Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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 ÖZETÎ<br />
Prisons full of writers and publishers<br />
OkçuogIu, sentenced to five months and fined TL 43 million,<br />
had postponed his sentence to June 7 by paying TL Il million bail<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Apart from writers,<br />
more and more publishers are now<br />
being sent to prison. The writer Fikr<strong>et</strong><br />
Ba~kaya is currently in prison for his<br />
book entitled "The ColIapse of the<br />
Paradigm." Ba~kaya's publisher has<br />
now suffered the same fate. The owner<br />
of the Doz publishin~ company that<br />
brought out Baskaya s book, lawyer<br />
M. Selim Okçuoglu, is now serving a<br />
five-month sentence in Gemlik Prison.<br />
Ok~uoglu, sentencèd to five months<br />
and fmed TL 43 million, had postponed<br />
his sentence to June 7 by paying<br />
TL Il million bail. He will serve his<br />
sentence at the same prison as his<br />
brother, Ahm<strong>et</strong> Zeki Okçuoglu, who<br />
has been imprisoned for one of his<br />
articles.<br />
Ismail Be~ikçiis currently serving a<br />
sentence in Ankara Central Prison.<br />
The case against him was heard at the<br />
Istanbul Second State Security Court<br />
(SSC).<br />
Charged un<strong>de</strong>r the Anti-Terrorism<br />
Law, Be~ikçi was found guilty of<br />
preaching separatism and was sentenced<br />
to two years in prison and a<br />
fine of TL 250 million for one of his<br />
articles in the monthly magazine Yeni<br />
Insan, entitled "Turkey is not in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
anyway." The own~ ~~4~ditor<br />
of the magazine was also sentenced to<br />
six months and fined TL 50 million.<br />
There are other cases of punishments<br />
being imposed on socialist<br />
newspapers and magazines. Murat<br />
Fighting flares anew among<br />
Iraqi Kords, Iran accused<br />
Associated Press<br />
NICOSIA- FiJiliting b<strong>et</strong>ween the two<br />
main Kurdish factions in Iraq flared<br />
again Tuesday in northern Iraq, and<br />
nei~hboring Iran was accused of stepping<br />
up It~ involvement ~n the conflict. The<br />
KurdIstan Democratie Party (KDP) and<br />
the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)<br />
blamed each other for starting the fighting<br />
which shattered a weekend cease-frre<br />
agreement.<br />
Spokesmen for the groups said the<br />
clashes centered around Qala Oiza, 60<br />
miles (100 kilom<strong>et</strong>ers) east of Irbil, seat<br />
of the government of the quasi-in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
enclave established by the U.S.-led<br />
alliance after the 1991 Gulf War.<br />
PUK officials accused the Iranian<br />
Revolutionary Guards.of supporting the<br />
KOP and two pro-Iranian Islamic<br />
Kurdish groups allied with it. The KOP<br />
<strong>de</strong>nies this, although the PUK allegation<br />
is supported by Western relief agencies<br />
in the re~ion. Mohammed Tofiq, humanitarian<br />
aId minister in the enclave's ~overnment,<br />
ap{lCaledto the United Nations<br />
and international relief agencies to help<br />
nearly 30,000 Kurds displaced by the<br />
fighting.<br />
Tofiq, aPUK member, also called for<br />
international pressure on Iran to with.<br />
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Ye~ihrmak, the owner and editor of<br />
the newspaper Media Güne~i, was<br />
arrested by the Istanbul SSC and<br />
accused of preaching separatism in<br />
certain articfes which appeared in the<br />
May 16-31 edition of his newspaper.<br />
The 118th edition of another socialist<br />
newspaper, Emegin Bayragl, was<br />
seized because of two of its articles,<br />
entitled "Emergency Rule that has<br />
come to be a habit" and "Foul scenes<br />
of war," which were claimed to have<br />
preached separatism. The owner of the<br />
BeIge. publIshing company, Ay~enur<br />
Zarakolu, the owner of the Zagros<br />
publishing house, Nabi Barut and the<br />
owner of the Soron publishing house,<br />
Zeki Okçuoglu had previously been<br />
imprisoned.<br />
draw from the area. He said Iranian<br />
Revolutionary Guards had crossed the<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r and seized four villa~es in the<br />
Penjwin region, 30 miles (50 kilom<strong>et</strong>ers)<br />
east of Suleimaniah, the enclave's main<br />
city.<br />
He said that the efforts by the two<br />
Kurdish ~rou s to end the bloodshed<br />
would be s ed up if "outsi<strong>de</strong> interference<br />
ceas .." The enclave was s<strong>et</strong> up to<br />
protect Kurds from attack by Saddam<br />
Hussein after an ill-fated uprising at the<br />
end of the Gulf war. The enclave is protected<br />
by U.S., British and French warplanes<br />
based in neighboring Turkey.<br />
The fighting threatens to wreck the<br />
attempt by Iraq's 3.5 million Kurds to<br />
establIsh the autonomous homeland they<br />
have struggled to s<strong>et</strong> up for <strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong>s.<br />
The PUK and KOP, which can each<br />
muster 10,000 har:d-core guerrillas, are<br />
traditional rivals who have clashed<br />
repeatedly in the past. They agreed to<br />
share pdwer in the enclave after emerging<br />
roughly equal in parliamentary elec.<br />
tions last year. But in recent months they<br />
have split over power-sharing and on<br />
how to <strong>de</strong>al with Baghdad, as ~':ell as<br />
Iran and Turkey, whIch are~î'applin$<br />
with their own separatist Kir.üh ID1nonties.