Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETÎ<br />
Turkish Probe October 5, 1993<br />
Ruman Bights Diary<br />
Mehm<strong>et</strong> Balamir, a distributor of the pro-Kurdish<br />
daily Özgür Gün<strong>de</strong>m,is attacked by two as y<strong>et</strong> uni<strong>de</strong>ntified<br />
men in the southeastern province of<br />
Diyarbakir. He is severely beaten.<br />
(Özgür Gün<strong>de</strong>m, Sept. 27)<br />
Turkey's Human Rights Association (IHD) is seeking<br />
to launch a symbolic trial against five former generals<br />
who staged a coup in 1980 and ousted the<br />
country's <strong>de</strong>mocratically elected government and<br />
parliament. IHD chairman Akm Birdal says they plan<br />
to hold the first hearing by the end of 1993 and have<br />
established contact with variousinternational bodies<br />
such as the <strong>Paris</strong> and New York bar associations as<br />
well as Helsinki Watch.<br />
(Newspapers, Sept. 28)<br />
Abdullah Öcalan, lea<strong>de</strong>r of the outlawed Kurdistan<br />
Workers' Party (PKK) says they will strike at Western<br />
interests, tourists and economic targ<strong>et</strong>s across Turkey<br />
in r<strong>et</strong>aliation for Ankara's crackdown against their<br />
struggle for autonomy. Öcalan says the violent campaign<br />
he plans to launch could kill up to 50 people a<br />
day. His guerrillas, he says, will launch "attacks<br />
against Turkish forces, tourists, economic targ<strong>et</strong>s<br />
and Western interests in Turkey. We will not be responsible<br />
if 50 people die in such attacks in one<br />
day."<br />
(Newspapers, Sept. 29)<br />
Motherland P,arty (ANAP) lea<strong>de</strong>r Mesut Yllmaz<br />
says that following the recent terrorist attack on<br />
Dogubeyazlt, tanks fired indiscriminately. During the<br />
inci<strong>de</strong>nt, ANAP Agrl Deputy (a former health minister)<br />
Ya~ar ErYllmaz's house in Dogubeyazlt was<br />
crushed by tanks. "We will raise this issue in Parliament,"<br />
Yllmaz says, adding, "Eryilmaz's father, the<br />
occupant of the house; is a person adamantly opposed<br />
-- maybe more adamantly than the state -- to<br />
the PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party). Y<strong>et</strong> his<br />
house too hasbeen <strong>de</strong>stroyed. We must protect the<br />
people caught b<strong>et</strong>ween the two si<strong>de</strong>s in this fight."<br />
(Newspapers, Sept. 30)<br />
A group of Turkish <strong>de</strong>puties p<strong>et</strong>ition the Grand National<br />
Assemblyfor a parliamentary investigation to<br />
be launched into the Sept. 4 assassination of Kurdish<br />
MP Mehm<strong>et</strong> Sincar in the province of Batman. The<br />
appeal calls on Parliament to act in a <strong>de</strong>cisive way<br />
for those behind Sincar's killing to be caught and<br />
brought before the law.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 1)<br />
Police <strong>de</strong>tain 15 people suspected of involvement<br />
in the mur<strong>de</strong>r of a Kurdish member of parliament. A<br />
statement from the emergency rule regional governor's<br />
office in Diyarbakir says the 15 <strong>de</strong>tained in the<br />
southeastern town of Batman had taken part in the<br />
September 4 mur<strong>de</strong>rs of Mehm<strong>et</strong> Sincar, an MP for<br />
the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP).<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 1)<br />
The PKK raids the Be~konak village, in Batman<br />
province, killing seven people, two of them children.<br />
An in<strong>de</strong>finite curfew is imposed in the town of Hizan<br />
on Wednesday night after PKK militants fire on soldiers,<br />
killing a soldier and a civilian. Many buildings<br />
were damaged and six vehicles are s<strong>et</strong> on fire during<br />
the clash. Two school teachers are killed and<br />
five woun<strong>de</strong>d in a PKK attack on a teachers' club<br />
building in Birecik, in $anhurfa province. Uni<strong>de</strong>ntified<br />
gunmen shoot <strong>de</strong>ad a university stu<strong>de</strong>nt in<br />
Diyarbakir.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct 1)<br />
In r<strong>et</strong>aliation for an informal ban by local security<br />
forces on the sales of pro-Kurdish publications in<br />
southeastern Turkey, the PKK bans kiosks and distributors<br />
in Diyarbakir from selling any Istanbulbased<br />
newspapers.<br />
(Turkish Daily News, Oct. 1)<br />
A German state government on Friday urges the<br />
release of a translator for a German human rights<br />
group who has been <strong>de</strong>tained by military authorities<br />
, in Turkey. Nilüfer Koç, who was travelling in Southeast<br />
Turkey with a group based in the German state<br />
of Lower Saxony, disappeared on Tuesday, a lawyer<br />
for the group, Thorsten Rueckold, told Reuters.<br />
She was being held by military authorities in $Irnak.<br />
Koç, a Turkish citizen who grew up in Germany,<br />
travelled with a <strong>de</strong>legation to interview journalists,<br />
tra<strong>de</strong> unionists and human rights workers.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 1)<br />
Kurdish militants s<strong>et</strong> fire to a house in the village<br />
of Altlava in Mu~' Hasköy township, killing nine villagers<br />
including seven children. In another <strong>de</strong>velopment,<br />
Kurdish militants kill a civilian and wound nine<br />
others in a roadblock in Kahramanmara~' Elbistan<br />
village. Meanwhile, two more people are gunned<br />
down by uni<strong>de</strong>ntified assailants in southeastern refinery<br />
province of Batman.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 2)<br />
Turkish audiences flock to ,the first showing in the<br />
country of Kurdish director Yllmaz Güney's film<br />
"Yol", banned for 12 years. "Yol" (Road) shared the<br />
prestigious Gol<strong>de</strong>n Palm award at the 1982 Cannes<br />
film festival with Costa Gavras' film "Missing" but<br />
was banned in Turkey and copies of it were burned<br />
for its alleged Marxist and Kurdish separatist content.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 2)<br />
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