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killed by ihe PKK near the Eastern town ôf Bingöl
last June.
Despite repeated assurances though, a team of journalists
recently visiting the Southeast region and five
separate provinces established that hundreds of
discharged soldiers were left on their own.
Most of the soldiers were seen traveling in buses
back to their homes, dressed in civilian clothes to cover
their identity. Even in the case of troop transports,
only two arrnvured vehiclés are normally attached to
convoy's.
In other devdopments on Thursday, sources said
six paramilitary village guards were kidnapped by the
Shadow cast over democracy:
PKK in Sason, Siirt.
Meanwhile, officials said the o~ration in the rura!
areas of Yüksekova and ~emdinII in Hakkari province
were continuing and that Il
bodies of PKK militants had been found. Earlier
Turkish newspapers had put the death toll of the mili~
tants as high as 250.
ln the western province of Edirne, police on Thuisday
seized a trucICcarrying badges, walky-talkies and
propaganda tapes to the organization. The truck, bearing
Turkish lIcence plates, had registered its cargo as
"NATO cargo," an officiai said.
1~lklar impeached
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- In a dramatic development which will inevitably
cast a shadow over Turkish democracy at the
threshold of the 21st century, a Turkish court on
Wednesday terminated the parliamentary membership
of Parliament Deputy Speaker Fehmi I~1klar,an electciJ
representative of the Turkish nation. A Constitutional
Court decision impeaching
I~Ik.larand opening the way for
hIStrial, which could lead to the
gallows, has officially been submitted
to Parliament.
The DiyarbakIr deputy is
charged with heading a pro-
Kurdish party in 1991 and making
speeches in favor of the
Kurdish people, regarded now
as a challenge to Turkey's indi~
visibility. The court decided on
July 14 that I~Iklar, as the former
head of the pro-Kurdish
People's Labor Party (HEP), had
violated the Constitution and the
Political Parties Law by "dividing
the nation into Turks and
Kurds, and had described Kurds
as an oppressed nation," in his
speeches prior to the October
1991 elections. It had also decided
upon the closure of the
HEP. On Wednesday, the
court's so-called "Detailed Ver- ""m worried for
dict" was sent to the parliamen- democracy.
tary speakership, in a final step
to oust I~IkIarfrom the house. I've been In a struggle
The court decision lifts for people subjected to
I~IkIar'sparliamentary immunity In'ustlce so far. From
and opens the way to put him on I
trial for violating TurKish Penal now on, that struggle will
Code 125. The code concerns also be for myself ..
the "unity of the nation and '7:?
state" and suggests punishment
up to the death penalty for carrying out "separatist actions"
and/or propaganda.
The ChiefProsecutor of the Ankara State Security
Court (DGM) said on Thursday that two separate cases.
against Ipklar will be opened with the mentioned
cnarges. I am worried for democracy," I~Ik.larcom-
mented to TDN on the decision. "I haven't been taken
to court hecause of any corruption or theft charge, its
because of what I thought and said. I've been in a struggle
so far for people who were subjected to injustice.
From now on that struggle will also be for my own
rights." He said as part of that struggle he might apply
to international bodies like the European CommissIOn
of Human Rights and the International
Court of Justice in the
Hague. I~Iklar sa)'s he was not
planning to reSIgn from the
Junior partner of the ruling coalition
the Social Democratic
Pecple's Party (SHP), which he
had joined before the October
'91 election.
Shortly before the October
'91 elections, I~Ik.larand other
HEP deputies had agreed on an
election alliance with the SHP
and were elected to Parliament
as SHP deputies. Eighteen
Kurdish-origin deputies had
later resigned from the SHP
and rejomed the HEP. But
I~Ik.lar, a former trade union
leader and a respected name of
Turkish center-left poli tics,
stuck with the SHP as the
Diyarbakrr MP and became the
deputy speaker of Parliament.
Commenting oiiâie COnstitutional
Court decision when it
was first made, Parliamentary
Speaker Hüsamettin Cindoruk
had said he would examine the
file presented by the court and
try to do his best to prevent the
implementation of the decision.
One way to do that was
to amend Article 84 of the
Constitution. But after the official
submission of the court decision, Cindoruk said he
would make no comment before closely inspecting the
report. Estimating that the HEP was gomg to be dosed
by the Constitutional Court, the HEP MPs had joined in
July another part)' called the Democracy Party (DEP),
whIch was establIshed by Kurdish activists.
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