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o"' N ~ o o«"' N ë ~ «\It Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti homme, que l'on avait cru tué, le cc Ali le chimique )) 5 avril, lors du bombardement de sa ' résidenceà Bassora,aurait eu lieu le , capturé 17aoOt,selon la chaine de télévision ' Surnommé cc Ali le chimique" ABC.Ali HassanAI-Majid figurait au . La capture d'Ali pour avait fait usage, en 1988, de ,cinquième rang de la liste des, HassanAI-Majid. dit gaz de combat contre des popula- ' anciens dirigeants Irakiens les plus , cc Aille chimique ", tions kurdes en Irak, Ali Hassan recherchés.Cet ancien ministre de , responsable AI-Majid, cousin de 5addam Hus- l'intérieur et de la défense, aujourdu gazagedes sein, est tombé aux mains des for- d'hulllgé de 62 ans,'responsabledu Kurdesen 19 88 " ces américaines. La nouvelle a été gazagede villages kurdeset instlgaporte à 39 le nombre annoncée,jeudi 21 aoOt,par la chai- teur de la répressioncontre la popu- ,: des ex- dignitaires ne de télévision CNN. Elle a été latlon chlite après.1991,était resté Irakiens tués t è h d .. A j d confirmée par le commandement r s proc e u rais. ce our, 39 es ou détenus central américain, qui s'est toutefois 55dirigeants irakiens les plus recher- Par les Américains. hé t été -té nt re refusé à préciser les circonstances c s on arre s ou se so n- de sa capture. L'arrestation de cet dus.- (Corresp.) .. 110 Turkey may send troops to Iraq roreign minister calls for large, independent deployment, r.; ~m news reports Parliament would have to approve any deployment. ISTANBUL: Turkey's foreign minis- Turkish legislators in March, citing ter, Abdullah GuI, has spoken out in fa- public pressure, rejected a request from vor of ,sending Turkish troops to Iraq, Washington to have U.S. troops in the but he emphasized that the soldiers country for the war, straining ties bewould go to help rebuild the country tween the NATO allies. and would "definitely not be occupi- Turkish officials have been hoping to ers." back a peacekeeping force to help re- Gul's comments, in the Milliyet pair frayed ties with the country's most newspaper on Friday, came as Turkey's important ally, but are also mindful of top political and military leaders met to public opposition to the war, which acconsider a U.S. request to deploy thou- cording to some polls was over 90 persands of Turkish soldiers in Iraq, a de- cent before the invasion. ployment that could make this predom- "We will definitely not be occupiers," inantly Muslim country the third Gul said, adding that if Turkey could largest foreign country in Iraq after the make a contribution to the Iraqi people, United States and Britain. "we'll go." Gui said Turkey was considering He said he had told Washington: sending troops to areas north and west "We'll be part of a broad political viof Baghdad. sion. We won't be a gendarmerie, mili- He gave no figures as to how many tary or police force. We'll go for humansoldiers Washington had requested but itarlan purposes." press reports have said 10,000. "We're not going to be there the way "We are still making evaluations," he American soldiers are," Gui added The said, adding that Turkish envoys were Americans "haven't established relaalso sounding out tribal, political and tions with the people. They! .wen't won religious leaders in Iraq. over the people." "If at the end of our evaluations we The U.S. secretary of state, Colin reach the conclusion that we could con- Powell, began a drive on Thursday for a tribute to establish order within the new UN resolution that would call on neighboring country, then the political member states "to do more" - includpower will say yes," he added. ing sending troops - to help Iraq. "There will be a separate sector un- UN backing would be likely to make der Turkish command and a separate it easier for the Turkish government to chain of command," Gui said ,"'gain approval in Parliament for a de- Gui emphasized that there was still ployment of peacekeepers. no decision on sending troops and that "Astable Iraq is in Turkey's ipterest," • ANKARA 5 die as Turks clash with Kurdish militants Three Kurdish guerrillas and two Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday during a fierce gun battle in Turkey's troubled southeast. Seven Turkish soldiers were also wounded in the firefight, a military official said on the condition of anonymity. The battle, which began late on Thursday, was still raging between the Turkish Army and scores of " Kurdish militants in the mountain terrain of Turkey's Batman Province, some 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, from the border with Iraq. (Reuters) Gui said, adding that Turkey would have a say in Iraq's reconstruction and would secure trade. Turkish troops would most likeiy be deployed in areas of the country that, like Turkey, are predominantly Sunni Muslim. The cabinet is expected to take' up the deployment next week and would then have to ask Parliament its approvaL fot ' ' Turkey already has several thousand' soldiers in northern Iraq to chase Turkish Kurdish fighters, but those troops fall outside the scope of the U.S.,-led mission. The United Nations has meanwhile approved $101milliori in contracts that Turkish companies signed with Iraq under the oil-for-food program before' the war, the head of foreign trade for Turkey, Tuncer Kayalar, said Friday in Ankara. The approved deals involve food and cleaning materials, telecommunications and transportation, Kayalar said. This brings the total value of prewar contracts approved by the UN to $533 million. Kayalar added that Turkish exports to Iraq were on the rise and had reached $292 million in the [lISt seven months of this year. ' Iraq was one of Turkey's principal trading partners before the 1991 Gulf war, and commerce was the main source of livelihood for southeastern Turkey, the country's least developed regiqn. ' (AP, AFP) .'
