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-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETi<br />
Human Bights Diary<br />
Turkish Probe October 12, 1993<br />
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• Thirty-one people are killed in southeast Turkey<br />
in two separate minibus attacks, blamed on the<br />
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A minibus<br />
travelling b<strong>et</strong>ween Kayalar and Kayallplnar villages in<br />
Mardin province hits a land mine. Twenty-six people,<br />
Including nine children and five women, are killed. In<br />
another <strong>de</strong>velopment, five civilians are killed in the<br />
Mutki district of Bitlis province )'t'hen their minibus<br />
comes un<strong>de</strong>r fire from PKK terrorists.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 4)<br />
• PKK militants attack a village and two haml<strong>et</strong>s in<br />
the Southeast, massacring 33 villagers and wounding<br />
25 others. There are eigl1t women and 10 children<br />
among the <strong>de</strong>ad, This series of PKK attacks is said to<br />
be in r<strong>et</strong>aliation for a Turkish military offensive over<br />
the weekend to wipe out guerrilla bases some five<br />
kilom<strong>et</strong>ers (3 miles) insi<strong>de</strong> northern Iraq:<br />
(NewIpapers, Oct. 5)<br />
• The Motherland Party (ANAP) repeats claims<br />
that tanks opened fire on a house owned by the<br />
father of a party <strong>de</strong>puty and says an official statement<br />
issued by the Prime Ministry on the issue is str<strong>et</strong>ching<br />
the truth. ANAP AQn Deputy Ya~ar Eryllmaz, whose<br />
house was attacked, says that his family has<br />
supported the state for years, and has given no<br />
support to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).<br />
Eryllmaz's announcement follows a statement by the<br />
Prime Ministry claiming that a tank fired two salvos on<br />
the house and a nearby building only after separatist<br />
militants, stationed insi<strong>de</strong>, opened fire on a military<br />
barracks.<br />
New8pBpers, Oct. 6)<br />
• Turkish military authorities release a stu<strong>de</strong>nt,<br />
working as a translator for a German human-rights<br />
group, who was <strong>de</strong>tained last week while travelling in<br />
southeastern Turkey. NiiOfer Koç, a Turkish citizen<br />
who grew up in the German city of Bremen,<br />
disappeared in the town of ~Irnak on September 28.<br />
The group's lawyer, Thorsten Rueckold, says Koç<br />
disappeared after receiving threats from the military,<br />
and adds that she turned up at a hotel in Diyarbakir<br />
province. The state governments of Bremen and<br />
Lower Saxony, along with parliamentary presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Rita Suessmuth, had urged Turkey to secure Koç's<br />
release. Lower Saxony State Justic~ Minister Heidi<br />
Alm-Merk said she feared Koç might be tortured.<br />
Turkish authorities give no reason for Koç's <strong>de</strong>tention.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 6)<br />
• The bodies of two teachers, one of them a<br />
woman, are found two days after they were seized by<br />
the PKK from Ovacik town in Tunceli province.<br />
Uni<strong>de</strong>ntified attackers shoot <strong>de</strong>ad two civilians in the<br />
town of Silvan in Diyarbakir province.<br />
(Newspapers, Oct. 7)<br />
• The Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD)<br />
says 729 southeastern villages have been emptied<br />
since Turkey's general election in October 1991.<br />
Villages that refuse to take guns from the state to<br />
fight the PKt