Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

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