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Ocalan: Turkey turns up heat on PKK
• Separatist leader claims
Anatolia, the new Balkans
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) leader Abdullah 0calan has accepted
that with general elections scheduled for
1996, the Turkish government has intensified
its efforts a~ainst his movement.
In an artIcle titled "Turkey turns up heat on
Kurd independence movement," he wrgte for
the International Press Service (IPS), Ocalan
claimed the Ankara government hoped to eradicate
the PKK "and to clean up the mountains
which are its stronghold as sQon as possible,
until the elections at least." 0 calan's article,
which also reflected that the PKK was feeling
the Rressure placed on it by Ankara, said Turkey
s "war with the PKK now determines the
government's every action." "It is clear that a
special elan has
gone Into effect for the next six months, using
not only economical and social structures
but military policy and dir.lgmacy as well, in
the fight against the Kurds,' Ocalan wrote.
He quoted Turkish Prime Minister Tansu
ç iller saying "we won't let them create a new
Balkans in the South-Eastern region and will
do everything necessary to prevent this."
"But Anatolia is the new Balkans, and the
government itself is the cause of the problem,"
Ocalan said.
He argued that the Turkish Republics was
more oppresive, reactionary and destructive
than the" Ottoman Empire which it replaced,
and that the so-called "special war" was not only
against the Kurdish people but also other
ethniC groups. "Indeed since the September 12,
1980, military coup d'etat, the TurkIsh republic
had been remade into a 'special war republic' to
defeat the Kurdish nation in its national war for
independence.
Abdullah Öcalan
"All the past Turkish $overnments have surpassed
each other only In intensifying fascism
and reactionary policIes particularly aimed at
socialism and the Kurdish nationalliberation.
"The government had exhausted all economic
and political methods of battling the Kurds,
the special war was the only means left to
them. Uniting Kurdish collaborations -- wheth
er from the left or the right-- Europeanists,
Americanists, Islamists and Turkists, it has
launched what it calls an all-out offensive closing
all doors to us, from diplomacy to ~conomy,
and seeking our final destruction," Ocalan
saId.
The PKK leader claimed that as a consequence
of the regular army'sfailure to defeat
the PKK, the government would now try to
legitimize and expand secret anti-guerilla forces
into a so-called "Special Security Unit",
which --he claimed-- will include religious and
extreme nationalist commandos;including the
rur.!!lguard.
Ocalan claimed an intensification of "the
policy of massacre" could be expected as part
of the government's new efforts and guessed
this would be also used to subdue democratic
activity."ln an attempt to cover up the military's
failure, the present regime has resorted to
attempts to stage shows of victory to prove to
the Turkish community that they were not defeated
but actually successful," he said.
"However, they know very well that they are
facing insurmountable difficulties as a result of
the Kurdish campaign. Meanwhile the recent
mass protests both In European and Turkish
metropolitan centers and in Kurdistan prove
that the government's already outdated policies
have brought upon it very serious troubles.
"Numerous social cnses ate about to explode,
as the recent mass protests in Sivas indicate.
Socio-economic problems will 'also increase
in the coming days.
"Though the oovernment continues to make
concessions to the us and Europe, they recognize
that collaboration with them will not serve
them in their special war and that they cannot
use the resources of Turkey without lImitation
as they did before.
"The independence movement has made sionificant
diplomatic, military and political aâvances.
The Kurdish guerrillas !lave proved
that they can not only resist but also defeat the
army. Moreover, their foreign bases have
gained stability and staying power.
"Our war alms not only at the liberation but
also at the resurrection of our Kurdish nation,
which lost all her national identity, reduced to a
condition baser than slavery which threatened
to erase it from history."
Military: Anti-PKK operations a success
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Operations against militants
of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) on the Ararat and Tendurek
mountains have dealt the separatist
organization a serious blow, military
sources quoted by the semi-official
Anatolian news agency Said on
Thursday.
Indicating that the operations by the
9th army corps under the command of
Gen. Dogu Aktulga were the "most
wide ranging in scope for the past few
years," these sources said the armed
forces would push on until these mountains
were completely rid of the PKK.
A "large number" of PKK militants
are reported by these sources as having
been killed In the operation which is
being conducted by ground troops with
support from the aIr.
Indicating that the PKK was in a
state of disarray as a result of the operation,
military sources indicated that
arms caches and documents on the organizations
plans had also been
seized
Meanwhile, PKK attacks and clashes
between the organization and Security
forces on Wednesday continued to be
reported in Eastern and Southeastern
Anatolia as well as other parts of the
country on Thursday.
Six PKK militants were reported to
have been killed by the secunty forces
in clashes in SUrt and Mu~ on Wednes-
day.
Iri the Ilicalar county of Bingöl, PKK
militants killed one person and wounded
two after stopping the car they were
travelling in.
Two other people were killed in the
Konakb~1 village of Erzincan after a
PKK raid on the village.
Elsewhere in the holiday resort of
Antalya, security forces arrested 26
people on suspicIOn of PKK membership.
The arrested were charged with collecting
money by force for the PKK
and preparing to embark on new attacks
in the CIty, the scene of some attacks
during the summer at the height
of the tourist season.
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