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A senior Iranian official says 'Zaleh matter' closed
Assistantundersecretary
for foreign affairs, Burujerdi tells TDN claims of soured relations are Illlfounded
By Adnan Çaglayan
Turkish Daily News
TEHRAN- A senior Iranian official has
s;ùd that as far as his country is concerned
they consider the "Zaleh affair" with Turkey"c1osed."
Alaeddin Buiujerdi, an assistant undersecretary
at the Iranian Foreign Ministry
~ho wa~ answeri~g questions for the Turkish
Dally News In Tehran, was referring
to the recentlension with Turh.y over its
air raid on the PKK's'(outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party) Zaleh camp in northern
Iraq. '
Ten Iranians also lost their lives in the
raid .as parts of cluster bombs fired by
Tu~kishJets fell on a nearby Iranian village
Just across the border.
Turkey sent a delegation to Iran immediately
after the raid to investigate the
matter and later accepted that the villagers
had died as a result of the raid on laleh. '
'1994 will see end ofterrorism
and economic problems'
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- True Path Party (DYP) Chairperson and
Prime Minister Tansu Çiller said that 1994 would be the
year for solutions to terrorism and the problems of the,
economy. "I want to put out the fire in the country. For this,
Teason, I ne~d time and your support," Çiller said.
Çiller spoke at a meeting at a sports hall in Ankara, titled
"Towards 2000 with Prime Mimster Tansu Çiller," organized
by DYP women's organizations. She was given a
very warm welcome as she entered the hall.
, She emphasized that women had played a significant
, role in the DYP's inheritance of the cause of democracy
from the Democrat Party (DP) and the Justice Party (AP).
Pointing out that the DYP had proved to the world that a
mother could rise to the leadership of a party, ÇilIer said
that anyone who could .saythat he or she was a member of
the DYP was fortunate Indeed.
She spoke of the problem in the Southeast, and said that
women could understand the pain of being a mother in that
troubled region. She declared that Turkey had made con.
siderable proaress towards a solution to terrorism, and emphasized
the key role of popular support, especially that of
women, in the Process. Her listeners chanted the slogan:
"This country wIll become a graveyard for the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)." '
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Burujerdi said that Prime Minister Tan- again.
su Çiller and other Turkish officials had "Contrary to claims in certain circles
expressed their regret at the incident and this incidenthas not spoiled our relation~
added that work was now underway to de- with Turkey. Our close ties with Turkey
termine the amount of compensation to be will continue.
paid by Turkey.,
We are expecting President Demirel
Adding that the incident had been unin- and Prime Minister Çiller to visit us this
tentional, Burujerdi said Turkey had also year. ,
provided assurances that all necessary I would like to reemphasize that there
measures had been put in place to ensure are no problemsin our relations with Turthat
such an accidènt could Ilot happen ' key," Burujerdisaid.
Clashes continue in Ciue
Tension escalates in PKK stronghold amid provocation
, Turkish Daily News
ANKARA-
Security forces and militants of
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party
,(PKK) fought for hours in the border town of
Cizre this week, as tension' reached a peak
during a state campaign to repopulate the
settlement.
Local sources told the Turkish Daily News
, that two people were killed and 35 shops were
destroyed in' the clash, which began on
Monday and continued until Tuesday morning.
Sources said the fighting erupted with a
PKK bomb attack on an armoured vehicle
parked in the street. Witnesses noted that security
forces had helped locals back to their
houses before the clash began, telling them
not to come out, for their own safety.
Anti-aircraft guns, RPG rocket launchers,
light anti-tank weapons and machine guns
were used in the clash, during which a branch
office of the Ziraat bank and several mbuildings
w!;re hit. The Cizre office of the pro-
Kurdish Ozgür Gündem was hit by two rockets.
Witnesses said that if the security forces
had not escorted residents back to their homes,
there could havç,been many casualties.
On Tuesday the Ozgür Gündem re~orted
on its front page that a total of 16 ciVilians,
two of thernchlldren, had been killed in Cizre
over the past month.
Locals suspect that there is a systematic
campaign underway to influence the results
of Cizre's polls in the upcoming March27 local
elections. In the past month, dozens of families
living in the Cudi neighborhood of the
town have reportedly been forced out of their
homes by paramilitary vil1age guards, who
moved in. Other houses were torched so that
they could no longer be use4. On Monday,
pohce raided the office of the Cizre ree()rter.
of Sabah newspape~, Ramazan lmrag. Thèy"
abducted him and took him to a nearby government
building, where he was beaten for
hours. Imrag said he suspected that he was
being punishedfor reporting on developments
III Cizre to Sabah's private television
channel, ATV. He was told that this was a
"warning" and if he continued to do "what he
had been doing," he would be kil1ed. Recently,
state forces in the region started a
campaign along with influential tribe leaders
to repopulate crucial settlements whichare
known to sympathize with the PKK.
In Diyarbakir, there was a "march to condemn
terrorism" this weekend, during which
a total of about 250 people marched throuah
the streets, shouting slogans against the PKK
and in favor of the army and police. They we- ,
re protected by hundr.:ds of policemen.
About 10 days ago, another group marched
. through Cizre, shouting anti-PKK slogans.
Both III Diyarbakir .and Cizre, those appearing
in the streets were Kurdish village guards,
who are paid fixed salaries by the state
to combat the PKK. Sources in Cizre told the
TDN on Tuesday that village guards had recently
started detaining and IIlterrogating suspects
as well, and that many locals placed under
custody were not taken to the police sta-
. tion but directly to the house of the chief village
guard, Kamil Atak. At least seven of those
detained in.this way are now reported missing.
Sources say that, because of the state's
new campaign, some 3,000 voters in this
. town are no longer eligible to vote, and this
will seriously affect the outcome of the
March elections, Democracy Party (DEP) deputy
Selim Sadak on Tuesday confirmed the
report stating that many voters. viere not registered
in the area, whereas village guards .
were. He~~d this wa~ undermined the credibilitv
of,tlië el~tions.