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

Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro
de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
Iraqi Kurd students m.;ke their way to school yesterday at the Benislawa displaced persons camp outside Irbil, which is controlled
by the Kurdistan Democ~atic Party, in Iraq's north.
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snoW' from the treads of ar- tOpreveritthe3.7niillionKurds' Iraq under a '''hot pursuit"
moured peœ,omielcarri~rs. living there from taking advan-,agree~ent with Baghdad The
,"They are Unwanted ~ests:' tageofaUS.-ledwartosetupan' Turkl~h army chases ~own
, said the town's mayor,Qms Sa- independent state., guernllas of the Kurdistan
'diqAbd~ Majid,whose officeis, . Turkeyfears aKurdishstate ~m Worker,s.party (PKIQ, wh? c~nabout
10metres awayfrom four Its border could fuel separatiSt duct military operations inside
,Turkish t:8Dks. ''Èveryone wants activity among its own Kurdish Turkey,thentlee into the mounthemtOleave."
, ~ority.CountlessKurdishvil- tainsbackacrosstheborder ...
But the Turkish troops aren't !agesin Turkey have been razed' Four years ago, :rurke¥,s milibudging.
In fact, Turkefs gov- byTurkishforeesfightingKurd- t:ar.y .en~ere~Iraqi Kurdistanon
emment ,seems detenmned to ish guerrillas. .', the IDVltationof Masoud Barincrease
the number of soldiers Turkeyalso covetsthe oilfields zani's Kurdistan Democratic
who now occupy patchesof the ofKir~whichliejustsouth of Party (KDP),whose militia con-
Kurdish autonomous
area in the Kurdish-controlled area of trols the northwestern part of
northern Iraq. '. .. Iraq; and wants to ensure Kurd- , the auton~mous area .
Turkey recently Said It has ish militias here don't make a At the time, the KDP was ID-
12,00~troops ~tati?ned in Iraqi 'grab for Kirkuk d~ 1:!tewar. voived iD one of the many in-
Kurdistan, which IS kept fr?m Kurdish officials dismISS,Tur- ternal battles that have plagued
Baghdad's control by patrolling:kèy's concerns as excuses for a Kurdish politics, this time
Us. and British warp~es. ~rther Turkish invasion, of, against the PKK.Fearing defeat,
But Kurdish militia leaders their land Kurdish officials say' the KDP asked the Turks for
and politicians who co~ti?lth~ further that they have publicly help, and the Turks obliged
area along the borderlnsist np renounced their dreams of in- Once Ü1vited,they stayed
more~anl,OOO~kishtroops, dependenceinretuinfoiauton- Since then, the PKK's leader,
are stationed on their land, omous status in a post-Saddam Abdallah "Apo" Ocalan, has
, ,Tur~y's military lUllbiti()l1Sin,' Hussein Iraq. been captured and is serving a ,
northern Iraq are part of a vola- Kurds warn also that they life sentence in Turkey, and the
, tile dynamic that threatens to won't takë' the sight ut more PKK's activities have virtually
trai1~form, ~ US.~ against Turkish tanks rolling into their ,stopped., .
Iraq IDtoa Widerconflict. territory sitting down. But Turkish troops are IDno
Turkey is currently negotiat~ KUrdsin northern Iraq have a hurryto get out
ingtheuse.ofi~bases,bythou-: tangl~p histQ~ with Turkey.' Near the town of ~amarneh,
sands of Ainencan troops wh?; They equate Its brutal treat- near Dahuk, Turkish troops
,would open a northern front.if, ',ment 'of their Kurdish cousins with 30 tanks use an old Iraqi
the' US. launche~, VIa! againSt ~inside TurkeyWith the ~eririg , military airport as their base.
Iraq. Pentagon offiCials con- they've experienced at the . About 18 kilometres south of
firmed yesterday that a tenta." harids ofSaddam.the
Turkish border, the Mateen
,tive agreement ~n aid ~d bet;if Arid when 1.5 million Iraqi . mountain rises in the middle of
reached. A Turkish' ~ff!.cialS81d Kurds tled the Iraqi army's bru- a vast valley. On its tlat top, as
the deal IDvolves$5bïp.io~(US.) tal suppression of the Kurdish though suspendedamong the
in grants and $10billic;>nIDloan uprisirigof1991,Turkeyinitially clouds, is Amadiyah, the capital
guarantees from th~ U.S. to closed its border to hundreds of of domains ruled by great tribal
co~pe~ate for loss,esIt~; ,thousands ofKurds. ' flUI)iliesand princes dating back
to IDC';lr~ the loonung Iraq ~~' .'.Yet Iraqi' Kurds depend on .. to the 16th century.
Media IDTur~y are rep?~ 'tfadeacross the Zakho border Several blocks from the town
that a stumblfug block ID the'Cro'ssing,andconspirewithTur-hall, a crowd of men watch, a
œ,lks isAnka~'s de~d to sta;. ~ey:to break,the UN. trild~.~m- snC)wplo~cle~ a tr~c c~e.
,tionmoreofltstroopsIDnorth- bargo on Iraq DY smugglmg Inthemlddleofthe~erlSesa
em ~q. Turkey report,e