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Thursday, October 21, 1993 turkish daily news
Press reacts to suggestion on
war correspondents for S.east
• Official criticism of dailies for closing
Southeast bureaus meets with strong
counter criticism by press
• Protests against PKK ban on dailies
continue, foreign journalists prepare to
take over from those leaving the region
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- A sug~estion to the "In Ankara, no one knows what to do. As
printed media to send war correspon- for political parties, they are embroiled in a
dents" to the Southeast ifthey "insist struggle to send one another down the drathere
is- a war going on there," made in," Selçuk wrote, "andwe ask the reporter
by. acting Prime Minister Necmettin . in the Southeast to die! Why should he?"
Cevheri following the outlawed Kur- Hikmet Çetinkaya, another Cumhuriyet
.distan Workers'Party (PKK) ban on . columnist, wrote that remarks by senior go-
.dailies, has outraged the.Turkish , vernment officials criticizing the press for
pre~ss~akin~ at the Tru~ Path Party cIosinq their Southeast offices were out of
place. 'If it's that easy, you go and give it a
. (D P) par iamentary grouP meetingtry," he said, lashing out at Interior Minister
. Tuesday, Cevheri critiCized the dailies Ml h tG' XI h d' d' al'
for Closing their S.outh.east offices. e me azlO,s u, w 0 a vIse Journ IStS
to do their job and not be afraid. That's not
"despite governmental guarantees to kid's pla~," çetinkaya added. .
ensuretheir safety. This land is ours. Sabah s Güngör Mengisaid the latest deo'
Just as teachers, public servants are .velopments' in the Southeast had led the natimartyred
there doing their duty, so the on at large to think that a bloody eruption of
press must do its duty," he added. violence was in the offing.
llWhat sort of talk is that?" ran Mil- . "The greatest deficiency is the lack of a
. h dl' 'W dstate image that instills hope and trust. To
liyet's fio.nt-page ea me on' e - cap it alloff, a fight for prominence between
nesday. "Wend suggestion by actinä President Sülaman Demirel and Prime Mi-
PM Cevheri to journalists threatene nister TanSu iller appears set to break out.
by the PKK: 'Go and do war reporting
Terrorist activity keeps on claiming more Iithen,'"
read the subhead. . ves, shedding innocent blood. Pohticalma-
Milliyet ~aid the. p'~ess was r~a9X to . neuve ring is not what we need," Mengi wrofulfill
anYJournallstlc responsIbility, te ..
including sending war correspondents With all independent reportin$ activity coto
the region. "Yet, the South~ast is min~ to a halt as of Tuesday, WIth more than
waiting for the care and protection of 100 Journalists having to resign, and with the
the state," it a~ded. Turkish dailies selling almost no newspapers
:!'ThePKK is ineffl'ct ruling the So- to the Southeast, people in Turkey's Kurdisnutheast,"
wrote Milliyet's McIih A~lk,dominated provinces havebeen denied their
"and its influence. is being felt moreright to have a~ces~. to information. It.is only
and niore in western Turkey. The co- the pro-KurdIsh Ozgür Gündem that the
untry is at the threshold of a war tö . PKK allows to do reporting in the area.
. maintain its integrity. Yet' neither the state' The state television Turkish Radio and TV
officials nor the rich who control them are network (TRT) and the semiofficial Anatolia
the slightest bit concerned." Hürriyet's Rauf news agency are reported to be trying to find
Tamer argued that the PKK action occurred reporters to work for them.
because the organization "knows very well _ While high-ranking governinent officials
that Turkish politicians cannot come up with keep urging Turkish press organizations to
a consistent plan of action to oppose the reopen their offices, saying theywill ensure
ban." reporters' safety, it seems a remote p