-------~--------------------------------------- Revue <strong>de</strong> presse-Press Review-:-Berhevoka Çapê:-Rivista Stampa-Dentro <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Baszn Öz<strong>et</strong>i Our investigations suggest that transferred prisoners have been held in isolation and have been tortured or ill-treated,? said the researchers from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. ?The torture of a human being is an act of crueltythat is prohibited by international human rights law. Isolation can cause physical and mental harm and mayamount tocruel, inhumane and <strong>de</strong>gra
Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Baszn (jz<strong>et</strong>i Ankara confirme une nouvelle incursion turque .-=. dans le nord <strong>de</strong> l'Irak AAJ..= ANKARA, 7 jan (AFP) - 12h20- Le Premier ministre turc Bulent Ecevit a confirmé dimanche une nouvelle incursion <strong>de</strong> l'armée turque dans le nord <strong>de</strong> l'Irak, précisant qu'elle était <strong>de</strong>stinée à ai<strong>de</strong>r les partis kur<strong>de</strong>s dans c<strong>et</strong>te zone à combattre le Parti <strong>de</strong>s Travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK). M. Ecevit a ajouté, dans une interview à la chaîne publique TRT, que les soldats turcs fournissaient une "assistance technique" aux membres <strong>de</strong> l'Union Patriotique du Kurdistan (UPK) <strong>et</strong> du Parti Démocratique du Kurdistan (PDK) dans leurs combats contre les rebelles du PKK, dont le chef Abdullah Ocalan est emprisonné <strong>et</strong> condamné à mort en Turquie. - Ces <strong>de</strong>ux partis rivaux contrôlent Turquie. c<strong>et</strong>te zone, l'UPK ayant ses bases dans l'est, près <strong>de</strong> l'Iran, <strong>et</strong> le PDK dans le secteur proche <strong>de</strong> la Les rebelles du PKK utilisent le nord <strong>de</strong> l'Irak comme base-arrière <strong>de</strong> leurs opérations <strong>de</strong>puis la fin <strong>de</strong> la guerre du Golfe en 1991. "Les <strong>de</strong>ux partis intensifient leur lutte contre le PKK <strong>et</strong> nous essayons <strong>de</strong> les ai<strong>de</strong>r", a ajouté le Premier ministre en soulignant que le "véritable enjeu" oppose l'UPK que dirige Jalal Talabani au PKK dans l'est <strong>de</strong> la zone. En juill<strong>et</strong>, M. Ecevit a rencontré M. Talabani <strong>et</strong> l'avait remercié pour sa lutte contre le PKK. Ankara accusait auparavant l'UPK d'ai<strong>de</strong>r les séparatistes turcs. Depuis l'arrestation en février 1999 <strong>de</strong> M. Ocalan, condamné à mort pour trahison, le PKK prône une solution pacifique du problème kur<strong>de</strong> <strong>et</strong> a proclamé l'abandon <strong>de</strong> la lutte armée lancée en 1984. L'Irak a dénoncé le 2 janvier la nouvelle incursion turque <strong>et</strong> exhorté la Ugue arabe à intervenir <strong>de</strong>s troupes turques. pour obtenir le "r<strong>et</strong>rait immédiat" Turkish PM reports fresh Turkish incursion into northern Iraq ANKARA, Jan 7 (AFP) Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit confirmed Sunday that Turkish soldiers had crossed into northern Iraq to aid the two leading Kurdish factions in the area in their struggle against armed Kurdish rebels from Turkey. Ecevit told the state-run IRT channel in a live interview that Turkish soldiers were providing "technical help" to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to fight the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). "The real struggle in the region is b<strong>et</strong>ween the PUK and the PKK," Ecevit said. "The PUK and the KDP are spearheading the combat against the PKK and we are trying to help them," he ad<strong>de</strong>d. For the past few months, the Jalal Talabani-Ied PUK, which controls a section of northern Iraq close to the bor<strong>de</strong>r with Iran, has been fighting PKK rebels which it accuses of attacking its positions in a <strong>de</strong>liberate attempt to <strong>de</strong>stabilize the Kurdish-held enclave. The fighting comes after a long period of good relations b<strong>et</strong>ween the PUK and the PKK, which has waged a IS-year armed campaign against Turkey for Kurdish self-rule in the country's southeast. The PKK has been trying to find itself a safe haven since September 1999 when the group said it would stop fighting Ankara and withdraw from Turkish territory to seek a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Most of the rebels are believed to have crossed into northern Iraq, which has been outsi<strong>de</strong> Baghdad's control since the 1991 Gulf War. The KDP, led by Massoud Barzani, controls the strip of land near the Turkish bor<strong>de</strong>r and often helps Turkey in its frequent cross-bor<strong>de</strong>r operations in the region. Ecevit did not say how many troops were taking part in the incurSion or when it would end, but un<strong>de</strong>rlined that the clashes in northern Iraq was evi<strong>de</strong>nce that the "terrorist PKK was still in existence". "The terrorists are armed and are just beyond our bor<strong>de</strong>r. In other words, they are lying in ambush," Ecevit told IRT. "We are taking the necessary measures, both in Turkey and abroad, against separatist terrorism in the framework of internationallegal rules," he ad<strong>de</strong>d. 17
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