Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RIVISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETÎ<br />
turkish daily news Tuesday, October 19, 1993<br />
PKK moves to consolidate hold on S. east<br />
• Press in region to go silent as of today<br />
• Sources report PKK ban on patties in Tuneeli.<br />
• Major crackdown reported in six provinces<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan<br />
Workers Party (PKK) has taken a final step<br />
to consolidatihg its hold on the Southeast region,<br />
by banmng all news organizations,<br />
Including the foreign press, from operating<br />
there, and forcing the closure of political<br />
party offices in at least one province.<br />
More than 7,500 people have died in nine<br />
years of fighting in the troubled region where.<br />
the PKK has threatened to make targ<strong>et</strong>s<br />
out of journalists and politicians who refuse<br />
to obey to its or<strong>de</strong>rs.<br />
Government troops this weekend launched<br />
a massive cracKdown on PKK units in<br />
the Southea~t as a result of Ankara's <strong>de</strong>cision<br />
to counter the separatist campaign for<br />
supremacy and control, but the chances of<br />
reaching any immediate results are seen as<br />
nil.<br />
Reliable sources said land and air operations<br />
were un<strong>de</strong>rway in rural areas of at least<br />
* provinces and that Regional Governor<br />
unal Erkan had said "for the first time. we<br />
havejressed the button for an operation on a<br />
gran scale." Atleast5,OOO people have been<br />
<strong>de</strong>tained in urban s<strong>et</strong>tlements, the sources<br />
said.<br />
On Monday, sources reported preparations<br />
in the eastern province of Tunceli to abi<strong>de</strong><br />
by recent or<strong>de</strong>rs issued by the PKK for all<br />
political party offices to lower their nameplates<br />
and close shop. Those who refuse a<br />
PKK c?mrnunique said, "will be regar<strong>de</strong>d'as<br />
revoluuonary targ<strong>et</strong>s."<br />
Today, atleast nine news organizations in<br />
the DiyarbakIr province will close their bureaus,<br />
me<strong>et</strong>ing a <strong>de</strong>adline imposed by the<br />
PKK for the domestic "bourgeois" press to<br />
move out of the region.<br />
Sources in DiyarbaklT told the TDN on<br />
Monday that the city's 50 plus newspaper kiosks<br />
sold no papers on the first day of the<br />
week, again acting according to a recent<br />
PKK or<strong>de</strong>r. In other parts of the region,<br />
newspapers were transported by military helicopters<br />
to kiosks based in some areas and in wellprotected<br />
government offices. .<br />
Cemil BaYlk, comman<strong>de</strong>r of the PKK's Military<br />
Council, told the G~rmany-ba~ed Kurd Ha agency<br />
~hat the ban was valid for foreign news organizal1-<br />
ons as well. In a sta!ement issued on Monday, BaYlk<br />
was q~oted as lashing out at the foreign media for<br />
reporting only on statements issued by the Emergency<br />
Law governors' office. "Because of this and<br />
other reasons, the foreign press is also inclu<strong>de</strong>d in<br />
our <strong>de</strong>cisio~," he s,aid. 9n F~day, P~K ~ghters took<br />
repre~ental1ves ~t maJorI urklsh newspapers and<br />
agencies from DlyarbakI.r ce~ter to ~ nearby guerilla<br />
camp and gave.them untIl thiS morning toclose their<br />
offices and resign. They warned that those who failed<br />
to abi<strong>de</strong> with the <strong>de</strong>cision would be placed<br />
among the .organization's targ<strong>et</strong>s.<br />
In Washington on an offiCial visit, Prime Minister<br />
Tansu Çiller said she was willing to cuther trip<br />
sho~ and r<strong>et</strong>urn t~ Turkey due to the crisis. The state<br />
wlH protect the Journalists, she said.<br />
A PKK spokesman said, however, the <strong>de</strong>cision<br />
had been .taken .as ~.result of recent pressures on the<br />
pro-Kurdl~h déllly Ozgür 9ün<strong>de</strong>m and the single-si<strong>de</strong>d<br />
r~portmg of the Turkish press. A total of 14 journalists<br />
reporting on the Kurdish issue have been<br />
kille~ in .the past I 8 ~o~ths along with fi.ye newspaper<br />
dlstnbutors who lIIslsted on selling Ozgür Gün<strong>de</strong>m<strong>de</strong>spite<br />
warnings from security forces.<br />
"We have <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to abi<strong>de</strong> with this <strong>de</strong>mand and<br />
we will close the office on Tuesday," Milliy<strong>et</strong> newspaper's<br />
local representative Ertugrul Pirinççioglu sa-<br />
Iran tells Turkey it does not back the PKK<br />
Complied from wire dispatches by TDN staff<br />
ANKARA- Iran has told Turkey that the secessionist<br />
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has no<br />
bases ih its territory, the Iranian news agency IRNA<br />
reported on Monday.<br />
Interior Minister Ali Mohammad Basharati, quoted<br />
by IRN.A, told ohis Turkish counterpart M~hm<strong>et</strong><br />
GazlOglu III Tehran on Sunday that Iran did not<br />
support opposition groups in any country.<br />
GazlOglu, who is paying an official visit to Iran,<br />
had called for cooperation b<strong>et</strong>ween the two neighbors<br />
to fight "terrorism" and drug traffic.<br />
Anatolla news agency reporteâ from Tehran that<br />
the Iranian medIa gave a good coverage to<br />
Gazioglu's visitto that country. The agency quoted<br />
a Teh~an Times commentary which said th~tlt was<br />
essentIal for Turkey and Iran to cooperate III or<strong>de</strong>r<br />
to eliminate "alien <strong>de</strong>signs" to strain relations<br />
id ...Namlk Du~ka~, a Journalist for.th~ same paper,<br />
said other publicatIOns had taken a similar <strong>de</strong>CISion.<br />
Pi.rinççioglu and Q.ther representatives m<strong>et</strong> with<br />
RegIOnal .Gov~rnor Un al Erkan on ~aturday to discuss<br />
the situatIOn but turned down his proposalto issue<br />
them gun licenses and give them special protection.<br />
"If we have protection, we cannot work here,"<br />
Pirin~çiogl~. explained. "Journalists do not trust the<br />
state, ' the Ozgür Gün<strong>de</strong>m banner headline read on<br />
its front page story on the issue.<br />
Monday evening State Minister and Government<br />
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