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TEHERAN (AP-19/04/97) -- Moins de deux semaines apres leur rappel, les
ambassadeurs d'Australie et de Nouvelle-Zelande en Iran sont revenus a Teheran,
rapporte samedi l'agence iranienne IRNA.
Tous les pays de l'Union europeenne -Greee exceptee- avaient rappele leurs
ambassadeurs pour consultation apres le jugement d'un tribunal berlinois rendant
le 10 avril dernier l'Etat iranien responsable de l'assassinat de quatre opposants
kurdes sur le sol allemand en 1992. Cette decision avait ete imitee par l'Australie, la
, Nouvelle-Zelande, le Canada et la Finlande. ' '
THE ECONOMIST APRIL 12TH 1997
Turkey'
An ideal ally?
generals, who then as now saw themselvesèriminals such as Catli, a fugitive since
~ trustees of Kemal Ataturk's western-ori- 1978, had beenused by the state. Present-,
ented, secular legacy. Military a"?,ieties :able rightcwingerssuch as Turkes have beel1
were shared by the National Action Party just as helpful. Although a military court
, and,taken most seriously by the Idealists, jailed him duriilg the 1980s,Turkes-a for-
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'ANKARA ' an association of young ideologues guided mer colonel-did not bear a grudge. ,After'
HE 1970sare remembered in Turko/ by Turkes. Until 1980, when fed-up gener- the collapse of the Soviet Union, he difor
an eruption of violence so dramatic als put a stop to it, Idealists were in the thick rected his energies against assertive Kurds,
'that only a military takeover could haIt it. of fighting that claimed 5,000 lives. Turkes did his bit inside parliament too!"
No politician was more associated with the Idealists have remained useful even scorning colleagues who advocated cuI"
blood-letting than Alpaslan Turkes, who though the communist threat has receded. tural autonomy for the Kurds.
'died on April 4th. Why, then, should well buring the past ten years, other challenges His death poses questions over ho\"(
over 100,000 people-including the presi- have unsettled ]urkey's strongly unitarY; :long the alignment between right-wingery
dent and some senior generals-converge character, the most important of which is: ,and the establishment can last. Whoevet
on Ankara tomoum him? ' 'Kurdish nationalism. Some Idealists have, ,succeedsTurkes at the head of the National
, On the face ofit, Turkes was nev~r ~ore gone freelance, conducting. operations; ~ActionParty must win not only the trust or
than a moderately important politiCian. against Kurdish militants and smuggling'a potentially unruly following, butalso th,e
His militaristic brand of nationalism drugs and arms as a sideline. The best ;sympathy ofIoyalists to Turkes, who fill sf
rarely appealed to more than a noisy mi- 'known ofdtese was an old pal ofTurkes,~ 'nior posts in several ministries. He,must':
nority, the moustachioed heavies ofhls Na- Abdullah Cadi. On the day of Turkes's' :alsodeal with activists who want his partY
tional Actidn Party. However, Turkes ~as death, parliament put out a report on links,to become more Islamic.
appreciated in other, mor~ influentlalbetween Idealists, crime and the state. This A tilt towards radical Islam would ce~.
quarters; Although his remedies were con- subject would have remained unbroached,tainly upset the generals. Last week, their
sidered extreme, bis concerns reflected hadCatli not been killed in November in a 'deputy chief of staff said that "anti-secular
those ofTurkey's establishment. ' car driven by a senior policeman, owned movements" had replaced Kurdish nation-
Twenty years ago, many of those wail- by a memberof parliament and carrying alism as the scourge of the age. Ever obliging
hardest at Tuesday's funeral were foot- guns and drugs.
ing, Turkes apparently muttered the same
soldiers on a bloody campaign directed by , Most say that the parliamentary report on his death-bed. Idealists and fellow-trav-
Turkes. The supposed allure of commu- is a whitewash, but Turks were not aIto- ellers may take note.
nism foryoungTurksworried thecountry's gether surprised to learn that convicted
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INTERNATIONAVRERALD TRIBUNE; MONDAY,APRIL 21, 1997
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To RemoveJlullet Near Spine
BAGHDAD .~' Sad4am Hussein~.se~dest son underwer:'t
surgerySunday to remove at least one b~llet ,lodged,Ilearhis,
ispine after 3r:' ~s~sination attempt 10 December. gOv~
'emment offiCIaIs saldo , , .
The officials~speakin~ on cç>nditionof anony,mity,~~ a
.French and Ge~an ~~cal team operated ~>n~e 33;~~ar"l
old Odai Hussem earher 10 the day. The~ Sald hiS condi~on
çpeared tobe_s~ble. but ~ecline9,tQ_g!veJur.tb.~r dewls:
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they said.. . -" .. " .. . . ..
Mr. Hussem, whohad been w.idely believed to be Mr.
Sadd8m~s heU-apparent, was shöt about 10 times while
w8Itinsalone in a car m an upscale Baghdad suburb on Dee.
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Iraqi disside~ts hav~ said at least one bullet w~ lodged
near Mr. Hussem's spmeand thatFrench an~ iraqi doct