Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRODE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZET;<br />
points in a writien statement. Interior Minister<br />
Mehm<strong>et</strong> Gazioglu first said he was killed<br />
in Lice, by a PKK sniper using a special type<br />
of rifle. It was reported that he was killed<br />
with a single bull<strong>et</strong>. Later, following Ciller's<br />
summit, the information was revised, tnat the<br />
general was killed during a clash with the<br />
terrorists in Kulp while supervising his troops.<br />
At one point, he was announced as havmg<br />
been killed on the Lice-Kulp road. The<br />
Chief of Staff statement conclu<strong>de</strong>d that' Gen.<br />
Aydin was martyred around Il :20 am while.<br />
in the military headquarters in Lice, by terrorists<br />
opening fire from houses. Presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
leyman Demirel, during the weekend,<br />
Sü-<br />
said<br />
the peneraI was killed by "an acci<strong>de</strong>ntal bull<strong>et</strong>,'<br />
which seemed to imply what the PKK<br />
later said.<br />
According to PKK Military Council comma1.1<strong>de</strong>rCemil<br />
BaYlk who issueda statement<br />
to Ozgür Gün<strong>de</strong>m on Sunday, the PKK had<br />
nothi~g to do with the, killin8' "The general<br />
was kined by ~he state, , he saldbluntly. .<br />
(iller enters this week as Turkey's major<br />
. power circles are divi<strong>de</strong>d on what to do to<br />
solve the terrorism crisis which has engulfed<br />
the whole of the country. Sources report this'<br />
division exists in all quarters, including Par-<br />
Iianlenl.<br />
A group of hard-line <strong>de</strong>puties<br />
ment are now said to be seeking<br />
in Parlia-<br />
a "national<br />
consensus government" allegedly to avoid a<br />
pro-American military coup which aims at<br />
creatin& an autonomous<br />
hin TurKey.<br />
Kurdish region wit-<br />
This move alone reflects that at least one<br />
gro.upof <strong>de</strong>puties h.ave come to the pointof<br />
losmg confi<strong>de</strong>nce m the country's. security<br />
forces. W~ile ~ot ~aying so openly they appear<br />
to be Imphcatmg some comman<strong>de</strong>rs in a<br />
West~m plot -- som<strong>et</strong>hing that to the same<br />
meamng as treason.<br />
Meanwhile, there are reports that another<br />
"comf!Ûttee" is being established, along with<br />
18 r<strong>et</strong>Ired officers and officers still in service,<br />
to seek a peaceful solution to the issue.<br />
~umors in Parliame~t have it thatthis body<br />
alms even at contactmg the PKK lea<strong>de</strong>rship<br />
for this cause. .<br />
The most important contradiction though<br />
is in (iller's appeal for national consensus<br />
and her relations with the Presi<strong>de</strong>nt. Demirel<br />
has opposed many of the recent steps taken<br />
by (iller for a peaceful solution, including<br />
<strong>de</strong>bating the so-called Basque mo<strong>de</strong>l for Turkey.<br />
Her appeals for national consensus, on the<br />
other h~nd, se~~ now t~ be an effort to gather<br />
major pohtIcal partIes and the Turkish<br />
peo~le around a new military strategy. When<br />
seeking sucha consensus, the Prime Minister<br />
has given no indication that she will seek the<br />
view~ of the main party in the contlict: the<br />
KurdIsh people. Thus, efforts appear to be aimed<br />
at instituting a rougher pohcy in the region<br />
but with the full un<strong>de</strong>rstanding and support<br />
of the people and national press.<br />
Turkey, whIch is~eali~g wIth. its age-old.<br />
KurdIsh problem whIle stlIJ refusmg to realize<br />
sucha problem exists, is entering now a<br />
new stage in its struggle. Po~er circles are<br />
divi<strong>de</strong>d on v,:hat to do. An~ara sti.Ulacks any'<br />
concr<strong>et</strong>e pohcy. The dommant vIew is for a<br />
.full-scale military campai~n to end terrorism.<br />
According to Demirel, "tnere is no Kurdish<br />
issue. The issue is one of terrorism." And<br />
Çiller still believes thatrestoring Kurdish<br />
fIghts "is only giving them the hand after<br />
which they will <strong>de</strong>mand the whole arm."<br />
