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lish have stopped," said Ibrahim Çavdar, manager
of the Büyük Urartu Hotel in Van.
Tour guides and organizers of U.S. coach parties
staying at the hotel shrugged off the perils. "The
PKK has no policy of harming foreigners," said one
guide, Hüsnü Ovacik.
The American tourists, many of them senior citizens,
were not letting any such worries spoil their
fun
Ȧn elderly matron draped a silver necklace
around the hIps of a Kurdish waiter serving breakfast.
"Wiggle," she commanded as the whole party
shrieked WIth laughter. "Go on, wiggle."
DEP stays in
Parliament
Ifor now l
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA. Turkey's Kurdish-based Democracy
Party (DEP) on Monday formally announced
that neither of its 17 deputies in Parliament
would resign from their seats for the time being.
After the murder of Mardin DEP Deputy Meh-
~lct Sincar in Batm~n and the arrest 01 party cha-
Irman Y'4ilr Kaya In Ankara, the DEP had decided
to review its policies and take action even
up to the point of resigning from Parliamen't.
"In accordance with Sunday's decision of the
~~rty as)~cmbly, DEP deputies will not resign for
n~w," the party's deputy chairman Murat Bozlak
said.
B.ozlak added, "Despite the demand by forces
agamst democracy to thrust our party off the
platform' of democratic struggle,. a decision has
been m~de t~ continue the democratic struggle.
The resignatIOn of our deputies is not seen as
appropriate for the time being."
However, DEP deputies will not go to Parliament
for one week and will reevaluate their situalion;
Bozlak explained. The DEP deputy also
said that all party deputies would travel to Batman
this w~ek to investißate unsolved murders.
Meanwhl'~, the party s executive board member.Osman
Ozçelik said that at its next convention
In November, the DEP will send out signals
of brotherhood between the Kurdish and Turkish
people.
He said that in order to succeed in local electio~s,
the party should exert more effort in the regIOn.
15 PKK militants killed in southeast
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA. A total of 15 militants of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed during
clashes wilh security forces on Sunday, a press release
from the office of the emergency rule regional
governor said on Monday.
The statement said that eight PKK militants were
killed near the ~emdinli town of Hakkari. It added
that éjght automatic rifles and 15 hand grenades
were seized during the operations carried out by the
security forces in the regIOn.
The statement further said the security forces discovered
hideouts and caves where 12 tons of foodstuff,
Clothing and medical equipment were stored.
Frve militants were killed In a clash near the
~enoba town of ~ Irnak and two others were killed
near the Derik town of Mardin, the statement continued.
A total of six long barrel guns, one ~istol and one
rocket launcher were seized followmg the clashes.
According to a separate statement from the
Edirne police directorate, 10 people were arrested
on charges of collecting funds on behalf of the
PKK, while. three others were charged with providing
assistance to the illegal organization.
In Erzurum police officials said six terrorists
were arrested on charges of assisting the illegal organization
and also setting a school on fire.
In the Birecik town of ~anhurfa, a police superintendent
was killed in an armed attack on Sunday.
On Monday, a health personnel from the Siverek
town of ~ anhurfa was killed by unidentified gunmen.
Fehmi 1~lklar:There is definitely
a Kurdish problem in Turkey
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Fehmi 1~lklar went to Bonn,
Germany, upon invitatIOn of Deputy Speaker
of Parliament Renate SchmIdt on Sept.
28.
While there, I~Iklar held a joint press conference
with German Social Democratic
Party (SPD) Deputy and foreign policy
spokesman Karsten Voigt.
During the conference, a journalist asked
I~lklar how it was possible for Prime Minister
Tansu ç iller to he able to say, duringher'
\ isit to Germanv. that there was no Kurdish
problem in Turkey.
In answer to this question I~lklar said,
"The prime minister may not have liked the
fact that these problems were brought up in
the international arena. There is Indeed a
Kurdish problem, and this can be understood
from what she said. You can't talk
about something that doesn't exist. The
problem needs to be democratically solved,
rather than evaded by pretending It doesn't
exist."
I~lklar empha.sized that he was not .in
Bonn to campI am about Turkey, and saId,
"I want to see to it that Turkey Isn't misunderstood
abroad, that democracy is
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strengthened within the country,
the law is held above all else."
and that
In the press conference, 1~lklar said,
"There is a very important problem in Turkey,
and that is the Kurdish problem.
It is affecting inflation and upemployment.
It needs to be solred. Jt needs to be
solved within the unity of the country, with
discussions held in an absolutely equal environment,
while at the same time keeping
in mind international agreements." 1~lklar
said that unlike other party members, he did
not claim one thing in one city, and something
totally different in another.
He said, "I have a definite line that I go
by. I stick to what I say wherever I may
be."
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