From warresisters at gn.apc.org  Thu Nov  7 10:59:28 1996
From: warresisters at gn.apc.org (warresisters at gn.apc.org)
Date: 07 Nov 1996 10:59:28 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Turkey: ISKD banned
Message-ID: <APC.2.0.4a152693.edc@gn.apc.org>

From: War Resisters International <warresisters>

/* Written 10:51 AM  Nov  7, 1996 by warresisters in gn:wri.news */
/* ---------- "Turkey: ISKD banned" ---------- */
To: CO Alert list
From: warresisters at gn.apc.org (War Resisters' International)
Subject: ISKD banned
 
Thursday, 7 November 1996
 
The Governor of Izmir yesterday ordered the closing down of IZMIR Savas
Karsitlari Dernegi (War Resisters' Association). He gave the reason for
the ban as "distributing leaflets without permission": this refers to a
leaflet about Article 155 of the Turkish Penal Code ("alienating the
people from the military") - the article under which Osman Murat Ulke is
charged.  The leaflet itself was confiscated on Monday, 4 November. 
 
Izmir SKD will contest the legality of this abrogation, and a fuller
briefing - including numbers for protest faxes - will follow. 
 
HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE ACTIVISTS OF ISKD: By phone: you can phone to
the same number +90 232 4642492 because that has been forwarded to the
home of Serdar Tekin. He is most likely to be at home around midday and in
the evenings.  If that number does not work, Serdar's home number is +90
232 3305401.  Serdar speaks English, but his flatmates do not. 
 
Fax: The fax won't be usable for a few days.  In the meantime, today
(Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday, 8 Nov), you can send fax messages to the
Human Rights Association Izmir Section (+90 232 445 41 68).  This is a
phone and fax combined, and please bear i n mind that the person answering
might speak only Turkish. 
 
E-mail: This is functioning.  
 
posted by:      War Resisters' International
                5 Caledonian Road
                London N1 9DX
                tel: +44 171 278 4040
                fax: +44 171 278 0444
                email: warresisters at gn.apc.org
 

 

From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Nov 11 21:56:44 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 21:56:44
Subject: Mainstream News About Kurdistan And
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961111164..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Mainstream News About Kurdistan And Turkey

Headline: Car crash scandal shakes Turkish state
Date: Sun, Nov 10, 1996

    By Jonathan Lyons

     ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuter) - A car crash on a remote Turkish highway
has torn the veil from a cosy brotherhood of gangsters, warlords, and
nationalists apparently acting with impunity as part of the state's fight
against Kurdish and leftist dissent.
     Crushed to death last week inside their black Mercedes were a senior
police boss, a right-wing fugitive wanted for the murder of seven leftists
and an attempt on the Pope's life, and his girlfriend -- a former Miss
Cinema turned Mafia hitwoman.
     A fourth occupant, MP and Kurdish chieftain Sedat Bucak -- whose
militia has state blessing for its battle with separatist rebels of the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) -- was pulled clear and taken to hospital by
bodyguards travelling in a second car.
     Witnesses say the guards left the other passengers to die. Forged
registration plates, police and parliamentary ID cards, and handguns
equipped with silencers were found at the scene.
     On Friday the powerful interior minister and former chief of the
national police, Mehmet Agar, resigned. He admits staying at the same
resort as the victims a day before the crash but called it coincidence.
     Agar's patron, Deputy Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, has been thrown on
the defensive by demands for her resignation. At the weekend she
acknowledged the depth of the crisis: "Mafia rumors shake (public)
confidence in the law and the state."
     Parliament is to debate the scandal on Tuesday.
     "The Agar resignation is significant in that it stands as open proof
of the existence of a 'state within the state,"' political analyst Bilal
Cetin told Reuters.
     Cetin and other commentators say this secret force -- dubbed the
'contra-guerrillas' -- was out of control, using official sanction to
smuggle heroin, trade in arms, launder political contributions and pursue
Mafia and personal vendettas.
     "Although the deaths are unfortunate, this incident has done Turkey
good because it raised the rumours to a point where they can no longer be
denied," Cetin said.
     Amnesty International last month blamed the security forces and their
ultra-rightist allies for the deaths of more than 1,000 civilians suspected
of pro-PKK sympathies in what it called "an unprecedented wave of
extra-judicial killings."
     More than 100 people, mostly Kurdish villagers and leftists, have
"disappeared" in police custody since 1993, Amnesty said. The government
called the report "biased" but promised reforms.


