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be called a terrorist?"
Aydar claimed that in todais Turkey no one
openly expressing his identIty as a Kurd had
the chance of opening the doors of the state.
"Th~ only doors of the state open to the Kurds
are those of courts and prisons," he said. .
He argued that they did not want anyone to
die but that a dialogue and debate was necessary
for a peaceful solution to the dispute.
He added, however, that "as long as Turkey
f~els i~self powerf~l and as long as the West
gives I.t weapons, a peaceful solution was
Impossible.
Aydar called for a full arms embargo to be
imposed in Turkey and was hailed by Lord
A vebul)' ~ho said this was a priority issue in
order to bnng peace to the conflict.
More attacks
DEP's Aydar also claimed that as of August
and September, Turkey would increase its
attacks OQ civilian Kurds owing to the reshuffle
which will take in the top liierarchy of the
Turkish Armed Forces. He recalled that the
current Chief of Staff had promised to end the
problem before his retirement but had failed to
âo so. "The commanders who come to power,
at the end of August," he said, "will see it as
thèir flfst task to prove themselves."
"The deputy claimed that unless the situation
could be prevented, there would be fullfledged
genocide in the Southeast and said he
feared that soon the world could come face to
fac~ with a "Rwanda-style massacre" in the
region.
Aydar said the Kurdish people were in a diffi~ult
situation and required thehelp of a
fnendly hand. "I want tbe British people to
show the s~me support that they did to the
ANC prevIOusly,' he said. "We should
demand a complete arms embargo on Turkey
until the conflict is over." .
Other participants in the high-toned meeting
in support of DEP included Brenda Nixon, of
the y.;omen Against Pit Closures, who gave a
detaIled account of what she said was her own
"horrible experience" in Turkey. ...
Famous Turkish writer Vedat Turkali was
also among the s~akers and stressed that he
supported the Kurdish people and believed that
"tlIe Turkish people will be freed only when
the Kurdish people are freed." , .
He said it was a shame for the .Tùrkish government
to b!l" the DEP and arrest its deputies.
Tbe ~eetIng .was organized as part of an
overall InterI}atlonal campaign tbe DEP bas
tauncped:-pnor to nexnveek'-s trial 'of its
deputle,s Il! Ankara .. A Sta.te. S,~curity çourt
prosecutor IS demanding the death sentence for'
all the accus~ deputies on grounds that they
made subversIve speeches. '
European HR Commission seeks
infonnation on pro-Kurdish deputies
Turkish Daily News
.ANKARA- The European Human
Rights Commission has decided to
ask for information from Turkey
abQut the six deputies - five
Democracy Party (DEP) and one
independent - who have been
detained pending their trial.
A group of European lawyers, led
by former French Foreign Minister
Roland Dumas, applied to the com-
~s~ion last month claiming that the
hftmg of the deputies' immunity
Çiller's fight for privatization proves fruitless
TDN Parliament Bureau
ANKARA- Prime Minister Tansu
Çi~er'.s h?pes.of rapid progress on the
pnvatIzatlon Issue have been dashed
again. '
The Constitutional Court has
annulled two I>rivatization laws in the
past year and Çiller has been trying to
g,et the program through for the third
time but due to the lack of a quorum
Parliament on Friday failed to vote on
the draft bill. Many DYPdeputies
oppose privatization and support the
~Iliance, formed by the .main opposition
Motherland Party (ANAP) and the
pro-Islamic Welfare Party (RP), to
~bstruct th~ passage of the privatization
draft bill by not attending parliamentary
sessions. Ç1l1er is now faced
with another disappointment. Last
year, Çiller's coalition government
passed an authorization law In
Parlia~ent to privatize some State
Enterpnses (SEE). Based on this law
the government issued decrees to start
the I>rivatization procedures. However
the C.?nstitutional Court, at t!1e request
of Mumtaz Soysal, now foreign mmister,
annulled both the authorization bill
and the subsequent decrees. Last
April, the government tried again but
With the same result, the annulment of
the law and the decrees this time at
ANAP's request. The co~rt ruled thàt
.Parliament must flfSt establish a legal
framework for the proposed legislation.
:
Çiller placed a lot of emphasis on
changes ID the tax legislation which
c~~tltute. the cor, 6{ the,.(\priI 5 ecollOmiC
atisteiity' pa\:bgè': When she
facttl problems in pâssing the changes
In tax laws, sh~ sought Soysal's views
on the preparatIon of a new authoriza-
and their detention were human
rights violations.
Meanwhile, diplomatic sources
ch~racterized the commission' s
qui~k decision as be~ng meaningful,
saYIng every month It receives hundreds
of files from European
Council member countries.
The commission also decidedto
revie~ the 'complaint of a Turkish
first heu tenant who was dismissed
from the Army dOe to his fundamentalist
activities.
t~on law prop