Meanwhile, the PKK is fighting for control<br />
and entering its own new stage in the<br />
battle. In the words of the PKK's European;<br />
representative Kani y'I1maz, (who is also<br />
PKK lea<strong>de</strong>r Abdullah Ocalan's political advisor)<br />
"~hat is happening now is a question of<br />
authonty." .<br />
"We are showing who the real authority<br />
is" Yilmaz said last week.<br />
Hürriy<strong>et</strong> columnist Rauf Tamer wrote on<br />
Sunday: "Journalism is finished inthe SOlit-<br />
. heast. Politics is banned in the Southeast.<br />
. The shutters are closed. There is no tra<strong>de</strong>.<br />
Television antennas are being pulled down<br />
from the roofs, Goodby to teleVIsion. Education<br />
has en<strong>de</strong>d. Mayors offices are closed.<br />
Justice is un<strong>de</strong>r threat. Property is un<strong>de</strong>r fire .<br />
The state is on vacation." This week, the sta~<br />
te is expected to <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong> on what it can really<br />
do and this alone will show to all, how far<br />
the crisis has gone. What is evi<strong>de</strong>nt for now<br />
isthe dominance of the PKK which until recently<br />
was only "a handful of bandits" for<br />
Ankara officials. The PKK has, for the time<br />
being, led to a cabin<strong>et</strong> reshuffle. Many as~<br />
. what it willlead to in the future and how safe<br />
the future of Turkish <strong>de</strong>mocracy remains to<br />
be ...<br />
Southeastern Anatolia Project:<br />
lurkey on its way to regenerate cradle of civilization<br />
• GAP has already started<br />
yielding economic r<strong>et</strong>urns<br />
even at this stage, much<br />
earlier than the estimated<br />
compl<strong>et</strong>ion date of the.<br />
year2005<br />
• 'The true r<strong>et</strong>urns of the<br />
projects will be obtained<br />
when, after its compl<strong>et</strong>ion,<br />
regional <strong>de</strong>velopment gaps<br />
in Turkey will have<br />
diminished substantially and<br />
therefore the reasons for<br />
certain social prablems will<br />
have been eliminated, ' says<br />
Dr. Olcay Ünver, presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
of the GAP Regional .<br />
Development Administration<br />
By Burak Bekdil<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKA~A- In the difficult times of growing<br />
separatist terror in the region and<br />
extremely tough financial constraints on the<br />
118<br />
state budg<strong>et</strong>, Ankarais' silently proceedIng<br />
with one of the world's largest <strong>de</strong>velopment<br />
projects, the Southeastern Anatolia Project<br />
(GAP), on which public spending worth TL<br />
I billion (approximately $75 million) is.<br />
bein~ ma<strong>de</strong> every hour. Described as one of<br />
the' Seven Won<strong>de</strong>rs of the World" by the<br />
American quarterly journal "Infrastructure<br />
,Finance," tile GAP, with its 495 individual<br />
projects, represents a fully integrated <strong>de</strong>velopment<br />
projeCt with social, urban, infrastructural,<br />
irrigation, agricultural, industrial<br />
and environmental aspects. Recent criti-<br />
. cisms that the Southeast area, the least<br />
<strong>de</strong>veloped in Turkey, absorbs enormous<br />
government funding and thus creates<br />
regional unfairness are rejected by the<br />
authorities. "The feasibility of the entire<br />
project is so clear, economically as well as<br />
socIally. Allgovemments have fully committed<br />
themsely.es to <strong>de</strong>velop the region,"<br />
says Dr. Okay Unver, presi<strong>de</strong>nlof the GAP<br />
~egional. Development Administration. Dr.<br />
Unver told the Turkish Daily News in an<br />
exclusive interview thatthe project has<br />
started yielding economic r<strong>et</strong>urns even at<br />
this stage, mucb earlier than the estimated<br />
compl<strong>et</strong>IOn date of the year 2005.<br />
"The government has planned to invest<br />
TL. 8.4 trillion on the GAP this year. Four<br />
unIts of the total planned eight of the<br />
Atatürk Dam started electricity production '<br />
last year, and the output so far has reached<br />
more than 5 bil~ion kWh, which corresponds<br />
to an. ec