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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Ozeti many who, egged on by Aydinlik, believe she was comparing Turks to canines. Women's groups, bar associations and other civic groups have filed complaints with prosecutors across Turkey seeking Mrs Fogg's instant expulsion and an investigation into the activities of Ismail Cem, Turkey's foreign minister and a committed Europhile, for having "collaborated" with her, presumably in describing the mail burglary as "an ugly crime". One ultra-nationalist columnist, describing Mrs Fogg as an "ugly old cat", went as far as to suggest that her life was now at risk, and rightlyso. At that the EU growled, insisting that the Turkish authorities must protect its ambassador and her staff. If not, said Mr Prodi, the EU "reserves the right to take all measures deemed necessary for the security of the delegation staff, and its communications, for itself." At last, a mission for the European rapid-reaction force? Reuters February 20, 2002 .......... Turkey should allow Kurdish education • deputy PM ANKARA - Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Y1lmaz, who oversees relations with the EU, said on Wednesday Turkey should allow some Kurdish-language education and that lifting the ban would not erode national unity. The European Union, which Turkey wants to join, has urged Ankara to improve cultural rights for its 12 million Kurds, but authorities fear greater freedom could encourage restive Kurds to demand more autonomy. "People should be able to learn their parents' language if they want to," Y1lmaz said in an interview with NTV television. "If it's by private means outside of official (schools), the state shouldn't block this and shouldn't forbid it." He added, however, that Turkish should remain the officiallanguage in state schools. Under current laws, Kurdish cannot be taught in private language schools or community groups. Y1lmaz's remarks, made in an interview with NTV television, differed sharply with those by Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, who has said Kurdish instruction is "unacceptable" and blamed separatists for organising a campaign for the ban be lifted. Last month police detained hundreds of parents and students who signed petitions calling for Kurdish teaching. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has waged an armed struggle for self-rule that has claimed more than 30,000 lives since 1984. Violence dropped off sharply with the 1999 capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who ordered his followers to withdraw from Turkey and seek cultural rights for Kurds. Asked whether separatists were using the Kurdish-language campaign to divide Turkey, Y1lmaz said: "I definitely don't believe this, I do not share these fears." "I believe just the opposite. By blocking it without any good reason you serve the PKK'S propaganda. When we make this free, very few people will take advantage of it," he said . .......... ANAP rules out any alliance with HADEP • & Turkish Daily News February 27, 2002 After repealing Article 25 of the Constitution, which ruled that laws legislated after the September 12, 1980 military coup could not be claimed to contradict the Constitution, the Constitutional Court will discuss on Thursday the first request to cancel a Military Coup Law, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. The Constitutional Court will meet on Thursday to inspect the application of the Camardi Court of First Instance requesting that the top court cancel the Pecuniary Damages and Monthly Pay Assignment Law, one of the laws legislated after the 1980 military coup. The top court recently postponed the first inspection of the suit because of Article 25, which forbids the court from inspecting the constitutional harmony of laws legislated during the military government. As Article 25 has recently been repealed, the Pecuniary Damages and Monthly Pay Assignment Law would be the first military coup law to be annulled by the top court, if the court agrees to cancel it. The aforementioned law regulates the pecuniary damages and monthly pay allowances given to Turkish security staff in case of death or injury while on duty. .. ........ 93
1---- Revue de Presse-Press Re-çiew-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivîsta Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Bastn Özeti NeW-stine (PUK) February 26, 2002 'PM: Kurdistan as à Model for Future ,Iraq Kurdistan Sulaimani - In an address to the cadet graduates of a course organized by the Peshmerga High Command, the Kurdistan regional Prime Minister Dr. Barham Salih stated that the experience of self-governance in the Kurdistan region is successful and fruitful such that it can serve as a model for a future Iraq. In his remarks the PM referred to possible dramatic developments in the region, which require from all sides to be fully prepared with a unified Kurdish political platform to safeguard national interest in order to achieve permanent and co~prehensive peace through fulfilling all the obligations undertaken in the Washington Peace Agreement. ~I Dr. Salih added that strengthening the Kq.rdistan governance model, especially in the economic sphere and the building of civic institutions to provide public servic~s to the citizens, would demonstrate to the world that our people of Kurdistan are fully capable of govemingthemselves under the rule of law. "This will surely be a suitable model for future democratic Iraq", he said. ***** The northern, Iraq quandary , Feb. 26, 2002 Hürriyet by Sedat Ergin (from TON Press Scanner) Disclosing his impressions of a recent visit to northern Iraq, Hugh Pope, head of the Istanbul office of the Wall Street Journal, indicates that the Kurds in northern Iraq do not exactly favor a potential U.S. military intervention in northern Iraq. Massoud Barzani, the most powerful figure in northern Iraq, explains the reason in the following manner: "We cannot be a party to any project that would endanger our acquisitiqns todate." , . Iraqi Kurds have a significant condition to support such a scenario: An official nature must be given to the existing de facto autonomous struçture. Pope writes that the United States is not making that concession to the Iraqi Kurds because Turkey is opposing that. Iraqi Kurds are obviously happy with the status quo since it enables them to "protect and enhance their acquisitions." The central Iraqi government's failure to rule over no~ern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sitting in Baghdad helplessly, serves the Iraqi Kurds' interests. Turkey is upset by this process, seeing this as something ", leading to an independent Kurdish state. However, wary of alienating the United States, it cannot take steps to bring this process to a halt. ' This deadlock ené\bles the Iraqi Kurds to bolster the institutions they have creàted the way they like. According to Pope, one of the major steps being taken by the autonomous Kurdish administration in northern Iraq is aimed at "defining the Kurdish culture." In this context, efforts are being made to unify the various dialects of Kurdish. Karwant Akray, a Kurdistan Satellite TV channel executive, says, "For the first time, all Kurds are able to understand one another." . ,_ -Last year alone, 250 books were reportedly published in Kurdish in the region. Meanwhile, "A Dictionary of Administrative Terms" has been prepared. This is a hitherto unneeded kind of terminology. One of the leading publishers, Badran Hasib, says: ','Thelanguage isgaining more depth and becoming more beautiful. Now we are not as scared as we were in the past. We are laying down the foundations of a state." At this point, Ankara is faced with yet another quandary. Ankar,a is worried aboutall these developments in northern Iraq. Ankara thinks that the status quo is taking shape in favor of the kind of formation the continuation of which Ankara does not desire. At the same time, Ankara is trying to persuade the United States not to stage a military operation against Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Yet, seen from the opposite direction, it is obvious that the United States' remaining idle in the face of Saddam Hussein, too is causing a continuation of the status quo. This dilemma is clearly putting a strain on Ankara. ***** 94
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