Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA çAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
turkish daily news Friday, June 3, 1994<br />
PUK lea<strong>de</strong>r Talabani travels to Northern Iraq over Turkey<br />
'Patriotic Union of Kurdistan lea<strong>de</strong>r provi<strong>de</strong>d with Turkish helicopter to travel t~,Irbil<br />
roH with Wire Dispatches<br />
ANKARA- Jaiai Talabani, the lea<strong>de</strong>r of one<br />
of the main Iraqi Kurdish_groups, the Patriotic ,<br />
Union of KurdIstan (PUK), who has been in<br />
Syria since rival Kurdish groupsengaged in<br />
fiJd1ting in his homeland at the beginmng of<br />
May, arrived in northern Iraq on Thursday.<br />
, Talabani entered Nusaybin, a Turkish town<br />
on the Syrian bor<strong>de</strong>r, from Syria and a Turkish<br />
helicopter flew him into IrbiI in northern Iraq.<br />
He was scheduled to me<strong>et</strong> with Massoud<br />
Barzani, the lea<strong>de</strong>r of the rival group, the<br />
Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), later ID the<br />
day, Shazad Saib, the PUK representative in<br />
Ankara was quoted by the Associated Press as<br />
saying. Turkey arranged for Talabani's r<strong>et</strong>urn<br />
•to his homeland after the PUK requested help.<br />
He has been away from northern Iraq since<br />
AprillO. Fighting broke .out b<strong>et</strong>ween the PUK<br />
and forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party<br />
(KDP) in early May.<br />
Turkey is concerned over the political<br />
uncertainty in northern Iraq. ..<br />
The Turkish government says IllS only to<br />
the benefit of Turkey's Kurdish guerrillas,<br />
which hold bases in northern Iraq, as part of<br />
their fight for autonomy in, south,eastern<br />
Turkey. Iraqi Kurds have had a <strong>de</strong> façto state<br />
24<br />
in northern Iraq since the ena of the Gulf War.<br />
Saib said Talabani accepted a Turkish offer<br />
to hold a joint me<strong>et</strong>ing with Barzani and<br />
Turkish authorities in Arikara next week. The<br />
KDP' s response was not immediately known,<br />
A similar me<strong>et</strong>ing, without Talabani and<br />
Barzani, took place in another Turkish bor<strong>de</strong>r<br />
town, Silopi, on Monday.<br />
The Turkish authorines have been pushing<br />
the PUK and the KDP to reach a lasting polincal<br />
solution. A cease-fire has been holding in<br />
the area in northern Iraq since Monday, Saib<br />
said. "I hope there will be no more skirmishes<br />
with the r<strong>et</strong>urn of Mr. Talabani," he said.<br />
Meanwhile officials have reported that the<br />
fighting b<strong>et</strong>ween Kurdish groups eased on<br />
Wednesday as a cease-fire took hold after<br />
Monday's me<strong>et</strong>ing in Silopi.<br />
"It's qui<strong>et</strong> everywhere today," PUK<br />
spokesman Barham Saleh was quoted by the<br />
Associated Press as saying on Wednesday. A<br />
spokesman for the rival KDP, Ahmed, Aziz,<br />
for his part was quoted as saying: "disengagement<br />
of forces is also taking place." ,<br />
Both Washington-based officials were con.<br />
'tacted by telephone. Heavy fighting had<br />
threatened to <strong>de</strong>stroy the quasi-in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Kurdish enclave where tlie Iraqi National<br />
Coùncil, à colllition öf movements seeking-to'<br />
topple Saddam Hussein, is headquartered.<br />
The PUK and representatives of western aid ,<br />
organizations in the region reporte,d that "<br />
Iranian Revolutionary Guar~s, along wIth two<br />
Tehran-backed Islamtc Kurdish groups, fought<br />
on the si<strong>de</strong> of the KDP, led by Massouti<br />
,Barzani.<br />
The KDP <strong>de</strong>nied any Iranian involvement.<br />
The enclave was s<strong>et</strong> up by the U.S.-led allies<br />
after the 1991 Gulf War to protect the Kurds,<br />
,from Baghdad's wrath following an ill-fated,<br />
uprising. It is protected by U,S., British and<br />
