Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETi
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rism. Pointing ~ut ~at the. P~~ had been
effective In ItS bid to IntImldat~ the
press in the southeast, Yllmaz said he
had heard that TV channels may also be
prevented from broadcasting from the
region. . h'd
Criticising the government e sa!
those who acted as mere spectat~rs In
the face of such events, were tryIng to
assure the public now that the upcoming
local elections could be held inthe southeast
just as it would be all over Turkey.
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He said that guarantees glv~n y t .e
prime minister while she was In Amenca,
and the assurances .by. the interior
minister while he was vIsitIng Iran carried
no importance whatsoever for hi!?
or his colleagues. Yllmaz added that hiS
party was ready to give full support to
the government in order for local elections
In five months time to be held in an
atmosphere of security.
The parliamentary group of the Republican
People's Party (CHP) also convened
on Tuesday. CHP Chairman Deniz
Baykal, who addressed his colleagues
dunng the group meeting, said that
recent events in DiyarbakIr clearly showed
the situation which Turkey was facing
vis a vis terrorism. He sll.ld no one
could talk about the existence of "national
integrity" if laws could not be implemented
in a part of the country.
Referring to the PKK's threat~ to th.e
press in the southeast, Baykal said w~-
Ie Turkish paper could be found In
Australia, Britain and Germany, they
cannot be found in the southeast. He
criticized the government for failing to
protect the journalists there and added
that his party had prepared a censure
motion regarding the recent developments
in DiyarbakIr.
Quest for a national
consensus government
Meanwhile, the controversy regarding
the need to establish a government
of national consensus in the face of the
mounting crisis in the southeast, continued
to be part of the debate in Parliament
on Tuesday. Late presid~!lt Tur&ut
Özal's brother Yusuf Bozkurt Ozal, woo
is in the process of organizing his party
known as the New Party, argue~ that
Parliament Speaker HüsamettIn CIndoruk
should assume the task of securing
'a national consensus among various political
parties. Siirt Deputy for the pro-
Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP), Zübeyir
Aydar, said, however, that such demands
would amount to calling for a
military coup. In a letters to he addressed
to ANAP dep.!lties Sadi Pehlivanoglu
and Hüseyin Ozalp, who first advocated
the idea of a government of national
consensus, Aydar warned that the
quest for such a government would leave
Turkey facing internal conflict and
division.
Çiller: Right to live is the
number one human right
• Calls for enhanced economic
partnership and opening
of Iraqi pipeline
By U~urAkme.
Turkish Daily News
WASHINGTON, D.C.- During her last day in
Washington, D.C., Prime Minister Tansu Çiller repeated
the themes of "enhanced partnership between
Turkey and the U.S." and "negation of double standards
in world politics" during an honorary degree
ceremony at Georgetown University and the luncheon
following at the National Press Club. .
During the speeches she gav~ on both. occasl~ns,
Çiller emphaSIZed the necessity of withstandIng
aggression allover the world, regardless of the identity
or religion of the victims. By specifically mentioning
the world's de~lorable -Passivity in Bosnia and
Azerbaijan, Çiller SlI.ldthat attempts to change the national
oorders by force should hé resisted ana stopped
by ~JY means necessary. ... ..- ..
In this context she said that the new danger awaiting
the "new world order, or the new wond disorder,"
was not posed by the antagonism between
"communism and capitalism" but by this new type of
fierce nationalism.
During her National Press Club address, Çiller asked
"How many more states can we 'afford in the
wor'ld today')" and drew attention to the painful
results of the application of the Wilsonian
principle of "self-determination." With respect
to the PKK problem, Çiller declared that
the Turkish state would never allow another.
state to exist in its current territory. "Nor would
the United States," she added.
As she did during her previous public addresses
in Washington, Çlller.emphas!z~d the
importance of cooperation WIth RUSSiaIn the
Caucasus to mediate regional c~:mflicts. She
said it would be wrong for RUSSia,or for that
matter Turkey, to act alone in the region, and
that it would not be right even for Turkey
and Russia to act as ~o-betweens unless the
cooperation of all regional countries was provided.
Debate on
martiallaw
intensifies
• Turkish military says
responsibility lies with civilian
authority, urges civilians ta use
powers to the fullest in
Emergency Rule region
Within this context, Çiller said that the traditional
alliance between Turkey and the
U.S., which has provided stability Iß the region
for decades, must move forward from an
exclusively military platform to an "enhanced
partnership" that covers economic relations
as well.
Çiller raised the topic of the damage caused
to the Turkish economy by the Iraqi oil
embargo and mentioned that the resulting poverty
in the area was one of the reasons that
PKK terrorism has escalated to its present level.
"It doesn't look like the oil embargo hurt
Saddam Hussein, though," she added.
Fre'luently referring to Turkey's sensitivity
to the Issue of human rights, Çlller said that
Turkey even has a mechanism at the mini steriallevel
to "watch over individual cases of
human rights violations. .
When you are fighting terrorism, such individual
abuses do happen. But we are serious
about acting as watchdogs of human
rights violations. Now the state watches over
the state," she said.
Answering a question at the National Press
Club concerning the prospects of Turkey's
recognizing such cultural freedoms as TV
broadcasts Iß Kurdish or Kurdish curriculum
in schools, Çiller replied that within the current
environment of escalated terrorism, the
priority is on protecting lives.
She said that during ber recent visits to the
Southeast, people repeatedly asked her first
to protect their lives. Only after terrorism
stops can such freedoms be enjoyed, she said.
On the issue of Cyprus, Çiller said that
Turkey definitely wants a solution to the crisis;
for this reason Ankara has asked the Turkish
Cypriot leadership to determine a definite
date for an election and to hold it as soon
as possible.
Once the election takes place, the two
communities can sit down and reach an agreement
between themselves, she said.
Turkish
Daily News
ANKARA- Amid intensifying debate over
the P-Ossibleimposition of martial law in the face
of growing terrorist activit~ in the Southe~~,
the hi~hest government officiais deny conditIons
eXIStfor its declaration.
"To us, conditions necessitating martiallaw
do not exist," Interior Minister Mehmet Gazio~lu
said Tuesday. "Unfortunately, debate over
martial law has always been imtiated before
parliamentary VOle on the extension of the
emergency rule [in the Southeast]."
Meanwhile, in an interview with the daily
Hürriyet published Tuesday, President Süleyman
Demirel disclosed "no demand" by secu-
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