />
Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic<br />
Union of KurdIstan (PUK) led by lalal<br />
Talabani, to elicit their cooperation for the<br />
policing of the bor<strong>de</strong>r.<br />
'<br />
The announcement of the operation' send<br />
followed the conclusion of a second round of . ,<br />
talks b<strong>et</strong>ween the Turkish Foreign Ministry officials and<br />
a ranking KDP team of envoys on the terms of the projected<br />
security cooperation. .<br />
Sarni AbdUrrahrilan, the head of theKDP <strong>de</strong>legation,<br />
told the TON that he was encouraged after two days of<br />
negotiations but further talks were nee<strong>de</strong>d before the<br />
fmwzation of the' accord. A <strong>de</strong>legati~n from the P~~ is<br />
~~ted within the second half of this month for similar<br />
ERNK's European<br />
representative causes<br />
headache for Britain<br />
At trial, German prosecutor officially<br />
requests Kani Yllmaz's<br />
extradition<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Kani Yllmaz, the European representative<br />
of the ERNK - a cover organization of the outlawed<br />
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - who has been un<strong>de</strong>r<br />
arrest since Oct. 26, 1994, is causing a headache for<br />
Britain. The trial against Yllmaz began in a hall in<br />
Belmarsh Prison on Thursday. Germany, which holds<br />
Yllmaz responsible for various violent acts, officially<br />
requ7sted his extradition from Britain during the proceedmgs.<br />
According to a report by the Cologne-based ~urd-~<br />
News Agency,which operates as a PKK mouthpIece, It<br />
was the prosecutor from Germany who first took the<br />
floor dunng the six-hour hearing.<br />
He read out the 83-page German indictment against<br />
Yllmaz, and, ~ointing out that Yllmaz had been<br />
involved in vanous violent inci<strong>de</strong>nts in Germany, he<br />
asked for Yllmaz's extradition.<br />
After the indictment was read out, Nicholas Black,<br />
one of the three attorneys who <strong>de</strong>fen<strong>de</strong>d Yllmaz, spoke<br />
on behalf of his colleagues and said that the accusations<br />
against their client were baseless and therefore there<br />
was no need for Yllmaz's extradition to Germany.<br />
Attorney Brigitte Irving claimed that her client was<br />
known as the official representative of the Kurds in<br />
Europe and that he had ma<strong>de</strong> statements to the media as<br />
a Kurdish official. "Y Ilmaz is a political person.<br />
Accusations against him lack any grounds,"lrving said.<br />
German Attorney Eberhard Schulz, who was asked<br />
his opinion as an expert, claimed that the dossiers prepared<br />
by German prosecutors contained erroneous information<br />
and said Yllmaz should not be extradited to<br />
Germany.<br />
.'<br />
The case against Yllmaz. was adjourned until May Il<br />
for the hearing of other witnesses' testimony and for<br />
<strong>de</strong>fense ar$uments. Meanwhile, many Kurds staged<br />
<strong>de</strong>monstratIons in London and in front of British offices<br />
in Vienna, Hamburg, Bonn, Marseilles and Athens.<br />
Demonstrators rep,ortedly chanted slogans praising PKK<br />
lea<strong>de</strong>r Abdullah Ocalan and Kani Yllmaz and criticized<br />
the stance of Britain.<br />
SATURDAY. MAY 6. 1995 Turkish Daily News<br />
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