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

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nounced by the Chief of Staffs o!fice. Using
its anniversary as a pretext, It wIll declare a
cease fire to cover up th~ fac~that it is ~~sing
its ability to maneuver In WInter condItions.
It finds itself in need to prepare for t~e
spring. It will declare .a cease fire ~nd halt ItS
actions to have a relatIvely easy' WInter.
"I do not think the State wIll fall for this
ploy. But the military will also not move .fo~ward
much because of the need to hmlt
bloodshed. In fact if you look at the last 8-9
months of this year, the security f~rces have
begun withdrawing as f~ back as ISacceptable.
All the military statIons that have come
under PKKattack have been closed one by
one. Not one soldiers dares walk out of his
barracks after 5 p~m." . . .
The deputy said thIS IS how the WInter
months would pass, and only after March
would things llIow ur again and spread.
"First of all there wil be the March local
elections. These will be follow on March .21
by Nevroz (the Shiite spring f~stival whIch
has in recent years been turned mto an occasion
for separatist propaganda by the ~KK).
PKK attacks can be expected to mtenslfy before
the local elections and peak during Nevroz."
Asking how local elections ca~ be held
in an environment, "where events wIll spread
and corpses will cover the streets?" the deputy
wondered what the state was p'roposing to
do to provide the necessary secunty. . .
"However, according to the ConstItutIon
the elections must take place. They could be
brought forward, but unClerno circumstances
can they be postponed. If we go ahead with
the elections then this could lead to two alter-
. natives. Either the PKKtells the people to
boycott the election~, and in doing so sec~res
itself a referendum In a manner of speaking,
or it will not boycott the elections and put
forward several independent caildidate~ ' telling
the people to support these .candld~tes.
The PKK will come out the WInner eIther
way" the deputy said.
And whife all this is going on, the-deputy
added, 'peoplè living outside the region will
start thinking:" Enough is enough, let's give
the region over to them, and rid ourselves of
trouble." He added that this sentiment would
go on spreading. However, no civilian gov~
ernment can take the decision for autonomy;
which is, in effect, the first step toward secession,
since any government that takes t,his
step will be accUsed of "treachery" and of
"wanting to divide the country," he said.
"A parliamentary coup to
counter a militarycoup
The deputy also indicated that it is apparent
that the United States and Great Britain
are detennined to have a Kurdistan set up in
Southeast Anatolia by citing the fact _that
even the Palestinians and Israel have managed
to arrive at an agreement. Maintaining
that these countries "needtocreate a new area
of conflict in the region," the deputy said,
"although there is already an autonomous
Kurdistan in Northern Iraq, nobody takes it
seriously because it is a regIOn in poverty."
" However if a real Kurdistan is going to
be set up and made viable, it has to be in
Southeastern Turkey. Because the most modem,
most developed and richest part of Kur
distan that lies on the territory of four countries,
is in Turkey" he said. "The road to an
independent Kurdistan passes through autonomy.
No civilian government can consider
this. But we have the examples from the past.
When things that no civilian government can
dare to undertake come on the agenda, there
is a U.S.-backed military coup, and the military
is made to do the dIrty work" the deputy
said. -
."The military government after the Sept.
12 military coup ISthe best example of thIS.
For example, tile US admiflistratlOn as part
of its "Green Belt theory," included Turkey
in the ".Belt," and, being prepared to make
concessIOns from the pnnclples of Atatürk,
had the Constitution stipulate that religious
classes in schools are compulsory."
Questioning "which civilian government.
would have dared do such a thing?" the deputy
.argued' that another example supporting
his argument was the lifting of the Turkish
veto allowing Greece back mto the military
. wings of the NATO alliance.
"For years we've had rightist governments
an~ leftIst governments, but none made such
a concession. The U.S. managed to get the
military do what it could not get the civilians
to dO.Now we fear that it may get a military
administration to deal with the question of
'autonomy for the southeast that no civilian
administration would touch. We fear that an
environment is being prepared for those who
can deliver what the CIvilians can not to
come to power." - '
The deputy indicated that he was referring
to the prospect of a military coup.
"The road to this is the cancellation of the
M~rch local elections on the pretext of a lack
'ofsecurity. If this happens, we will leave
aside our party interests and try to prompt all
the deputies into action to stage a
'parliamentary coup' and establish a Government
of NatIonal Consensus that will prevent
a military coup." -
The DYP deputy added that he believes
that if the electIOns do not take place, and
such a government is not formed, then the
country will head toward chaos. He also said
that the conditions for a military coup could
be developed easily.
"With the extension of the Chief of General
Staffs term in office by one year, the renewal
of all command ranks in the Military
by August 1994 has been enabled. Beware of
this," the deputy said.
ILice flop leads to Cabinet reshuffle I
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, under fire for
her government's inability to curb seI>aratist violence in
eastern and southeastern Turkey, was forced to announce
aCabinet reshuffle during which she replaced Interior Minister
Mehmet Gazioglu.
. Education Minister Nahit Mente~e became interior minister
while Gazio~lu was relegated to a Cabinet portfolio
as state minIster. State Minister Mehmet Gölhanwas named
as defense minister while Defense MinisterNevzat
Ayaz was named education minister. .
President Süleyman Demirel approved the appointin.ents.
Gölhan, soon after the announcement, said the government
in close cooperation with the Armed Forces will
do "everything ~ecessary for peace and tranq~~li!y in the
country.' GazlOglu has come under strong cntIClsm ever ,
since the Çiller government came to power.
The situation gotout of hand after separatist terrorists,
killed General Bahtiyar Aydm during violent incidents in
the Lice township of Diyarba1or. State Minister Necmettin
Cevheri announced after the Cabinet meeting that there
would be no more changes in the government. Answering
questions for the Anatolian News, Agency about whether
there would be any further changes apart from the four
ministers, Cevheri said, "there are only these four. There
are no other changes. And the cha~es ~ecided on have
been endorsed -and sent to the ufficlal Gazette for
publication." Asked if Sundays Cabinet reshufflewas
planned beforehand Cevheri responded that he did not
know. He merely stated that Sunday's decision was Prime
Minister Çil1er's. Cevheri added that the Prime Minister
wouldpossibly make a statement about the need for the
reshuffle.
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"But this is merely a change of jobs between friends
and as such there is no need for long explanations às to
why this decision was taken" Cèvheri added.
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