French warplanes based in Turkey.<br />
There have beenno accurate casualty<br />
reports since the fighting started May lover a<br />
land dispute. Saleh and other Kurdish officials<br />
last week estimated there were b<strong>et</strong>ween 100<br />
and 250 <strong>de</strong>ad. But Iran's officiallslamic<br />
Republic News Agency said Tuesday that<br />
some 4,000 people had been killed and hundreds<br />
more woun<strong>de</strong>d.The PUK and the KDP,<br />
, which can each muster about 10,000 hard-core<br />
guerrillas, are traditional rivals who have<br />
clashed repeatedly in the past. They buried<br />
their differences and agreed to share power<br />
after.emerging. roughly equal in parliamentary<br />
electlO~ heidin the enclave last year.<br />
Interpol accepts PKKas illegal terrorist organization<br />
,Turkish Daily News<br />
, ANTAL YA- The two-day me<strong>et</strong>ing of an Interpol working ,<br />
group on "terrorism in Europe and drugs" en<strong>de</strong>d in Antalya , Dormer DID Dp1i~vz'ncza'1<br />
on Thursday. At a press conference, Turkish Police Director r I ne V<br />
Mehm<strong>et</strong> Agar said that the 19 parti~ipating I?ember coun- la' , UTfi<br />
tries had reached a consensus on the PKK bemg an mlerna. haz'rman s z'nzn a<br />
' tionalterrorist or~anization i~volved in the killings ~f i~no- C ' , ,<br />
,.cent pe~p.le, raisl~g money Illeg.!lll~ fo~.the orgamza,l1on,<br />
blackmading andJllegai drug traffiçkipg. ." ,,', ,., ,<br />
't~~~~~~ss~ri:eg~~~e;~~e6~;~~~~~~:~s ~i~3:'.<br />
s.mc<strong>et</strong>he 1970s.."The Turkish Polic~ Department has esta~lished<br />
an effecnve tearn to <strong>de</strong>al WIth these groups and IS<br />
technicallyvery experiencèd," he said. 'o. " ,<br />
The working ~oup a~ to establish new bureaus ID 10<br />
European,counlnes to oeal m~re effecti~e1ywith the terror~<br />
ist organization. Furthermore, It was <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to s<strong>et</strong> up a ne:-v<br />
working group to stop terrorist activities by the PKK ID .<br />
touristic regions. ' . .<br />
Re~resentatives from: Germany, ,Belgium, Austna,<br />
Bosma, Italy, Denmark, France, Holland, Englan,d" '<br />
Azerbaijan, Swit~erla. n~, Spai~,Swe<strong>de</strong>n, !"1ace(loma,<br />
',Norway; ':P9rtugal;:Sloverna, ~lU.Qe',and 63' ~ferenl <strong>de</strong>le-,;<br />
gati~ns fr0!D.Turkey along W!th rep~esental1ves from the<br />
ForeIgn MiniStry and the anl1-terronsm squad agreed on<br />
harsher measures to tackle international drug trafficking. ,<br />
Turkish Daily News ,."<br />
ANKARA- Muhsin Çelik, former Urfa rrovmclal charr-<br />
,man of the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party (UEP) and one of<br />
thë founding members of the People's Democracy' Party<br />
,(HADEP), and his driver died after an armed attack ID Urfa<br />
on Thursday; .<br />
" DEP Deputy Chainn~n Kem~l Bilg<strong>et</strong> clalI~ed that before<br />
Melik was operated on m hOSpItal,~e told hiS,brothe~s that<br />
, he had been shot by' plainclothes poltcemen. Bdg<strong>et</strong> satd that<br />
the killing of Mehk was another example of the unsolved<br />
mur<strong>de</strong>rs m the region. Tight security measures wer~ tak~n<br />
in the city followmg the mci<strong>de</strong>nt. Urfa Govern~r Ziaeddin<br />
Bulut saiâ bull<strong>et</strong>s which were fired from two pIstols were<br />
found at scene of the crime. He ad<strong>de</strong>d ~at since the gunmen<br />
were masked, they could not,be.l<strong>de</strong>ntl.fied. Before<br />
, Sept. 12, 1980, Melik served ~~J?rovmclal chamnan for the<br />
, Republican People's Party (CHf). After 1980, he served as<br />
provincial chairman for the SOÇlalDemocrat People's Party<br />
, (SHP), the People's Labor P~ (~P) and the DEP. '<br />
Meanwhile Mehm<strong>et</strong> Nun Denuralp, one of the teachers<br />
at Diyarbalois Atatürk H~ghSchool, ~as s~riously wound-<br />
, ed in an,armed attack carned out by urn<strong>de</strong>nl1fied people.