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INTERNATIONALHERALD TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5,1993
Wednesday, October 6, 1993
3i KUrds Die inAttacks in'Turkey .
orx ARBAKIR. Turkey (Reuters) - A total of 31 Kurdish civilians
:-verekilled on Monday in two separate attacks blamed on Kurdish reheIs
In southeastern Turkey. officials said.
. ~ive so.ldiers and four guerrillas reportedly were killed in separate
Inclde~t~ In the mainly Kurdish region.
A n:umbus !raveliI!-gbetween the villages of Kayalar and Kayalipinar in
M~rdIn provInce hit a land .mIne. A total of 26 people. induding 9
ch.lldren and 5 women, were killed. a statement from regional authorities
saId. Three people were wounded. Five civilians were killed in the Mutki
distri~t of Bitlis province when their minibus came under fire from
KurdIstan Workers Party guerrillas. the statement said.
Turquie:
mine meurtrière
Vingt-six personnes, dont neuf enfants
et cinq femmes, ont été tuées
el trois blessées hier dans l'explosion
d'une mine sur le passage
d'un minibus, près d.u village de
Kayalipinar, dans la région de
Midyal (frontalière de la Syrie),
selon un nouveau bilan officiel
publié hier. Par ailleurs, cinq passagers
d'un minibus ont été tués
hier matin dans la région de
Mutki, dans la province de Bitlis
(Est), par des « terroristes» qui
ont mitraillé le véhicule,' selon le
même communiqué. Ce nouveau
bilan porte à au moins quarante le
nombre des tués dans des actions
des rebelles kurdes du PKK et des
opérations de représailles de l'armée
turque dans l'est et Il'; sud-est
anatolien depuis dimanche.
turkish daily news
PKK massacre:
33 killed
• Women, children gunned down in mosque yard
• 24-hour death toll at over 60 as violence spreads
• PM office says cross-border operations to continue
• Gazioglu repeats: PKK's backbone is broken
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA-
Following apledge by outlawed
Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah
o calan to escalate attacks in the Southeast,
more than 60 people were killed this week
in 24 hours of vIolence that also left behind
nearly 60 wounded by Tuesday afternoon.
Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) militants on Monday night attacked
two villages in the Siirt province and massacred
33 villagers, wounding 8 others.
The raids, during which a total of 22 houses
were set aflame, followed a series of
similar attacks that have left 31 civilians
and five soldiers dead since.Sunday night.
Observers said the attacks appeared to
be in retaliation to a Turkish mIlitary offensive
over the weekend to wipe out guer-
~ill~ bases some five kilometers (3 miles)
mS.lde northern Iraq. The land and air operatIOns
were fonnally announced Tuesday
by the Prime Minister's Office.
Interior Minister Mehmet Gazioglu said
the militants attacked Kilikanclk and Dagtepe
in Siirt province Monday night. A local
correspondent told the TurkIsh Daily
News that about 70 militants encircled houses
in Dagtep~. on Monday night and de.
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manded all village guards to surrender
along with their weapons. ".
Emergency Law governor Unal Erkan
told reporters that after gathering the villagers
in the Jard of the mosque, the terrorists
spraye them with bullets. He also added
that one infant was grabbed out of his
mother's arms and tossed into the flames.
"Of our citizens killed in Dagtepe,"
Erkan said, "10 are children, five
are women and eight are men."
Local sources said the villagers had
been warned earlier by the PKK aga-
. inst cooperation with Turkish forces
and told to drop out of the para-military
village guards system.
Turkey currently employs some
48.000 village guards in tbe region in
the fonn of a local defense system against
the PKK. The separatists announced
an amnesty for tliese villagers last
year and said those who refuseCIto sur.
render their weapons would be among
the organization's priority tarsets.
Officials said four terronsts were
killed durin~ the recent attacks while
Gazioglu claimed that Turkey had broken
the backbone of the PKK. He also
revealed that Ankara had increased the
number of gendannerie troops in the
region by 40 percent and that mines
were bemg laId at all border areas.
"Four big operations against the PKK
are continuing in the Southeast," Gazioglu
said. "The PKK, not brave enough
to come up against our security
forces, is now directing its attacks on
innocent people -- villagers, children
and women."
The PKK has been fighting for selfrule
in southeastern and eastern Turkey
since 1984. The fighting flared-up
recently when in May 1993 the orgamzation
ended a two-month long unila-
. teral cease-fire following Ankara's refusaI
to negotiate.
Officials argue that the militants have
increased their attacks lately by infiltrating
from .their bases in northern
Iraq and in neighboring Iran. Turkey's
state-run televIsion on Monday night
quoted an unidentified PKK militant
confessing that they had trained in Iran
and were in touch with Iranians who
also crossed into Turkey for attacks.
The Turkish army m October last
year launched a one~month long operation
in cooperation with the Iraqi Kurdish
peshmerges to wipe out PKK bases
in northern Iraq near the Turkish
border. Prime Mimster Tansu ç iller
told her ruling True Path Party (DYP;
on Tuesday that the recent cross-bar.
der operation had continued "for three
or four days" and that "PKK camp~
had been hit close to Hakkari and ID
Iraqi territory." She said a series 01
camps in Iraq had been destroyed
along with weapons depots. A state.
ment issued by her office said, on the
other hand, that "to eliminate the ban.
dits where they are is a principle fOI