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-BASlN ÖZETi<br />
Monday, September 6, 1993<br />
turkish daily news<br />
Iraq welcomesTurkey's efforts<br />
to have the UN embargo lifted<br />
Turkish Daily Nl:w,ç<br />
ANKARA- Turkey's moves to have the United,<br />
Nations embargo on Iraq lifted were welcomed<br />
by Iraq, said a minister of the Baghdad governr<br />
ment at a prèss conference in Istanbul on Saturday:<br />
'<br />
Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, the tra<strong>de</strong>' minister of<br />
Iraq who is in Istanbul for the ninth COMEC (Organization<br />
of Islamic Conference Economic<br />
Committee) me<strong>et</strong>ings, said that both Iraq and<br />
Turkey would benefit from the lifting of the em-,<br />
bargo.<br />
He said that because of the embargo, there has<br />
been a marked increase in the infant <strong>de</strong>ath rate<br />
and medicine shortages in Iraq. Saleh said Iraq's<br />
<strong>de</strong>bts have increased to $30-35 billion and that $6<br />
billion of Iraqi money has been frozen by Wes- h:iS'Starteda <strong>de</strong>bateamong diplomatic circles.<br />
tern governments since the embargo.' ," Saleh claimed if there were no embargo, the<br />
, Saleh said that once the embargo is lifted they tra<strong>de</strong> volume b<strong>et</strong>ween Iraq and Turkey would<br />
could export $15-20 billionworth of oil and pay increase to $10 billion. He also said that many'<br />
the country's <strong>de</strong>bts. The United Nations impos.ed countries have come to realize that the embargo<br />
an embargo on Iraq in August 1990, after ItS In- on Irag has not been successful but they "could<br />
vasion of Kuwait. Turkey, one of the first count-not" lift the embargo because they were "afraid of<br />
ries,to implemem the embargo, closed down the' the United States." ,<br />
986-km, twin cru<strong>de</strong>oil pipeline connecting the Saleh criticized theallied monitoring of flights<br />
rich Kirkuk'oil fields of Iraq to the Turkish Medi~ over the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone north of the<br />
terranean terminal of Ceyhan. 36th parallel and south of the 32nd parallel in<br />
Turkish Foreign Minister Hikm<strong>et</strong> C<strong>et</strong>in anno- ~raq,calling it an effort to create a power vacuum<br />
unced in Parliament on Friday that Turkey had In the country. '<br />
lost $600 million from the closure of the pipeline.' U.S., British and French planes based in Tur-<br />
For the past few weeks, Turkey has been raising key have been carrying out monitoring flights<br />
the i<strong>de</strong>a of revising the embargo on Iraq, which north of the 36th parallel in Iraq since June 1991.<br />
Dispute mounts over 1~lklar<br />
TDN Parliament Bureau O~ficial Gaz<strong>et</strong>te, however,. was interpr<strong>et</strong>ed .as me-<br />
ANKARA- The statusof Fehmi I~lklar, who amng that he had been stopped of his parhamenwas<br />
stripped of parliamentary membership bythe tary membership, since the last paragraph of Ar-<br />
ConstitutIOnal Court, is the object of increasing' ticle 84 of the Constitution rules that parliamencontroversy.<br />
. ' tary membership is stripped after theConstitutio-<br />
I~lklar, <strong>de</strong>puty speaker of Parliament and Soci- , nal ~ourt officIally submits its <strong>de</strong>cision to the<br />
al Democrat People's Party (SHP) DiyarbakIr <strong>de</strong>- parlIamentary speaker's office.' , '<br />
puty, was strif~ of both of these titles when the<br />
Constitutiona Court <strong>de</strong>cision against him was of- Cindoruk's reaction<br />
'ficially submitted io the speaker's office on Aug. Cindoruk acted against' moves to prevent, a<br />
18. Earlier this year, the court or<strong>de</strong>red the sh~t- constitutional amendment and the publication of<br />
downof the pro-Kurdish People's Labor Party the Constitutional Court's <strong>de</strong>cision when Parlia-<br />
(HEP), of whIch I~lklarwas a member. This led ment was in recess. '<br />
'to his being stripped of h,is parliamentary mem- I~lklar, at that time, applied to the parliamenbership<br />
In August. After the closure of the ~EP tary speaker's office to clarify his position. Cin-<br />
