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

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETÎ
Turkish Probe October 5, 1993
Ruman Bights Diary
Mehmet Balamir, a distributor of the pro-Kurdish
daily Özgür Gündem,is attacked by two as yet unidentified
men in the southeastern province of
Diyarbakir. He is severely beaten.
(Özgür Gündem, Sept. 27)
Turkey's Human Rights Association (IHD) is seeking
to launch a symbolic trial against five former generals
who staged a coup in 1980 and ousted the
country's democratically elected government and
parliament. IHD chairman Akm Birdal says they plan
to hold the first hearing by the end of 1993 and have
established contact with variousinternational bodies
such as the Paris and New York bar associations as
well as Helsinki Watch.
(Newspapers, Sept. 28)
Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) says they will strike at Western
interests, tourists and economic targets across Turkey
in retaliation for Ankara's crackdown against their
struggle for autonomy. Öcalan says the violent campaign
he plans to launch could kill up to 50 people a
day. His guerrillas, he says, will launch "attacks
against Turkish forces, tourists, economic targets
and Western interests in Turkey. We will not be responsible
if 50 people die in such attacks in one
day."
(Newspapers, Sept. 29)
Motherland P,arty (ANAP) leader Mesut Yllmaz
says that following the recent terrorist attack on
Dogubeyazlt, tanks fired indiscriminately. During the
incident, ANAP Agrl Deputy (a former health minister)
Ya~ar ErYllmaz's house in Dogubeyazlt was
crushed by tanks. "We will raise this issue in Parliament,"
Yllmaz says, adding, "Eryilmaz's father, the
occupant of the house; is a person adamantly opposed
-- maybe more adamantly than the state -- to
the PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party). Yet his
house too hasbeen destroyed. We must protect the
people caught between the two sides in this fight."
(Newspapers, Sept. 30)
A group of Turkish deputies petition the Grand National
Assemblyfor a parliamentary investigation to
be launched into the Sept. 4 assassination of Kurdish
MP Mehmet Sincar in the province of Batman. The
appeal calls on Parliament to act in a decisive way
for those behind Sincar's killing to be caught and
brought before the law.
(Newspapers, Oct. 1)
Police detain 15 people suspected of involvement
in the murder of a Kurdish member of parliament. A
statement from the emergency rule regional governor's
office in Diyarbakir says the 15 detained in the
southeastern town of Batman had taken part in the
September 4 murders of Mehmet Sincar, an MP for
the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP).
(Newspapers, Oct. 1)
The PKK raids the Be~konak village, in Batman
province, killing seven people, two of them children.
An indefinite curfew is imposed in the town of Hizan
on Wednesday night after PKK militants fire on soldiers,
killing a soldier and a civilian. Many buildings
were damaged and six vehicles are set on fire during
the clash. Two school teachers are killed and
five wounded in a PKK attack on a teachers' club
building in Birecik, in $anhurfa province. Unidentified
gunmen shoot dead a university student in
Diyarbakir.
(Newspapers, Oct 1)
In retaliation for an informal ban by local security
forces on the sales of pro-Kurdish publications in
southeastern Turkey, the PKK bans kiosks and distributors
in Diyarbakir from selling any Istanbulbased
newspapers.
(Turkish Daily News, Oct. 1)
A German state government on Friday urges the
release of a translator for a German human rights
group who has been detained by military authorities
, in Turkey. Nilüfer Koç, who was travelling in Southeast
Turkey with a group based in the German state
of Lower Saxony, disappeared on Tuesday, a lawyer
for the group, Thorsten Rueckold, told Reuters.
She was being held by military authorities in $Irnak.
Koç, a Turkish citizen who grew up in Germany,
travelled with a delegation to interview journalists,
trade unionists and human rights workers.
(Newspapers, Oct. 1)
Kurdish militants set fire to a house in the village
of Altlava in Mu~' Hasköy township, killing nine villagers
including seven children. In another development,
Kurdish militants kill a civilian and wound nine
others in a roadblock in Kahramanmara~' Elbistan
village. Meanwhile, two more people are gunned
down by unidentified assailants in southeastern refinery
province of Batman.
(Newspapers, Oct. 2)
Turkish audiences flock to ,the first showing in the
country of Kurdish director Yllmaz Güney's film
"Yol", banned for 12 years. "Yol" (Road) shared the
prestigious Golden Palm award at the 1982 Cannes
film festival with Costa Gavras' film "Missing" but
was banned in Turkey and copies of it were burned
for its alleged Marxist and Kurdish separatist content.
(Newspapers, Oct. 2)
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