Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Sami Abdurrahman,<br />
the KOP <strong>de</strong>legation chief.<br />
IDN Ali Fuall1ay<br />
KDP: With 20,000 men<br />
we can keep bor<strong>de</strong>r safe<br />
Terms: Villages have to be rebuilt as<br />
logistic bases. We do not ask for recognition<br />
of the regional 'government, but we will<br />
s<strong>et</strong>tle for nothing less than fe<strong>de</strong>ration<br />
BYRa~it Gürdilek / Turkish Daily Ne'I'.'s<br />
ANKARA- The thief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)<br />
negotiators, who conferred with Turkish Foreign Ministry officials<br />
here last week, said :l "serious force" of up to 20,000 Kurdish fighters<br />
was nee<strong>de</strong>d to prevent the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) separatists<br />
r<strong>et</strong>urning to the bor<strong>de</strong>r after Turkey's just-conclu<strong>de</strong>d cross-bor<strong>de</strong>r<br />
operation. .<br />
In an exclusive interview with the Turkish Daily News, Sami<br />
Ankara drafts<br />
working plan<br />
for Europe<br />
Cooperation and Confronta~ori:<br />
Turkey will cooperate with European<br />
countries and institutions, but will<br />
confront its allies if its vital interests<br />
such as territorial integrity and<br />
security are threatened.<br />
Obligations of Turkey and Europe:<br />
Turkey must do what it can to<br />
<strong>de</strong>mocratize further, but Europe<br />
should also be careful to carry out<br />
its obligation to fight terrorism.<br />
By Nazlan Ertan<br />
Turkish Dai/v News<br />
ANKARA- After a two-day brain-storming<br />
session which en<strong>de</strong>d Saturday, key Turkish<br />
diplomats have built a working plan which<br />
inclu<strong>de</strong>s a "confrontation and cooperation"<br />
strategy toward its European allies.<br />
The "consultations" me<strong>et</strong>ing of the Foreign<br />
Minjs~ry took place against a background of<br />
<strong>de</strong>CISIOns by the Council of Europe and<br />
European Parliament which were unfavorahle<br />
to Turkey, the establishment of a Kurdish<br />
"parliament-in-exile" and efforts of ER...~ the<br />
political wing of Kurdistan Workers' Party<br />
(PKK), to extend its influence in various<br />
European countries; Ankara is worried that the<br />
European Parliament will not ratify the customs<br />
union, which is Turkey's main foreign<br />
policyobjective.<br />
"Turkey is at its most crucial lime ever in<br />
terms of its relations with Europe," a senior<br />
diplomatic source told the Turkish Daily<br />
News, adding that Ankara's aim was to obtain<br />
Abdurrahman, a close ai<strong>de</strong> of the<br />
KDP lea<strong>de</strong>r Massoud Barzani, also<br />
said that the rebuilding of the 350<br />
villages on the Turkish bor<strong>de</strong>r was a<br />
prerequisite<br />
artangernent.'<br />
for the bor<strong>de</strong>r security<br />
.<br />
He said the KDP bor<strong>de</strong>r force,<br />
with Turkey's financial assistance,<br />
would be capable militarily of keeping<br />
the separatists away from tlie<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r "because we don't want anybody<br />
to harm our fragile entity In<br />
northern Iraq."<br />
Although Turkey was hoping to<br />
draw the Patriotic Umon of<br />
Kurdistan (PUK), the KDP's chief<br />
rival and antagonist, into the security<br />
arrangement, Abdurrahman left no<br />
doubt that <strong>de</strong>spite the current truce<br />
b<strong>et</strong>ween the warring si<strong>de</strong>s, temperatures<br />
were still too high to allow a<br />
working cooperation.<br />
He accused the PUK lea<strong>de</strong>r of<br />
mocking the world, by calling for<br />
recognitIOn of the Kurdish regIonal<br />
government after <strong>de</strong>stroying it himself<br />
by occupying Erbil, the seat for<br />
that government. Abdurrahman also<br />
said that suagestions for the normalization<br />
of re1ations b<strong>et</strong>ween Baghdad<br />
and the Kurds had also been taken up<br />
in the talks with Turkish officials lea<br />
by Ambassador Gün Gür, who<br />
recently held talks in Baghdad with<br />
Iraqi officials, but he saId they did<br />
not think it was the riaht time for the<br />
implementation of UN. Resolution<br />
688 - calling Baghdad to address<br />
the grievances of all of its citizens<br />
(including the Iraqi Kurds).<br />
The KDP official said the Iraqi<br />
Kurds. if they ever sit down with<br />
Ba&hdad for negotiations, will not<br />
s<strong>et</strong>ue for anything less than a fe<strong>de</strong>ration<br />
and said "no one should feel nervous<br />
about that."<br />
the ratification of the customs union without<br />
<strong>de</strong>lay.<br />
"But It is clear that there are misun<strong>de</strong>rstandings<br />
among our Western allies reaardin*<br />
human rights and our fight against terr~rism. '<br />
U¥!e ~i1l cooperate with our European allies in<br />
bnngmg our system up to their standard, provi<strong>de</strong><br />
transparency about what they<br />
want to learn, but we will confront<br />
them when we feel our vital interests<br />
s~ch as our t.erri~orial integrity, secu~<br />
Tlty and umtanan state are being<br />
threa~ened," a diplomat said. The<br />
workmg plan, drafted during an<br />
around-tlie-c1ock me<strong>et</strong>ing on<br />
Saturday and as y<strong>et</strong> unfimshed,<br />
envisages a number of short, medium<br />
and long-tenn measures that will be<br />
submitted to the presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
government.<br />
and the<br />
For example, high-level diplomacy<br />
and f<strong>et</strong>ter-writing, combined with<br />
inviting key Euro-MPs to Turkey and<br />
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