Turkish Press Review

[kurdeng at aps.nl]

       id VT21314; Sun, 01 Oct 1995 16:46:52 -0800


               MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1995
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Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press
this morning

PPK SUPPORTERS WAYLAY BOYNER

Leader of the New Democracy Party, Cem Boyner, was given a rough
reception by PKK separatist supporters during the third day of
his visit to Germany.

Over the weekend, during a visit to Turkish workers living in
Kreuzberg, Boyner and his party were assaulted by a crowd of
fifteen slogan shouting individuals waving PKK flags. Amidst
all the pushing and shoving members of both groups were punched
and kicked. Police intervention soon cooled the confrontation
down, and after identity checks and in some cases summons, the
PKK rowdies were released. /Hurriyet/

PKK MASSACRES FIVE

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists massacred five people
on Saturday night when they stopped two cars on the
Sivas-Erzincan road and murdered the occupants.

One of those shot and killed by the PKK was 23 year old NCO
Murat Namdar. Others wounded in similar incidents managed to
make their way to local hospitals for treatment. /Hurriyet/

TURKISH PARLIAMENTARIANS AT THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

The Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
Autumn sessions will take place in Strasbourg on September
25-29. A Turkish delegation headed by True Path Party (DYP)
Deputy Sait Kemal Mimaroglu, will also attend the meeting. The
most important issue on the agenda will be the applications of
the Ukraine and Macedonia for full membership in the European
Union. Through the efforts of the Turkish delegation, the Bosnia
issue will also be included among the urgent topics for
discussion.

To protest a negative PACE decision against Turkey, suspending
Turkey's membership in the Council, the Turkish delegation
refused to attend the June meeting. The Committee of Ministers
of the Council of Europe, however, did not accept the proposal
of the Parliamentarian Assembly and Turkey has again sent
representatives to the current PACE Autumn meetings.
/Milliyet-Cumhuriyet/

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