Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RlVISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
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IraqlKurds<br />
Reuter<br />
ANKARA- Iraqi Kurdish authorities<br />
have cracked down on Turkish<br />
'rebd Kurds to force thern to quit'<br />
mountains bor<strong>de</strong>ring Turkey, a<br />
spokesman said on Friday: '<br />
"They must vacate the are,a. If<br />
they don't, stronger measures wIll be<br />
taken," Safeen Dizayee, Ankara representative<br />
of the Iraqi Kurdistan<br />
Democratic Party (KDP); told<br />
Reuters, He said the security arm of<br />
the Kurdish regional.government had<br />
dosed all offices run by or on behalf<br />
of the Kurdistan Workers Party<br />
(PKK) in northern Iraq after issuing<br />
a statement on Thursdày which<br />
accused the group of breaking a8reements.<br />
Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas<br />
launched an offensive to drive the<br />
s'eparatist PKK from its bor<strong>de</strong>r bases<br />
a year ago and Turkish forces<br />
crossed the frontier to compl<strong>et</strong>e the<br />
operation. The. Iraqi Kurdish state-.<br />
ment said the PKK had violated<br />
agreement,~ signed by it,S lea<strong>de</strong>r<br />
Abdullah Ocalan after hiS forces<br />
were <strong>de</strong>feated làst year, and renewed<br />
announce crackdown on PKK<br />
!n ~prilthis year, It li.sted a:series of year, whe,n,thou,~and~ of guerrillas<br />
mCl<strong>de</strong>nts from July m which PKK were moblhsed. It will probably be<br />
units attacked or kidnapp'ed Iraqi localis,ed, with our peshmerga sur-<br />
Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas, pre- roundmg the PKK' where~er th~y<br />
vented Iraqi Kurds from res<strong>et</strong>tling find them. B~t the PKK WIll r~S1St<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r villa~es and provoked and there ,WIll bebloodshed, ,he<br />
Turkish air raIds this month which said. He said he had told the Turkish<br />
killed nine Iraqi Kurdish civilians . authorities about the latest moves<br />
arid forced the evacuation of 30 vil- against the PKK and urged Ankara<br />
lages. "We are <strong>de</strong>termined not to notto g<strong>et</strong> involved: "We hav~ ask~d<br />
allow anyone to interfere in the secu- Turkey to cease Its operatIons In<br />
ritY and 'stability of our ci,tizens an,d 'northern Iraq. We are mo're ,eage,~<br />
jeopardise our <strong>de</strong>mocratic expen- than they are to secure our temtory.<br />
ment" the statement said.<br />
Iraqi Kurds cannot afford to anta80-<br />
"We ask the PKK lea<strong>de</strong>rship to nise Turkey, their main supp!y Ime<br />
r<strong>et</strong>hink its position i~ a pea~eful and . and th~ base .for ~estern alrcr~f!<br />
positive way and abi<strong>de</strong> by ItS agree- protectmg their terntory from Iraqi<br />
ments with the regional govermnent government forces.<br />
of Kurdistan," Turkishgenerals have rèpeatedly<br />
The statement said the PKK had- sent troops and aircraft across the<br />
increased its presence in t~e bor<strong>de</strong>r bor<strong>de</strong>r to haIry the PK,K in northern<br />
mountains,rather than movm8 away Iraq., Seeking an In<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
from them, and contacts with the Kurdish state carved out of Turkey,<br />
PKK had failed to resolve the prob- Iran, Iraq ,and Syria, the PKK ~as<br />
lem, Dizayee, estimating the num~er b.een. wagln~ an ~rmed campaign<br />
of PKK. fighters in the bor<strong>de</strong>rregIOn . since 1984 I~ wh~ch nearly 7;500<br />
at up to 1,000, .said he expected people were killed m east and southfighting,<br />
but .not as much as last east Turkey so far.<br />
Iran to step up security inKurdish province<br />
, Reuter s<strong>et</strong> up for security in.the province. Democratic Party of Iranian<br />
NICOSIA. Iran, facing increasing"God willing, we will see positive Kurdistan, one of the rebel groups<br />
