Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RIVISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
turkish daily news Wednesday, June 8,1994/<br />
PM Tansu Çiller says Provi<strong>de</strong> Comfort's<br />
advantages outweigh its disadvantages<br />
KDP lea<strong>de</strong>r ßarzani says<br />
experiment in autonomy for<br />
Kurds a 'failure' and calls for<br />
UN supervision for region<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Prime Minister TansuÇiller has said<br />
that the operation known as "Provi<strong>de</strong> Comfort,"<br />
which is <strong>de</strong>ployed in southeast Turkey to protect<br />
the Kurds and other minorities in northern Iraq<br />
against the wrath of the Iraqi army, is of more use<br />
than harm as far as Turkish mterests are concerned.<br />
"It has been seen that the harm which will accrue<br />
from ending this operation will be much greater,"<br />
Çi11er said when addressin8- the parliamentary<br />
group of herTrue Path Party (DYP) on Tuesday.<br />
Meanwhile, the lea<strong>de</strong>r of one of the main<br />
Kurdish factions in northern Iraq, Massoud<br />
Barzani of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KOP),<br />
has said that the Kurdish experiment in autonomy<br />
has been a failure and has called on the United<br />
Nations to supervise the region. .<br />
Çiller was sp'eaking a day after the National<br />
Security CouncIl m<strong>et</strong> on Monday in an extraordi.<br />
nary session to <strong>de</strong>bate wh<strong>et</strong>her the mandate of<br />
Provi<strong>de</strong> Comfort, due to expire at the end of June,<br />
should be exten<strong>de</strong>d. The mandate is usually<br />
exten<strong>de</strong>d for six months..<br />
It was <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d at the end of the me<strong>et</strong>ing, chaired<br />
by Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Süleyman Demirel and atten<strong>de</strong>d by<br />
Prime Minister Çiller, the Chief of the General<br />
Staff Gen. Dogan Güre~, and other Cabin<strong>et</strong> ministers,<br />
high-ranking military and civilian officials, to<br />
advise the government to extend the mandate.<br />
"The council <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d that there had been no<br />
<strong>de</strong>velopments concerning the general situation in<br />
northern Iraq to warrant ending the Provi<strong>de</strong><br />
Comfort operation," a statement issued after the<br />
me<strong>et</strong>ing Said.<br />
Prime Minister Tansu Çiller<br />
Demiral: Indictment of DEP MPs<br />
will be compl<strong>et</strong>ed by mid June<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA. Nus~<strong>et</strong> DemiraI, !he chief prosecutor of the<br />
Ankara ~tate .Secunty Court, saId Tuesday that the indictment<br />
~hich ~s office had prepared against the six arrested<br />
<strong>de</strong>pul1es, flve of whom are from the pro-Kurdish<br />
Democracy Party (DEP), would be compl<strong>et</strong>ed by June) 5 at<br />
the latest.<br />
In a statement to the Anatolia news agency, Demiral said<br />
The ultimate <strong>de</strong>cision on wh<strong>et</strong>her to permit the<br />
75 U.S., British and French aircraft to remain at a<br />
Turkish base will be ma<strong>de</strong> by Parliament before<br />
the end of this month.<br />
Çil1ertold the DYP <strong>de</strong>puties on Tuesday that the<br />
establishment of peace and stability in northern<br />
Iraq was of the utmost importance for Turkey.<br />
She ad<strong>de</strong>d, however, that it was important to<br />
preserve Iraq's territorial integrity in doing this.<br />
Indicating that Turkey had always been prepared<br />
to shoul<strong>de</strong>r its international obligations,