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Senate passes the Foreign Aid Bill
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Le Figaro - 16 juillet 1994
TURQUIE
Next stop for H.R. 4426 is the Conference Committee .65 morts -
en deux jours
By U~urAkmtl
Turkish Daily News
~ o Soixante-cinq personnes
WASHINGTON- The U.S. 0\ (cinquante-deux rebelles ,.
......
Senate passed on Friday, 84-9, the
k.u.rd.es.et treize s.oldats) ont
Foreign Aid Bill H.R. 4426 which . eo. .été tuees depuis mercredi
..... . ~ans "est et le sud-est anato- ,
allocates $364,500,000 of direct
loans to Turkey. The bill will provide ~ hens lors d'accrochages entre
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forces de l'ordre et militants du
a total of $13.7 billion in aid to for- P.arti des travailleurs du Kureißn
countries - an amount $632 ~ dlstan (p.KK. séparatiste), a-tmIllion
less than what's proposed in
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on appris de sources oHi-
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the 1994 U.S. budget. Turkey's share
clelles.
represents 2.7 percent of thIS year's
:@.
total U.S. foreign aid and is about 25
percent less than
received last year.
what Turkey
The Senate draft of the bill has ,
eliminated a sentence that required a
7-to-1O ratio in aid to Greece and
Turkey. But Greece is nevertheless
given $255,150,000- which is
Jirance-Soir
16 juillet 1994
e.xactlJ 70 !tercent of the aid earmarke
for urkey.
Senators also toneddown. the language
introduced by the House con-
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Accrochages.
cerning the restrictions placed on 25 sanglants
lfercent of the aid earmarked for
urkey; THe House asked that 25 Soixante-cinq personnes ont
ßercent be withheld until the State été tuées de?euis mercredi
epartment and the Pentagon were dans l'est et e sud-l;!st (Ie la
convinced that 6 rogress was being Turquie, lors d'accrochages
made on the y~rus and human entre forces de l'ordre et mi-
rights issues. The. enale deleted that 'litants du Parti des travailleurs
duKllrdistan.
wordi1 but later on stipulated that 37 rebelles kurdes et 13 sol
the U. . arms could not be used by dats ont été tués à Kagiz-
Turkey "for internal securitt< purpos- man, près de Kars (est).
es," i.e. a~ainst the PK in the Quinze autres rebelles ont
Southeast. he final Senate version
CZ)
reads that the U.S: military equipment
can not be used "in violation of ~
internationallaw"- a much less ~
demanding re~uirement. Prime
Minister Tansu Iller went on record
as saying Turkey will not accept U.S.
aid if it comes with anb conditions.
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attached. Turkish Am assador to ....c::
Washington Nüzhet Kandemir joined
ÇilIer and told TON that Turkey
~
might indeed reject such an aid. The B
bill also prOVIdes $3 billion for.
Israel, $2.1 billion for Egypt, $802 million for Sub-Saharan Africa,
$539 million for East Europe, $450 million for international family
~anning proÔrams, $75 million for Armenia, $50 million for
eorgia, $8 million for Palestinians, $5 million for the
Transcaucasus Fund and $839 million for the former Soviet states.
Rossia will be denied U.S. aid if by August 31 it does not withdraw
its troops from the Baltic countries or reach ari agreement to
do so.
Since the House and Senate versions of the bill are different, it
été tués lors d'opérations sur
la frontière turco-irakienne
au sud des villes de Hakkari
et Sir.nJlk.
L'Humanité-16juillet 1994
TURQUIE. Soixante-cinq
pel'sonnes, dont 13 soldats,
ont été tuées depuis mercredi
dans le sud-est de la Turquie,
lors d'accrochages entre les
forces armées et les militants du '.'
Parti des travailleurs du
.Kurdis.tan (PKK).
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will soon be forwarded to the Conference Committee which will
~ive the bill its final shape. The bill can become law only after it
as been discussed and accepted at the Conference Committee.