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn ()zeti In North Iraq, Saddam's Victims Turn on Each Other Mon August 25, 2003 09:06 AM ET . REUTERS. By Joseph Logan .' "", .' TUZ KHURMATU, Iraq (Reuters) - It should be impossible to get lost in a town with so few streets, but in the dusty little hamlet of Tuz Khurmatu hopes of peaceful coexistence between Iraq's minorities have gone badly astray . Fighting among Kurds and Turkmen -- Turkish speakers who are a vestige of Ottoman rule -- over the sacking of a shrine in Tuz Khurmatu killed at least nine people in the town last week and unrest spread to the key oil city of Kirkuk. The violence shows there is no common bond in having suffered under Saddam Hussein. Kurds and Turkmen recall years of persecution under Saddam, who was set on Arabising the region, site of Iraq's richest oil reserves. But in Tuz Khurmatu the two groups have the knives out for one another. "I was imprisoned in 1994 for criticizing Saddam Hussein, and to me this regime frankly is worse, more impure," says Midhar Qasim, a Turkmen and the father of one of those killed in clashes last Friday in the town, governed by a Kurd. "What the Palestinians are getting from the Zionists is what we're getting here. We survived Arabization, and now it's time to see if we're going to survive Kurdification." The Kurds endured a campaign of chemical weapons attacks and destruction of their villages that killed as manyas 100,000 people during the mid-1980s at the hands of a Baghdad government intent on crushing their separatist ambitions. . Since Saddam's fall, they have extended their influence from the northern zone they wrested from Baghdad after the 1991 Gulf War to Kirkuk and its surroundings, playing a leading role in local governments working with the U.S. military. ,TURFWAR Turkmen accuse returning Kurds of theft and intimidation. The Kurds say they are willing to live alongside Arabs and Turkmen -- but insist the region belongs to them. "We look at this as a city of Kurdistan...one in which non- Kurds also live," says Ruzgar Ali, the Kirkuk head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of two main Kurdish political factions, and which Turkmen have singled out for accusations of thuggery. "The greatest oppression, the greatest burden, was on the Kurds under Saddam Hussein, not that it wasn't bad also for Turkmen, and Arab Shi'ites," Ali said. He said the problems were the work of extremists manipulated by outsiders resentful of the Kurds' relationship with U.S. forces. Tuz Khurmatu's Kurdish mayor said the same, blaming "elements that want to divide Kurds and Turkmen." The reference is left broad enough to include Turkey, which fears Kurdish control in oil-rich Kirkuk and elsewhere could rekindle separatism among its own 12 million Kurds. Many Turkmen, however, blame the Kurds. "There are no unseenhands, and this is not the first time the PUK attacked us since Saddam fell. They don't recognize any minorities," said one man at a funeral in Tuz Khurmatu for Turkmen killed in last week's violence. "The're is such hate." ... .J There is little sign of compromise either in Kirkuk, where Turkmen join Kurds in scrawling graffiti that stake claims to ethnic turf . "Kirkuk is Turkmen, and will stay that way till the end," reads one spray-painted slogan. "Kirkuk is the capital of the Turkmen," says another. Only a few residents say ethnic badges are unimportant. "It doesn't matter, if you're really from Kirkuk," says Idris, who like many residents of the city moves through the languages of the Kirkuk -- Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish -- in the course of a conversation. "Everyone here knows everyone else too well to believe the lies." 111
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