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86 nabbed in security operations in Turkey
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- At least 86 suspected members
of the clandestine Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) were caught by security forces during
operations conducted in Adana, Mersin and.
DiyarbakIr provinces, officials announced on
Tuesday.
The Adana Security Directorate statement
on the subject said 25 PKK members, including
a 56-year-old woman, were captured
in two separate operations in the Mediterranean
province of Adana.
In another development in Mersin, police
anti -terrorism teams a~prehended 19 suspected
PKK members, mcluding high-level
":Iembers in charge of the region and Mersm.
Eighteen molotov cocktails, three pistols
and a great number of organizational documents
were also seized in the operations.
In Diyarbakir, 42 suspected PKK militants
were taken into police custody in security
operations.
Three Kalashnikovs, five pistols, one
RPG-7 rocket launcher, five rockets, and
five grenades were seized.
In a separate development, three Kurdish
militants on Tuesday were killed by security
forces in a clash in the rural. areas of
Diyarbaklr's ~Irnak township.
Tourist bed capacity surpasses 87,000
Turkish Dilily News
ANTAL VA- The total bed capacity in facilities
of the currently operatmg IT.ember
firms of the Tourism Investors Association
(TYD) reached 87,533, the Anatolia news
agency reported. The TYD-member hotels
that hold tourism permits increased to 120 as
(jr July Hotels accountJor .56,297 beds;28
holiday villages, 22,493;,and 38 various mo-
Police
block
Sincar
funeral
• Ankara security units prevent
ceremony for murdered Kurdish MP
• Kurdish MPs petition to Inter
Parliamentary Union for protection
tels and rest stops, 8,743. TYD companies
are currently ~lanning 240 investment projects,
which Will potentially increase the bed
capacity by another 117,704.
Accordmg to the TYD report, member
firms in the marina sector have 1,732 berths
available in various yacht harbors. An additional
530 berths are being planned,and 450
are under construction.
By Ismet G. Imset
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Police on Tuesday took over a major hospital
morgue in Ankara in a bid to block deputies of the Kurdishbased
Democracy Party (DEP) from pIcking up the body of
a Kurdish MP killed this weekend and placmg it on a ceremonial
catafalque.
"They came here and took everything into their hands, we
no longer have any control," a senior hospital official said.
Director of the Hacettepe Hospital, Professor Çelik Ta~er,
told DEP deputies on the telepnone that the decision to hold
on to the body of DEP Deputy Mehmet Sincar, murdered in
the eastern province of Batman on Saturday, was of political
origin. "I can cite no medical reason for thIS. We have recei-
TYD member Turkish Airlines (THY)
leads the air transportation sector in ~assenger
capac.ity. THY anticipates a seatmg capacity
of 43,540 by 1999, according to TYD
reports.
Of the highway passenger transportation
companies, Ulusoy bas a 19,392 seating capacity;
Bosfor Tourism, 13,860;.and,Varan,
6,750.
ved a verbal order from the gove~or," he reportedly said.
Ankara Governor Erdogan ~ahmoUu announced earlier in
the day. that he had placed a ban on laying Sincar on a catafalque
JO front of the DEP headquarters "for security rea-
~ons." "This is ridiculous," one DEP deputy commented.
We see now how they treat a dead parliamentarian" Ahmet
Türk, the former chaiI1?an .of the. defunct Peopl~s' Labor
Party (HEP) add~. Hatlp Dlcle, DIyarbakir deputy, explained
that both PreSIdent Süleyman Demirel and Prime Minis-
.ter Tansu -ç iller had approved of the party's funeral cerem?,nyprogram,
which was publicized on Monday.
The developments show that neither have control oftheir
own local authorities," Van Deputy Remzi
Kartal concluded. Early Tuesday morning.
bus loads of uniformed police officers accompanied
by dozens of plainclothes officers
arrived at the Emergency Service entrance
of Hacettepe.
Reporters overheard orders issued on poli-
~e radio fo~civilian-plated cars to be parked
m the hospItal yard so the area will be full
and the parliamentarians cannot enter."
Three rows of riot police held the front and
back entrances of the compound and prevel1:
ted all visitors from entenng. A hearse, prepared
to carry the coffin of Sincar, was turned
back from the gate.
Asked whether this was a decision made
by ho~pital autho~ties, ~ deputy director demandmg
anonymIty saId an control was in
the hands of the police. "And they," he added,
"are controlled by the governor."
Meanwhile, abOut a dozen police armed
with semiautomatic and automatic guns held
guard in front of the hospital's basement corridor
leading to the morgue.
Ankara's police department issued a statement
during the inCident and said Sincar'~
body would under no condition be given to
anyone but his family, and on condition 01
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