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Human Bights Diary
Turkish Probe October 12, 1993
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• Thirty-one people are killed in southeast Turkey
in two separate minibus attacks, blamed on the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A minibus
travelling between Kayalar and Kayallplnar villages in
Mardin province hits a land mine. Twenty-six people,
Including nine children and five women, are killed. In
another development, five civilians are killed in the
Mutki district of Bitlis province )'t'hen their minibus
comes under fire from PKK terrorists.
(Newspapers, Oct. 4)
• PKK militants attack a village and two hamlets in
the Southeast, massacring 33 villagers and wounding
25 others. There are eigl1t women and 10 children
among the dead, This series of PKK attacks is said to
be in retaliation for a Turkish military offensive over
the weekend to wipe out guerrilla bases some five
kilometers (3 miles) inside northern Iraq:
(NewIpapers, Oct. 5)
• The Motherland Party (ANAP) repeats claims
that tanks opened fire on a house owned by the
father of a party deputy and says an official statement
issued by the Prime Ministry on the issue is stretching
the truth. ANAP AQn Deputy Ya~ar Eryllmaz, whose
house was attacked, says that his family has
supported the state for years, and has given no
support to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Eryllmaz's announcement follows a statement by the
Prime Ministry claiming that a tank fired two salvos on
the house and a nearby building only after separatist
militants, stationed inside, opened fire on a military
barracks.
New8pBpers, Oct. 6)
• Turkish military authorities release a student,
working as a translator for a German human-rights
group, who was detained last week while travelling in
southeastern Turkey. NiiOfer Koç, a Turkish citizen
who grew up in the German city of Bremen,
disappeared in the town of ~Irnak on September 28.
The group's lawyer, Thorsten Rueckold, says Koç
disappeared after receiving threats from the military,
and adds that she turned up at a hotel in Diyarbakir
province. The state governments of Bremen and
Lower Saxony, along with parliamentary president
Rita Suessmuth, had urged Turkey to secure Koç's
release. Lower Saxony State Justic~ Minister Heidi
Alm-Merk said she feared Koç might be tortured.
Turkish authorities give no reason for Koç's detention.
(Newspapers, Oct. 6)
• The bodies of two teachers, one of them a
woman, are found two days after they were seized by
the PKK from Ovacik town in Tunceli province.
Unidentified attackers shoot dead two civilians in the
town of Silvan in Diyarbakir province.
(Newspapers, Oct. 7)
• The Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD)
says 729 southeastern villages have been emptied
since Turkey's general election in October 1991.
Villages that refuse to take guns from the state to
fight the PKt