Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRÊSS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RMSTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
''Even without this oath, is it not a duty for everyone who<br />
is eating the bread, drinking the water and breathing the air<br />
of this country (to protect it)? I am calling on everyone to do<br />
their duty," Demirel said.<br />
In the interview, Demirel focused chiefly on Western<br />
attempts to impose a political solution, and saId that as they<br />
did WIththe Sevres, the Western states now seemed to want<br />
"east of the river Euphrates" for a Kurdish homeland.<br />
He pointed at the unrestricted activities of the ERNK (the<br />
PKK's pliticalwing) across Europe, the N<strong>et</strong>herlands' permission<br />
for a Kurdish "parliament-m-exile", the British-su~<br />
plied license and the French-provi<strong>de</strong>d channel for a Kurdish<br />
TV as the evi<strong>de</strong>ncé of the European sUPlX?rto the PKK.<br />
These, Demirel said, were tireaches of Western commitments<br />
as the members of the Euro~ Union, as members<br />
of NATO and other <strong>de</strong>mocratic <strong>Institut</strong>ions, "to support<br />
those fightingwith terrorism and not the terrorists themselves."<br />
"There is no need for us to feel ~ilty. On the matter of<br />
terrorism we are totally right," he saId.<br />
Demirel said Turkey and Europe nee<strong>de</strong>d each other, but it<br />
should not be forgotten that "reserving a seat for Turkey<br />
among European nations cannot be tied to conditions that<br />
create insurmountable problems Turkey has to cope with."<br />
He warned that, "the Turkish people had a <strong>de</strong>veloped<br />
common sense and while normally soft-spoken and easygoing,<br />
theJ could become very tough if certain limits were<br />
excee<strong>de</strong>d. Demirel asked for un<strong>de</strong>rstanding from Turkey's<br />
European friends about the difficulties it has encountered in<br />
its <strong>de</strong>mocratic experience, and said Turkey still had some<br />
distance to cover to perfect its <strong>de</strong>mocracy.<br />
For that, he said the "nation's pulse should be taken"<br />
whenever there is a need for imJX>rtant<strong>de</strong>cisions.<br />
Secondly, he called for the direct popular election of presi<strong>de</strong>nts.<br />
He said presi<strong>de</strong>nts should also be able"to schedule new<br />
elections - by dissolving the parliament.<br />
The state should be subjected to thorough-going reform<br />
and there should be more frequent recourse to the institution<br />
of referendum, Demirel said.<br />
Imprisoned Kurd<br />
lashes out at his<br />
British jailers<br />
Turldsh Daily N~s<br />
ANKARA- Kani YIlmaz, a spokesman<br />
for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'<br />
Party (PKK) in <strong>de</strong>tention and standing<br />
trial in London, has accused Britain of<br />
imprisoning him to gain favor with<br />
Tuitey. .<br />
"The <strong>de</strong>cision of the Home Office ...<br />
suppo~ the powers in Turkey' who are<br />
~<strong>et</strong>ermmed to turn our country mto a livmg<br />
hell on earth," Yùmaz said in a statement<br />
released by the Brussels-based<br />
Kurdistan Committee on Saturday.<br />
''The treatment that I have been subjected<br />
to can only be construed as a move<br />
~ainst"the. Kurdish people's stf!Iggle for<br />
liberty, SaId YIlmai, who, onhiS way to<br />
me<strong>et</strong> British parliamentarians, was<br />
<strong>de</strong>tained last October and charged with<br />
illegal entry.<br />
yIlmaz, who is also bein~ sought by<br />
Germany, dismissed Bonn s move to<br />
have hini extradited as an attempt to placate<br />
Turkey and said there was no evi<strong>de</strong>nce<br />
l.i.nkfughim to the alleged actions<br />
of ~onspiracy to commit arson of which<br />
he ISaccused.<br />
Yllmaz, who has refugee status in<br />
Germany, had entered Britain four times<br />
~viously.<br />
Deportation proceedings were" halted<br />
when Germany requested his extradition.<br />
Although the PKK is banned in<br />
Germany, It is not banned in Britain.<br />
US <strong>de</strong>legation to visit Ankara<br />
'Turkey and Arme~ia are two<br />
neighbors who will have to<br />
live in the same region. We<br />
hope that they will open their<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>rs to each other and<br />
normalize relations.'<br />
Turkish Daily N~s<br />
ANKARA- A hi~h-Ievel <strong>de</strong>legation from the<br />
United States will arrive in Turkey at the end of the<br />
month to take up a number of issues including the<br />
future of an allied force stationed in Turkey,<br />
according to a rep()rt on Sunday by the Anatoha<br />
news agency from Washington.<br />
The agency reported that the <strong>de</strong>legation would<br />
be hea<strong>de</strong>d by Mark Parris, Near East Adviser to the<br />
National Security Council. Members of the State<br />
Department will also be in the <strong>de</strong>legation. The visit<br />
taICes placefollowing a suggestion by Prime<br />
Minister, Tansu Çil1er, to US Presi<strong>de</strong>nt, Bill<br />
Clinton, that the shape of Operation Poised<br />
Hammer - the popular name for an allied coalition<br />
force based In Turkey to maintain the no-fly<br />
zone over northern Iraq - must be changed.<br />
Although Washington has said they would assess<br />
any proposaI from Turkey, diplomatic sources say<br />
Ankara has ma4e no concr<strong>et</strong>e proposal y<strong>et</strong>. The<br />
extension of the mandate of the foree - reviewed<br />
every six months" - has to be approved by the<br />
Turkish Parliament at the end of June.<br />
Extending the mandate poses a problem each<br />
time because many Turks believe that the foree is<br />
instrumental in <strong>de</strong> facto partitioning of Iraq and<br />
establishing a Kurdish region in the north.<br />
Moreover, the stationing of the outlawed Kurdistan<br />
Workers' Party (PKK) mNorthern Iraq also makes<br />
Turks distrust the foree.<br />
In a related <strong>de</strong>velopment, an unnamed US<br />
source, quoted by Anatolia, said that Washington<br />
hoped Turkey would also allow the use of its terrilOry<br />
for transfer of aid to Armenia. Reversing a<br />
two-year blocka<strong>de</strong>, Ankara has just opened its airspace<br />
to planes to and from Armema, making it<br />
pos~ible for aid via air to this country, which is<br />
Involved in conflict with Azerbaijan over the<br />
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. .<br />
"Turkey and Armenia are two neighbors, who<br />
will have to live in the same region. We hope that<br />
they will open their bor<strong>de</strong>rs to each other and normze<br />
relations," the source said.<br />
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