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turkish daily news
PKK suspect detained
while leaving Kurdish
MP.s residence
• DEP $/rnak deputy says his assistant,
who had also helped in the election
campaign, was detained
• Police claim 7 PKK suspects were
detained as they left parliamentary
residences of Kurdish MPs
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- A Kurdish origin deputy of the Turkish Parliament
revealed on Tuesday that one of his assistants was taken
into police custody last Friday.
Orhan Dolan, ~Irnak deputy of the pro-Kurdis~ Democracy
Party (DEP) told TDN that his assistant, thsan E~,
21, who had also helped him during the Oct.I99l election
campaign, was taken into custody by plainclothe.s policemen
as he left his parliamentary residence in Ankara to enter
a taxi.
Do~an said the political desk of the police, "who consider
every young Kurd as a potential criminal and a PKK militant,"
was responsible for the detention.
"Police did not give any reason for the detention, they
only said they needed a statement by Ert'4 and would release
him the same day," Dogan added. "But they are still keeping
him for the time being."
Police sources told TDN that seven people have been
taken into custody recently in Ankara, in order to investigate
their relationship with the PKK.
Police sources have claimed that the 3USpeCtShave been
staying in the residences of Dogan and DEP's Mardin De-
Wednesday, August 4, 1993,
put Y Ahmet Türk for sometime, and have been under close
surveillance for the last two weeks. They claimed that
one ~Irnak "responsible" for the PKK was among the detainees,
but declined to give any names .
.There was no report of any weapons seized from the detaInees,
but police sources said the detainees posed a threa~
in. the parliamentary residences compound in the Oran
dlstnct of Ankara where 14 of the cabinet ministers live.
The same sources said the investigation covered understanding
why the detainees had came to Ankara and whether
they sta~ed in the residences on a long term' basis:
Dogan said, on the other hand, that there was nothing
more natural for them than to host people coming from
their election region, "where people are oppressed the
most."
Zübeyir Aydar, the Siirt deputy of the DEP, told TON
that another I?EP deputy,.Mehmet Sincar (from Mardin),
had been subjected to poilce control while leaving the residence
compound with his assistant last Saturday.
"We are under surveillance, our telephones are tapped.
The security forces treat us, the deputies of the Southeast,
as.they treat people there," Aydar added. "This is a threat
to us and an open violation of our parliamentary immunity."
Mainstream daily J:lürriyet had ~eported .on Tuesday
that ~ome ~r.the par!lamentary reSidences mhabited by
Kurdls~ onglO deputies were under police surveillance,
and claimed some PKK suspects were sheltered there.
Ministers living in parliamentary residences
Interior Minister ~ehm~t. Gazio~lu, En~rgy Minister
Veys.el. Ataso).', :rounsm MInister AbdülkadIr Ate~, Culture
MInlst~r. Flkri Sa~lar, Health Minister Rlfat Serdaro~lu,
Labor MInister Melimet Mogultay, Environment Minister
Rila Akçail, Public Works Minister Onur Kumbaraclba~1
Ministers of State tbrahim Tez, Güne~ Müftüoglu Meh~
met Kahraman, Mustafa Çiloglu, Ahmet ~anal, and ~ükrü
Erdern.
Iraqi Deputy PM Aziz to visit Iran
Reuters
NICOSIA- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq
Aziz will visit Iran for talks with President Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani, Tehran's Resalat newspaper
reported.
Resalat quoted infomied sources for the report
but gave no dates for the visit which would be the
first top-level meeting between the two former war
enemies in more than two years. Iranian Foreign
Ministry officials were not Immediately available
for comment. Resalat said Ba,ghdad had proposed
that Aziz travel to Tehran to diSCUSS"bilateral relations
and some issues of interest" with Rafsanjani
and other officials.
"Iran has accepted the request for talks with Iraqi
officials and has called for sorting out the fate of
the prisoners of war," Resalat said. Iran favored the
exchange of all captives by both sides at one' go, it
said. The two countries swapped some 75.000
POWs in 1990 after Iraqi President Saddam Husse-
in conceded Iran's terms for fonnally ending their
bruising 1980-88 conflict. Iran. which holds up to
20,000 Iraqi captives, says Iraq is still holding up
to 5,000 Iranians. Baghdad dernes it is holding any
Iranians against their will.
Aziz an(J other Iraqi leaders made several visits
to Iran in 1990 and 1991, but relations soured
when Baghdad accused Tehran of instigating an
uprising 6y Shiites in southern Iraq after the 1991
Gulf War. Iran renewed calls for Saddam's overthrow.
Iran's Interior Ministry said 4,000 Iraqi Shiite
Muslims, their livelihood threatened by Ba~hdad's
draining of southern marshes, had crossed lOto
Iran since last month and another 40,000 could
follow.
In recent months Iran has accused Baghdad of
sending saboteurs across the border. Iraq lias denounced
Iranian "aggression," citin~ air raids on bases
of the Iranian dissident Mujahldeen Khalq group
and shelling of Kurdish areas.
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