Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka<br />
Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Basm Öz<strong>et</strong>i<br />
.Iran and Greece accused of aiding PKK<br />
. h D'I N Turkish Daily News Electronic Edition. Foreign Affairs Section<br />
Ankara - Tur k<br />
IS al yews March 27 1998 _<br />
Iran and Greece have recently enhanced cooperation in their efforts to support the outlawed separatist<br />
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), intelligence sources said.<br />
Since last January, the twO"countries have expan<strong>de</strong>d their support of the PKK by providing military training,<br />
the sources said.<br />
Previously, it had been reported that PKK terrorists trained in Greece had been flown to Tehran, from which<br />
. point they had infiltrated Turkey and Iraq.<br />
But the latest intelligence reports say that Greek support and involvement have increased with military<br />
officers training PKK terrorists in the 11 PKK camps in Iran.<br />
Three Greek officers, based in the Razayi camp which is the second largest PKK camp in Iran, are providing<br />
the Kurdish separatists with military training, including in the use of heavy artillery which Greece sells to<br />
the Iranian army un<strong>de</strong>r a bilateral agreement, the sources said.<br />
The sources ad<strong>de</strong>d that the Greek officers had arrived in Tehran from Athens, and after having talks with<br />
.Iranian intelligence and military officials, had hea<strong>de</strong>d to the PKK camps.<br />
PKK informants had revealed that four Greek officers had been training PKK terrorists in northern Iraq. On<br />
March 13, 1998, the four officers had reportedly moved from the Chemirezan camp to an area in the Sakran<br />
Mountains with 180 PKK members and military equipment.<br />
The same intelligence sources said that Greece had been providing special training for a group of PKK<br />
terrorists on a farm in the town of Psakhna on the Evoia Peninsula in Greece.<br />
Turkey has repeatedly con<strong>de</strong>mned Greece for supporting the PKK and for turning a blind eye to a number of<br />
PKK camps on its territory. Athens <strong>de</strong>nies the accusations, dismissing them as mere propaganda. However,<br />
an article in the latest issue of Time magazine has provi<strong>de</strong>d <strong>de</strong>tailed information supporting Turkey's<br />
claims.<br />
PKK targ<strong>et</strong> of Syrians' antipathy<br />
Meanwhile, the monument to the PKK lea<strong>de</strong>r, Abdullah Ocalan, in Syria's Berkefire district, has become the<br />
targ<strong>et</strong> of local people's anger, intelligence sources said.<br />
The monument, which was erected there last February, was pelted with stones by the citizens of Berkefire.<br />
The Syrian authorities had to surround the monument with barbed wire, but this measure failed to halt the<br />
attacks. The Syrian government has reportedly <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to dismantle the monument very soon.<br />
Ocalan himself has been granted safe haven in Damascus, where he has been living for years.<br />
DGM releases Ahm<strong>et</strong> Turk<br />
• Ahm<strong>et</strong> Turk was released because he said in his interrogation that he had not been to<br />
party offices for eight months and did not know anything about HADEP's education<br />
project and because he was sick<br />
Ankara - Turkish Daily News<br />
In Ankara, the State Security Court's (DGM) Chief Prosecutor Salk released Ahm<strong>et</strong> Turk, a<br />
party assembly member of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP), following his interrogation.<br />
However, Abdullah Varli, who had been taken into custody within the framework of the<br />
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