Turk court confiscates daily fo

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From: tabe at newsdesk.aps.nl
Subject: Re: Turk court confiscates daily for rebel interview
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VT6179; Sat, 27 May 1995 05:23:16 -0800

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Turk court confiscates daily for rebel interview

    ANKARA, May 24 (Reuter) - A Turkish court ordered a pro-Kurdish
newspaper confiscated Wednesday for carrying a widely-published
interview with a rebel Kurd leader, an editor at the daily Yeni
Politika said.
    ``An Istanbul prosecutor ordered Yeni Politika confiscated
after we published a Reuter interview with (Kurdistan Workers
Party leader) Abdullah Ocalan in provincial editions,'' a Yeni
Politika editor, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.
    The interview, given to Reuters in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley,
was carried by other major Turkish newspapers and the
state-controlled Anatolian news agency.
    An Istanbul state security court prosecutor, who issued the
confiscation order, said the article was ``separatist
propaganda'' and therefore banned, the editor said.
    More than 16,000 people have been killed in Turkey since the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) took up arms in 1984 to fight for
control of the southeast.
    Yeni Politika said 9,875 copies -- a third of those
published -- were confiscated. Later city editions appeared with
the front-page story censored, with only the headline and first
paragraph printed, it said.
    The European Parliament has said it will veto a customs
union between Turkey and the European Union unless Turkey
improves its human rights and democracy record.
Reut16:52 05-24-95

Reuter N:Copyright 1995, Reuters News Service