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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHÈ:vOKA ÇAPÊ-RwISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE lA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETÎ<br />

IN'rE ... RNATION..ALHERÀLD TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1993<br />

. . .<br />

Here's a B<strong>et</strong>ter Road for Turkey to Travel<br />

ASHINGTON - She is intelligent,<br />

~nable and<br />

By William Safire<br />

W articulate.<br />

Turkey s new prime Minister,<br />

Tansu Ciller, lin economist<br />

trained in the United States,<br />

wowed 'em on television and in<br />

private me<strong>et</strong>ings here on her recent<br />

visit to America. Unfortunately,<br />

the central message that she and<br />

her advisers brought to the White<br />

House was unworthy of the proud<br />

Turkish people.<br />

It is this: The cutoff of the oil<br />

Prime Minister Tansu<br />

CiUer UlGlIt8 to do<br />

bwinea with Saddam.<br />

pipeline tolraq, part of the.WOrld'S<br />

sanctions on Sadda1n HU$$Cin,is<br />

costing Turkey billions. Mrs. Ciller<br />

wants the United States, as the<br />

chief Desert Stormer, to arrange to<br />

recompense Turkey for this cost.<br />

Otherwise - and here's the<br />

zinger that shows how little this<br />

Turkish government un<strong>de</strong>rstands<br />

alliances - Turkey might not extend<br />

its agreement to permit its airfidds<br />

and supply routes to be used<br />

to prote<strong>et</strong> and feed Iraqi Kurds in<br />

Operation Provi<strong>de</strong> Comfort.<br />

Although not presented as a<br />

Quid pro quo, the point was blunt:<br />

Pay us the money, and we l<strong>et</strong> you<br />

keep on preventing Saddam Hus-<br />

S!2n from slaughtering the Kurds<br />

beginning to build an autonomous<br />

<strong>de</strong>mocracy on the dictator's land .<br />

.That goes beyond realpolitik to<br />

ieaI blackmail. But an ally whose<br />

C()Operationis for sale is available<br />

for alliance to a higher bid<strong>de</strong>r,<br />

andother nations bow that. Relationships<br />

thai rely on immediate<br />

mutual back-scratching never become<br />

"special."<br />

In her hard sell, the prime minister<br />

went further. Saddam, she told<br />

one and all, is growing more popular<br />

in Iraq day by day. The sanctions<br />

are not workin~ She wants to<br />

do business with him, and never<br />

mind the regional threat.<br />

Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Bill Cliaton and his<br />

advisers did not express irritation<br />

at being presented with a big bill<br />

for continued parking in Turkish<br />

airports. That is because Turkey is<br />

the secular Muslim nation that<br />

stands in contrast to Iran's fanatic<br />

fundamentalism, and those two<br />

mo<strong>de</strong>ls are battling for the future<br />

of the Turkic-speaking nations<br />

along Russia's southern rim.<br />

The West need.sTurkey fC1ta<br />

related reason: The Russian reformers<br />

are in d$ of creating a<br />

Yeltsin-Grachev,,regime. The Russian<br />

presi<strong>de</strong>nt, Ûl <strong>de</strong>bt for his p0-<br />

litical existence to the chief of the<br />

armed forces, is l<strong>et</strong>ting the former<br />

Red Army reach into the former<br />

Sovi<strong>et</strong> empire to re:establish Moscow's<br />

control, ostensibly to enforce<br />

c.r<strong>de</strong>r or to prote<strong>et</strong> Russian<br />

"near-abroads." .<br />

Turkey's stability w()uld be vital<br />

if Containment II comes to pass.<br />

But an alliance is a two-way stre<strong>et</strong>;<br />

Turkey's lea<strong>de</strong>rs are as worried as<br />

Washington is about a resurgence<br />

of Moscow imperialism.<br />

Un<strong>de</strong>rlying Mrs. Ciller's programmed<br />

pleas for appeasement<br />

of Saddam is her own military's<br />

<strong>de</strong>cision to escalate the crackdown<br />

on the PKK - terrorist<br />

Kurds in Turkey who <strong>de</strong>mand instant<br />

in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nce.<br />

One Turk in six is a Kurd; the<br />

great majority want to live as citilenS<br />

of Turkey, free to express<br />

their Kurdish cultural héritage and<br />

speak their own language. But the<br />

