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Swiss recall Ankara envoy
Turkish Daily News that Toperi was in constant radio contact with the security
ANKARA. Switzerland's ambassador to Turkey and two forees.. .
of his colleagues left Ankara on Tuesday shortly before a The judge said it was urgent thatToperi be questioned to
Turkish deadline in the growing rift between the two co- detenmne criminal res~onsibility. '
untries, officials said. The departure of Switzerland's dj~lo- "The Federal Council has decided to recall from Ankara
mats follows Turkey's refusal to submit its ambassador and the Swiss ambassador Paul-Andre Ramseyer and the two
embassy personnel in Bern to Swiss ' . ., embassy staff members Heinrich Mauquestioning
over the shooting death rer and Jean-Pierre Baumeyer," a
of a Kurdish demonstrator outside Swiss Foreign Ministry statement said.
the Turkish embassy last June. Swit- But it added: "The Federal Council onzerland
said on Tuesday it was recal- ce more underlines its protest against
ling its ambassador and two other TurkeY's unjustified demand for the reembassy
employees from' Ankara, in call of the ambassador and the two emline
with Turkey's demand last week. bassy staff."
The two countries have been loc- Ramseyer's deputy, Urs Breiter, the
ked in a diplomatic row sinee the Ju- statement said, would continue to serve
ne shooting of 29-year-old Kurdish in Ankara at the level of char~e d'affaidemonstrator
Semsettin Kurt. res, in order to maintain SWllzerland's
Turkey had demanded the recall of presence in Ankara. Switzerland would
the Swiss diplomats last week in res- also send another diplomat to Ankara
ponse to Bern's demand for the lif- to strengthen its embassy. The Turkish
ting of the diplomatic immunity of Daily News has learned that Ambassaits
ambassador, Kaya Toperi, in con- dor Ramseyer and the two embassy
nection with the killing of Kurt. staff members left Turkey on Tuesday
Kurt was killed by a ricocheting by ship from the holiday resort of Anbullet
fired from the Turkish Em- talya.
bassy compund as angry supporters The Swiss government also called in a
of the outlawed KurdIstan Workers' statement for the immediate release of
Party (PKK) tried to storm the em- Kaya Toperl three Swiss nationals kidnapped by
bassy. Toperi said later that shots had Kurdish separatists in eastern Turkey.
been fired in the air and in front of the demonstrators by It said Switzerland was in close contact with the Italian
embassy staff and not at them. He charged the Swiss police and German governments, with whom it had decided upon
with responding late to his distress call1eaving embassy a common policy on recovering hostages captured by Kurstaff
with no choice but to defend themselves. dish separatists. Diplomatic sources indicatethat the com-
'The Swiss judge assigned to the case, Peter, Kunz, said inon policy mentioned in this"context iS;:ä~decisionby the
he wanted to question Toperi as he was the senior person three countries not to enteranyface-to:face negotiations
responsible in Bern and because Toperi had said on Swiss with the PKK.
television that he had ordered embassy security personnel They did not discount the possibility that they may neto
shoot in the air. Kunz said that it was clear that shots we- vertheless be in contact with the organization through surre
fired at the demonstrators' legs and that it was possible rogates. (Reuters, AP)
AFFAIRE rURQUE
'Les diplomates
s'en vont
L'ambassadeur de Suisse en Turquie,
Paul-André Ramseyer, et deux de ses
;collaborateurs, Heinrich Maurer et
Jean-Pierre Baumeyer, ont quitiè hier
Ankara. Le Conseil fédéral «souligne
encore une fois son désaccord à l'égard
de la dem;mde injustifiée 'de la Tur~
't
9ui~» de rappeler ces trois diplomates,
indIque le Département fédéral des
affaires étrangères. Le Conseil féderal
continue par ailleurs à œuvrer pour la
libération des deux Suisses retenus par'
des rebelles kurdes.
Urs Breiter, jusqu'à présent suppléant
de l'ambassadeur, dirigera
l'~mbassade en qualité de diargé d'affaires,
a précisé le communiqué des
Affaires étrangères. En outre un collaborateur
diplomatique a été envoyé à
Ankara en vue de renforcer le person-
, nel sur place. M. Ramseyer et ses deux
collaborateurs ont quitté mardi.la Tur-
qUie: «Pour des taisons privées», ils
sont partis eh voiture et n'arriveront
en Suisse que la semaine prochaine, a
précisé Franz. Egle, porte-parole des
Affaires étrangères.
La décision du Conseil fédéral de
rappeler l'ambassadeur de Suisse et les
deux attachés répond à la demande de
rappel de ces trois personnes qu'avait
formulée Ankara le 24 août dernier:
Le jour où il rappelle son ambassadeur
en Turquie, le Conseil fédéral réitère
son appel à la libération des deux
. Suisses détenus par des rebelles kurdès
depuis le 19 août. Il reste «grandement
préoccupé» de leur sort», indiquent
les Affaires étrangères. ATS