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At least 36 people killed in the Southeast
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- At least 36 people were killed in separate clashes
between the clandestine Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
militants and governmenttroops in the mainly Kurdish-populated
and troubled southeast Turkey, officials said on Thursday.
Nine soldiers.wer~ killed when !heir vehicle hit a.land
mine near the BallIca Village of Mardm's Savur township. In
the southeastern province of Hakkari's ç ukurca township, troops
confronted a group of PKK militants, killing nine terrorists.
Eight other PKK members were killed in a skirmish between
troops and militants in the Aktepe district of $Irnak's
Silopi township. Officials also said that some six militants
were gunned down in a clash near Altmoluk village of Mardin's
Dargeçit township, adding that three soldiers were also
killed in the incident. The PKK has been waging a violent
campaign for an independent Kurdish state since 1984.
More than 7,000 people in Turkey's southeast region have
been killed so far.
Ankara applies to Italy for
extradition of PKK spokesman
In another development, Ankara made an official application
to Italy through diplomatic channels, for the extradItion to
Turkey of high-ranking PKK member, Ali Sapan, the Anatolia
news agency reported on Thursday. '
Ali Sapan, spokesman for the Brussels-based National Liberation
Front of Kurdistan (ERNK), the so-called political
wing of the PKK, was arrested in Rome after he held a
press conference at the foreign press club in central Rome on
September 2.
The press conference concerned the demands being made
by the PKK before the release of seven Western tourists
whom PKK militants abducted in eastern Turkey last
month.
Sapan, 29, was being held on an international warrant issued
on April13, 191)3,by a COllrtin Adana, Turkey, on charges
of being a member of the terrorist organization.
DEP MP lashes out at
PM's 'discrimination'
• Aydar: We wish the Kurds
had the same rights as
Turks in Germany
• 'No one forces us to
shout I'm German,
decent and hardworking'
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Democracy Party
(DEP) Siirt Deputy ZübeYlr Aydar
lashed out at Prime Minister Tansu
ç iller last Thursday for. comparing
the rights of Turkish-citizen Kurds
residing in Turkey to the rights of
Turks lIving in Germany. The deputy
said that Turks living in Germany
enjoyed more rights than the Kurds
living here.
Çiller1s words on Kurds
disturb Foreign Ministry
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA-
Prime Minister Tansu
ç iller's words comparing the rights
given to Turks in Germany and
Kurds in Turkey have disturbed Turkish
Foreign Ministry circles, sources
said on Thursday.
Asking not to be named, high ranking
sources in the Foreign Ministry
told TON that it was a mistake for
ç iller to compare the rights of citizens
of a country with the rights of
foreign inhabitants of another.
In a wrilten statement, Aydar
referred to Çiller's recent remarks in
Germany in which she said Ankara
would be pleased to see the Turks living
there enjoying "at least part of
the rights we give to our Kurdish citizens."
ç iller's statement was the
first indication of a discrimination by.
the PM, elected last June as the first
female to hold that position. "She has
implied that the Kurds in Turkeyare
a minoritx," Aydar said. The Siirt deputy,
whIle respecting Ciller's efforts
to improve the rights o("people from
Turkey" in Germany, nevertheless
criticized her for "escaping from questions"
by making such a remark.
that ç iller's words may Iel\d to confusion
in Western circles about the
status of Kurds and other ethnic origin
citizens in Turkey.
Du.ring her visit to Germany on
Sept. 20-22, Çiller said that she wished
the Turks in GeI11Janywould ha-
"'I11atis contradictory to the government's
policy as well," a hIgh
ranking source said. "We underline
th.at Ku.rds in ~urkey like other citizens
WIth ethmc 'ongms other then
Turkish have all the same legal rights
turkish daily news
Friday, September 24, 1993
"Mrs. Ciller is evading the Kurdish problem," he said. "Those
from Turkey living in Germany have more rights than those in Turkey...
Compared to the situation of the Kurdish people here, people
from Turkey in Germany can freely express tfieir identity, speak
and freely broadcast in the Turkish lan$uage. They can teach in
Turkish and have the freedom of orgamzing and expressing their
political and religious beliefs. No one is forced to say, 'I am a German,
I am decent and hardworking.' No one is arrested for being a
Kurdffurk and no one is forced to become a vilJage guard," Aydar
said.
He pointed. out various human rights violations such as torture,
suppression of investigations and extrajudicial killings which, he
said, those from Turkey did not face in Germany.
Aydar also alluded to the fact that Germany was not the motherland
of the Turks whereas the Kurds were living in their own country,
wanting only to live freely.
as citizens of Turkish origin. But we
ask the German government to give
the right of dual citizenship to Turkish
cItizens living there".
Foreign Ministry officials believe
ve "one-tenth" ofthe.rights of the Kurds in Turkey.
Ministry officials also criticize ç ilJer for putting too much stress
on finishing off the "5,000 militants" of the secessionist Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) in the context of the strug$le against terrorism.
Officials believe this would be in conflict WIththe understandin~
of h~man rights in Europe, which is already sensitive about violatIOns
m Turkey. The statement reportedly caused satisfaction
among the Turkish community in Germany in which more than 1.8
million Turkish citizens live, nearly 400,000 of them being of Kurdish
origin.