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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi putYChainnan Kemal Birg<strong>et</strong> claimed to the TON on Friday that the vinage guards attacked the BayJ{an township and <strong>de</strong>stroyed three official vehicles of the Baykan,Municipality along with four shops. Quotmg Baykan's SHP mayor, Birg<strong>et</strong> claimed the attack was in r<strong>et</strong>aliation to the PKK raid. In a separate <strong>de</strong>velopment, a spokesman for the Kurdish-based Democracy Party (DEP) con<strong>de</strong>mned the PKK attacks and said they were against any activity which shed blood. Remzi Kartal, the spokesman for DEP <strong>de</strong>puties, said with regard to the killing of Gen. Aydm that they were very sorry about the inci<strong>de</strong>nt and were concerned over this action. Emergency security summit in Ankara • Ç/ller convenes National Security Council without Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Demirel Turlcish Daily News ANKARA- An emergency summit was held in Ankara on Frida~ to consi<strong>de</strong>r the worsening security sItuation in Southeastern Turliey. Prime Minister Tansu çil\er chaired the me<strong>et</strong>inB, during which recent <strong>de</strong>velopments, mcluding the ban by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) on the media and JlOlitical activities in the Southeast were iliscitssed Measures aimed at maintaining ~urity in the region were also said to have been taken up. The me<strong>et</strong>mg was held as work was un<strong>de</strong>rway for a security summit called by Parliamentary Speaker Hüsain<strong>et</strong>t.in Cindoruk for October 25 to be atten<strong>de</strong>d by the lea<strong>de</strong>rs of the pOlitical parties in Parliament. , Çiller had announced during her visit to the United States that she would be holding a me<strong>et</strong>ing on security as soon as she r<strong>et</strong>urned to Turkey. Çiller convened the security summit approximately three hours after she r<strong>et</strong>urned to Ankara around noon Friday, and before visiting Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Süleyman Demirel. Observers point out that the parti cipanlSat the security summit.were the same as the participants who attend me<strong>et</strong>ings of the National Security Council (MGK).The only one absent at Friday' summit was Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Suleyman who chairs MGK me<strong>et</strong>ings. The MGK me<strong>et</strong>ing planned for October 29, has been brought forwards to October 25, consi<strong>de</strong>ring the worsening Security situation in southeast Turkey. The following officials atten<strong>de</strong>d Fridays security summit: Foreign Minister Hikm<strong>et</strong> ç<strong>et</strong>m, Defense Minister Nevzat Ayaz, Interior Minister Mehm<strong>et</strong> Guioglu, Chief of Gene'll Sf&IT-;."" .•""'I.I 00- ~an Güre" Land ~'or.:cs (;oDlhian<strong>de</strong>r General Ismail HakkJ KaradaYI, Naval Forces Comman<strong>de</strong>r Admital Vural Be- YUlt, Air Forces Comman<strong>de</strong>r General Halis Burhan, Gendarmerie Forces Comman<strong>de</strong>r GeneraI Aydm l1ter, National Security Counci1.Secr<strong>et</strong>ary GeneraI Dogan BeY!!llt, Emergency Rule Region Governor Unal Erkan, National Intelligence Organization (Mm Chief Sönmez Köksal, the Prime Minister's Milit~ Advisor Major GeneraI Edip B~r, Chief of Police Mehm<strong>et</strong> Agar and Ministers of State Necm<strong>et</strong>tln Cevheri, Mehm<strong>et</strong> Gölhan, Thrahim Tez and Bekir Sami Daçe. The me<strong>et</strong>ing was continuing a.~TON went 10 print. Political parties to resist PKK ban in Southeast TDN Parliament Bureau ANKARA- Political parties in Parliament on Friday <strong>de</strong>nounced a recently imposed separatist ban on their activiltes in the Southeast and said they would not give in to terrorist <strong>de</strong>mands. In interviews with the TDN, party lea<strong>de</strong>rs said they would in no way Yieldto a <strong>de</strong>cision issued by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to halt their political activities in the troubled region as of this Sunday. Speaking on behalf of PKK lea<strong>de</strong>r Abdulfah Öcalan, European representative Kani Ytlmaz told the TDN Thursday that the ban would be implemented at the cost of "punishing" those who violated it. The PKK's .armed force ARGK announced this week that it would place all Kurdish politicians from "bourgeois parties" among their "nationalliberation targ<strong>et</strong>s" if they did not resign by an Oct. 24 <strong>de</strong>adline. "They will then have to me<strong>et</strong> the consequences," a written statement <strong>de</strong>clared. Evaluating the PKK threat, party lea<strong>de</strong>rs said it would be a mistake even to consi<strong>de</strong>r yielding to the ban. Aydm Güven Gürkan, parliamentary group chainnan of the junior coalition partner Social Democrat Peoples' Party (SHP), said, "Our joint duty is not to bend in front of threats of violence and terror." Referring to the.ban, True Path Party (DYP) group Deputy Chainnan ~evzat Ercan said he was ~prepared to die for the country" and pointed out.that it was the duty of every citizen ~o restst these threats.. ''''Bandits always threaten," Ercan said. "But the shape of the threat is different this time. It was threatening human lives from day one but has now Imposed a <strong>de</strong>adline of Oct. 24. All political parties and organiz.ationsmust work tog<strong>et</strong>her onthis." DYP Deputy Chainnan Yas~r Topçu criticized suggestions to seek a poliltcal solution to the problem and said there was no way to overco~e the crisis politically. OffiCiaIs from Turkey's main opposition Motherland p.ar:ty(ANAf) argued, meanwhile, that <strong>de</strong>spite their <strong>de</strong>cISIon to resist tlie PKK threat, they did not believe in the ~eed fo.t,rnartiallaw. Acting Parliamentary Group Chamnan Eyüp A~tk told the TDN that localadministrations in the Southeast had to be strengthened ahd" called for the establishment of an "Interior Security Un<strong>de</strong>rsecr<strong>et</strong>ariat. " . ANAP's <strong>de</strong>puty chairman in charge of party organizatlO~S,Rü~tü Kazlm Yücelen, said that all party organiz~tlOns were open, and they were not consi<strong>de</strong>ring c10- slOgdown any branch. Reyublican Peoples' Party (CHP) Secr<strong>et</strong>ary General Ertugrul Günay séildthey would not listen to the threats either, but noted that parties should travel more frequently to that ~egion. Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Chalnnan Rlza Müftüoglu said, on the other hand, that the PKK's threat to parties coming after the ban on ~e press was "a very serious inci<strong>de</strong>nt." Müftüoglu said. that although theY.did not think the parties would abi<strong>de</strong> by the ban, making the threat was important and the state should "do what it needs to do" in the shortest possible time. Th~ strongest reaction came on Friday from the pro- IslamiC Welfare Party (RP) with Secr<strong>et</strong>ary General qgu~an Asiltürk saymg they would "make the aQmimstratlon p~y for each drop of blood" if there was an attack on their part¥ or. pohtic~an~. "The a9minis!ration has the duty to méilntamsecunty m the region. If It cannot do this, this is a shame." Asiltürk also said that if the government fails to secure the region, it should resign. . Democracy Party (DEP) <strong>de</strong>puties, whose party was not b~ne9' said that ,all parties had to evaluate their own SituatIOnand <strong>de</strong>Ci<strong>de</strong> what to do. They said that a possibl~ reason for them being exempt from the ban was therr special emphasis on the Kurdish issue. 111
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