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 DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETi<br />
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rism. Pointing ~ut ~at the. P~~ had been<br />
effective In ItS bid to IntImldat~ the<br />
press in the southeast, Yllmaz said he<br />
had heard that TV channels may also be<br />
prevented from broadcasting from the<br />
region. . h'd<br />
Criticising the government e sa!<br />
those who acted as mere spectat~rs In<br />
the face of such events, were tryIng to<br />
assure the public now that the upcoming<br />
local elections could be held inthe southeast<br />
just as it would be all over Turkey.<br />
. b h<br />
He said that guarantees glv~n y t .e<br />
prime minister while she was In Amenca,<br />
and the assurances .by. the interior<br />
minister while he was vIsitIng Iran carried<br />
no importance whatsoever for hi!?<br />
or his colleagues. Yllmaz ad<strong>de</strong>d that hiS<br />
party was ready to give full support to<br />
the government in or<strong>de</strong>r for local elections<br />
In five months time to be held in an<br />
atmosphere of security.<br />
The parliamentary group of the Republican<br />
People's Party (CHP) also convened<br />
on Tuesday. CHP Chairman Deniz<br />
Baykal, who addressed his colleagues<br />
dunng the group me<strong>et</strong>ing, said that<br />
recent events in DiyarbakIr clearly showed<br />
the situation which Turkey was facing<br />
vis a vis terrorism. He sll.ld no one<br />
could talk about the existence of "national<br />
integrity" if laws could not be implemented<br />
in a part of the country.<br />
Referring to the PKK's threat~ to th.e<br />
press in the southeast, Baykal said w~-<br />
Ie Turkish paper could be found In<br />
Australia, Britain and Germany, they<br />
cannot be found in the southeast. He<br />
criticized the government for failing to<br />
protect the journalists there and ad<strong>de</strong>d<br />
that his party had prepared a censure<br />
motion regarding the recent <strong>de</strong>velopments<br />
in DiyarbakIr.<br />
Quest for a national<br />
consensus government<br />
Meanwhile, the controversy regarding<br />
the need to establish a government<br />
of national consensus in the face of the<br />
mounting crisis in the southeast, continued<br />
to be part of the <strong>de</strong>bate in Parliament<br />
on Tuesday. Late presid~!lt Tur&ut<br />
Özal's brother Yusuf Bozkurt Ozal, woo<br />
is in the process of organizing his party<br />
known as the New Party, argue~ that<br />
Parliament Speaker Hüsam<strong>et</strong>tIn CIndoruk<br />
should assume the task of securing<br />
'a national consensus among various political<br />
parties. Siirt Deputy for the pro-<br />
Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP), Zübeyir<br />
Aydar, said, however, that such <strong>de</strong>mands<br />
would amount to calling for a<br />
military coup. In a l<strong>et</strong>ters to he addressed<br />
to ANAP <strong>de</strong>p.!lties Sadi Pehlivanoglu<br />
and Hüseyin Ozalp, who first advocated<br />
the i<strong>de</strong>a of a government of national<br />
consensus, Aydar warned that the<br />
quest for such a government would leave<br />
Turkey facing internal conflict and<br />
division.<br />
Çiller: Right to live is the<br />
number one human right<br />
• Calls for enhanced economic<br />
partnership and opening<br />
of Iraqi pipeline<br />
By U~urAkme.<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
WASHINGTON, D.C.- During her last day in<br />
Washington, D.C., Prime Minister Tansu Çiller repeated<br />
the themes of "enhanced partnership b<strong>et</strong>ween<br />
Turkey and the U.S." and "negation of double standards<br />
in world politics" during an honorary <strong>de</strong>gree<br />
ceremony at Georg<strong>et</strong>own University and the luncheon<br />
following at the National Press Club. .<br />
During the speeches she gav~ on both. occasl~ns,<br />
Çiller emphaSIZed the necessity of withstandIng<br />
aggression allover the world, regardless of the i<strong>de</strong>ntity<br />
or religion of the victims. By specifically mentioning<br />
the world's <strong>de</strong>~lorable -Passivity in Bosnia and<br />
Azerbaijan, Çiller SlI.ldthat attempts to change the national<br />
oor<strong>de</strong>rs by force should hé resisted ana stopped<br />
by ~JY means necessary. ... ..- ..<br />
In this context she said that the new danger awaiting<br />
the "new world or<strong>de</strong>r, or the new wond disor<strong>de</strong>r,"<br />
