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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVlEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
un passé aussi doré. Je voulais leur
montrer qu'ils pouvaient ètre fiers de
leur Identité.
Etes-vous vous-même Kurde?
_ Je n'aime pas tellement cette questiqn,
car je suis Turc avant tout et je
m'identifie totalement à ce pays. Par le
passé, le problème des Kurdes ne se
posait pas avec la mème acuité. Nous
étions tous embarqués sur le mème
navire. Mes grands-parents sont originaires
d'Anatolie orientale, et j'ai sûrement
du sang kurde dans mes veines.
Peut-on considérer «Mem et Zîn»
comme la première étape d'un travail?
- Oui, mais ce n'est pas simple. Car il
faut affronter non seulement la censure
gouvernementale, mais aussi celle,
encore plus dangereuse peut-être,
des extrémistes. J'ai déjà recu des menaces
voilées. Certains trouvent en.effet
que je ne suis pas allé assez loin
avec «Mem et Zîn». Moi,je ne suis pas
un anarchiste, je ne suis pas agressif.
Toutefois, je considère que ce film
'n'est qu'une première étape pour présenter
le Kurdistan. Je ne pouvais et ne
voulais pas lui donner une teneur politique
plus prononcée.
Quels sont les problèmes que rencontrent
les cinéastes turcs?
- Le problème numéro un, c'est l'argent.
Le cinéma américain colonise
totalement les salles du pays. Les films
que nous faisons ne sont vus que par
très peu de personnes. Et pas la peine
de penser à l'exportation ... En Turquie,
l'argent que vous injectez dans
un film ne vous procure rien en retour.
En le réalisant, nous faisons de la résistance.
Propos recueillis par
ALFIO DI GUARDO
turkish daily news - December 31, 1993
PM Çiller in DiyarbakIr today for New Year
Turkish Daily News Ankara's argument that Turkey had man}: measures have been taken both lery fire, and the issue turned into a
ANKARA- Prime Minister Tansu control everywhere in its territories. for (,:iIIer's protection and to restore major debate. Officials accepted after-
Çiller is travelling to the Southeastern Ministerial s~urces ~old the.TDN that the city, at least the' areas where the wards that at least TL 5 billion had to
provincial capital of Diyarabir today th~y ha~ ~olced thIS r.ea~tlOn to the prime minister will be visiting. Lice be allocated for the reconstruction of
to spend New Year's Eve with securi- pnme mInIster but she insIsted on go- was subject to fierce gun and heavy Lice.
ty personnel fighting separatist terror- Ing to the ~outheast. . . artillery fire on Oct. 22 after an 'al- This week security forces in the
ism in the region and boost local mo-, ," AccordIng to one offICIaI, who leged attack on local security forces town speeded up their efforts to fill in
raie. asked not to be named: "If Turkey by militants of the outlawed Kurdi- holes opened by machine gun fire and
Çiller, under heavy protection, will does have control ------------ stan Workers' Party lift the debris of unrepairable. homes.
also attend the drawing for the nation- ,everywhere, why (PKK). Locals have Meanwhile, it was reported that cans
al lottery and New Year's Eve cele- does she make claimed since that of paint have been dIstributed to the
brations'. Following this, she is to s~ch a show? It -----. - -------- there had been no local population so they could work
travelto the town of Lice which, on gIves a wrong message and a mlstak- clash and security forces opened fire on the reconstruction project them-
Oct. 22, 1993, was puI'led to the en image." Another problem which on the town at random, Not a single selves. Reports have reached Ankara '
l'round after security forces opened. surfaced before the visit ~as the fact official building but the municipality that certain districts of the town which
fire on it. Sources said the program 'that some ~ell-known singers and was hit during the incidents which re- the prime minister has refused la visit
encountered serious problems from groups publicly refused. to travel to portedly claimed 30 lives. But 70 per- :for the past two months are being fulthe
very beginning. They said even the regIOn (or celebratIOns on the cent of the town's population migrated ly repaired. These districts are said to
the senior ministers of Çiller's govern- grounds that It was dangerous and the to nearby DiyarbakIr in fear. be ones which Çiller will be visiting.
ment were against what they branded pay was low. . . . Many districts of the settlement Even soldiers are said to be working
as her "window-show," emphasizing As for the LIce leg of her VISit, were completely destroyed with artil- on the construction project.
DEP Deputy Aydar claims troops kill two villagers
Turki,\/J D.lily NeIVs
ANKARA- A Kurdish-origin member of the
.Turkish Parliament claimed this week that two
villagers had recently been killed by government
troops in the Southeast. Pro-Kurdish Democracy
Party (DEP) Siirt Deputy Zübeyir Aydar claimed
that both vietims were villagers and demanded an
explanation from the Interior Ministry on why and
how they had been killed,
In a written motion to Parliament, Aydar relayed
the cases of villagers Emin Kaya and Ce vat
Tokdemir.
Tokdemir was allegedly executed by a special
crack team in front of his children while Kaya's
body was found in a river with his stomach split
open and filled with stones -- following his detention.
Aydar said that gendarme soldiers from the
Güçlükonak post raided the village of
Dügünyurdu (Taruni) on Dec. 24 and. after a
complete search, demandeLi the village chieftain.
When they coulLi not tind the chieftain, however,
they demanded that Kaya, 30, a father of three
and a member of the village council. accompany
them.
After one day passed, the villagers went to the
station to ask about Kaya but were told by an uni-
L1entified commander that he knew no one by that
name.
According to Aydar's account, villagm found
the remains of Kaya's burned clothing near the Tigris
river on the evening of Dec. 26. On Dec. 27,
they spotted his body in the river. Marks on the
body reportedly indicated that Kaya had been
hanged.
Also, his stomach hall been slit open and filled
with stones. Aydar said that the whole village had
witnessed gendarme troops escorting Kaya from
his home.
In the second incident, which Aydar said had
occurred on Dec. 28. a group of soldiers accompanied
by special crack teams entered the village of
Çevrimtepe
local time.
(Girdaka) in Siirt at about 10:00 p.m.
Aydar claimed that
house of 35-year-old
the soldiers went to the
Ce vat Tokdemir and demanded
that he open the door. When he refused in
fear, they allegedly barged inside and opened
on him in front of his children.
fire
Tokdemir, father of six. was later reported in an
Emergency Law communique
killed during a security operation.
as "a terrorist"
In his two written motions, Aydar demanded
that the interiOl' minister explain what was happening,
and that he inform the Parliament whether
any investigations had been launched regarding
what he refmed to as "these murders,"
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