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Southeast crisis:
Yllmaz: No to political solution
• 'We must use force to repress the rebellion'
Masut Yllmaz
ating the need for a political solution.
"I believe that the state is not
involved in this stru~~le in the way it
should be, by mobihzIn~ all its forces
in the best possible way, ' Yllmaz said.
The ANAP chairman noted that the
state had its own trained forces to
overcome rebellions. "The state has
only one course of action againstthose
rising up against it. That is to use the
force of the state against that uprising,"
he said. YIImaz also criticized
the current condition of the security
forces, saying they did not have the
required equipment, coordination and
intelligence. He also said Turkey needed
special forces to fight guerrillas and
such a campaign could not be achieved
with regular forces trained to fight
conventional armies.
Noting that Turkey's main aim
should I)ot. be to wage"waf ;with
200,000 security forces againSt 'I O~OOO
people, but to win the support of those
Turkish D;lily NeIVs
ANKARA- Main opposition
Motherland Party (ANAP) leader
Mesut Yllmaz said on Friday that
Turkey had to use military force
against neighboring countries that
were supporting terrorism, if peaceful
deterrent measures failed in the future.
Yllmaz, referring to separatist violence,
which has claimed more than
7,300 lives since 1984, said he was
against a "political solution" to
Turkey's Kurdish problem and argued
that the state had to show its strength
to crush the separatists. His statement
coincided with a written demand by
two ANAP deputies for an "interim
regime" in Turkey and to shelve all
eXISting political priorities to create a
"national government alliance."
In letters sent to senior stateofficials
and members of Parliament, Dep,!Jties
Sadi Pehhvanoglu and Hüseyin Ozalp
called on everyone to help establish
interim regime and use all methods
an
-
including martial law - in the battle
againstterrorism.
The deputies said this had to be
done in order to prevent another military
coup in Turkey.
Yllmaz, addreSSIng a meeting of the
Independent Industrialists and
Businessmen's Association in Ankara,
said that what was happening in the
country's East and Southeastern
regions was "a rebellion" and the only
measure for counterin~ a rebellion was
"for the state to use ItS force against
it."
, He bluntly, turned.down suggestions
that the :security forcés were battling
terrorism without success and thus creas
yet undecided. "This war," he said,
"is a psychological
which differentiation
war, .. A war in
should be made
between innocent people and terrorists."
Yllmaz. said neighboring countries
were harboring and supporting terrorism
and noted that Turkey had "various
weapons" to use against them. In
an apparent reference to Syria and
Iran, Yllmaz added: "We can use
water as a weapon against one of them
and the transit issue as a weapon
against the other. We also have other
instruments of pressure that we can
use. But, the will to use these is lacking."
Yllmaz said: "These instruments
should be used. We have gained nothing
from goodwill gestures until now.
Unfortunately, our neighbors continu~
to keep this threat hanging over us and
to support it."
The ANAP chairman stressed that
Turkey had to take measures which
would force these countries to change
their attitude. "But if there is no measure
to be used, if Turkey is to be
divided, then military force should be
used against them. In other words,
why should Turkey refrain from using
, military force, especially when nothing
is more important than ItS lands and its
borders. This should be realized as a
last measure." Yllmaz said Turkey's
main problem in the Southeast was to
restore state control in that region and
to fulfill its original duties to the people
there. "Using force, we must
repress this uprisin~"', hesaid, arguing
that debating Kurdish cultural, education
or language rights were things that
only "confused the mind."
Ç1LLER: With Clinton in the White House
Foreign Relations Committee of the US House
of Representatives and members of the
US Congress.
Following the meetings, Çiller told reporters
that the contacts were "very useful" and
will contribute to the further Improvement
the Turkish-US relations.
"We examined together how can we form
new fields of cooperation under the chanoin~
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