Headline: Turkey gives mixed signals to Euro rights squeeze
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 1996

    By Jonathan Lyons

     ISTANBUL, Nov 1 (Reuter) - Faced with mounting Western pressure over
its human rights record, Turkey has responded with a mixture of public
conciliation and private defiance.
     But diplomats and rights activists say the tactics -- increasingly
seen in a number of European capitals as little more than foot-dragging --
are wearing thin.
     Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller, seeking to defuse the latest rights
crisis, publicly announced reforms in mid-October to cut short the initial
period of police detention, a time rights activists say suspects are most
at risk of torture.
     However, promised details of the changes are already overdue,
prompting rights campaigners to worry they may go nowhere.
     At the same time, the authorities have stepped up warnings to Turkish
journalists to limit coverage of alleged rights abuses for the sake of
national interests.
     Turkish journalists say they have been told by high-level officials to
tone down their moderate criticism of rights violations and give less
importance to European complaints of abuses.
     "The Turks just don't seem to get it," one European diplomat said on
Friday of fellow NATO-member Turkey.
     "There is little sign of substantive progress on human rights and
little sign of any real will to change," the diplomat said.
     Law professor Tekin Akillioglu said much of the blame lay with a lack
of consensus within society in support of rights reform. "The whole of
Turkey must takes these allegations and complaints of abuse seriously and
must resolve them."
     The strong-arm campaign against the media follows a devastating month
for Turkey's aspirations to be accepted as a full member of the European
club, where human rights is a powerful, emotive issue.
     On October 1, Amnesty International launched a global campaign to end
torture, extra-judicial killing and "disappearances" in Turkey -- most
involving leftists and those suspected of Kurdish separatist sympathies.
     Three weeks later, the European Parliament, angered by what it said
was Ankara's failure to keep promises to improve its rights performance,
voted to block $470 million in aid to realise a customs accord with the
European Union. Turkey shrugged off the rebuff.
     In the latest blow, the lawyer representing the Turkish government in
European rights courts announced his resignation after four years on the
front lines, saying Ankara's record had become indefensible.
     "Turkey always promises, but never fulfils...I thought, defending
Turkey is impossible in the current conditions, and resigned," attorney and
professor Bakir Caglar said on Thursday.
     Turkey faces 112 cases before the European human rights commission,
including 61 applications from southeastern Turkey, where rights activists
say abuses are rife in the fight between the army and the separatist
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
     According to Amnesty International's latest figures more than 1,000
civilians suspected of pro-PKK activities have been killed by security
forces or death squads in the last five years. It puts the number of
"disappeared" at around 135.
     Amnesty said the PKK had killed at least 400 prisoners and civilians
between 1993 and 1995. In recent weeks the separatists have launched a wave
of suicide bomb attacks against police.
     Overall, more than 21,000 people have died in the PKK's 12-year-old
fight for autonomy in the southeast.
     Meanwhile, Turkey faces the threat of mounting political and monetary
losses before the European Court of Human Rights.
     Already, the court has condemned Turkey in a case involving fighting
between the security forcs and PKK guerrillas, charging the army with
deliberately destroying a Kurdish village.
     Caglar, the former lawyer for Turkey, said more such cases would be
heard after a ruling that applicants from the southeast could file without
first exhausting domestic legal channels.
     "The commission believes that these people cannot apply to the local
courts because of the violence in the region and the lack of internal peace
in Turkey," Caglar said.
     "A trial is usually finished in four or five years, but for these
cases this period will be shorter and a series of verdicts will come out in
quick succession."


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From warresisters at gn.apc.org  Tue Nov 19 14:59:37 1996
From: warresisters at gn.apc.org (warresisters at gn.apc.org)
Date: 19 Nov 1996 14:59:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Turkey: Osman taken to unit
Message-ID: <APC.2.0.4a152694.ee5@gn.apc.org>

From: War Resisters International <warresisters>

/* Written  2:58 PM  Nov 19, 1996 by warresisters in gn:wri.news */
/* ---------- "Turkey: Osman taken to unit" ---------- */

TURKEY: OSMAN TAKEN TO MILITARY UNIT

19 November, Tuesday

Turkish war resister Osman Murat Uelke is being taken to 
the 9th Gendarme Unit in Bilecik, Bursa, Turkey.  Please 
send fax messages there, stressing that you fear for his security.  
And please distribute these numbers to human rights organisations 
and sympathetic politicians:
        Phone   + 90 228 212 1117
        Fax     + 90 228 212 2418

REPORT ON OSMAN'S FIRST HEARING
The Turkish conscientious objector Osman Murat Uelke (age 26) today 
has been released from military prison by the Military Court of the 
General Staff, Ankara, Turkey.  Immediately after his release, he 
is to be taken to his military unit, the 9th Gendarme Unit in 
Bilecik, in the Bursa area (near Istanbul).

