Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKAÇAP~-RMsrA<br />
STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖzETi<br />
Dissi<strong>de</strong>nt Iranian,<br />
Ex-Diplomat,<br />
Is Slain in RODle<br />
N",,' York T,mes SerVIce<br />
ROME - An exiled Iranian opposition official was slain<br />
on the stre<strong>et</strong>s of Rome on Tuesday when two men"Ona motor<br />
s~oo.terpulled up to his car in rush-hour traffic and blasted<br />
hi~ In the face with bursts from an automatic rifle, the police<br />
séUd.<br />
The official, Mohammed Hussein Nagdi 42 a former<br />
Iranian diplo~at who <strong>de</strong>fected to Tehran'; opponents a<br />
<strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong> ago, dl~ as th~ police tried to g<strong>et</strong> him to a hospital<br />
~ter what Iraman eXiles called a further episo<strong>de</strong> in the<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rground war b<strong>et</strong>ween Iran's Islamic lea<strong>de</strong>rs and their<br />
adversaries.<br />
The M~jahid!n Kh~lq, an opposition group with offices in<br />
many capItals, Inc~udIng":'as~ngton, blamed the regime of<br />
PreSI<strong>de</strong>nt H~~elTIJ ~a~sanJam of Iran for the killing, which<br />
recalled a sllTIJlarkillIng of a senior mujahidin figure in<br />
Switzerland three years ago.<br />
At that time, Kazem Rajavi, an el<strong>de</strong>r brother of Massoud<br />
Rajavi, the mujahidin lea<strong>de</strong>r, was slain in Geneva. French<br />
police arrested two men in connection with the killing in<br />
November. In recent years, many other Iranian exiles have<br />
been slain in Europe and elsewhere, including a former<br />
pnme ITIJnIster,Shahpur Bakiltiar, who was stabbed to <strong>de</strong>ath<br />
neilr <strong>Paris</strong> in August 1991.<br />
"'We are sure that this is another of the Rafsanjani<br />
regime's terrorist acts," said Mehry Moussavi, the London<br />
representative of the mujahidin. The Iranian press agency,<br />
I~NA, however, said. Mr. Nagdi was "most probably a<br />
':leHm of Intergroup dIfferences" within the exiled opposi-<br />
.1I0n.<br />
Mujahi~in officials in Washington, speaking by tele-<br />
"hone, saId Mr. Nagdl was not a member of their organization<br />
but hea<strong>de</strong>d the Rome office of the National Council of<br />
Resistance of Iran, a mujahidin-dominated umbrella group.<br />
The Mujahidin Khalq was one of several groups that<br />
fought to overthrow the shah in Iran's 1979 revolution and<br />
later lost out to Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini's forces in the<br />
ensuing power struggle.<br />
Since then, it has waged a propaganda war on the Tehran<br />
regime from its of~icesin the West and also boasts a military<br />
force, WIthbases In Iraq, that has staged cross-bor<strong>de</strong>r raids<br />
into Iran.<br />
The killing coinci<strong>de</strong>d with the start of a trial in Yenice in<br />
which some 30 Italian bankers, industrialists and secr<strong>et</strong><br />
sp.rviceofficers are accused of making illegal arms sales to<br />
Iran worth $130 million in contravention of an embargo<br />
during its war with Iraq from 1980 to 1988.<br />
The accused inclu<strong>de</strong> the former presi<strong>de</strong>nt and director<br />
general of the Banca Nazianale <strong>de</strong>l Lavoro, whose Atlanta<br />
branch has also been implicated in illegal credits to Iraq<br />
during the same period.<br />
- ALAN COWELL<br />
Libération -17 mars 1993<br />
Le PKK invite Ankara à négocier<br />
<strong>et</strong> envisage lR1 cessez-le-feu<br />
Après 8 ans <strong>de</strong> guérilla <strong>et</strong> d'actions terroristes, le<br />
lea<strong>de</strong>r du PKK (parti <strong>de</strong>s travailleurs du Kurdistan)<br />
Abdullah Ozcalan, surnommé «Apo».<br />
ilfait savoir qu' ilétait prêt à proclamer un cessezle"feu<br />
<strong>et</strong> à négocier avec Ankara. La nouvelle a été<br />
