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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZET;<br />
( LE NOUVEAU QUOTIDIEN - 23 juin 1994 )<br />
La Turquie<br />
mise en accusation<br />
Action à Strasbourg enfaveur <strong>de</strong>s députés kur<strong>de</strong>s<br />
après un rapport d'Amnesty.<br />
Quatorze avocats euro- en faveur <strong>de</strong> six députés kur<strong>de</strong>s<br />
péens, dont les anciens <strong>de</strong> Turquie. Ils ont par ailIeurs<br />
ministres socialistes <strong>de</strong>mandé au Conseil <strong>de</strong> susfrançais<br />
Ségolène Royal pendre la Turquie en tant qu'un<br />
<strong>et</strong> Roland Dumas, ont déposé à <strong>de</strong> ses 32 membres, considérant<br />
Strasbourg une requête <strong>de</strong>vant que sa politique vis-à-vis <strong>de</strong> la .<br />
la Commission <strong>de</strong>s droits <strong>de</strong> communauté kur<strong>de</strong> contrevient<br />
l'Homme du Conseil <strong>de</strong> J'Europe aux principes Condame'ntaux <strong>de</strong><br />
la défiiocratie.<br />
En mars <strong>de</strong>rnier, l'Assemblée<br />
nationale turque avait levé l'immunité<br />
<strong>de</strong> six députés d'origine<br />
kur<strong>de</strong>, décision confirmée ultérieurement<br />
par la Cour constitutionnene.<br />
Les six, dont cinq membres. du<br />
DEP(accusé par le gouvern~~ent<br />
d'être un paravent du PKK)<strong>et</strong> un<br />
non-inscrit, sont détenus <strong>de</strong>puis<br />
.lors <strong>et</strong> encourent la peine <strong>de</strong><br />
mort.<br />
Mais Ankara ne se laisse paS<br />
impressionner <strong>et</strong> a rej<strong>et</strong>é hier un<br />
rapport d'Amnesty International<br />
l'accusant <strong>de</strong> graves violations<br />
<strong>de</strong>s droits <strong>de</strong> l'homme, notamment<br />
dans le sud-est anatolien à<br />
Turkey state oil output<br />
affected by Kurdish revolt<br />
By Suna Er<strong>de</strong>m<br />
Reuters<br />
ANKARA- Turkey's state-run oil company<br />
expects cru<strong>de</strong> output to show no increase<br />
in 1994, mainly due to a Kurdish revolt in<br />
the southeast, the main oil-producing area.<br />
"We expect production in 1994 to be<br />
about the same as last year at just un<strong>de</strong>r<br />
three million tones - no fall but unfortunately<br />
no rise," SakI Sancar, general manager<br />
of Türk P<strong>et</strong>rolleri Anomm Ortakhgl<br />
Snk<strong>et</strong>i (TPAO), told Reuters. Most of<br />
turkey's oil wells are in the southeast,<br />
where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)<br />
guerrillas have been fighting for an in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
slate for the past 10 years.<br />
"It would be wrong to say it is entirely<br />
due to the PKK," Sancar said of TPAO's<br />
difficulty in raising production. "But they<br />
are certainly a factor ...There have been a<br />
couple of sabotage actions against our facilities,<br />
but no direct attacks on staff. Now the<br />
security forces have more control of the<br />
area, conditions have r<strong>et</strong>urned to normal."<br />
U,S. Mobil Corp suspen<strong>de</strong>d operations in<br />
the southeast in September, citing PKK<br />
attacks and extortion.<br />
Sancar said TPAO planned extensive<br />
exploration in the southeast, where it now<br />
produces about 54,000 barrels per day<br />
(bpd), and hoped to boost output in the second<br />
half of 1994. Total output, including<br />
that of foreign firms, was about 4.2 million<br />
tones, me<strong>et</strong>ing less than 20 percent of<br />
domestic needs. "Im~rts are about 20 million<br />
tones per year,' Sancar said. "Thanks<br />
to increased consumption this rises annually<br />
- it is a huge drain on the country's ~urrency<br />
reserves."<br />
Sancar said the treasury would make limited<br />
savings if Turkey were allowed to<br />
pump trapped oil out of a disused Iraqi<br />
export pipeline and flush it to prevent possible<br />
corrosion. The plan, y<strong>et</strong> to receive U.N.<br />
approval, would provi<strong>de</strong> Turkey with up to<br />
36 million barrels of oil for its own use.<br />
Ankara would recompense Iraq with<br />
humanitarian aid allowed un<strong>de</strong>r the U.N.<br />
embargo imposed after Baghdad's 1990<br />
invasion of Kuwait. "In the long term it<br />
would not make a noteworthy difference,<br />
but the oil gained would obviously lighten<br />
the load on the currency reserves on a oneoff<br />
basis," Sancar said.<br />
He said TPAO was engaged in several<br />
exploration and production projects in<br />
Central Asia and Egypt.<br />
TPAO signed a big oil contract with<br />
Kazakhstan on May 31, extending a 1992<br />
research agreement to inclu<strong>de</strong> production<br />
and mark<strong>et</strong>ing of oil by Turk-Kazakh<br />
Munay Ltd, a joint company s<strong>et</strong> up in 1992<br />
to explore and produce cru<strong>de</strong> In seven<br />
blocks scattered over a wi<strong>de</strong> area in<br />
Kazakhstan. Turkey hopes to earn more<br />
than $49 billion during the project' s 36-year<br />
span. In Egypt, Sancar said production<br />
would begin by October at the fIrst of three<br />
fields for which TP AO has a licence and 50<br />
percent production rights. The field, known<br />
as West Karun, is expected to produce<br />
about 400,000 bpd. TPAO holds a 2.5 percent<br />
share in a consortium led by British<br />
P<strong>et</strong>roleum Co in partnership with Norway's<br />
Statoil and five other firms, which has been<br />
negotiating for a contract with Azerbaijan to<br />
<strong>de</strong>velop two Caspian Sea oil fields.<br />
Sancar said talks were continuing but<br />
progress was slow. "A me<strong>et</strong>ing of representatives,<br />
about the fourth, I thmk, began in<br />
Istanbul today," he said. "There seems to be<br />
a consensus on the economic terms of the<br />
project, but it is not ready to be signed y<strong>et</strong>."<br />
He gave no <strong>de</strong>tails.<br />
majOrité kur<strong>de</strong>. Dans son rapport<br />
publié mercredi à Londres, Amnesty<br />
affirmait notamment que la<br />
situation <strong>de</strong>s droits <strong>de</strong> l'homme<br />
en Turquie «empirait d'heure en<br />
heure» <strong>et</strong> appelait les pays européens<br />
à envoyer d'urgence sur<br />
place une mission d'experts.<br />
Deux bombes ont explosé hier<br />
à Marmaris, station balnéaire<br />
turque sur la mer Egée, faisant<br />
cinq blessés, dont trois touristes<br />
étrangers. L'un <strong>de</strong>s étrangers<br />
blessés est dans un état sérieux.<br />
Mardi soir, dix personnes, dont<br />
six touristes. étrangers, avaient<br />
été blessées par l'explosion <strong>de</strong><br />
<strong>de</strong>ux bombes à F<strong>et</strong>hiye, une autre<br />
station balnéaire située dans la<br />
même région. AFPIRE\IJBI<br />
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