Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Thursday, July 28,1994<br />
turlcish daily news<br />
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Amnesty says villagers moved from Hakkari internment camp<br />
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tion," Amnesty said.<br />
It ad<strong>de</strong>d that villagers trying to flee were<br />
being turned back. "They have not been<br />
charged with any offence and Amnesty<br />
International is appealing that they be allowed<br />
to leave. .<br />
There have been reports that villagers have<br />
been beaten in Evrek. The lack of JH:Oper registration<br />
also exposes them to the nsk of disappearance."<br />
It is un<strong>de</strong>rstood that the villagers were<br />
moved from Evrek after Amnesty's report<br />
which was published in length on Monday in<br />
theTDN.<br />
In other <strong>de</strong>velopment, Amnesty on Tuesday<br />
called off its previous urgent action related to<br />
Mehm<strong>et</strong> Tabak (40), his daughter Nebile<br />
Tabak, (18), Hatun Temiz (18), Esmer Çlrak<br />
(16) and Gülistan Büyük<strong>de</strong>re (\6), who were<br />
<strong>de</strong>tained by Turkish security forces from a viI.<br />
lage in Igdir earlier.<br />
Amnesty International said it had received<br />
information thai lhe above-named people had<br />
all been released.<br />
in the province.<br />
The. statement said at least two "containment<br />
areas" had been s<strong>et</strong> up by roilitary troops<br />
in the region and that one of these was based<br />
in Evrek and still held villagers.<br />
'These <strong>de</strong>tentions," said Amnesty referring<br />
to the containment process, "occurred in the<br />
course of the burning and brutal evacuation of<br />
Kurdish villages during military operations<br />
against guernllas of the Kurdish Workers'<br />
Party (PKK), and the s<strong>et</strong>ting up of containment<br />
areas in which displaced villagers are<br />
being held in aepalling conditions."<br />
Amnesty c1armed a number of villages surrounding<br />
Evrek had been forcibly evacuated<br />
and many houses and crops had been burned<br />
by securIty forces because of the villagers'<br />
refusal to join the system of village guards<br />
(villagers paid and armed by the government<br />
to combat PKK militants). .<br />
"The villagers' i<strong>de</strong>ntity cards have been<br />
confiscated, effectively <strong>de</strong>taining them as any.<br />
one moving about in the area without proper<br />
i<strong>de</strong>ntification faces the risk of interrogatIon for<br />
illegal activities or even extrajudicial execu-<br />
Kurdish vill~es i<strong>de</strong>ntified as Aksu (Biloh),<br />
Binlersan «(,:içekli) and Derzengin, near<br />
Geçitli were evacuated by force on July 22 and<br />
some of the houses had been <strong>de</strong>stroyed.<br />
. "The villagers tried to move to Van and<br />
Hakkari, but were prevented by the security<br />
forces who re~edly are holding them by the<br />
road near Geçltl~" Amnesty said.<br />
It ad<strong>de</strong>d that these villagers, like those living<br />
around Evrek, belonged also to the<br />
Marnhuran tribe.<br />
There.were re}J?rtsthat the local representative<br />
of the Turkish Human Rights Association<br />
has repeatedly asked for a me<strong>et</strong>ing with the<br />
governor of Hakkari province, but his requests<br />
have been <strong>de</strong>nied.<br />
In an urgent appeal for action issued at the<br />
weekend, Amnesty had i<strong>de</strong>ntified Cemil<br />
Timur, Zeydin Timur and ~evk<strong>et</strong> Timur of the<br />
Evrek village in Beytussebap, Hakkari, as<br />
being among those recently <strong>de</strong>tained. ~tnamed<br />
Hasan Ay.kut,Fehim Yalçm, Saadi Özlil and<br />
Osman Ozlü among the 1,500 villagers,<br />
including women and children, who were<br />
taken by troops to a specific containment area<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
LONDON- An urgent appeal for action<br />
issued by Amnesty International on<br />
Wednesdaysaid that approximately 1,500 villagers<br />
held un<strong>de</strong>r arbItrary <strong>de</strong>tention in the<br />
province of Hakkari by Turkish troops had<br />
been moved from a temporary contamment<br />
camp to another region. .<br />
Amnesty officials said the villagers, including<br />
women .and children, were all moved from<br />
the camp in Evrek in Beytussebap region<br />
where they were being held until thç organization<br />
i<strong>de</strong>ntified the area in a weekend statement.<br />
The issue was raised on international<br />
platforms last week after the Turkish Daily<br />
News covered allegations that at least two<br />
internment camps were s<strong>et</strong> up.<br />
It was alsodlscussed ext~nsively in a me<strong>et</strong>ing<br />
organized with Kurdish representatives last<br />
Fnday in Washington by the U.S. Commission<br />
on Securityand Cooperation in Europe. The<br />
organization said that the villagerS were forced<br />
to move to the Mezra village which was "a<br />
couple of hours walk away from Evrek."<br />
It claimed, meanwhile, that three more<br />
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