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ment in state maha links, is
involved ..
tHO official Sedat Aslanta~ "
claimed the state was attemptmg to
isolate them financially and bureaucratically,"
adding that this had
already caused them loss as they had
rented halls and purchas~~ materials
in anticipation of the tnumng project.
"The Turkish Republic signed
agreements in Paris, Vienna and
Moscow giving us the right to cooperate
on human rights projects, but
the situation proves otherwise," tHO
Chairman Akm Birdal claimed, saying
that tHO would not profit by a
penny from the project. .
The circular is said to requlTe that
banks receiving "aid" earmarked for
human rights orgaruzations block the
money, resulting in its return to~e
original source after 45 days. Article
60 of the Turkish Law of
Associations requires organizatio.ns
to obtain the approval of the Intenor
Ministry when receiving aid from
real or legal persons or other organizations.
tHO had successfully completed
three other projects before the
circular was issued in cooperation
with various European Union bodies
Ṫhe human rights organizations
said the money is "not aid," but a
sum received 10 return for a concrete
project. The situation has been
explained to Ziraat Bank and details
of the nature of the program provided.
Officials have requested the lifting
of the obstacles but have failed
to get any response. A period of 60
days without receiving a reply from
the ministry le~a11xmeans an
"implied rejecuon ' to the request.
That period has now passed and it is
the 70th day with still no response.
tHO has contacted the sender via the
European Parliament' s Socialist
Group leader Pauline Green, who
assured the organization the money
would be resent to Turkey if
returned.
The coordinator of the European
Parliament's "Turkev Watch"
Martin Schulz and the co-chairman
of the Turkey-EU Joint
Parliamentary Commission (JPC)
Pieter Oankert addressed this issue
on Tuesday during their stay in
Ankara for the JPC' s 40th meeting
which ended on Wednesday.
The European parliamentarians
agreed that the issue could cause
serious discussions within the
European Parliament and the Human
Rights Commission. possibly even
leading to a diJ?lomauc row.
A file contaming correspondence
between the Interior Ministry, the
Foreign Ministry .and Ziraat Bank in
Turkeyhas been given to Shulz in an
attempt to release the bar on this and
future projects. 'Dankert personally
promised to look into tbe matter and
let the organization know his findings.
If this doesn't happen, international
bodies will have to search for
other ways of transferring funds to
Turkey for human rights projects.
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• Menaces de l'Iran après le meurtre de Kurdes à Vienne,
selon un haut fonctionnaire
VIENNE, 18 avr (AFP) - L'Autriche a reçu des menaces de l'Ira.n après
l'assassinat de trois Kurdes à Vienne en 1989, selon l'ancien directeur
de la section politique au ministère autrichien des Affaires étrangères,
Erich Maximilian Schmid.
Après le meurtre des trois Kurdes, l'ambassadeur iranien avait déclaré
au ministère autrichien des Affaires étrangères que "cela pourrait être
dangereux pour les Autrichiens en Iran" si les suspects iraniens étaient
conduits devant la justice en Autriche, a indiqué M. Schmid dans une
interview télévisée jeudi soir.
Le 13 juillet 1989 le secrétaire général du Parti Démocratique du
Kurdistan Iranien (PDKI), Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, l'un de ses
adjoints, Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar, et le politologue Fadel Rasoul,
d'origine kurde irakienne et de nationalité autrichienne, avaient été
assassinés par balles dans un appartement de Vienne.
La police, alertée par l'épouse de l'une des victimes, s'était rendue sur
place mais n'avait pas procédé à l'arrestation de -trois hommes porteurs
de passeports iraniens rencontrés sur les lieux et soupçonnés d'être les
auteurs de l'attentat.
Un mandat d'arrêt international n'avait été lancé que plusieurs mois
plus tard contre ces trois hommes, qui ont pu quitter l'Autriche après
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