Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETi<br />
Phon<strong>et</strong>aps are a way of life.in Turkey<br />
IInur Çevik<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
lnneighboring Greece the Parliament<br />
has sent a second prime minister to<br />
be tried on wir<strong>et</strong>apping charges in<br />
five years. Former Prime Minister<br />
Constantine Mitsotakis will now face<br />
charges for allowing illegal phon<strong>et</strong>aps<br />
. on his political rivals. Thisleaves us green<br />
with envy, because <strong>de</strong>spite the fact that<br />
phone tops are illegal in Turkey we are<br />
aware that wir<strong>et</strong>apping is used extensively<br />
to moriitor the activities of politicians,<br />
activists, journalists and even businessman.<br />
We do not want to point a finger at<br />
anyone but we are well aware that all<br />
the phones of the TurkishDaily News are<br />
being tapped. On Thursday the interfer~<br />
en ce was so bad that we could not.<br />
communicate with the outsi<strong>de</strong> world<br />
properly. At first there. were strange<br />
sounds over our telephone lines because<br />
whoever was tapping our calls was using<br />
very cru<strong>de</strong> m<strong>et</strong>hods. Then in the afternoon<br />
we started hearing music over the<br />
lines. It was interesting to learn that whoever<br />
is tapping our phones listens to TRT-<br />
FM radio.<br />
We are aware that there are numer-<br />
Ol:JS gadg<strong>et</strong>s and mefhods we can use<br />
to prevent phon<strong>et</strong>apping, but we do not<br />
want to give the impression that we are<br />
trying to hi<strong>de</strong> anything from anyone. We<br />
have nothing to hi<strong>de</strong> or to be ashamed<br />
of.<br />
Y<strong>et</strong> we feel those who bug our lines<br />
have much to be ashamed of. They do<br />
not realize that such actions contribute<br />
to Turkey's reputation as a semi-authoritarian<br />
state. They do not realize that<br />
what they are doing is morally wrong.<br />
In free soci<strong>et</strong>ies such things would be<br />
regar<strong>de</strong>d impermissible and those who<br />
attempted to wir<strong>et</strong>ap would be prose-<br />
cuted. Y<strong>et</strong>, in semi-<strong>de</strong>mocracies such<br />
things just become the part of the system<br />
and people even take it for granted<br />
that they are being bugged. That is why<br />
when a newspaper managed to publish<br />
the transcripts of a secr<strong>et</strong> telephone<br />
conversation b<strong>et</strong>ween the prime minister<br />
and two of her cabin<strong>et</strong> colleagues<br />
recently, no one really objected to the<br />
fact that someone was violating the individual's<br />
right of free communication. So<br />
those who bugged the prime minister<br />
then leaked the transcripts fo the press.<br />
So if you can wir<strong>et</strong>ap the conversations<br />
of the prime minister, you ore welcome<br />
to listen to everything that we hove to<br />
discuss with people on the TurkishDoily<br />
News phones. All we soy is: for God's<br />
sake please use some mo<strong>de</strong>rn m<strong>et</strong>hods<br />
and do not obstruct our conversations ...<br />
One day when we reach the level of<br />
Greek <strong>de</strong>mocracy we mayalso object<br />
to being bugged.<br />
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Turqùie-attentat .<br />
Cinq personnes blessées dans une explosion à Istanbul<br />
ANKARA, 19 juin (AFP) - Cinq personnes ont été légèrement blessées, .<br />
dimanche à Istanbul, dans l'explosion d'une bombe peu avant une réunion en<br />
plein air <strong>de</strong> l'ancien Premier ministre turc Bulent Ecevit, a rapporté la<br />
première chaîne <strong>de</strong> la télévision publique TRT1.<br />
Une bombe placée <strong>de</strong>vant une boulangerie sur la place <strong>de</strong> Karagumruk, dans<br />
la partie européenne <strong>de</strong> la ville, a explosé vers 17h00 locales (16h00 à<br />
<strong>Paris</strong>). M. Ecevit, chef du Parti <strong>de</strong> la Gauche Démocratique (DSP), <strong>de</strong>vait y<br />
faire une intervention publique, selon la même source.<br />
M. Ecevit n'était pas encore sur la place au moment <strong>de</strong> l'explosion.<br />
L'attentat n'a pas pour le moment été revendiqué.<br />
Les jours <strong>de</strong>s blessés ne sont pas en danger, a pour sa part indiqué<br />
l'agence Anatolie.<br />
Samedi à Istanbul, une bombe avait explosé dans un bureau <strong>de</strong> <strong>liaison</strong><br />
d'une compagnie <strong>de</strong> transport routier sans faire <strong>de</strong> victime.<br />
Les autorités attribuent généralement ce genre d'attentats à la bombe<br />
dans <strong>de</strong>s lieux publics au Parti <strong>de</strong>s Travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK,<br />
séparatiste), en rébellion armée contre Ankara <strong>de</strong>puis 1984 dans le sud-est<br />
anatolien à majorité k~r<strong>de</strong>.<br />
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