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