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turkish daily news Monday, August 2,1993
Amnesty International concerned with more
rights violationsagainst Kurds in Southeast
.Turkish Daily News .
ANKAR~!1h/!f.tl'fldö.n:based "hliman:1ights
watch orgâÎlization; Amnesty Internaiional',"ex-
•pressed concern about more human rights violations
of Kurdish villagers in Southeast Turkey, in
a message released on Sunday. .
AI reported that Turkish security forces were
carrying out intense operations in villages which
have refused to participate in the systems cifgovernment-appointed
vilfage guards.
"During the past weeks destructive searches
were followed by the burning of all or part of
dozens of villages and enforced migration of
their population. In çaYlrdere, near Ergani in the
DiyarbakIr province, villagers were reportedly
ill-treated by gendarmerie, given pickaxes and
.ordered to destroy their own homes," the AI report
said.'. '.
The organization claimed that any villagers
taken into police custody were at "senous risk of
~prture or worse," citing the example of Slddlk
ûncü, who was taken into gendarmerie custody.
• Amn~sty International accuses
both Turkish security10rces and
the PKK of causing "on a daily
basis human rights abuses
against Kurdish villagers"
from the village Kerkatlk of çmar, DiyarbakIr on
June 21 and whose body was found in the city
morgue by his-relatives on July 8. AI quotes mihtary
officIais as denying any detention of Oncu.
Claiming that both male and female detainees
had reported various forms of sexual assault and
rape, AI adds that there were reports of ".extrajudicial
execution and disa~pearance" of KurdIsh
villagers, supposedly earned out by Turkish security
forces. ..
Underlining that it had repeatedly addressed
the PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party)
about "executions of captured village guards and
alleged informers as well as attacKson civilian
targets," the AI report said the "arbitrary and de-
PKKdecides to
release tourists
• Military Council decides to set
free captive foreigners
• BaYlk says freedom this week,
calls for post-release safety
By Ismet G. Imset
Turkish Daily News
BEIRUT, lebanon- The leadership of the Kurdistan
W.orkers'Party (PKK) has agreed to release six foreign tounsts
abducted mSoutheast Turkey last month, in reply to
a humanitarian appeal by their families and their mediators.
Th~ tourists, four eld~rly Frenchmen, a British bicyclist
and hIS Australian cousm, are to be set free this week as
soon as nece~sary '!l~asures are taken for their post-~elease
safety, a semor mlhtary commander of the organIzation
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said. Cemil BaYlk,chairman of the PKK Military Council
and Central Committee member, told this reporter during
a le.ngthy meeting held in the Middle East region that the
decISIon was m.ade for hU":1~itarian i.nterests, in reply to
the plea of relatives and theIr mtermediator. . .
An.appeal for the release was made to BaYlkon Friday.
by thISrepo~er, who was requested by the families to mediate
for theIr freedom. . .
"We have nothing against them. Our decision is ~sîtive
an~ they will be released as you have requested, Ba}'lk
saId..He warned, however, that foreigners traveling to the
Turkish. Sout!Jeast sh~ulq apply to Kurdish representative
offices In theIr countrIes In advance, to prevent any future
complic~tions. BaYlk also said Turkish tourism revenues
were belOg used to finance Ankara's war on his Kurdish
organization, explaining this was the reason UtePKK did
liberilte killing of prisoners" by the PKK continued
."atJnate qf more than one a