Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKAÇAPÊ~RNISTA STAMPA~DENTRO DELA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZETi
nization's spokesman Kani YIlmaz
changed his tunc on Friday.
Interviewed by the ÖzgürGQndem,
Yùmaz said with regard to a Turkish Daily
News analysis (Sept. 23, 1993: Tensicm
rises as Turkey falls into polarization
trap) on the current situation, that his
words had been misunderstood. .
"We have given .instructions to no
one," he said. "We only meant that one
cannot practice politics in Ankar:! and
that they (DEP) had to withdraw and go
among their people." His st3tement was
highlighted in the paper under the.he-'
adline "We did not say DEP should withdraw."
This was the first indication of a change.
It was followed, however, by a deb:!-
te on what the DEP should do if it chose
Monday, September 27, 1993.
to remain in Parliament, and there were
calls for active politics such as staying in
Anka~ but working full-time among the
KurdIsh people, staging a hunger strike.,
~nfront of the Uilited Nations and/or gŒ
109 on a world tour to explain their
plight: A recent TDN poll among DEP. "
deputlesshowed that the party's parlia" '
mentary group was fully aware of the
risks of withdrawing, and that some power
circlesactually wanted this.
A majority of the DEP deputies, on the
, other hand, agree that legal possibilities
have not been fullyexhausted.
The question now is what the DEP will
doin the future and whether it will bring
any changes to its structure, to bridge relations
between the country's Kurds and
Turks.
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Fehmi 1~lklarrefused
, '
permission to go abroad
Turkish Daily News on Saturday told reporters thatthe court's decision~
ANKARA- The Ankara State Security Court ,issued to security personnel at all border gates, stem-
(DGM) has refused to grant pennission to Social De- med from the fact thatI~lklar "had committed a crimocrat
People's Party (SHP) deputy Fehmi I~lklar to' me against the state." ,
travel abroad to Germany as the official guest of the' "He cannot travel abroad without having been in-
German Parliament Speaker. terrogated by the DGM," Demiralsaid. , ,
The Constitutional Court annulled Ipklar's mem- "He must come up to us first," he added.
bership to Parliament and lifted his parliamentary im- Demiral argued that I~lklar was no longer a memmunit
y on the grounds that a speech he made during ber of the Turkish Parliament.
the time he served as pro-Kurdish Labour Party "As soon as the Parliament Speakership was infor-
(HEP) chainnan contained subversive propaganda. . med of the decision of the Constitutional Court, I~lk-
Commenting on the DGM's decision not to allow him lar's membership became null and void," Demiral sato
go abroad, I~lklar said it was a "scandal of global id. Asked his opinion of Parliament Speaker's Hüsa-.
proportions." "The Parliament Speaker (Hüsameuin meuin Cindoruk's announcement that he would refer
Cindoruk) keeps saying that my parliamentary immu- I~lklar's case to the general assembly, Demiral said
nit y remains intact. Yet the DGM argues that I'm no decisions taken by the Constitutional court were filonger
a deputy. I'm stuck between Parljament and nal.
the law," he said. "And its decisions are binding for all institutions
Meanwhile DGM chief prosecutor Nusret Demiral and individuals," he added. Fehmi 1~lklar
One of DEP's priority missions appears
to be to diffuse the rising tension between
the.two people, ~nd to further distance
itself from outlawed formations.
The party has to take on the task of becoming
fully legal, objective on human
righLs, and critical of all violations thereof.
This would also mean ~riticizing the
PKK which DEP's grassroots secretly
support, and which may be more difficult
to do than what meets theeye. Once
it can do all of these, observers believe
this would be a step towards bridging ties
and raising DEP's credibility at home
andabroad. It will also attract better attention
to any legal protest or demonstration
to highlight the plight of the
. Kurds in Turkey.
turkish daily news
20 PKK militants killed in southeastern Turkey
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- A total of 20 outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) militants were killed by security forces in southeasterday.
Turkey, Anatolia
.
news agency reported on Sun-
Three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes, it said. Security
forces killed 13 PKK militants in a shootout on Mount
Balkayalar in Hakkari province and wounded one. Search
operations are still continuing Anatolia said.
In other incid~nts in the region, security forces killed two
PKK militants in Eiazig provInce, two in Siirt province, one
in Hakkari, and another one in ~Irnak.
The body of a PKK member thought to have been killed
in a recent 0eeration wasfound in Mardin's DargC\it town,
it said. Secunty forces captured a PKK 'militant dunng a search
operation in DiyarbakIr's Silvan province,
More than 7,~OO people have been killed. in Turkey since
the PKK begah Its hit-and-run attacks back In 1984.
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