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 />
4<br />
Turkish Probe October 5, 1993<br />
1987,the PKK's main targ<strong>et</strong>swere military installations,<br />
patrols and village guards. The aim was to<br />
mainly recruit new guerillas and train them, while<br />
building the image that the organization could cope<br />
with Turkish forces. In this period of "strategic <strong>de</strong>fense"<br />
as it is put in guerilla jargon, the targ<strong>et</strong> was to<br />
recruit from among "the revolutionary people"<br />
(meaning poor peasants), the unemployed and<br />
those who in one way or anothe.r were in conflict<br />
with the state apparatus.<br />
In its second stage of warfare from 1987 to 1990,<br />
the PKK's main targ<strong>et</strong> was the "non-revolutionary"<br />
masses. It targ<strong>et</strong>ed the village<br />
guards with full steam,<br />
often killing off whole families,<br />
including women and<br />
children. The aim was to<br />
terrorize the "collaborators"<br />
but also to send a message<br />
to those still on the fence<br />
as to what their fate would<br />
be -- if they si<strong>de</strong>d with Turkey.<br />
As of 1990, the PKK became<br />
more and more <strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
on shifting the vio-<br />
, lence -- from its own hands<br />
to that of local security forces<br />
-- and what it has tried<br />
to do since that year is to<br />
convert the local masses,<br />
"'Our campaign<br />
against Turkish<br />
,tourism wiUbe<br />
<strong>de</strong>veloped because<br />
of the war waged<br />
against us.<br />
WewiU attack<br />
tourist facilities and<br />
we wiU attack<br />
foreign<br />
investments ~<br />
by provoking the security<br />
forces to attack the "un<strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d,"<br />
and even those who are pro-state. And, it<br />
has succee<strong>de</strong>d. During the weekend, the pro-Kurdish<br />
Özgür Gün<strong>de</strong>m reported an attack by troops on<br />
the town of Yüksekova in Hakkari and claimed that<br />
at least four people were killed.<br />
The newspaper said troops continued firing until<br />
Friday morning and all entrances to the town were<br />
blocked. On Monday, the same newspaper said<br />
troops opened artillery fire on the Altinova district of<br />
Hasköy, Mu~, killing nine people including seven<br />
children. For the masses who matter, the propaganda'mechanism<br />
works skillfully.<br />
The previous week, there was an attack in the<br />
Dogubeyazlt town of Agrl during which the house of<br />
an ANAP <strong>de</strong>puty was blasted with tank fire. Last<br />
month, there were similar inci<strong>de</strong>nts in Dargeçit, Mardin,<br />
Ferhend, Kaya<strong>de</strong>re and Kelekçi, Dicle. The<br />
Turkish Oaily News is in possession of photographs<br />
showing <strong>de</strong>stroyed houses and burned down buildings.<br />
The PKK is succeeding, ifits aim now in this new<br />
stage is to flush out any sympathy for the Turkish<br />
regime in the region. Security forces have been<br />
forced to face the people and more and more are<br />
joining the organization.<br />
What tactics does the PKK pursue in doing this?<br />
Recent inci<strong>de</strong>nts haveshown that attacks on civilian<br />
s<strong>et</strong>tlements almost always follow a PKK attack either<br />
on the same s<strong>et</strong>tlement or on local government<br />
buildings.<br />
Either the PKK enters several houses and starts<br />
shooting at them, forcing troops to reply en masse,<br />
-r :. "oe:: the troops directly.<br />
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