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putYChainnan Kemal Birget claimed to the
TON on Friday that the vinage guards attacked
the BayJ{an township and destroyed
three official vehicles of the Baykan,Municipality
along with four shops. Quotmg Baykan's
SHP mayor, Birget claimed the attack
was in retaliation to the PKK raid.
In a separate development, a spokesman
for the Kurdish-based Democracy Party
(DEP) condemned the PKK attacks and said
they were against any activity which shed
blood.
Remzi Kartal, the spokesman for DEP deputies,
said with regard to the killing of Gen.
Aydm that they were very sorry about the incident
and were concerned over this action.
Emergency security summit in Ankara
• Ç/ller convenes National
Security Council without
President Demirel
Turlcish Daily News
ANKARA- An emergency summit
was held in Ankara on Frida~ to consider
the worsening security sItuation in
Southeastern Turliey.
Prime Minister Tansu çil\er chaired
the meetinB, during which recent developments,
mcluding the ban by the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK)
on the media and JlOlitical activities in
the Southeast were iliscitssed
Measures aimed at maintaining ~urity
in the region were also said to have
been taken up.
The meetmg was held as work was
underway for a security summit called
by Parliamentary Speaker Hüsainett.in
Cindoruk for October 25 to be attended
by the leaders of the pOlitical parties in
Parliament. ,
Çiller had announced during her visit
to the United States that she would be
holding a meeting on security as soon as
she returned to Turkey.
Çiller convened the security summit
approximately three hours after she returned
to Ankara around noon Friday,
and before visiting President Süleyman
Demirel.
Observers point out that the parti cipanlSat
the security summit.were the same
as the participants who attend meetings
of the National Security Council
(MGK).The only one absent at Friday'
summit was President Suleyman who
chairs MGK meetings.
The MGK meeting planned for October
29, has been brought forwards to
October 25, considering the worsening
Security situation in southeast Turkey.
The following officials attended Fridays
security summit: Foreign Minister
Hikmet çetm, Defense Minister Nevzat
Ayaz, Interior Minister Mehmet Guioglu,
Chief of Gene'll Sf&IT-;."" .•""'I.I 00-
~an Güre" Land ~'or.:cs (;oDlhiander
General Ismail HakkJ KaradaYI, Naval
Forces Commander Admital Vural Be-
YUlt, Air Forces Commander General
Halis Burhan, Gendarmerie Forces
Commander GeneraI Aydm l1ter, National
Security Counci1.Secretary GeneraI
Dogan BeY!!llt, Emergency Rule Region
Governor Unal Erkan, National Intelligence
Organization (Mm Chief Sönmez
Köksal, the Prime Minister's Milit~
Advisor Major GeneraI Edip B~r,
Chief of Police Mehmet Agar and Ministers
of State Necmettln Cevheri,
Mehmet Gölhan, Thrahim Tez and Bekir
Sami Daçe.
The meeting was continuing a.~TON
went 10 print.
Political parties to resist
PKK ban in Southeast
TDN Parliament Bureau
ANKARA- Political parties in Parliament
on Friday denounced a recently imposed
separatist ban on their activiltes in
the Southeast and said they would not give
in to terrorist demands. In interviews
with the TDN, party leaders said they would
in no way Yieldto a decision issued by
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) to halt their political activities in
the troubled region as of this Sunday.
Speaking on behalf of PKK leader Abdulfah
Öcalan, European representative
Kani Ytlmaz told the TDN Thursday that
the ban would be implemented at the cost
of "punishing" those who violated it. The
PKK's .armed force ARGK announced this
week that it would place all Kurdish politicians
from "bourgeois parties" among
their "nationalliberation targets" if they
did not resign by an Oct. 24 deadline.
"They will then have to meet the consequences,"
a written statement declared.
Evaluating the PKK threat, party leaders
said it would be a mistake even to
consider yielding to the ban. Aydm Güven
Gürkan, parliamentary group chainnan of
the junior coalition partner Social Democrat
Peoples' Party (SHP), said, "Our joint
duty is not to bend in front of threats of
violence and terror." Referring to the.ban,
True Path Party (DYP) group Deputy
Chainnan ~evzat Ercan said he was ~prepared
to die for the country" and pointed
out.that it was the duty of every citizen ~o
restst these threats..
''''Bandits always threaten," Ercan said.
"But the shape of the threat is different
this time. It was threatening human lives
from day one but has now Imposed a deadline
of Oct. 24. All political parties and
organiz.ationsmust work together onthis."
DYP Deputy Chainnan Yas~r Topçu criticized
suggestions to seek a poliltcal solution
to the problem and said there was no way to
overco~e the crisis politically.
OffiCiaIs from Turkey's main opposition Motherland
p.ar:ty(ANAf) argued, meanwhile, that despite their decISIon
to resist tlie PKK threat, they did not believe in
the ~eed fo.t,rnartiallaw. Acting Parliamentary Group
Chamnan Eyüp A~tk told the TDN that localadministrations
in the Southeast had to be strengthened ahd" called
for the establishment of an "Interior Security Undersecretariat.
"
. ANAP's deputy chairman in charge of party organizatlO~S,Rü~tü
Kazlm Yücelen, said that all party organiz~tlOns
were open, and they were not considering c10-
slOgdown any branch.
Reyublican Peoples' Party (CHP) Secretary General
Ertugrul Günay séildthey would not listen to the threats
either, but noted that parties should travel more frequently
to that ~egion. Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
Deputy Chalnnan Rlza Müftüoglu said, on the other
hand, that the PKK's threat to parties coming after the
ban on ~e press was "a very serious incident." Müftüoglu
said. that although theY.did not think the parties
would abide by the ban, making the threat was important
and the state should "do what it needs to do" in the
shortest possible time.
Th~ strongest reaction came on Friday from the pro-
IslamiC Welfare Party (RP) with Secretary General
qgu~an Asiltürk saymg they would "make the aQmimstratlon
p~y for each drop of blood" if there was an attack
on their part¥ or. pohtic~an~. "The a9minis!ration
has the duty to méilntamsecunty m the region. If It cannot
do this, this is a shame."
Asiltürk also said that if the government fails to secure
the region, it should resign. .
Democracy Party (DEP) deputies, whose party was
not b~ne9' said that ,all parties had to evaluate their
own SituatIOnand deCide what to do. They said that a
possibl~ reason for them being exempt from the ban
was therr special emphasis on the Kurdish issue.
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