donnée par l'un <strong>de</strong>s lea<strong>de</strong>rs <strong>de</strong>s Kur<strong>de</strong>s d'Irak. Jalal<br />
Talabani, dans une l<strong>et</strong>tre adressée aux dirigeants<br />
turcs. Tala?ani, qui a rencontré «Apo» le 5 mars-,<br />
assure «faIre son <strong>de</strong>voir <strong>de</strong> Kur<strong>de</strong>» sans pour autant<br />
«être à même <strong>de</strong> garantir» que le PKK res-<br />
'pectera ces engagements. «Apo» qui s'enoagerait<br />
«à prése";~r l'unité <strong>de</strong> la république <strong>de</strong> T~rquie»<br />
<strong>de</strong>man<strong>de</strong>raIt à Ankara d'ouvrir <strong>de</strong>s négociations<br />
avec les députés kur<strong>de</strong>s ou d'autres peiSonnalités<br />
Kur<strong>de</strong>s. sans même exiger la présence du PKK à la<br />
table. L'appel intervient quelques jours avant les<br />
èélébrations <strong>de</strong> Newroz, le nouvel an kur<strong>de</strong>. qui<br />
avaient été l'occasion l'an <strong>de</strong>rnier <strong>de</strong> manifestations<br />
reprimées dans le sang.<br />
Entre-temps le PKK a été sérieusement mis à mal<br />
par l'offensive <strong>de</strong> l'armée qui n' avait pas hésité en<br />
octobre à pénétrer au nord <strong>de</strong> l1rak pour attaquer<br />
les bases <strong>de</strong> la guérilla. Pour le moment les autorités<br />
turques restent pour le moins circonspectes.<br />
«Attendons <strong>de</strong> voir ce qu'il en sera du cessez-lefeu».<br />
a affirmé le Premier ministre Suleiman Demirel.<br />
M.S.<br />
- -<br />
International Herald Tribune -Mars 17,1993<br />
Kurds in Turkey Call for a Cease-Fire<br />
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's Kurdish separatists said Tuesday<br />
that they were ready to end their armed struggle for an in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt stat:i<br />
and called for a cease-fire.<br />
But Ali Sapan, a spokesman for the Kurdistan National Liberation<br />
Front, the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, said at a news<br />
conference here that if Turkey rejected the proposal, the Kurds would<br />
"intensify and resume the war allover Kurdistan,"<br />
He said the party was now a political force representing millions of<br />
people in Kurdistan and ad<strong>de</strong>d that the Front supported the party's<br />
political position and principles. Mr. Sapan urged European governments<br />
to cooperate with the partv and seek a "just and peaceful solution."<br />
Vague<br />
d'afteJltats<br />
en ftuqule<br />
• Uœ vague d'attentats non lewndiquêl,<br />
COlltant la vie , six militaires<br />
turcs <strong>et</strong> blessant vingt <strong>et</strong> une<br />
perIODDe8, a été enregistrée <strong>de</strong>pl,1is<br />
dimanehe BOir en Turquie.<br />
Dans le sud4t du Jl8ya, , la<br />
frontière avec la Syrie, cinq soldats<br />
turcs ont été tués dimanche BOir <strong>et</strong><br />
huit autres bl<strong>et</strong>lsés lorsque leID' Wo<br />
hicule a été attaqué par un groupe<br />
<strong>de</strong> ~ kmIes du PaJti <strong>de</strong>s<br />
tlavailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK),<br />
Sud Ouest -17 mars 1993<br />
sur la routa <strong>de</strong> Midyat , Omerli<br />
Le len<strong>de</strong>main, dans la même région,<br />
un soldat turc a trouvé la mort<br />
<strong>et</strong> quatre autres ont été blessés lorsque<br />
leur véhicule a sauté sur une<br />
mine SUl' une routa près <strong>de</strong> Hasankey!.<br />
Par ai1leID'B, neuf personœs ont<br />
été blessées dans la nuit <strong>de</strong> lundi ,<br />
mardi ., Adana (sud), , Buna (nordouest)<br />
<strong>et</strong> , Zonguldak, sur la mer<br />
Noire, lors <strong>de</strong> l'explosion <strong>de</strong> charges<br />
dans <strong>de</strong>s banques <strong>et</strong> d'autres<br />
bAämenta. Des attaques similaires,<br />
faisant <strong>de</strong>B dégtta matériels, ont été<br />
enregistrées au même moment' Istanbul<br />
(ouest) dans vongt.troiB ban.<br />
ques ou autres bAtimentB.<br />
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