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.1,OOOplus PKK militants
killed inthe last 6 weeks.
_ About 200 security personnel and _ 11 more killed in Southeast,
400civilians killed in same period curfew lifted in Dogubeyazlt
. Turkish Daily News ,
ANKARA- In the last six weeks, 1,020
militants oftheoutlawed Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) were killed in clashes with Turkish
secuiity forces, Prime Minister Tansu
Çillerrevealed Wednesday. • . .
In a s~ch she delivered in her True Path
Party's (UYP) parliamentary group-meeting,
. Çiller said that the bodies of 593 t>KKmilitants
were found by state security forces and
the rest had been destroyed or buried in mass
graves by the PKK. She said in the same period
443 suspected PKK militants were arrested
and some 500 left the organization --
53 of them giving themselves up to the security
forces.- She said it was not possible for
the outlawed organization to Dear such a
loss. Çiller added that in the same period 198
~embers of the Turkish security forçes.were
killed, 340 were wounded ana 29 were abo.
ducted by PKK militants. Civilian casUàlties
for the period were 378 killed and 405 wounded.
According to figures given by the prime
. minister, the total number of people killed in!
.violence related to Kurdish secessionism just
during these six weeks is almost 1,600. Also,
21 rocket launchers, 630 anti-tank rockets;
431light weapons, 2 mortars, 101 radios, 67
mines, 211 grenades and large quantities of
àmmunition and other logistic materiel were
seized from the PKK.
Çiller said that the government was deter-.
mined to finish off the PKK, which had "tur-
1er septembre 1993
. c TU)lQUIE :Iescem-"tiidans le'
. SUd.Est au.tonen. .. Diil-sept per.
. sonnes;' dont" quinze sépanïtistes
kUroês, .ont. été tuées dans le Sud.
Est de la Turquie;'mardi 28 septembre;selon,
leS services de 8!X:Uritéturcs;
.Par ailleurs, la cour de
sOreté'dc' l'Etat d'Izmir a
coildamnéiitercredi A la peiné 'de
mort pourbomicidè et terrorisme
un responsable du PKK, le Parti
destravaillieun du Kurdistan. C'est
latl'Olïitrne condamnation.' Ala
peine' ~.ta.le:PfOnon~,:par~e
.cour en deux, jour. con~fé des
membresdu,PKIt;...(Reuter;Aff;j
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ned into a ruthless terrorist company and
drugs mafia." She said special commando teams
have been formed and new vehicles and
heliçopters will be procured in order to enhance
the reconnaissance and observation
capability of the Turkish Armed Forces.
The pâme minister said the isslie of
struggling against terrorism should be taken
as a matter superior to party politics, and she
would start meetings WIthoilier parties in the
Parliament in the coming weeks.
11 more killed
Officials said ön Wednesday Il more people
were killed in incidents related with the
Kurdish secessionist movement In southeast
Turkey, over Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Security forces killed five militants of the
PKK in a clash near the eastern town of Mus
on Wednesday, and the bodies of three others
were found after a battle in the southeastern
province of Hakkari.
A sliepherd in Yücebelen, Kemahof the
eastern province of Erzincan was killed by
the PKK militants, the .'
pr~vi~cial gov~rnor repOrted. .
A Jumor Turkish army officer was killed
and a soldier wounded on Monday in a clash
in Tunceli province. .
The officials said PKK militants had killed
a bus driver at a roadblock on the Erzurum-
Erzincan highw~y in eastern Turkey late on
2 septembre 1993
c TURQUIE: l'ambassadeur de
Suisse a quitté, Ankara. - L'ambassadeur
de Suisse en Turquie, Paul-
André Ramseyer, et deux de ses
principjlux collaborateurs ont
quitté Ankara, mardi 31 aoOt. La
Turquie avait décidé leur expulsion
la semaine dernière (le Monde du
.26 aoOt). La tension entre les deux
pays fait suite A la mort d'un manifestant
kurde devant l'ambassade
de Turq\ue A Berne, en juin. Trois
touristes suisses sont toujours aux
mains des séparatistes kurdes du
Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan
(PK.K).Beme a également
~inaildé mardi le.ur libération. -
(AfPJ . ,
Tuesday night. The ~\lS was set on frre. .
Meanwhile, officIals announced that the curfew imposed
on the eastern town of Dogubeyazlton Tuesday following a
PKK rocket attack on the town Monday night was lifted on
Wednesday, with the situation "returning to normal". Local
sources said 20 people were wounded in the raid and the tire
returned by the security forces and taken to the hospital.
Local sour.ces also reported that a Turkish air operation
was started on Wednesday against the PKK bases in mourita.
inous areas in the Mu~-Bmgöl-Bitlis triangle. '
PK.Kmilitants kidnapped at least 43 villagers in southeasl
Turkey, but later released 23 of them, the Anatolian new~
agency reported. It quoted officials as saying that the rriili.
tant PKK members abducted villagers when they were going
to the forest near Yanllmaz village on the outskirts of Eruh
in Bitlis 'province on Tuesday morning. The militants alse
kidnappcil six state-paid village guards during an attack on
Inanh village in Hakkari province overni~ht.
In the western city of Bursa, police said they had rounded
up 40 alleged PKK militants in the past two weeks on char~
ges which included murder, extortion, arson and bombings..
A police spokesperson said they included 16 PKK regional
commanders and six members of the pro-Kurdish Democ.
racy Party (DEP). Police in the southern port of Mersin said
they had seized eight other PKK militants in the past 1C
days.
No word on abducted tourists
There was no word on the fate of seven Westerners -- twc.
Germans, two Swiss, two Italiims and a New Zealander -.
kidnapped in eastern Turkey last month; .
Their governments have rejected PKK demands that they
negotiate directly for the hostages' release. Western diplo.
mats said they hoped the guerrillas would release them and
that they stood to gain nothing by continuing to hold the tou.
rists. The PKK has kidnapped a total of 16 foreigners in the
past two months. Nine have been released unharmed.
Seeking an independent Kurdish state carved. out of Tilr.
key, Iran, Iraq and Syria, the PKK has beenwaging an ar.
med campaign since 1984, in which more than 7,000 people
have been killed in east and southeast Turkey.