guerrilla attacks by Kurdish rebels,' results bècause!of this <strong>de</strong>CISion in fighting Tehran, reported two attacks<br />
says it will s<strong>et</strong>up a strike force to the near future," he said. in Kor<strong>de</strong>stan' s neighbouring<br />
<strong>de</strong>al with security problems in its Autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels provinces., '<br />
Kor<strong>de</strong>stan province. . have launched a senes of attacks on The party said is guerrillas<br />
"We will do our best to establish Revolutionary Guards andgovern- ambushed a government car and<br />
security throughout the country and ment buildings in Kor<strong>de</strong>stan and killed seven intelligence agents outespecially<br />
in Kor<strong>de</strong>stan province," other Kurdish-populated provinces si<strong>de</strong> Salmas, 660 km (410 miles)<br />
Tehran Radio, monitored by the along Iran's western bor<strong>de</strong>r with Iraq northwest of Tehran near Turkey's<br />
British Broadcasting Corporation, and Turkey. bor<strong>de</strong>r, on October 2, A day earlier<br />
quoted Interior Mi,nister ,Ali . Iranian newspapersoccasionally and some 450 km (280 miles) to the<br />
Mohammad Besharatl as saYing. report the clashes, but the Tehransouth, rebels rai<strong>de</strong>d a state agricul-<br />
Speaking in Kor<strong>de</strong>stan' s capital Radio report ma<strong>de</strong> no mention of tural station near Sar-e Pol-e Zahab<br />
Sanandaj on Thursday, Besharati any particulr inci<strong>de</strong>nt. and <strong>de</strong>stroyed tanker trucks and<br />
said a special "strike force" would be In its latest statement the other vehicles, it said.<br />
PKK claims kidnap of American, New Zealan<strong>de</strong>r<br />
ReuterS<br />
ANKARA- The outlawed<br />
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said<br />
on Friday they had kIdnapped an<br />
American and a New Zealan<strong>de</strong>r in<br />
eastern Turkey, where at least 16<br />
tourists have been abducted this year,<br />
The German-based Kurd-Ha news<br />
agency quoted a PKK'statement as<br />
saying that PKK fighters had seized<br />
the two men at a roadblock on the<br />
main road b<strong>et</strong>ween the eastern cities<br />
of Erzincan and Erzurum on October<br />
9. It said the American, named as<br />
Patrick Connor, and the New<br />
Zealan<strong>de</strong>r, i<strong>de</strong>ntified as Ernis<br />
Dougar, were being held until their<br />
governments officially contacted the<br />
PKK. .<br />
The U.S, and New Zealand<br />
embassies in Ankara could, not<br />
immediately confirmthät their<br />
nationals had been kidnapped.<br />
"Their saf<strong>et</strong>yis in danger in the<br />
region where Turkish bombings and<br />
operations are going on," the PKK<br />
statement said. .<br />
"Therefore they will be the guests<br />
of our guerrillas until their governments<br />
intervenebecause theIr lives<br />
would be indanger if they are left to<br />
wan<strong>de</strong>r in the area by themselves."<br />
The PKK has repeatedly warned<br />
foreign tourists to stay out of eastern<br />
and southeastern Turkey, where its<br />
nine-year-old in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nce war has<br />
cost more than 7,500 lives.<br />
Its, latest statement said the<br />
American and New Zealan<strong>de</strong>r had<br />
been kidnapped for "<strong>de</strong>fying the<br />
PKK prohibition on unauthorised<br />
entry into Kurdistan".<br />
It said the Turkish state would be<br />
responsible for any harm which<br />
might come to the hostages.<br />
The PKK has released all 16<br />
Western tourists kidnapped in July<br />
and August, after holding some of<br />
them for several weeks.<br />
Western governments have refused<br />
to negotiate with the Marxist PKK,<br />
which they regard as a terrorist<br />
organisation, for the freedom of their<br />
hostages. However, there have been<br />
in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt contacts in the past<br />
b<strong>et</strong>ween weste'rn <strong>de</strong>puties and the<br />
PKK.