Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro<br />
How credible are Semdin<br />
Sakik's confessions?<br />
<strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Basm Öz<strong>et</strong>i<br />
• Sakik is dropping names and making incriminating statements<br />
about some prominent personalities which are all over the<br />
newspapers. Should such accusations be taken seriously?<br />
Editorial by Hour Cevik<br />
Are we going to believe the disclosures and incredible accusations of a<br />
top terrorist militant who has fallen out with his organization and has<br />
actually <strong>de</strong>fected?<br />
Semdin Sakik, co<strong>de</strong>-named Fingerless Zeki in the PKK terrorist<br />
organization, seems to be talking his head off to the authorities these<br />
days. Thus it seems it would be more appropriate to give him a new<br />
co<strong>de</strong> name, "Singing Bird."<br />
Who is Semdin Sakik? He is the terrorist lea<strong>de</strong>r who has actually led PKK terrorist bands all across the<br />
country, playing havoc with the security forces for more than a <strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong>. He has the blood of too many<br />
innocent Kurds and Turks on his hands.<br />
He fell at odds with PKK terrorist lea<strong>de</strong>r Abdullah Ocalan because he feit that while he and his militants<br />
were wreaking havoc in eastern and southeastern Turkey, Ocalan was living in saf<strong>et</strong>y in Syria giving out<br />
or<strong>de</strong>rs like a monarch.<br />
After Sakik and his brother Arif were brought back to Turkey and were questioned by the authorities it<br />
became apparent that they would spill the beans about the PKK and its connections both insi<strong>de</strong> Turkey and<br />
abroad.<br />
Now we see the "revelations" of Semdin all over the newspapers. He is accusing Ocalan of incomp<strong>et</strong>ency<br />
as well as of being a womanizer who took advantage of the young girls who were lured to the PKK.<br />
All these are well-known facts. It is no secr<strong>et</strong> that the PKK is a terrorist organization bent on s<strong>et</strong>ting up a<br />
Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey. It is no secr<strong>et</strong> that the PKK has tried to exploit the justified<br />
dissatisfactions of the people living in southeastern Turkey and to attract sympathy for its goals. It is also<br />
no secr<strong>et</strong> that the PKK has supporters both at home and abroad.<br />
The fact that the PKK is being given material and moral support by some of our neighboring states who<br />
want to un<strong>de</strong>rmine our country is also no secr<strong>et</strong>. The support given to the PKK by Greece is so well<br />
documented that this has been the subject of a highly damaging report in Time Magazine. The fact that<br />
Ocalan lives in Syria and in the Syrian-controlled areas of Lebanon is y<strong>et</strong> another well-established issue<br />
which the Damascus government pr<strong>et</strong>ends to ignore. Many of our neighbors have tried to use the PKK<br />
card against us at some time of another.<br />
At home, some organizations and persons support the PKK. Some publications have openly backed PKK<br />
terrorist actions. However, Semdin Sakik is now making revelations which are rather shattering. He claims<br />
some prominent journalists and human rights activists are on the PKK payroll.<br />
We feel these claims should be regar<strong>de</strong>d with great reservations. It is easy to smear people but it is not easy<br />
to erase the damage. Such claims also cast a shadow on the important revelations that Semdin may make<br />
about the PKK because they un<strong>de</strong>rmine the credibility of his confessions. Some in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt observers in<br />
the West already feel the authorities are using Semdin to ruin the credibility of some prominent personalities<br />
III Turkey ...<br />
W\: ~hlluld not play with the dignity and honor of people through the statements of a self-confessed<br />
terrorist. If such things are to be revealed to the press, we feel the authorities should be very careful on<br />
how much and what is ma<strong>de</strong> available to the newspapers.<br />
Semdin Sakik will be brought to trial. What he says during his hearings should be more important than<br />
what is being leaked to the press as his confessions ...<br />
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