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de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
« L'interdit imposé aUxKurdes il y
a quatre-vingts ans par la Turquie
prendjin aujourd'hui », a déclaré à
l'agence Reuters Sirrt Sakik, un
ancien député kurde qui, lui aussi,
avait été emprisonné dans le passé.
Depuis la décision surprenante
des juges, en avril, de confirmer la
condamnation des quatre députés,
en dépit d'un jugement de la Cour
européenne de justice, de nouveaux
amendements constitutionnels
ont aboli les Cours de sfueté
de l'Etat, institutions controver-
, sées utilisées surtou!.'.pourdes_pro~
'cès politiques. Les autorités tentent
actuellement de combler le
vide judiciaire laissé par cette
dissolution, qui a provoqué l'ajournement
du procès de 69 militants
islamistes suspectés d'implication
dans les attentats à la bombe de
novembre 2003 à Istanbul, faute
de tribunal habilité à les juger.
La Cour d'appel se prononcera
le 8 juillet, sur le fond, sur la
condamnation des anciens députés
kurdes, mais le procureur a
déjà recommandé qu'elle soit
annulée. Lesquatre politiciens kurdes
auraient alors droit à un nouveau
procès devant un tribunal
pénal qui n'a pas encore été mis
sur pied.
Leyla Zana, à laquelle le Parlement
européen avait décerné le
Prix Sakharovpour la paix en 1995,
était devenue un symbole de la lutte
des Kurdes.Sa libération alimente
l'espoir qu'une approchedifférente
sera adoptée par Ankara face à
leurs revendications culturelles.
« Ce n'est pas le moment d'alimenter
les sentiments de tristesse et de dou-
1 leur. Aujourd'hui est un jour pour la
, fraternité et la compréhension, a
déclaré la députée kurde. Nous
devons nous unir pour la paix, en tant
que citoyens libres et égaux de ce
pays », a déclaré Mm, Zana. Elle a
néanmoins rappelé que de nombreux
prisonniers politiquesdemeurent
sous les verrous. Reporters
sans frontières a ainsi critiqué l'interpellation
de 26 journalistes kurdes
à l'approche du sommet de
l'OTAN, qui doit avoir lieu, début
juillet, à Istanbul.
La tolérance. des autorités est
mise à l'épreuve par la reprise d'accrochages
armés dans le Sud-Est
anatolien, où le PKK,rebaptisé Kongragel,a
mis fin, le 1"juin, à son cessez-le-feu
déclaré en 1999, Depuis
plusieurs mois, la Turquie tente en
vain de convaincre les Etats-Unis,
qui contrôlent désormais l'Irak,
d'expulser les militants kurdes,
dont le nombre est estimé à 5 000,
de leurs bases au nord de l'Irak. Des
. centaines d'entre eux seraient rentrés
en Turquie au cours des dernières
semaines.
Après un long conflit qui a fait
30 000 morts, la population kurde
souhaité~une solution politique et
.pacifique.. De nombreux Kurdes
misent pour cela sur l'ancrage à l'Europe.
« Une ère nouvelle débute dans
ce pays, une nouvelle page a été tournée,
a déclaré LeylaZana. Mon souhait
est que tout le monde mette de
côté ses disputes et tente de résoudre
les problèmes main dans la main. »
Nicole Pope
New leaders.in Iraq
have deep ties to u.s.
.Exiles will continue to play major roles
By Farah Stockman
rule, five of the six leading posts in the
and Thanassis Cambanis
government are held by people who
lived a significant part of their lives
WASHINGTON: Iraq's newly appointed
ministër. of communications, a Foreign Relations;
abroad, according to the Council on
former, mobile network designer, owns At least two cabinet members are U.S.
a hom~ in Cambridge, Massachusetts, citizens. In addition to Prime Minister
where lie is still a registered voter. Iyad Allawi, who was involved in a CIAbacked
coup attempt against Saddam, at
The rl1inister of electricity, an avid
Bulls baSketball fan, has also kept his least seven others were members of exile
groups financed by the United
home, which is on the outskirts of
Chicago. His voice still directs callers States.
to leave him a message on the answering
màchine of the engineering firm in the previous U.S.-appointed govern-
The high-profile role of exiles, both
that he left for "an indefinite leave of ment and the one that the UN envoy
absence."
.takhdar Brahimi announced Tuesday,
Iraq's new minister of industry and irks many Iraqis and could present a
minerals, educated at the University of lingering challenge for the political
Connecticut, had lived in the United transition in Iraq.
States since 1979 before returning to "Honestly, most of the ministers I
Iraq in 2003, where he still talks animatedly
about the Huskies of the Univer-
passport holders," said Dr. Raja al-
think are British, American or French
sity of Connecticut, known for. their Khuzai, a Shiite gynecologist who duringSaddam's
regime rana clinic in the
championship basketball teams.
Links to the United States run deep southern Iraqi town of Diwaniya. "Very
among many in the interim Iraqi government,
even as the diverse, 33-mem-
idea when Brahimi first came here and
few of them are Iraqis. That was not the
ber body gears up to assert its indepen- . sat next to me and said, 'We want
dence from the U.S. government. people like you who stayed in Iraq.'"
In a country where political success Resentment may be exacerbated by
hangs on the ability to bridge deep differences
between Sunni and Shiite, banded u.S.-appointed Governing
the fact that many members of the dis-
Arab and Kurd, technocratandpolitician,
the new government must also new government are preparing to re-
Council who did not receive posts in the
manage one of the most daunting di-. turn to homes in Europe and elsewhere.
. .
vides: that between exiles who have
made their lives in the West and homegrown
leaders who never left Iraq. '. where the former Governing Council
The halls are deserted in the building
Although about a third of the ne,,/'. members still have offices. Many never
gQ~rern:ment's leaders spent most oi brought their families with them to.
their lives under Saddam Hussein's ~raq; nor did they quit their jobs at
biuiks and consùlting companies but
. took yearlong leaves of absence.
This week, Fuad Hussein, former
minister of social affairs, prepared to
return to the Netherlands, where his
family awaits him. He will stay there for
.a couple of months before deciding
whether to return to Iraq or resume
consulting for international corporations
that do business in the Middle
East.
"I wanted to bring my family here,
until the fall," when violence surged,
Hussein said. Now, he added, he rru.y
not come back.
Samir Shakir Mahmoud al-Sumaiday,
a London businessman who was
minister of interior from April until the
new government was announced Tuesday,
said two days later that he was
planning to head back to Britain, where
his family had remained
"I'm a man ofleisure now," he said.
He said that after about two months
he would probably come back to seek a
role for himself in a future government .
He was not sure whether he would run
for elective office.
Even Adnan pachachi, who narrowly
missed hecoming president ofIraq after
his colleagues on the council threw
last-minute support behind another
candidate, immediately withdrew to his
exile base in the United Arab Emirates,
where he is deciding whether to run in
next year's elections.
"It's an issue," Joseph Siegle, a fellow.
at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"How do you reconcile these dynamics
in these countries where vou have had a
long civil war or a period of tyranny
that has driven a majority of educated or
middle-class leaders out of the country?"
Years in exile have added to lingering
questions of legitimacy for Hamid Karzai,
Afghanistan's leader, Siegle said
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