Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RMSTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZET;<br />
Friday, September 3, 1993 turkish daily news<br />
To the Olympic Committee:<br />
INo permission for<br />
Garnes in Turkey.<br />
• PKK announces attacks will escalate in Istanbul<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Warning the international<br />
sports community and the<br />
Olympic Committee on Thursday,<br />
the PKK said that Turkey must be<br />
turned down as host for the Olympic<br />
Games in the year 2000. Quoting<br />
a "high-ranking PKK official",<br />
the German-based, pro-PKK Kurd-<br />
Ha news agency said in Brussels<br />
that to give the 2000 Games to Istanbul<br />
will be to "reward" Turkey<br />
for its "massacre of Kurdish patriots".<br />
This is in reference to Turkey's<br />
struggle against the .PKK's nine-)'ear-old<br />
armed campaIgn of terronsm.<br />
The statement ad<strong>de</strong>d that Turkey<br />
should not only be <strong>de</strong>nied its bid to<br />
host the Olympic Games, but should<br />
also be expelled from all international<br />
sporting activities, because<br />
of its actIons in "Kurdistan", what<br />
the PKK call the Kurdish-populated<br />
area in southeastern Turkey.<br />
"The world should know that<br />
Kurdish people will never approve<br />
of the Olympic Games being held<br />
in Istanbul," the PKK official was<br />
quoted as saying. "Istanbul is in our<br />
battle zone.<br />
From now on the war will be esr;alated.<br />
Our actions will focus on<br />
Istanbul. "If Istanbul is awar<strong>de</strong>d the<br />
games, we will not be responsible<br />
for the consequences".<br />
Istanbul, Turkey's m<strong>et</strong>ropolis of<br />
that the governments of thecountries .of the abducted tourists negotiate directly<br />
wIth the PKK. BaYlkcomplained that the Western governments have<br />
ignored that <strong>de</strong>mand so far, and, therefore, they would be responsible for<br />
future kidnappings.<br />
"Our policy regardin~ Western tourists can only change when their support<br />
of.Turkey in politIcal, economic and technical terms ends and when<br />
they give up ~ending tourists to Turkey," BaYlkwas quoted in Kurd-Ha.<br />
~e PKK IS holding hostage seven Weste~ tourists whom they kidnapped<br />
10eastern Turkey last month -- three SWISS,two Germans, one Italian<br />
and one New Zealan<strong>de</strong>r. The governments involved have refused to negotiate<br />
directly with the PKK.<br />
10 million people ~at sits on the Asian and E.uropean banks oc'the Bosphorus,<br />
ha~ been sb!lrthsted for the 2000 OlympIc Games by the International<br />
OlympIc CommIttee.<br />
Tur~sh PrimeMÏhi,stçr T~~uç iller is expected to chair a-large Turkish<br />
<strong>de</strong>legatIOn at the ~o.mmItt~eme<strong>et</strong>10g in Mo~aco to be held September 23,<br />
when a final <strong>de</strong>.ClSIOnwill be ma<strong>de</strong>. ~er~m, Germany; Beipng, China;<br />
Sydney, Australia; and Manchester, Bntam, are Istanbul's nvals for the<br />
2000 Garnes.<br />
1~lklar keeps parliamentary<br />
membership, says Cindoruk<br />
TDN Parliament Bureau<br />
ANKARA- Parliament Speaker Hüsam<strong>et</strong>tin Cindoruk<br />
on Thursday revealed that former Deputy<br />
Parliament Speaker Fehmi I~lklar has kept his parhamentary<br />
membership <strong>de</strong>spite the <strong>de</strong>cision of the<br />
Constitutional Court.<br />
Cindoruk, speaking to the Turkish Daily News,<br />
maintained that the <strong>de</strong>cision-making power to strip<br />
parliamentary membership belongs to the General<br />
Assembly of Parliament.<br />
The Constitutional Court <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d on July 14 that<br />
I~lklar, as the former chairman of the pro-Kurdish<br />
Peo~le's Labor Party (HEP), had violated the Constitution<br />
and the Political Parties Law by "dividing<br />
the nation into Turks and Kurds and <strong>de</strong>scribing<br />
Kurds as an oPfressed nation" in his speeches before<br />
the October 991 elections. It also <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d on the<br />
abolition of HEP. While the Social Democrat flank<br />
of the coalition government, the Social Democrat<br />
People's Party (SHP), welcomed Cindoruk's comments,<br />
the senior coalition party, the True Path<br />
Party (DYP), did not. DYP officials said they would<br />
reconsi<strong>de</strong>r the situation <strong>de</strong>spite the <strong>de</strong>cision of the<br />
Constitutional Court.<br />
Deputy group chairman of the main opposition<br />
Motherland Party, Oltan Sungurlu, on the other<br />
hand, argued that Cindoruk's <strong>de</strong>cision was against<br />
the Constitution.<br />
Pointing out that it is impossible to stop the process<br />
started by Cindoruk, Sungurlu said his party<br />
will claim it is not in Parliament's power to make<br />
the <strong>de</strong>cision.<br />
According to Article 84, Paragraph I of the Constitution,<br />
the power to enforce the Constitutional Court's<br />
<strong>de</strong>cision belongs to the relevant parliamentary<br />
commission and the General Assembly. But, the last<br />
paragraph of the same article rules that parliamentary<br />
membership is striped after the Constitutional<br />
Court officially submits its <strong>de</strong>cision to the Parliament<br />
Speaker's Office.<br />
Cindoruk noted that since the tenures of the Parliarnent<br />
speaker, the members of the speakership council<br />
and the parliamentary commissions have come<br />
to end with the commencement of the new legislative<br />
term, I~lklar's p<strong>et</strong>ition will be sent to the new<br />
parliamentary bodies, following their formation.<br />
I~lklar emphasized on Tuesday that he will have no<br />
recourse but to take his case to internationallegal<br />
bodies if he fails to g<strong>et</strong> a positive response to his p<strong>et</strong>ition.<br />
I~lklar, <strong>de</strong>puty speaker of the Parliament and<br />
SHP DiyarbakIr <strong>de</strong>puty, was stripped of both of those<br />
titles when the Constitutional Court <strong>de</strong>cision aga-<br />
. inst him was officially submitted to the Speaker's<br />
Office on Aug. 18.<br />
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