Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

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Republic in 1979, 59 exiled Iranian
dissidents have been assassinated: 10
in France, nine in Pakistan, eight in
Turkey, seven in ~y, seven in
Austria, six in Iraq, ~ee fi England,
two each in Switzerland and Italy, and
one each in Sweden,Cyprus, the United
States, the Philippines and ~bai.
In addition, Hitoshi Igarashi, the
Japanese translator of Mr. Rushdie's
book "The Satanic Verses," was
killed in Tokvo in July 1991. Ettore
Sofar, theregime has
committed murder
abroad with impunity.
Capriolo, the'ltali~ fr~lat~r, was
wounded in a stabbmg fi Milan the
same month. Last month the book's
Norwegian publisher, William ~ygaard,
was shot and wounded outside
his home in Oslo. In France, Germany
and Swi~land, ~urt cases are
pending agaInst IranIan ~gents accused
of killing other IranIans.
The "friendly country" that fassed
on the hit list to the FBI, later
learned, was Germany. Th~.list was
also'given to French and Bnush security
services, because many of ~ose
named on it live in those countnes.
The document was found by police
investigators in the home of an Iranian
employee of the Islamic Republic's
embassy in Bonn. He had been
arrested as a suspect in the Septemturkish
daily news
Washington grants $1.1 billion to Ankara
US and Turkey trade talks open
Thursday, December 9, 1993
ber 1992 machine-gunning of four ward the West. All elements of the
L)utraged the public and forced the
president to cancel his trip.
Iranian Kurds in Berlin.
The only dissident ass~inated in
regime are united in this view.
Emerging internal disputes on ceo-
The American position toward the
assassination campaign has been disthe
United States was Ali Akbar Ta- nomic priorities might some day lead couraging. The State Department has
batabai, a former press at~ché of the to conflict or diversity on foreign and yet to ask Iran publicly why it has
Iranian Embassy In Washington. He
was shot to death in July 1980 at the
domestic policies, but such a development
is not yet on the horizon.
given refuge to Mr. Belfield.
The Reagan administration's exfront
door of his house in Maryland The CIA believes that President change of arms for hostages with Ayabya
man posing as a mail earner. Hashemi Rafsanjani and the spiritual tollah Khomeini produced such cyni_
The police investigation revealed leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Kha- cism among Tehran's ruling clerics
that the suspect was David Be~ield, menei, personally approve every tar- that they hardly take Washington's
also known as Daoud Salahuddin, a get and plan of assassination abroad. pronouncements seriously. For furconvert
to Islam who was an employee
of the Iran interest section at the
This was the case when Ayatollah
Khomeini was at the helm.
ther evidence that they do not need to,
consider the estimated $1 billion in
Algerian Embassy in Washington. So far, the regime has committed U.S. exports to Iran this year, in spite
He fled to Canada, then flew to .Iran murder abroad with impunity. The of a long-standing trade embargo.
and has been living there ever SInce. death threat against Mr. Rushdie is The recent warnings by President
He was indicted in America and a the most publicized example of how Bill Clinton and Secretary of State
warrant was issued for his arrest. Iran treats dissent, but he has at least Warren Christopher that Iran would
In 1986 after the Iran-contra reve- received a worldwide hearing for his be held responsible for its sponsorship
lations the Reagan administration plight. His Iranian counterparts have of terrorism are promising. At the moconcoc'ted
the notion of.a mod~ra~e to suffer or die in anonynnty. ment, however,one can only hope that
faction in the Iranian regune to Jusl1- Repeated appeals to the United the administration will reject the cyni_
fy its secret arms sales to Ayatollah Nations secretary-general to question cal practices of its Republican prede-
Ruhollah Khomeini. To keep ~at
fiction alive, a number of ~encan
Iran about the assassination of dissidents
abroad remain unanswered.
cessors and initiate a more principled
policy tl/ward the Islamic Republic.
dreamers among the ranks ofJournal- European countries do not yet see To be sure, re-establishment of
ists and foreign affairs experts chose that they have an interest in confront- normal diplomatic and economic reto
attribute Iran's international ter- ing Iran's criminal acts on their soil. lations ought to be the goal of the
rorism including the assassinations, Maintaining access to Iran's oil and new policy. But rapprochement
to ro~e elements in the regime. consumer markets seems to super- would be unconscionable without an
Evidence su~es~ that Ir~ , s ter- sede any other concern. 'd F . Mi unconditional f' termination of Iran's
rorism abroad, like ItSdespousm and In 1991, Presl ent rançOlS t- support or terronsm.
anti-Americanism at home, emanates terrand accepted an invitation to visit _
I f th . Iran even though by that time seven The writer, professor of politics at
from the highest leve 0
Tehran's theocrats seem to be e regune. frozen Iranian dissidents had been killed ed in Bennington College, is on the advisory
in the belief, inherited from Ayatol- France. It was only the undisput board of Middle East Watch. He conal
d connection of Mr. Bakhtiar's assas- tributed this comment to The New
lah
pends
Khomeini,
on remaining
that their
intransigent
surviv
tlJe-
sins to the government of Iran that York Times.
Washington presses further for prevention of Turkish violotions of intellectUlll property rights
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Crucial trade talks between
the United States and Turkey within the
framework of the Joint Economic Commission
(lEC) opened yesterday in Ankara.
In his speech at the opening of the talks,
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Canadian Affairs Steph~n qxm~n
said that Turkey successfully mamtams Its
key role with its liberal economic structure
and secular democracy. .
Oxman noted that Turkey's economic
achievements are remarkable by any criteri~
on and that a.st{engthening of the econo~c
relations between Turkey and the Uruted
States were of gieat significance.
"Businessmen from both sides should get
to~ether and explore new business opportunitIes."
In a welcome speech. Acting Treasury
Undersecretary Osman Uosal said that the
JEC will be a major instrument to give a
boost to the bilateral trade relations between
the two countries.
He stressed that Turkey was strong
enough to overcome all economic problems
that it faces at the moment.
"The Turkish economy of'ers great op-
~rtunities. Major projects COJldbe handled
Joinily in the Middle East as .veil as in Central
Asia," Unsal said.
After the opening ceremony, a comprehensive
JEC session was held with the participation
of high ranking officials from
both countries.
There is a long list of items on the agenda
of the JEC, which was scheduled after Turkish
Prime Minister Tansu Çiller's state visit
to Washington last October.
The issues to be given top priority during
the Ankara round of lalks are the Iraqi-
Turkish oil pipeline, intellectual property
right~,investments, projects, fjnanclal cooperation
and trade.
The O.S; delegation will demand from
their Turkish counterparts urgent legal action
to stop the Turkish violations of intellectual
property rights, a major source of
complamts from U.S. ijrms over the past
years.
There are reports that such violations cost
a total of $62 million to U.S. firms during
1992; The U.S. Trade Bureau has recently
launched an investigation against Turkey on
the grounds that Ankara was tolerating the
violations of international patent and mtellectual
property rights.
Washington threatens to exclude Turkish
eXj>9rtproducts from the Generalized List of
Preferences. a list of c()mm()ditie~allowed
to enter the United States exempt from customs
taxes and duties.
The U.S. delegation will prepare a report
on patent right practices in Turkey and will
submit it to U.S. President Bill Clinton in
May.
The final decision will be made by Clinton.
Turkey may lose its preferential trade
privileges from the United States if Washmgton
finds it guilty of violating patent and
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