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

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA
STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETÎ
militant checkpoints put up on main roads.
Recently, there have been additions to
these.
I. All provincial party leaders have
been ordered to resign from their posts
or be put among "revolutionary targets."
2. AlIlocals have been banned from joining
parties in the region.
3. The distribution and sales of all Istanbul-based
newspapers have been banned.
These, added to the so-called "Peoples'
Courts" which have pulled away thousands
of complaints from official courts,
arc only part of the organization's authority
drive.
As of this month, more "regulations"
are commg,
The PKK Dersim Provincial Command,
falling in line with other commands,
has issued a statement recently
which -- in addition to those listed above
-- refers to new orders and bans. Accordingly,
1. The people are banned from watching
any television station. 2. To monitor
whether they are listening to these or-
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d~j-.s,alllocals will pull down their tele-
VISion antennas and not even open their
sets to listen to the news.
3. All schools which are part of the
"colonialist assimilation system" will be
elosed down and no one will serve there.
4. All. t~achers will immediately abandon
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is banned.
6. Excessive use of alcohol is banned
and it is a crime to become drunk.
In some cities, the PKK has already
banned the sales and use of alcohol. The
fine imposed on alcoholic beverage sellers
by the PKK is as high as TL 50 million.
-:\nd, now the PKKis telling the people
m Ankara that the people in the region
will vote only for those candidates approved
by the organization.
What lies behind all of these?
Looking at Ö calan's recent statements,
it becomes evident that the PKK is determined
to create an alternative "national
assembly" in 1994 at the latest and this
assembly will eroduce "policies based
on the guerillas. '
Apo recently said the March local
elections were very important because
they would take the fonn of a hidden referendum
of support for the organization.
But this is as much importance as he
can give to the public poll.
"Provincial national assemblies and
prepara~i~~ committees will together
start actiVItIes as soon as possible ... We
~ad actually wanted to complete this era
m 1993," Ocalan told the Gündem recently.
He believes that like the Turkish Parliament
which was created while at war
this so-called Kurdish parliament will al~
so take shape during war.
According to him. the Tansu ç iller government
has completely surrendered to
military policies and it has put all of its
hopes ~n the success of military operations
until the March elections. Until then
th~ .PKK will r~taliate in fullto Turkey'~
military campaign, becoming more and
more radical. It will continue with its village
raids and with the campaign on village
guards. More important, it is expected
to spillthis undeclared war to other
parts ~f the country -- in quest for full
authonty and say over developments in
the Southeast region.
turkish daily news
Reuters: Kurds say Turkish forces
• 729 villages evacuated since oc.tober 1991 general elections empty in9 ViIlage s
• Witnesses say troops shellmg, burnmg down vII/ages
By Aliza Marcus
Reuters
YAMAÇ- Tractor carts piled with belongings
bump along the dIrt track out of
this village in southeast Turkey, where
state forces are battling rebel Kurds.
The villagers, hoping to move in with
friends and relatives in the nearby town
of Cizre, blamed the security forces, not
the rebels, for forcing them to abandon
their bullet-riddled homes. "Every night,
for months, the anny has shelled us from
the hills," said a 19-year-old man as he
helped his father salvage wood from the
roof of their house in Yamaç.
"Last week, the soldiers came at night
and told us we had two hours to leave or
else they would shbot everyone. What
else can we do but leave our homes?" he
said.
Turkish forces have been locked in a
struggle with the separatist Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) which has cost
more than 7,200 lives in the region since
1984.
Villages such as Yamaç, Dersek and
Küçük Dersek, not far from PKK strongholds
in the Cudi mountains, often get m
the way.
Many ~ilIages in the .foothills lie empty,
some m charred rums. Fonner residents,
now living in Cizre, say Turkish
troops and state-paid Kurdish village
guards made them leave. Turkish officials
deny that security forces attack village~,
but l,ocal h~man rights activists
and Journalists believe the tactic is part
of a tough campaign to break support lor
the PKK. "But if they bum a house, or
kill a villager, then the next person
thinks his only option is to become a
guerrilla and fight in the mountains,"
said Meral Dam~, an official
Diyarbakir branch of the Turkish
in the
Human
Rights Association.
She and her colleagues say 729 southeastern
villages have been emptied since
Turkey's general election in October
1991.
They say villages which refuse to take
guns from the state to fight the PKK or
which are suspected of giving food to
the guerrillas are frequent targets of intimidation.
"The soldiers can't find the guerrillas,
so instead they attack us, accusing us of
being terrorists and throwing us out of
our homes," said a man in ç ag layan,
which residents said had been repeatedly
shelled from a nearby army base in recent
weeks. Last year Turkish soldiers
burned many houses in ç ag 1ayan, a
once-lush settlement of spacious twostorey
stone dwellings and fertile gardens.
About 20 famihes out of an original
60 remain in the few houses still
standing.
At mght, people take refuge.in a tunnel
which cuts through a small hill to
shelter from Turkish bullets and tank
shells. "Somebody must tell our story --
how we have no security, no freedom to
live," shouted one man, pointing to an
unexploded shelllying in a stream.
The government~!lPpointed district
governor of Cizre, 0 mer Adar, said it
was the PKK which was intimidating
villagers. "The terrorists go to villages
and force peorleto give food or threaten
to kill them, he told Reuters, adding
that the state compensated people if their
homes were aCCIdentally destroyed in
clashes between troops and guerrillas.
Villagers said PKK fighters would
sometimes demand food from them. But
they blamed troops for driving them out
and said they had never received any
government money for damaged property.
"The soldiers would come and beat
us, swear at us, telling us we had to be
village guards -- or leave," said a man
from the now-empty hamlet of Küçük
Dersek, evacuated this month. "Why
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