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turkish daily news Friday, June 3, 1994
PUK leader Talabani travels to Northern Iraq over Turkey
'Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader provided with Turkish helicopter to travel t~,Irbil
roH with Wire Dispatches
ANKARA- Jaiai Talabani, the leader of one
of the main Iraqi Kurdish_groups, the Patriotic ,
Union of KurdIstan (PUK), who has been in
Syria since rival Kurdish groupsengaged in
fiJd1ting in his homeland at the beginmng of
May, arrived in northern Iraq on Thursday.
, Talabani entered Nusaybin, a Turkish town
on the Syrian border, from Syria and a Turkish
helicopter flew him into IrbiI in northern Iraq.
He was scheduled to meet with Massoud
Barzani, the leader of the rival group, the
Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), later ID the
day, Shazad Saib, the PUK representative in
Ankara was quoted by the Associated Press as
saying. Turkey arranged for Talabani's return
•to his homeland after the PUK requested help.
He has been away from northern Iraq since
AprillO. Fighting broke .out between the PUK
and forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party
(KDP) in early May.
Turkey is concerned over the political
uncertainty in northern Iraq. ..
The Turkish government says IllS only to
the benefit of Turkey's Kurdish guerrillas,
which hold bases in northern Iraq, as part of
their fight for autonomy in, south,eastern
Turkey. Iraqi Kurds have had a de façto state
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in northern Iraq since the ena of the Gulf War.
Saib said Talabani accepted a Turkish offer
to hold a joint meeting with Barzani and
Turkish authorities in Arikara next week. The
KDP' s response was not immediately known,
A similar meeting, without Talabani and
Barzani, took place in another Turkish border
town, Silopi, on Monday.
The Turkish authorines have been pushing
the PUK and the KDP to reach a lasting polincal
solution. A cease-fire has been holding in
the area in northern Iraq since Monday, Saib
said. "I hope there will be no more skirmishes
with the return of Mr. Talabani," he said.
Meanwhile officials have reported that the
fighting between Kurdish groups eased on
Wednesday as a cease-fire took hold after
Monday's meeting in Silopi.
"It's quiet everywhere today," PUK
spokesman Barham Saleh was quoted by the
Associated Press as saying on Wednesday. A
spokesman for the rival KDP, Ahmed, Aziz,
for his part was quoted as saying: "disengagement
of forces is also taking place." ,
Both Washington-based officials were con.
'tacted by telephone. Heavy fighting had
threatened to destroy the quasi-independent
Kurdish enclave where tlie Iraqi National
Coùncil, à colllition öf movements seeking-to'
topple Saddam Hussein, is headquartered.
The PUK and representatives of western aid ,
organizations in the region reporte,d that "
Iranian Revolutionary Guar~s, along wIth two
Tehran-backed Islamtc Kurdish groups, fought
on the side of the KDP, led by Massouti
,Barzani.
The KDP denied any Iranian involvement.
The enclave was set up by the U.S.-led allies
after the 1991 Gulf War to protect the Kurds,
,from Baghdad's wrath following an ill-fated,
uprising. It is protected by U,S., British and
French warplanes based in Turkey.
There have beenno accurate casualty
reports since the fighting started May lover a
land dispute. Saleh and other Kurdish officials
last week estimated there were between 100
and 250 dead. But Iran's officiallslamic
Republic News Agency said Tuesday that
some 4,000 people had been killed and hundreds
more wounded.The PUK and the KDP,
, which can each muster about 10,000 hard-core
guerrillas, are traditional rivals who have
clashed repeatedly in the past. They buried
their differences and agreed to share power
after.emerging. roughly equal in parliamentary
electlO~ heidin the enclave last year.
Interpol accepts PKKas illegal terrorist organization
,Turkish Daily News
, ANTAL YA- The two-day meeting of an Interpol working ,
group on "terrorism in Europe and drugs" ended in Antalya , Dormer DID Dp1i~vz'ncza'1
on Thursday. At a press conference, Turkish Police Director r I ne V
Mehmet Agar said that the 19 parti~ipating I?ember coun- la' , UTfi
tries had reached a consensus on the PKK bemg an mlerna. haz'rman s z'nzn a
' tionalterrorist or~anization i~volved in the killings ~f i~no- C ' , ,
,.cent pe~p.le, raisl~g money Illeg.!lll~ fo~.the orgamza,l1on,
blackmading andJllegai drug traffiçkipg. ." ,,', ,., ,
't~~~~~~ss~ri:eg~~~e;~~e6~;~~~~~~:~s ~i~3:'.
s.mcethe 1970s.."The Turkish Polic~ Department has esta~lished
an effecnve tearn to deal WIth these groups and IS
technicallyvery experiencèd," he said. 'o. " ,
The working ~oup a~ to establish new bureaus ID 10
European,counlnes to oeal m~re effecti~e1ywith the terror~
ist organization. Furthermore, It was decided to set up a ne:-v
working group to stop terrorist activities by the PKK ID .
touristic regions. ' . .
Re~resentatives from: Germany, ,Belgium, Austna,
Bosma, Italy, Denmark, France, Holland, Englan,d" '
Azerbaijan, Swit~erla. n~, Spai~,Sweden, !"1ace(loma,
',Norway; ':P9rtugal;:Sloverna, ~lU.Qe',and 63' ~ferenl dele-,;
gati~ns fr0!D.Turkey along W!th rep~esental1ves from the
ForeIgn MiniStry and the anl1-terronsm squad agreed on
harsher measures to tackle international drug trafficking. ,
Turkish Daily News ,."
ANKARA- Muhsin Çelik, former Urfa rrovmclal charr-
,man of the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party (UEP) and one of
thë founding members of the People's Democracy' Party
,(HADEP), and his driver died after an armed attack ID Urfa
on Thursday; .
" DEP Deputy Chainn~n Kem~l Bilget clalI~ed that before
Melik was operated on m hOSpItal,~e told hiS,brothe~s that
, he had been shot by' plainclothes poltcemen. Bdget satd that
the killing of Mehk was another example of the unsolved
murders m the region. Tight security measures wer~ tak~n
in the city followmg the mcident. Urfa Govern~r Ziaeddin
Bulut saiâ bullets which were fired from two pIstols were
found at scene of the crime. He added ~at since the gunmen
were masked, they could not,be.ldentl.fied. Before
, Sept. 12, 1980, Melik served ~~J?rovmclal chamnan for the
, Republican People's Party (CHf). After 1980, he served as
provincial chairman for the SOÇlalDemocrat People's Party
, (SHP), the People's Labor P~ (~P) and the DEP. '
Meanwhile Mehmet Nun Denuralp, one of the teachers
at Diyarbalois Atatürk H~ghSchool, ~as s~riously wound-
, ed in an,armed attack carned out by urndenl1fied people.