Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Özeti
dents who are likely to join the organization
be kept under surveillance,
and that MED TV be prevented from
making programs in Turkey.
The classified four-page document
lists the measures to be taken
against PKK activities under two
titles: .
'. "Measures to be applied at specific
times"
• "Measures to be applied continuously".
Measures to be applied
at specific times
"In response to the PKK separatist
terrorist organization' s steering of
men of thinking and art and other
influential people who may impress
the public at home and abroad to
serve its aims: "People who may be
qualified as thinkers and are currently
being used by the organization
should be identified and their
past histories and intelligence
Information relating to them be
secured~
"P~op'l~ ~e.organization may
~se should be presented to the pubhc
at home and abroad in such a
manner as to remove any influence
they may have.
"International institutions and
?rganizations should be correctly
Info~ed ,regarding people the .
orgamzatIon presents as thinkers
and files prepared with this aim '
~ho~ld .be sent to international
InstItutIons and organizations.
The document says the above
measures should take place
between January and May 1997
In other actions that are to take
place during the first fives months
of the year, the document proves
that the village guard system will
not be abandoned, at least not in
the s~r:t.term. "In response to the
IX?sslblllty that the organization
w1l1target people taking the side of
the state and put ps~chological
pressll!e on them WIth accusations
of spYIng and banditry, or carry out
massacres and various armed
act~ons; p'ractices should be applied
whIch WIll ~~cure the raising of the
moral~ of cI~zens supporting the
state, In partIcular temporary villag~
guards, ~d th~ public should
be Informed In a SUItablemanner in
the matter of the malintentioned
reports in the press that the temporary
village guard system is to be
abolished."
Special Project for Newroz
The celebration of Newroz, March
21- a festival for the coming of
spring - is especially mentioned for
action during March. The festival is
celebrated by many Middle Eastern
peoples, but in recent years it has
takenon political connotations.
"With the aim of preventing the
organization from exploiting
Newroz, the functions required by
the special project to be prepared in
this matter should be carried out."
The "special project" mentioned
in the document was not elaborated
on.
Measur.s to be
applied continuously
Those activities which are to take
place throughout the year are mainly
aimed at the PKK's recruitment
strategies, its propaganda - both at
home and abroad - and the supporting
of anti-PKK groups and people.
"In response to the setting up of
so-called front headquarters in socalled
provinces defIDed by the organization
and activities of the creation
of institutions of lo~istics, education,
finance, health, military branches,
people's courts and the like, collaborators
should be speedily exposed,
persuasion should be applied to
them, a spectacle should, be made of
them, and if necessary they should
be penalized." The Interior Ministry
document also orders that special
enlightenment programs are to be
organized, visits made, in the presence
of international visitors (representatives
of nongovernmental organizations,
human rights activists and
international institutions which the
ministry says are used by the PKK)
to regional people who 'have suffered
from terronsm. The paper also says
that those who have suffered from
terrorism should be "made" to apply
for reco~tion "to organizations like
the Helsinki Watch Committee and
the International Human Rights with
documentation and information, and
protests should be made at the biased
attitudes of these institutions."
Stopping PKK cooperation
In regards to the PKK cooperating
with other legal organizations in
Turkey, such as extreme left-wing
groups, the Yezidis - a religious
group - Alawites and radical
Islamic groups the document puts
forward two plans.
" , "Possible leaders inthought of the
left-wing organizations will be
enlightened and those who can not
be directed wilI have their influence
over the public rocked as professional
degenerates."
The Interior Ministry also laid out
the plans to keep the Kurdish language
at the fringes of society,
"Administrative and local measures
should be taken against those
attempting to propaßate the Kurdish
language,forminstitutionsconduc~
ing research to make it a language of
literacy and to start education and
Kurdish literacr. courses directed at
front activities. '
For the pro-PKK MED TV, which
broadcasts mainly in Kurdish, the
Interior Ministry ordered new campaigns
by letter, fax and telegrams
addressed to the governments concerned.
MED- TV will also be prevented
from making programs in
Turkey.
Red, yellow, and green
are Turkish colors
It was also ordered that academic
meetings should display the colors
yellow, red, and green as if they
were traditional Turkish colors.
In order to prevent the PKK
searching for new fields of activity,
Street trading will be prevented in
the provinces of Adana, tçel,
Antalya, Sivas, Konya, Nev~hir,
~ehir, Tokat, Ankara, Istanbul
and lzmir. Kurdish migrants from
the Southeast often earn their living
in the big cities of the west through
street trading.
Kuran courses which are considered
as a possible field of PKK
activity, and which are likely to be
"steered" by the Kurdistan Islamic
Movement, will be closely monitored.
In conclusion, the classified document
states that at the end of March,
June, September and December,
working reports of the above orders
will be sent to the Interior Ministry
State of Emergency Coordination
Committee GeneraI Secretariat.
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