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

REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKAÇAPÊ~RNISTA
STAMPA~DENTRO DE LA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZETi
Orhan Dogan, Ali Yieit, SlITiSalak, Sedat Yurtta~,
Selim Saddak, Remzi Karta! and Zübeyir Aydar, took
their places among the members of the Party Assembly
who were elected in the convention. Some deputies
argue that they should resign before the ConstItutional
Court makes its ruling, and should found a new
party. Ho~ev~r Diele opposes t.his. KIlmç also believes
that It Will be wrong to resign from the party at
this stage. , ,
However some deputies have reportedly presented
their resignations to the party before the filmg of the
case at the Constitutional Court, and have postponed
the announcement until after the convention. If these
deputies can prove that they presented their petitions
before the case was filed, they will notlose their immunity.
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The Chairman of the Social Democrat People's Party
(SHP) and Deputy Prime Minister Murat
Karayalçm said on Monday that he ~as sadd~ned by
statêments on Sunday by Greek Parhamentanans attending
the DEP convention. " ,
Referring to a speech delivered at the congress by a
Greek deputy from the ruling ~an~ellenic Paf!Y (PA-
SOK), Karayalçm said ~hat thl~ Violated not Ju~t the
requirements of good nelgh~orhness but al~o of mternational
modes of behaVIOur. Respondmg to the
speech of DEP deputy Hatip Dicle during the congress
KarayaIcin said that he found this to be wrong
and unfair.
Dicle had referred to the PKK as a politicalparty
even if it was outlawed. Karayalçin who was addressing
members of his party's central executive board
said that the PKK was not a political party but a
, bloodthirsty terrorist organization.
Salak cIai~ed that the. sta~e applied harsh methods
in the region and that ~IS Village was burnt by state
forces. He said he and hiS ~olleagues did not have ties
with the PKK. The co~tt~e report will first be discussed
at the joint commls~lon and then its decision
will be voted on by the parhamentary general assembly.
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OZgür Goodem out today
Diyarbalar office raided on Monday
AIl executives of daily are under custody
Turkish Daily News .. lice said.
ANKARA- The pro-Kurdish daily, Ozgür Prominent Turkish writers such as Ya~ar
Gündem, is in print today despite the opera:- Kemal, author of the internationally famous
tions that continue to target tlie newspaper's book "Mehmet My Hawk," are supporting
offices. , the paper during the crisis. Employees have
Anexecutive of the paper said that 88 out se~ up. a temporarx committee t~ supervise
of the 107 people who were detained on Fri- edltonal work until all of the editors are set
' day during a pglice raid on the Istanbul, free.
headquarters of Ozgür Gündem had been re- Following Friday's operation in Istanbul,
leased. , the State Security Court issued a statement
' Nineteen Özgür Gündem employees, in- in which it said that handguns, gas masks,
cluding the newspaper's general coordinator identity cards of soldiers Ialled ~Y.the PKK,
Gurbetelli Ersöz, her assistant Ferda Çetin, , PKK vouchersworth TL 400 lllillion, docupublications
coordinator Mehmet Oguz, edi- ments containing PKK propaganda and
tor Hüseyin Solgun and news editor Gü!tan medical supplies, had been seized.
KI~nak are stiIJ in custody. Sources said The DGM statement also claimed that
their detention was expected to last for ten captured PKK members had testified that
Diele, Sakik testüy at subcommittee days. .. the newspaper's executive maintained an or-
On Monday, the parli.ament~ry subcommiu.ee, A total of 21 more Ozgür Gündem staff in ganic connection with the PKK.
which was set up by the Jomt Parhamentary Constltu- other parts of the country are also being in- The Istanbul operation, during which all
tional and Justice Commission to look into. the files terrogated. copies of the paper were also seized, was
' asking removal of some deputies' immunities, heard On Monday police raided the DiyarbakIr followed by raids on newspaper offices in
th~ testimonies of newly elected DEP Chairman Hatip office of the newspaper and seized various several other cities.
Dlcle and DEP .~u~ D~puty Sim Salak, who are ac- organizational communiques and docu- Özgür Gündem was not published for the
cused of COI1Ulllttmgcnmes against the indivisibility ments, including donation forms used by past three days aside from a dummy copy of
of the state. . branch organizalIons of the outlawed Kurdl- eight pages on Saturday, distributed only in
During his t~stimony at t.he committee, Diele re- stail Worlœrs' Party (PKK). " the southern provinces of Adana and Merpeated
everything he had s~ld about the PKK during I?uri~g Friday's raid on the Istanbul center sin.
' the DEP conventlO~. He s~d al.l the ethnic groups in of Ozgür Gündem, police said they had con- The newspaper did not appear on Sunday
Turkey should be given therr lllin~rity rights and that fiscated two unlicensed gims and a number but was viSited by many press activists and
they should be allowed to deterrrnne theIr own desti- of documents and gas masks. Computer deputies ,who were concerned that the
ny. discs were also seized in DiyarbakIr, the po- amount of pressure could increase.
Today Özgür Gündem, tomorrow others
Iln'ur Çevik
EDITORIAL
s there anybody in.TLf.rkeywho does
not know that doily Ozgür Gündem
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supports extremist Kurds and has been
promoting separatism, radicalism and
even violence?" ,
It is rather unfortunate that Özgür
Gündem has been entertaining very ,
radical views practically parallel t9those
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of the clandestine Kurdistan Workers' Party
,(PKK).
The paper is generally regarded os the
mouthpiece of the PKKand thus its reports
and views ore seen, os the voice of 0
terrorist organization and itsjournalistic
qualities ore always questioned. In other
words, nobody reads it for its news quality
but to find out what the PKKis up to. The
fact that the journalists working on this
paper allow themselves to be exploited in
such 0 fashion is rather sorrowful but that
is their problem. . '
It is also no secret that the paper is 0
source of intelligence for the Turkish
security which con monitor the actions of
the PKK with relative ease.
The readership of the paper is rather
limited and its circulation is 0 mere
30,000.
So why raid Özgür Gündem and bar its
publication in such 0 fashion? Con't we,
live with such 0 radical paper and see
what the other side is up to?
Another important issue is the way the
allthoritles hove moved against Ozgür
Gündem in 0 country where we
boost about the existence of basic
freedoms.
The raid against the newspaper
headquarters on Friday was 0 rather
confused affair. Revelations that police
confiscated two unregistered guns, gas
masks ànd on array of PKKvouchers ,
hardly constitute 0 major crime. Journalists
and printing stoff were detained which is,