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Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Baszn Öz<strong>et</strong>i<br />

presi<strong>de</strong>nt.<br />

For his arrival, a small group of protesters held<br />

banners at the airport <strong>de</strong>nouncing racism. Last week, a<br />

Turkish woman and her five children were killed in<br />

an arson attack in the Hague.<br />

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@ Copyright 1997 The Associated Press<br />

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Report: Turkey<br />

Crimes<br />

Or<strong>de</strong>red<br />

By ZEYNEP ALEMDAR<br />

Associated Press Writer<br />

Thursday, April3, 19975:30 pm EST<br />

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Terrorists employed by the<br />

Turkish government for covert operations engaged in<br />

crimes ranging from drug-smuggling to mur<strong>de</strong>r, a<br />

parliamentary commission conclu<strong>de</strong>d, according to<br />

Turkish newspapers.<br />

The head of the commission, Mehm<strong>et</strong> Elkatmis, said<br />

the panel's BO,OOO-page report on the burgeoning<br />

scandal would be han<strong>de</strong>d over to Parliament later<br />

Thursday.<br />

Turkish newspapers reported Thursday that a state<br />

prosecutor hopes to put on trial two prominent<br />

politicians at the center of the scandal -- former Interior<br />

Minister Mehm<strong>et</strong> Agar and a Kurdish warlord who is<br />

also a member of Parliament, Sedat Bucak.<br />

Both have immunity from prosecution, which<br />

Parliament must lift before they can be tried.<br />

The scandal broke in November after a traffic acci<strong>de</strong>nt<br />

revealed the ties b<strong>et</strong>ween Turkey's un<strong>de</strong>rworld and<br />

politics.<br />

Bucak, a <strong>de</strong>puty from the junior, center-right True Path<br />

party of ex-Premier Tansu Ciller, was the sole survivor.<br />

Killed in his car were a fugitive terrorist, Abdullah<br />

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