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to be inclined to stage an early election sible manner. Ecevit also Urged ANAP
to keep the MGK decisions in limbo, he 10 use a milder tone towards the DYP so
stressed. Ecevitalso said the RP was ~asnotto block the path towards an alter-
.inciting its grassroots and calling for a native government He said some DYP .
jihad, a holy war. He said .tOe RP obvi- figures were supporting the three-party
'OUSlyassumed it woul4 emerge stronger or four-party government models profrom
an early election and would thus ed b th DSP Ind Mini
return to Parliament in a position' which pos y e . ustry ster
Erez, speaking at a meeting in Çanlan
would enable it to resist the MGK deci-. . staged by the Turkish Union of .
sions more easily. But that plan may not Chambers and Exchanges (TOBB), said,
work, and, in the meanwhile, the country "As leng as the DYP is a partner in this
may be plunged into a serious crisis. government, the MGK decisions willl:>e
Ecevit continued to say, ''With such a implemented without a change. !fthere
strategy the RP may be desiring to are those who would not have these
'plunge Turkey into a climate similar to . implemented, I am challenging them.
the one in Algeria. But Turkey is not , Let them come up and prevent these
Algeria. The Turkish nation is mature from being implemented."Erez stressed
enough to solve its problems within the that the DYP was determined to implerules
of the democratic state which ment the decisions even at the risk of
upholds the rule oflaw."
causing the coalition governmènt com-
Ecevit said the RP could make Çiller ing to an end. He noted that article one
agree to an early election by putting of the coalition protocol said no concespressure
on her. "But then they would be sions would be made from Atatürk's
causing their own downfall and con- principles and reforms on which the
tributing to a serious regime crisis," he republic was built
said. 'Turkey may be faced with the DYP Deputy Chairman Hayri
biggest danger in the history of the KozakClO~U, on the other hand, said that
republic unless the strategy the RP has the relevant party bodies had not taken a
adopted in recent days is not rendered decision to withdraw from the coalition.
ineffective as soon as possible." He said "We do not want to create a government
the main condition of preventing that vacuum or an instabilityinthe adminisdanger
was that the DYP group should tration. The MGK decisions will be
be able to overcome the "Çiller obstacle" implemented and the government will
and make Çiller start acting in a respon- continue," he said, .
leki Çakan, Deputy Chairman of the .
ANAP group in Parliament, said, "If, in
a country, the military are uneasy, that
means that society is uneasy since the
military are part of the society. This government
will be swept away by the pub-.
lic wave of reaction against it The government
has been virtually finished off.
Soon it will be finished ]egally too. The
government is upset by the failure to
implement the MGK decisions ."
CHP Chairman Bayka1 said if the
Welfare Party (RP) does not adopt the
MGK decisions it had already signed,
Turkey would find serious problems
ahead. Referring to RP Secretary-
General Oguzhan Asiltürk's statement in
the press that the MGK decisions would
not be implemented, Bayka1 noted that
all the items had been considered and
signed by MGK members. "However,
now the RP says the prime minister
signed the decisions due to protocol," he
said. "A situation which I have been
telling the public about for some time
has occurred. Constitutional bodies no
longer trust each other. A government
who lies to the constitutional bodies and
denies its own signarure does not
deserve to stay in office. A prime minisler
cannot deceive the public so openly
and so rudely;" Baykal said that one way
to solve the crisis was through an early
election.
ParliamentaryCommission
plans another visit to Lice
The head of the commissio!l was called by The commission will be visiting Lice again in the very
the Emergency Rule Regional governor near future to gather information to prepare another
and 'asked' not to release the report because
report,
Türk: 'The commission
it 'criticised' the state. sources said
is not independent'
SAADET ORUÇ Ahmet Türk, the former chairman of the Parliament' s
Ankara- Turkis/J Daily News
human rights commission and the head of the pro-
Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HADEP), which has
• The Emergency Rule Region Governorate is reportedly been following the incidents in Lice, told the TDN that it
setting up obstacles for the Lice commission, the Turkish was nearly impossible for the commission to be independent.
"I came across the members of the commission in
Daily News learned. . .
The commission was set up by Parliament toinvestigatc
allcgations that r,csidcnts of Lice were forced to . told me it was clear that the people had been forced to
DiyarbakIr while they were returning from Lice. They
become village guar~s. It visited the town more than'a. become village guards. But it means that if they put this
month ago, but its report has not yet been released. . in their report, there would be official denials of its content.
Members of the commission include Musa Okçu, Demir
(Based onthe governor's demand) it shows that
Berberoglu, Hakan Tartan, Suha Tamk and Sabri Ergül. even a governor can affect the Parliament, which is a
The parliamentary. sources briefing the TDN said that , scandal.considering the situation of democracy in the
the commission' s remar-ks in its report about Lice have
catalyzed many disagreements among the members of the
commission. Demir Berberoglu,.the head of the commission
was called by the Emergency Rule Regional governor
and "asked" not 10 release the report because it "criticised"
the state, according to the same sources. Although
the commission's report on Lice was expected to.be
released immediately upon its completion, the request by
the governor has resulted in more than a month's delay,
sourccs added.
country." said Turk.
Lice is a town which played an important role during
the establishment of the separatist Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) and was the sIte of many secret meetings of .
its founders.
'
Thus it has strategic significance both for the PKK and
the state. According to data published by the Human
Rights Association, since 1992 most. of the people living
in the region of Lice have been forced to migrate because
their villages have been burnt down. .
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