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•'Some of those making use of democracy
are trying to come to ~wer by
cutting throats as in Algeria,' he said.
referring to radical Islamist violence in
that country.
His remarks. made at a closed meeting.
were leaked to major newspapers
and a videotape ofhis speech was brOad-
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Beko
Pr4rA.IH)ublic au Festival de
Venisè, pm du public au Festival
d'Angers, cette œuvre de
Nizamettin Arie est aussi le premier
film kurde réalisé en
langue kurde.
Tour à tour attaqués par les
Turcs, les Irakiens, les Iraniens
et les Syriens, les Kurdes n'ont
jamais pu établir un Etat, malgré
le traité de Sèvres signé en
1920.
Arrêté par les Turcs, Beko
s'évade et tente de retrouver son
frère, maquisard dans le Kurdistan
d'Irak. Des images
sombres, belles, des villages de
tentes entre les rochers ... et la
connerie de la guerre. - P. v.
. Beko (photo) de NizamettinAriçs'attardesur
'le sort atroce des Kurdes, harcelés à bâbord par les
Turcs, houspillés à tribord par les raids du conflit irano-
irakien. Le héros oppressé quitte son village à la
recherche de son frère, qui a fui l'enrôlement forcé
dans l'armée turque. Le cinéaste, par ailleurs chanteur-compositeur
de formation et acteur principal de
son film, évite les pièges de la victinlologie en larmes
et taille rigoureusement ses plans au diapason des
splendides paysages pierreux du coin. Errant et triste,
d'une grisaille élégiaque parfois bouleversante, Beko
fléchit quelque peu quand il s'attarde dans un
camps de réfugiés en rade, où l'insistance sur les orphelins
et les trognes fatalistes des adultes finit Par décourager
le regard
Turkish army
ready to bring
down Islamic
government
By John Barh8m
In An-.
Turkish financial markets
fell heavily yesterday in the
ftrst day of trading after a
week-long public holiday
amid fears that the Islamistled
government was about to
oollaiiseUî1clérintense military
pressure.
The Istanbul stock
exchange index closed down
4.9 per cent, having recovered
slightly after hectic sellivg
pushed prices down 7 per
cent in the morning. Bond
FINANCIAL TIMES
yields rose 2-3 per cent:
Investors fear renewed political
instability and populist
economic measures that
would precede. early generai
elections. .
Political commentators
say the coalition government
of Mr Necmettin Erbakan is
unlikely to survive tomor~
row's meeting of the military-dominated
National
Security Council (NSC).
The secularist military.
which has staged three
coups since 1960, has given
Mr Erbakan until tomorrow's
regulaI: meeting of the
NSC to implement a list of
measures to limit the growth
of Islamist Organisations and
schools.
However, Mr Erbakan,
FRIDAY APRIL 251997
Turkey's first Islamist prime
minister, has not met any of
the generals' demands.
Mr Bilal Çetin, a political
columnist for the newspaper
Yeni Yuzyil, wrote: "Not
only the opposition, but government
MPs see that the
government is finished. The
.,main problem in Ankara
how is how the new govern-
IDent will be formed. The
countdown is almost completed.
One way or another
the government will end in
one or two weeks."
The military demanded at
the NSC's February meeting
that the. government "carefully
preserve the principle
of secularism" by cracking
down on the activities of IDem
Islan1ic brotherhoods and
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