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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE. LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi Turkish Probe October 19, 1993 Human Rights Diary I) • Social Democrat People's Party (SHP) Hakkari deputy Esat Cenan claims on a public affairs TV program that Turkish troops are burning down and evacuating Kurdish villages in the Southeast. Cenan, also a member of Parliament's investigative commission on the Southeast, tells the 32.Gün (32nd Day) program that the situation in the region is desperate and most village raids are in fact conductedby security forces. (32nd Day, Oct. 11) • Separatist'Kurdish terrorists ambush a bus carrying discharged soldiers in 'Bingôl province, Idlling five and wounding 23 others. (Newspapers, Oct. 12) • Democracy Party (DEP) $Irnak Deputy Mahmut Allnak distributes copies of aletter prepared by the office of the chief prosecutor of th!3 state security court (DGM), requesting that his parliamentary immunity be lifted so can be tried on penalty of capital punishment. At a press conference in Parliament, Allnak says the prosecutor wants to file a case against him for a speechhe made during the DEP convention. Allnak is charged with "spreading separatist propaganda threatening the integrity of the country and nation." (Newspapers, Oct. 13) • Government troops armed with heavy weapons and transported in armored personnel carriers have raided two villages in the southeastern province of Mus and set them aflame, pro-Kurdish DEP Deputy SIHI Saklk says, adding all of the villagers, including women and children, were forced into a nearby forest at gunpoint. (Turkish Daily News, Oct 13) • The villagers detained by troops on the previous day after their villages were torched have beenreleased, DEP Deputy SlrrlSaklk tells the TON. (Turkish Daily News, Oct. 14) • A high-school student is killed by a gunman in $anllurfa's Siverek district. The Erzurum police say a cab driver has been found dead in his car. , (Newspapers, Oct. 14) • Anlcelandic woman goes on a hunger strike to force Turkish authorities to allow her to see her two daughters, awarded to her ex-husband in a bitter custody wrangle. I am determined to see my girls, and I will apply to the Human Rights Commission in Strasbourg if I have to," Sophia Hansen, 34, on a three-day hunger strike, tells reporters. (Newspapers, Oct. 14) • A member of a Parliamentary investigative commission on the' Southeast says security forces in the region have in many incidents opened fire on settlements and are responsible for the recent death of three civilians. Algan HacaloQlu, Istanbul deputy of the Republican People's Party (CHP), says that their fact-finding mission to the region has revealed there is no local confidence in the state and the people are shifting their sùpport to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) out of fear. (Newspapers, Oct. 15) • The PKKsays it has kidnapped an American and a New Zealander in eastern Turkey, where at least 16 tourists have been abducted this year. The German-based Kurd-Ha news agency quotes a PKK statement as saying that PKK militants have seized the two men at a roadblock on the main road between the eastern cities of Erzincan and Erzurum on October 9. It says the American, named as Patrick Connor, and the New Zealander, identified as Ernis Dougar, are being held until,their governments officially contact the PKK. ' (Newspapers, Oct. 16) • Turkey's Christians, unnerved by PKK activity and government counter-activity, are reported to be abandoning their homes in the Southeast.Only 3,000 Christians still inhabit the southeast, home to most of the 250,000 who lived in Turkey just after World War One. They are drifting away, partly for economic reasons but also for fear of anti-Christian sentiment and the surging conflict. They say community members have been arrested and tortured by security forces battling the PKK. Some have been murdered; While hardly any Christians have joined the PKK, government charges that Armenians are fighting along with the organization have put all Christians under suspicion,' residents say. "Here, there is only the military in control, there are no freedoms or human rights. You can't be a Christian, you can't be a Kurd, you can only be a Turk." (Turkish Daily News, Oct. 16) • Main opposition Motherland Party (ANAP) leader Mesut Y,lmaz says that Turkey must use military force against neighboring countries that'support terrorism, if peaceful deterrent measures fail in the future. Yllmaz says "a rebellion" is what is happening in the Southeast, and the only measure against a rebellion is "for the state to use force against it." (Newspapers, Oct. 16) 152
REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi Turkish Probe October 26, 1993 The Week inPerspective • OCT. 18 The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) declares Southeast Turkey area off-limits to the foreign press as well, following Friday's warning to the local media to shut down their offices. • The Turkish commander of the U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia, Gen. Çevik Bir, says the announced withdrawal of U.S. troops will doom the whole relief operation. "The United States is running the show in logistic support, intelligence, communications and hardware. If they pull out, the operation will come to an end," he warns. • Iran has told Turkey that Kurdish separatist militants have no bases on its territory, the Iranian news agency IRNA reports. • Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, on an official visit to the U.S., says a U.N. embargo on Iraq is aggravating unrest in southeastern Turkey sparked by the PKK which seeks an independent state. She adds the U.N. embargo is hurting Turkey more than it is Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. OCT 19 Turkey and Iran have agreed to • cooperate on terrorism, border security and drug smuggling, says Interior Minister Mehmet GazioQlu. A 10-point security protocol is reported to have been signed between Iranian Interior Minister Ali Mohammad Basharati and GazioQlu at the end of GazioQlu's three-day visit to Tehran. • The offices of five big national dailies in southeastern Turkeyare shut after journalists heed a Kurdish rebel threat to stop reporting. OCT 20 Swedish Foreign Minister Baron- • ess Margaretha af Ugglas arrives in Ankara to pay the first high-level official visit from that country to Turkey by a foreign minsiter. • Alluding to the conflict and bloodshed in Georgia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry's acting spokesman Ferhat Ataman says Ankara hopes the combat- . ants will promptly start negotiating for a peaceful solution to the conflict. The Ankara State Security Court OCT. 21 (DGM) prosecutor charges five years for each of the 106 defendants of the controversial July 2 Sivas fundamentalist riots that left 37 people dead. • The PKK raids the Derince village of Siirt's Baykan town and massacres 22 civilians, including 15 children and seven women. • As a gesture of solidarity with journalists whose activities have been banned by the PKK, over 150 journalists representing 23 press organizations fly Thursday morning to Diyarbakir. • The PKK orders the closure of the Southeast offices of government and opposition parties. Politicians defying the ban are warned they will become targets. OCT 22 The PKK kills a general of the gen- • darmerie forces in the Southeast. Brigadier General Bahtiyar Aydm, commander of gendarmerie forces in DiyarbakIr area is shot to death by PKK sniper fire in Diyarbaklr's Lice town while conducting an operation against PKK militants attacking the town. Heavy fighting breaks out in the town after an attack by the PKK on military and public buildings. • Political parties in Parliament denounce the separatist ban on their activities in the Southeast and say they will not give in to terrorist demands. • A former American ocean liner considered an environmental hazard because of its asbestos insulation sails under tow Friday to be refurbished in Russia. The Bosporus is temporarily closed to maritime traffic as the SS United States is towed to the Black Sea on its way to Sevastopbl. OCT. 23 Soldiers conduct house-to-house searches Saturday and cordon off lice where a Kurdish uprising killed a general. ErdoQan $ahin, the governor of the provincial center of Diyarbakir, says a curfew went into effect at midnight and troops are in full control in Lice. OCT 24 Four ministers of the Tansu Çiller • Cabinet are reshuffled: Interior Minister Mehmet GazioQlu is appointed state minister. Education Minister Nahit Mente~e becomes Interior Minister. State Minister Mehmet Gôlhan is the new defense minister. Former defense Minister Nevzat Ayaz is appointed the new education minister. • labor unions, vocational organizations and associations issue a joint communique stressing that the ruling True Path Party (DYP) and the Social Democrat People's Party (SHP) have not fulfilled the pledges which they had made prior to the 1991 elections. • The body of Brigadier General Bahtiyar Aydm, is buried following funeral ceremonies held in front of the gendarmerie headquarters and Ankara's Kocatepe mosque. 153
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