Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
As for the DEP and pro-Kurdish activists
in Turkey, they too maintain the
attack is a heightened. form of the ~arassment
directed agaInst them dunng
the past two years and suspect local ~ecunty
forces, at the least, may be Involved,
Kaya has turned down possible
scenarios that Iran or even Armema
may be behind the attack, saying these
"lacked seriousness."
"The responsibility for finding the
murderers is up to the state and the go~
vernment," he said. .
For months now, Ankara's senior officials
have been warning that anyone
who sympathizes with the PKK or supports
this bloody organization is to be
regarded as the enemy. '
ln. a recent briefing to newspaper
owners and executives auhe ChIef of
General Staff office in Ankara, a similar
message was given, According to
such offiCiais, the DEP is but a part of
the PKK master-plan.. acting as a legal
• platform for separatist demands. The
. latest warning, against supporting th.e
PKK or sympathizing with this organIzation,
came from Demirel. "The fjrst
attack," re,calleçl the pro,-Kur~ishO z~
gür Gündem In a story titled Step by
Step Toward the Murder" on Sunday,
took place against the. HEP during th.e
oath ceremony in ParlIament for parlIamentai'ians
elected in the Oct. 20,
1991, general elections. .
HEP deputies were verbally attacked
by other parliamentarians and one w~s
physically forced off the bench. Hatlp
Dicle was ordered to step down. after
announcing he was reading the oath
"under constitutional pressure" while
his colleague, Leyla Zana, was ordered
off the bench after declaring -- in Kurdish
-- that she had "read the oath for
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.the brotherhood of the Kurdish and
Turkish people." .
Attacks on the.HEP grew along with
attacks by the PKK on Turkish milir
tary and Kurdish civilian targets in th,e
region. First, there were demonstratIons
in major cities demanding that "the
murderers" be thrown out of Parliament.
Later, these turned into demonstrations
-- and sometimes attacks ~- of
anti-Kurdish nature.
Many Kurdish MPs, with Zana at
top of the list, have been threatened
with death.
In the last month, a total of 15 pro-
Kurdish people have been killed in
Batman by unideniified gunmen. Se".
ven others have been wounded. Four
others have been killed in DiyarbakIr,
again under suspicious circumstances.
turned to the refinery city of Batman, where most unS?h.'~dmur,dersh.a"
ve taken place since ,1991. The .parliamentary commISSIOn,whIch con"
dïîcted an on-the-spot investigation in Batman, reported that there was a
.vendetta between the local Hezbollah and the PKK, but noted that the
original Iranian-supported Hezboll~h had actuallx halted all its actions
in accordance with the agreement SIgnedbetween It and the PKK.
.. The co~mission's rep,ort.empha~ize~ that, apa.rt from.the PKK, the~e
is another Illegal orgamzatlOn, whIch ISpromotIng radIcal pro-IslamIc.
opinions in the region. .
"The members of the said organization, who are agaInst the PKK and
call themselves mujahedeens (fighters) of Isla~, have been ~II~ Hezbollahcilar
(pro-Hezbollah people) by the publIc: At the b~gInmng th~
organization in the region was under the le~der~hlp of Meil! Abd~nah,
the report said. It also added that the,orgamzatlOn had contm~ed ItSactivities
together with the PKK up u~tli the,death of Abdull~ In the Beka
valley, After the PKK killed an Imam In t~e Idll towns~l~ of ~1f!1ak
province, the organization started to engage In armed actiVIty agaIn.st
the PKK, the report said. The report stated that the Hezbollahçllar In
Batman have organized themselves against the PKK and have bee.n r~taliating
for PKK attacks. It als? stressed that the Hez?ollah orgamzatl-
. on that is supporte~ by Iran slgne~ ~ agr~e,?~nt wI~h the PKK fi~e .
months ago and decIded to conduct Jomt activIties agamst the RepublIc
. ofTurkey. . . , , h "
The allegations that the Hezbollahcilar have a connectIOnWIt coun-
. terguerrillas" could not be proved, the report added.
Italy said set to release PKK spokesman
Reuter
news conference on his efforts to negotiate the release of
ROME-Italy's justice minister has requested the release of . two Italian tourists currently in the hands of Kurdish separa-
a representative of the secessionist Kurdistan Workers Party tists. His detention, three days after he entered Italy, has ca-
(PKK) held in a Rome pris9n since Thursday, state radio reused controversy.
ported on Sunday. . .
Foreign Mimster Beniamino Andreatta said he was not
Justice Minister Giovanni Consohas asked Rome's Appe- . properly informed and Interior Minister Nicola Mancino,
al Court to revoke the detention of Ali Sapan. a spokesman responsible for the police, said a judge had ordered Sapan
in Europe for'the PKK, outlawed by Turkey it said.
picked up, .
Conso made the request after recei ving fresh documenta- The PKK has kidnapped 16 foreigners in Turkey in the
. tion from the Turkish authorites showing the alleged offen- last two months, It is still holding seven of them -- two Ger,
ces for which Sapan were being held were regarded as ha- mans, two Swiss and a New Zealander plus the two Itali~
ving lapsed under Italian law,' the radio added.
ans. ' , .
The Turkish authorities have said they wanted Sapan ext- More than 7,000 people have been killed in Turkey since
radited on charges of subversion.' .
the PKK vegan its armed campaign in order to carve out an
Sapan was detained in central Rome on Thursday after le- independent Kurdish state from. Turkey --and from' Iran,
aving the city's foreign press club where he had given a Iraq and Syria-- in ]984. .