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Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
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• An international criminal court will be established
in June to judge the people responsible for the
Halabja massacre. Human Rights Association (IHD) .
Chairman Akin Birdal said that they would also
apply to the court for the condemnation of Kenan
Evren and other junta generals who planned the
1980coup in Turkey
Ankara - Turkish Daily News
Akin Birdal, acting both as chairman of the Human Rights Association (!HD) and as deputy chairman of the
International Human Rights Federation, said at a press conference on Thursday that an international
criminal court would be formed in order to judge the people who were responsible for the Halabja massacre
in northern Iraq in 1998.
Birdal stated that the federation had recently contacted other ,European countries with the intention of
forming an international criminal court that would condemn those responsible, particularly Saddam
Hussein and Tarik Aziz, for the Halabja massacre.
Birdal noted that their request had been accepted by other European countries, and in July 1998,an
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attacked Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons on the grounds that they had cooperated with Iran. There were a
also rumors that Iran had attacked the Iraqi Kurd~. It is saidthat 5,000peoplewere killed in the attacks.
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Consequently, Birdal said that some day, the architects of the Sept. 12 coup in Turkey would also be judged
in an international criminal court. "We, the IHD, will put the judgment of Kenan Evreri and the other
junta generals on the agenda of the international criminal court that will soon be formed. We have made
an offer to hold the next meeting of the federation in Diyarbakir in June," Birdal added.
King Hussein: No plans to join Turkish-Israeli
military cooperation '
Washington- Turkish Daily News UGUR AKINCI
King Hussein of Jordan, who is on an official visit to Washington, said that Jordan has no plans to join the
Turkish-Israeli military cooperation arrangement since Jordan already has excellent bilateral relations with
Turkey.
Answering reporters questions at the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, after he met with Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright, Hussein said:
"As far as we are concerned, we have excellent relations with Turkey, and we believe that they are very
important, in terms of the region itself. There is no plan to join any coalition, or whatever it might be
described as, because on the bilaterallevel, we have excellent relations."
When asked if the issue was brc)Ughtup during her meeting with Hussein, Albright replied in the negative,
"We did not discuss that, but'our discussions are not over."
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