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

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RIVISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
PKK trainees: "if you walk along a muddy road, your shoes will be muddy. We want to clean the road"
that torture is routinely practised
by police in Turkey. It is as
though a deliberate attempt is
being made to suffocate the legal
Kurdish movement. The Turkish
government finds itself in a genuine
dilemma. If they give any
more "concessions" to the Kurds
there is a very real fear of a
backlash from the Turkish popu-
Jation, for which regionalism.
means separatism. Aksin, the former
envoy to the lJN, said: "In
our minds all regionalism smacks
of secession. South east Anatolya
is an impoverished region.
Because of sanctions this area
has become even more wretched.
The local people used to take
their sheep up into the mountains,
but they cannot do so now
becau.se of the PKK." To try. to
.rectify matters the Turkish government
is building a vast complex
of dams for hydro-electric
power and irrigation which it
hopes will "put a wedge" between
the. PKK and the local population.
But that is a. long way into
the future. Meanwhile the killing
intensifies. But who is really
responsible? It isimpossible for
the outsider to tell.
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