TURKISH DAILY NEWS / 18 OCTOBER 199

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 Ciller Gets The Job, To Revive Coalition
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 Government suspends strikes


Turkish Daily News
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ANKARA- The Turkish government on Tuesday suspended the strikes by
port, railway and sugar refinery workers for 60 days.

The Cabinet also postponed the strikes at workplaces of the
state-owned Machinery and Chemical Industry (MKE) and paper mills
SEKA.

The decision by the government, which has a constitutional right to
postpone strikes, was taken because they were considered "damaging to
national security and general health." President Suleyman Demirel had
approved a decree by Prime Minister Tansu Ciller's Cabinet to order
the port, railway and sugar refinery workers back to work with
immediate effect. The move will affect at least 80,000 workers who
have been striking for a wages increase since late September. About
270,000 striking public workers in other sectors, such as nonsugar
agriculture, oil, mining and forestry, were not covered by the decree
however.

The labour unrest over wage levels that began Sept.20 contributed to
Ciller losing a vote of confidence in her10-day-old minority
government last Sunday.
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 Three PKK militants arrested in Germany

Turkish Daily News
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KARLSRUHE, Germany-Three Kurds, suspected of being leaders of the
banned separatist Kurdistan Workers' PartY (PKK), were arrestedin
swoops on PKK sympathizers, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Police detained about 200 supporters of the PKK, which is in armed
conflict with the Turkish military in its bid for an independent
Kurdistan, in two separate operations during the weekend at Poheim in
central Germany and Munich in the south.

Federal prosecutors, who have reponsibility for terrorism cases, said
arrest warrants had been issued against the three men, all Turks of
Kurdish origin and aged between 27 and 39, suspected of being PKK
leaders in the Nuremberg, Freiburg and Munich areas in south. Germany
between May 1994 and April 1995. According to the prosecutor's office
police raids had uncovered "a large amount of written material" which
is to be analyzed.

The prosecutor's office claims that since June 1993 the PKK has
established in Germany, in liaison with its central European
leadership, an organization responsible for a number of serious
offences.

These would include arson attacks from November 1993 onwards and, from
May 1994, "punitive actions up to and including the killing of
dissidents within the PKK's own ranks. According to domestic
intelligence reports, the PKK which was outlawed by the German
government after a wave of bombattacks against Turkish-owned property
in Germany in November 1993 has up to 8,000 members.

Germany's Kurdish community numbers about 500,000 out o a total of two
million Turkish nationals.
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