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REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKAÇAPÊ~RwISTA STAMPA~DENTRO DE LA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZETÎ
in the Southeast
He promised then tû raise the issue with Chief .of
General Staff Gen. Dûgan Güre~ but denied that
state farces "cau Id da anything like this." The
TDN alsa published, last manth, a full page repart
an village raids and evacuatians, quating autharitative
saurces saying this campai on -- naw becûming
systematic in the regian -- anfy strengthened the
PKK.
Çiller denies turn
to Spanish model
• PM says she is 'stunned' by press reports
and debate _ Repeats Turkey will not
make any concession to terror
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA-
A day after Turkey's
civilian leaders held a secret
summit meeting an security ~lang
with Chief .of General Staff Cammander
Gen. Dûgan Güre~, Prime
Minister Tansu Çiller denied reparts
that she had suggested a
'Spanis" style" fûrmula tû end
Turkey's Kurdish problem and said
she was stunne.d by recent pn~ss
caverage .ofthe Issue.
"I must say I am alsû stunned
QY her statem~nt,". said Ertug~ul
Ozkök, editûr-m-chlef .ofthe dälly
Hurriyet, whû was amang the faur
mast seniûr calumnists wha raised
the issue last week. "She talked ta
us very .openly and mentianed the
Spanish model in quûtes," he said.
Çiller tûld her parliamentary
group meeting Tue.sday marning
that she knew nathmg .of the 5.0-
called Basque madel, which sûlved
Srain's awn separatist prablem."
dan't knûw anything about
the Basque madel and I have talked
tû nû .one an this issue," she
claimed.
All .of the cûlumnists wha broke
the news that the prime minister
was cûnsidering the Basque madel
in Turkey by strengthenino lacal
authûrities. were shocked by her
sudden V-turn. "She tald us," explained Özkök, "that she had
held a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gûnzales and
he had given her detailed infarmatian an the Spanish madel.
What else is the Spanish mûdel Q.uta Basque model," he asked.
Çiller had talked privately with Ozkök, Güneri Civaaglu, Zafer
Mutlu and Yalçm Dagan while .onthe plane returning from Vienna
last week.
She said Tuesday that during her meeting with Gûnzales, she
had'discussed the issue .ofstruggling against terrûrism and listened
ta him. "I did nat bring up the issue tû even the clûsest peap-
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Ie tû me,". she said -- treating her meeting an the plane with the
four pramInent Turkish calumnists as if it had never taken place.
.Çiller a].sa said sh~ had na intentiûn .of bringing up the issue
.of InlroduCIng a SpanIsh-style sûlutian tû the Parliament and added,.
"I am abs~rvIng with great surprise the news .on this issue,
putting wards IOta my mûuth. I am recalling what .our farmer
chairman said and telling yau, dûn't believe what yûu hear fram
me."
She emphasized that the gavernment wauld nût give any cûn-
~essians t~ terrar at all and said it wauld cantinue tû mûve agalOstt.err~ns~
as al~ays. "Nû .oneand nûthing can change this determmatlOn,
she said.
Observers believe her retreat from suggested refarms is the resul~.ofreactiûn
ta moderate pûlicies from within the cûuntry's secunty
fûrces and her True Path Party. Çiller and President Süleyman
Demir~l .on Manday fell at odds with each ather .over suggested
s~lutlOns f~r the cauntry's age-ûld Kurqish problem, with
the presIdent clasmg all daors an any alternattve ta the military
policies currently underway.
"There is na secand sûlutian but the fûrm .ofstruggle put inta
practice today," Demirel tald a Turkish newspaper, clearly referring
tû the ang.aing military campaign in the troubled sûutheast
and eastern regIOns.
. ~allowing his statement, Çiller met with Demirel and .other
mmlster.s as well as Gen. Güre~ tû discuss the security problem
and denIed the repûrts -- three days after it was published in the
press.
Çiller last week is said tû have tald the faur cûlumnists while
r~turni.ng fram Vienna tha~ she was in favûr .ofdebating adminIstrative
changes resemblmg what the Spanish did when faced
with Basque terrarism.
Ganzales h~d repûrte.dly explained Spain's threefald campaign
û~ the ~asqu~ Issue..whlch~far Turkey, was summarized as agreelOg
WIth nelghb.onn~ ~yna,. Iran, Iraq a~d Armenia ta prevent
the PKK ~rom usmg tnelr temtary (as Spam had dûne with France),
r~achm$ a cansensus. betwe~n all parties in Parliament tû take
Jamt ana cancrete actIOn agamst terrûrism, and ta give mûre
aut~ûrity ta local administratians -- if need be differing between
reglûns.
Ta put such a plan intû practice, Turkey wûuld nût .only have
ta sec~re full and sincere cûûperatian with its neighbors, but alsû
tak.e slmult~e~us steps ta restare ~urdish rights and freedam.
This ~eans. hftmg all bans an Kurdls.h culture, allawing them ta
learn 10 theIr awn language, have radlû and televisiûn nghts, and
be acknawledged as a separate culture. DemIrel said hûwever
that.the .situati~n i,~Turkey was cûmpletely different f;ûm the si~
tuatlOn 10 Spam. Ta approach the Issue accarding ta a Basque
madel is a waste .of time and wauld .only mean dampening the
stru~gle. There is na ather way but tû take the gun aut .of the
h.anas .ofarmed ~en in t~e mûuntain~," De!ll!r~lsaid. He empha-
Sized that a sûlUl1ûnagalOst separattst actlVIttes lay .only in the
success .ofthe cûuntry's security fûrces.
qne .ofthe stroI1ßestûp2sitians!û Çiller came frûm the Natiûnallst
Mavement rarty (MHP), whIch branded the prime minister's
recent proposal as "bargaining," and said Turkey cûuld nat
bargain "with bandits wha have blood .ontheir hands." Despite
her retreat, .observers belieye that repûrts .of the past three days
have .opened a new debate 10 Turkey and the Basque sûlutian is
bûund tû find an ear in many places.
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