was not posed by the antagonism b<strong>et</strong>ween<br />
"communism and capitalism" but by this new type of<br />
fierce nationalism.<br />
During her National Press Club address, Çiller asked<br />
"How many more states can we 'afford in the<br />
wor'ld today')" and drew attention to the painful<br />
results of the application of the Wilsonian<br />
principle of "self-<strong>de</strong>termination." With respect<br />
to the PKK problem, Çiller <strong>de</strong>clared that<br />
the Turkish state would never allow another.<br />
state to exist in its current territory. "Nor would<br />
the United States," she ad<strong>de</strong>d.<br />
As she did during her previous public addresses<br />
in Washington, Çlller.emphas!z~d the<br />
importance of cooperation WIth RUSSiaIn the<br />
Caucasus to mediate regional c~:mflicts. She<br />
said it would be wrong for RUSSia,or for that<br />
matter Turkey, to act alone in the region, and<br />
that it would not be right even for Turkey<br />
and Russia to act as ~o-b<strong>et</strong>weens unless the<br />
cooperation of all regional countries was provi<strong>de</strong>d.<br />
Debate on<br />
martiallaw<br />
intensifies<br />
• Turkish military says<br />
responsibility lies with civilian<br />
authority, urges civilians ta use<br />
powers to the fullest in<br />
Emergency Rule region<br />
Within this context, Çiller said that the traditional<br />
alliance b<strong>et</strong>ween Turkey and the<br />
U.S., which has provi<strong>de</strong>d stability Iß the region<br />
for <strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong>s, must move forward from an<br />
exclusively military platform to an "enhanced<br />
partnership" that covers economic relations<br />
as well.<br />
Çiller raised the topic of the damage caused<br />
to the Turkish economy by the Iraqi oil<br />
embargo and mentioned that the resulting poverty<br />
in the area was one of the reasons that<br />
PKK terrorism has escalated to its present level.<br />
"It doesn't look like the oil embargo hurt<br />
Saddam Hussein, though," she ad<strong>de</strong>d.<br />
Fre'luently referring to Turkey's sensitivity<br />
to the Issue of human rights, Çlller said that<br />
Turkey even has a mechanism at the mini steriallevel<br />
to "watch over individual cases of<br />
human rights violations. .<br />
When you are fighting terrorism, such individual<br />
abuses do happen. But we are serious<br />
about acting as watchdogs of human<br />
rights violations. Now the state watches over<br />
the state," she said.<br />
Answering a question at the National Press<br />
Club concerning the prospects of Turkey's<br />
recognizing such cultural freedoms as TV<br />
broadcasts Iß Kurdish or Kurdish curriculum<br />
in schools, Çiller replied that within the current<br />
environment of escalated terrorism, the<br />
priority is on protecting lives.<br />
She said that during ber recent visits to the<br />
Southeast, people repeatedly asked her first<br />
to protect their lives. Only after terrorism<br />
stops can such freedoms be enjoyed, she said.<br />
On the issue of Cyprus, Çiller said that<br />
Turkey <strong>de</strong>finitely wants a solution to the crisis;<br />
for this reason Ankara has asked the Turkish<br />
Cypriot lea<strong>de</strong>rship to <strong>de</strong>termine a <strong>de</strong>finite<br />
date for an election and to hold it as soon<br />
as possible.<br />
Once the election takes place, the two<br />
communities can sit down and reach an agreement<br />
b<strong>et</strong>ween themselves, she said.<br />
Turkish<br />
Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Amid intensifying <strong>de</strong>bate over<br />
the P-Ossibleimposition of martial law in the face<br />
of growing terrorist activit~ in the Southe~~,<br />
the hi~hest government officiais <strong>de</strong>ny conditIons<br />
eXIStfor its <strong>de</strong>claration.<br />
"To us, conditions necessitating martiallaw<br />
do not exist," Interior Minister Mehm<strong>et</strong> Gazio~lu<br />
said Tuesday. "Unfortunately, <strong>de</strong>bate over<br />
martial law has always been imtiated before<br />
parliamentary VOle on the extension of the<br />
emergency rule [in the Southeast]."<br />
Meanwhile, in an interview with the daily<br />
Hürriy<strong>et</strong> published Tuesday, Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Süleyman<br />
Demirel disclosed "no <strong>de</strong>mand" by secu-<br />
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