shortsightèd army lea<strong>de</strong>rs, by overreactina<br />

to the terrorists, by suppressing<br />

the Kurdish i<strong>de</strong>ntity of all<br />

Turkish Kurds, by raiding Kurdish<br />

villages in Iraq while restraining<br />

hot pursuit of the PKK in Syria,<br />

Iran or Armenia - are making the<br />

classic mistake of driving mo<strong>de</strong>rates<br />

into the radical camp.<br />

The <strong>de</strong>mocratically elected<br />

Prime Minister Ciller, mindful of<br />

past army takeovers, told me <strong>de</strong>ter-<br />

Accrochage à la frontière<br />

turco-iranienne : 67 morts<br />

Soixante sept pe,.~.. - cinquante-sept<br />

rebelles klJl'<strong>de</strong>s <strong>et</strong><br />

dix sol<strong>de</strong>ts turcs - ont ltItuées,<br />

merdi soir, <strong>de</strong>ns un eccrochege il<br />

le frontl.re turco-Irenienne,<br />

quend un groupe .<strong>de</strong> .éper<strong>et</strong>l.tes<br />

eattequé un poste <strong>de</strong> le gen<strong>de</strong>rmerie.<br />

l'eccrochege qui e écl<strong>et</strong>é per<br />

le auite e feit 17 mort. <strong>de</strong>na les<br />

renga <strong>de</strong>a rebelle. qui ont perdu<br />

querente eutre.<strong>de</strong>a leur. <strong>de</strong>na<br />

une che .. e-pouraulte <strong>de</strong> l'ermée<br />

turque, .. Ion un communiqué <strong>de</strong><br />

le super-préfecture <strong>de</strong> Diyarbakir,<br />

respon .. ble <strong>de</strong>s province. sous<br />

état d'urgence <strong>de</strong> l'Eat <strong>et</strong> du<br />

Sud-Eat enatoUens.<br />

TURQUIE<br />

La rébellion kur<strong>de</strong><br />

aurait fait 10'000 morts<br />

en neuf ans<br />

le prési<strong>de</strong>nt <strong>de</strong> la République<br />

turque, Suleyman Demirel, a<br />

affirmé, mercredi 27 octobre,<br />

que, <strong>de</strong> 1984 il octobre 1993,<br />

près <strong>de</strong> 10 000 personnes<br />

minedly: "There will be no more<br />

coups in Turkey." L<strong>et</strong>'s hope not;<br />

but as Kurds and their supporters<br />

see it, Ankara's military has already<br />

taken control of this government's<br />

Kurdish policy. Mrs. Cillers recent<br />

pre<strong>de</strong>cessors were har<strong>de</strong>r for the<br />

army lea<strong>de</strong>rs to push around.<br />

Strange, how this ancient, homeless<br />

Kurdish people - 20 million<br />

in a half-dolen countries - is<br />

again at the nexus of geostrategy.<br />

The Turks worry that if the Iraqi<br />

Kurds build a <strong>de</strong>mocratic state,<br />

Turkish Kurds may want the same,<br />

so Turkey sends the United States<br />

an intolerable bill for helping stve<br />

Iraqi Kurds from genoci<strong>de</strong>.<br />

Wrong. If Mrs. Ciller reverses<br />

course and helps Iraqi Kurds<br />

achieve prosperous autonomy -<br />

and by so doing encourages their<br />

<strong>et</strong>hnic br<strong>et</strong>hren to be loyal Kurdish<br />

Turks - the first female Turkish<br />

prime minister will be remembered<br />

not as a clumsy ally-for-sale<br />

but as a new Ataturk.<br />

TIre New York Times.<br />

LE MONDE - 29 OCTOBRE 1993<br />

(3 144 civils, 2 270 membres<br />

<strong>de</strong>s forces <strong>de</strong> sécurité <strong>et</strong><br />

4 617 rebelles) ont été tuées<br />

<strong>de</strong>ns les. régions <strong>de</strong> l'Est <strong>et</strong> du<br />

Sud-Est anatoliens il majorité<br />

kur<strong>de</strong>, oll les séparatistes<br />

mènent une guérilla contre l'armée.<br />

M. Demirel, qui s'exprimait<br />

il Ankara il l'occasion du<br />

soixante-dixillme anniversaire <strong>de</strong><br />

la République <strong>de</strong> Turquie, a<br />

déclaré qu' tl il existe un seul<br />

moyen .., face au Parti <strong>de</strong>s travailleurs<br />

du Kurdistan (PKK):<br />

tl Antlantir c<strong>et</strong>te ban<strong>de</strong> d'assassins...<br />

tl Personne ne doit songer<br />

• <strong>de</strong>s concessions qui<br />

entraTneraient l'tlc/atement du<br />

pays .., a averti M. Demirel, qui<br />

s'est opposé il l'autorisation <strong>de</strong><br />

"enseignement en kur<strong>de</strong>. Par ailleurs,<br />

le journaliste turc enlevé<br />

samedi dans l'Est par le PKK (le<br />

Mon<strong>de</strong> du 26 octobre) a été<br />

libéré. - (AFP.)<br />

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