I~lklarbecame a member of the SHP.' doruk replied that <strong>de</strong>spite the Constitutional Co~<br />
The Constitutional Court <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d :>n July 14 urt's <strong>de</strong>CISion,I~lklar was,still a memberof Parlithat<br />
I~lklar, as the, former chairmanof the pro- ament until Parliamentma<strong>de</strong> a <strong>de</strong>cision.<br />
Kurdish HEP, hadviolated the Constitution and<br />
the Political Parties Law by "dividing the nation<br />
into Turks ancLKurds and <strong>de</strong>scribing the Kurds as<br />
an oppressed T!ation"in his speeches before the<br />
October 1991 elections.' ,<br />
While the Constitutional Court stated that its<br />
<strong>de</strong>cision had. been' published in the Official Gaz<strong>et</strong>te<br />
and officially submitted to the parliamentary<br />
speaker's office, Pa~liament Speaker Hüsame~tin<br />
Cindoruk revealed that I~lklar would continue<br />
to be a member of Parliament until Parliament<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> a <strong>de</strong>cision. Cindorukhad asked for a<br />
constitutional amendment which would prevent<br />
I~lklar from losing his parliamentary membership.<br />
The publication of the court's <strong>de</strong>cision in thé<br />
124<br />
Who is against whom,?<br />
With regard to the Constitutional Court <strong>de</strong>cision,<br />
Cindoruk maintains thatonly the General As- '<br />
sembly of Parliament can <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong> to strip a <strong>de</strong>puty<br />
of hi~ p~rliamentary membership. But Yekta<br />
Güngör 0 z<strong>de</strong>n, the head of the Constitutional<br />
Court"says~ the court's <strong>de</strong>cision is not' open to interpr<strong>et</strong>ation.<br />
He adds the <strong>de</strong>cision was not affected<br />
by the <strong>de</strong>puty's term in Parliament.,<br />
Oz<strong>de</strong>n has based the court's <strong>de</strong>cision on Article<br />
84 of the Constitution, which states that' membership<br />
terminates when the <strong>de</strong>cision is officially<br />
submitied to the parliamentary speaker's office. ,<br />
Cindoruk takes A~ticle 83 of the Constitution<br />
as a base for his stance. That article states that the<br />
execution of a court's <strong>de</strong>cision ma<strong>de</strong> against a<br />
member of the Turkish Parliament, before or after<br />
his election, is left to the end of the <strong>de</strong>puty's<br />
termin Parliament. Further, any interrogatIOn or<br />
trial of the:member, if re-elected to Parliament,is<br />
<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt on a parliamentary <strong>de</strong>cision to strip<br />
,the <strong>de</strong>puty's parliamentary. immunity. . .<br />
, Whlchone of those articles takes pnonty and<br />
the one to be used for reference is open to dIscussion.<br />
,', The argument'over the <strong>de</strong>cision is important in<br />
another sense as well. ' ,<br />
Cindoruk wants Parliament to be confirmed as<br />
the top institution of the state and the top constitutional<br />
body. Oz<strong>de</strong>n wants the same for his<br />
Constitutional Court. And behind this struggle is<br />
the slruggle b<strong>et</strong>weenthe mo<strong>de</strong>rates and hard-liners<br />
regarding,the attitu<strong>de</strong> to be taken toward the<br />
pro-Kurdish <strong>de</strong>puties of Parliament.<br />
The conflict b<strong>et</strong>ween those displeased with the '<br />
presence of the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party ,<br />
(DEP) <strong>de</strong>puties In' Parliament and those who<br />
think it is som<strong>et</strong>hing useful also affects the I~Iklar<br />
affair. "<br />
The legalsituation of I~lkJàr will be clarified<br />
after Sept. J4, when Parliament will elect its new<br />
speaker. For the lime being I~lklar is receiving<br />
hIS parliamentary salary and participating in 'the<br />
group me<strong>et</strong>ings of the SHP,upon the instructions<br />
of Clndoruk. But it is not known y<strong>et</strong> wh<strong>et</strong>her he<br />
will participate in the General Assembly on Sept.<br />
14. '