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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Ozeti Ilkin said Turkish troops are involved in peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo and argued that his country's armed forces need a "strong defense capability" so they can contribute to peace and stability in the region. Told about the concerns of human rights groups, he said: "I think we decide on what we need and we acquire what we need. . . . We are restructuring the army so it has more mobility and rapid action units. We are surrounded by a lot of crises, in the Balkans, Kosovo, internal troubles in Georgia, the Caucasus, and we are following developments in Iraq." He added, "Turkey is in a delicate part of the world. This purchase is not for the declaration of wars but so that peace can prevail .... Assault helicopters are part of our inventory of arms." Turkey to Allow Limited Kurd New Year Celebrations ISTANBUL, March 18 (Reuters) - Turkish officials have relaxed restrictions on Kurds publicly celebrating their annual spring festival, the main legal Kurdish party said on Saturday. Festivities for Newroz, or Kurdish New Year, on March 21 are to be allowed in Diyarbakir, the southeastern regional capital, as well as in some southern and western cities, a spokesman for the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) told Reuters. But petitions for similar celebrations were rejected in allother mainly Kurdish cities as well as Istanbul, home to a large Kurdish population swelled by years of migration from the embattled southeast. "I think this discrepancy basically reflects the attitude of local authorities in those places," HADEP'S Mahmut Esiyok said. "They should not stop the people from celebrating Newroz," a HADEP statement said. "We believe the people willlay claim to their festival, celebrating it in a peaceful way." Newroz is traditionally a time of protest for Turkey's restive Kurds and a rallying day for Kurdish nationalists. Youths leap over bonfires in an ancient rite linked to similar March 21 festivities in Iran and Central Asia. Organised celebrations have been banned in Diyarbakir for years. Hundreds of people were arrested at illegal Newroz festivities in Istanbullast year which threatened to turn violent when riot police opened fire into the air. Fighting between jailed Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdish rebels and Turkish troops in the southeast has all but ended since Ocalan was sentenced to death last June and ordered his PKK to seek peace with Turkey. Hopes have been rife that Turkey's policy towards its 12 million Kurds might change after Ankara was made a European Union member candidate last year. But the government has so far shown no signs of allowing Kurdish cultural rights, such as broadcast and education, or lifting a state of quasi-martial rule in the southeast. Ocalan is on a Turkish prison island, awaiting a European right court ruling on his appeal on the grounds that the death penalty violates European law. He was sentenced for leading his PKK's 15-year campaign for self-rule in which more than 30,000 people have died. ************ S3
-- ---------~ Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti Le PDK annonce ~Ie prochain jugement de "terroristes" is-lamistes DUBAI, 17 mars (AFP) - 18h09 - Le Parti Démocratique du Kurdistan (PDK) de Massoud Banani a annoncé vendredi le prochain jugement de "terroristes" islamistes accusés d'avoir perpétré des attentats dans le Kurdistan irakien. Dans un communiqué reçu à Dubaï, un porte-parole du PDK précise que "des personnes accusées de crimes terroristes à Erbil seront déférées prochainement devant un tribunal équitable pout être jugées publiquement". ~ -, Selon le communiqué, "ces accusés ont fait des aveux détaillés à la télévision staIlitaire Ktv, appartenant au PDK, selon lesquels ils avaient commis des assassinats, des explosions et d'autres actes terroristes, notamment à Erbil". Le communiqué reproduit les aveux présumés de quatre accusés: Abdel Moneem Abderrahman Mohammed. Hussein Kamal Aziza, Ali Hussein a1-Mokhtar et Moussa Rassoul Hédi. Le communiqué déplore que "le Mouvement de l'Unité Islamique, une organisation politique reconnue (dans le Kurdistan irakien qui échappe au contrôle de Bagdad), ait accusé le gouvernement local de chercher à intenter un procès à ces personnes, d'une manière irréfléçhie". Le PDK et l'Union Patriotique du Kurdistan (UPK, de Jalal Talabani) se partagent le contrôle du nord de l'Irak depuis que cette région a échappé à l'autorité de Bagdad. après la guerre du Golfe (1991). Ils avaient formé un gouvernement non reconnu internationalement, à l'issue des élections législatives de 1992. Turkish Minister Denies Ocalan Lives in Luxury ANKARA (March 17) XINHUA - Turkish Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said on Friday that Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), did not live in luxury as it was assumed, but he had a radio and could read newspapers every day. "Today, punishment aims at not exterminating criminals, but training them to be useful for the society in future," the Anatolia News Agency quoted Turk as saying at Salpazari town of Trabzon province in the Black Sea Region. Turk seems to support life imprisonment for Ocalan. "While taking the decision (on Ocalan), Turkey's high interests will be taken into consideration by the Parliament. It is very easy to exterminate a person but life imprisonment is a very heavy sentence and punishment. " Turk said that his country, which has been accepted a European Union candidacy, has set up a commission to scrutinize the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). Capital punishment has been annulled in Europe while there is death sentence only in Turkey which sees itself a European country. "Turkey has not carried out any capital punishment since 1984. A total of 57 people have been sentenced to capital punishment since 1991. Ocalan is among them," the minister said. Ocalan had been leading the PKK in an armed struggle for an independent Kurdish state in southeast Turkey since 1984. The long- time conflict has claimed thousands oflives. The PKK chieftain was captured last year by Turkish security forces and was later sentenced to death by a court. ~ Turkey is waiting for a decision by the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) about Ocalan. Only after the ECHR makes such a decision, the country will decide whether or not to carry out the death sentence for Ocalan. ************ S4
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