The Turkish war resisters movement now fears - as does the 
international delegation which attended the court hearing - 
that Osman, as a person who criticises the military, will not 
be safe in the hands of the military itself. The movement is 
planning new activities to support Osman, and his lawyers 
and the delegation are thinking about going to Bilecik in 
order to show the commander of the unit that there is an 
ongoing national and international concern for the 
conscientious objector, Osman Murat Uelke.

If Osman Murat Uelke continues to resist military service 
in the unit - and there is no doubt this is his intention - 
after a period of one week in solitary confinement in a 
barracks cell and in case of persistent disobedience he may 
- according to Turkish Military Penal Law - be sentenced 
to between three months and three years in prison. And 
this sentence could be repeated several times.

Today's trial was the first in Turkey to deal with 
conscientious objection. Osman Murat Uelke received his 
draft papers on 31 August last year. He did not go 
to his unit.  On 1 September, he declared himself to 
be a CO and burned his military papers.  He stated: 
"I am not a soldier. I am not going to be a soldier. 
And if I am taken to the barracks I will resist - 
until the end". He told the army that he is not a 
draft evader. He would not hide himself.  The army 
could find him any day in the office of the Savas 
Karsitlari Dernegi - Izmir Association of War 
Resisters.

Today's hearing was that by the act of burning his 
military papers Osman was trying to "alienate the 
people from the military" (Article 155 of the 
Turkish Penal Code). Fifteen lawyers were there 
to defend Osman. The military prosecutor was not 
alone - he was accompanied by six others. When 
Osman entered the courtroom, guarded by four 
soldiers carrying weapons, about 35 people 
in the public area -- including three international 
observers from War Resisters' International -- stood 
up in honour and solidarity with Osman.

Throughout the trial the press and some TV cameras, 
including German TV ARD, were reporting it. This shows 
that the question of CO is on the public agenda in 
Turkey as part of the movement for human rights and 
freedom of thought.

The trial began with the attempt of the first military 
judge to reduce the number of lawyers. Finally, he 
accepted all of them. Then the lawyers made some 
procedural arguments: one of the three judges was 
not a qualified judge but only an officer (the others 
were both qualified judges and officers of the Turkish 
Army); the trial should have taken place in the town 
where the 'crime' was committed; Osman is not a soldier 
but a civilian, so he should be tried in a civilian court. 
The judges did not accept these submissions.

For the international delegation this showed some of 
the problems of having both civilian and military courts 
in Turkey. Today, it seemed that the military itself had 
jurisdiction. In terms of Human Rights, it is more than 
doubtful whether an independent trial can be guaranteed.

Then there was some questioning of Osman about what he 
had declared and done. Again, he declared himself a CO.
The military judge told him that there is no such law in 
Turkey. Osman replied: "That might be the problem of the 
Turkish state and the problem of the military court.
But it is not my problem."

After questioning Osman, the lawyers brought in some 
international declarations in support of the right to CO, 
such as the European Convention of Human Rights.

After this, the trial was adjourned to give more time to 
the lawyers and - as we think - to give the military 
judges time to find some counter-arguments. Osman Murat 
Uelke was released from military prison, but at once 
taken to his unit.

- Tony Smythe, War Resisters' International 
- Holger Jaenicke and Jan Brauns, DFG-VK, Dortmund

From warresisters at gn.apc.org  Tue Nov 19 10:40:00 1996
From: warresisters at gn.apc.org (warresisters at gn.apc.org)
Date: 19 Nov 1996 10:40:00
Subject: Turkey: Osman taken to military unit
Message-ID: <6L9ZjpFS.TB@oln-68.apc.org>

Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

19 November, Tuesday

Turkish war resister Osman Murat Uelke is being taken to 
the 9th Gendarme Unit in Bilecik, Bursa, Turkey.  Please
send fax messages there, stressing that you fear for his
security.  And please distribute these numbers to human
rights organisations and sympathetic politicians:
        Phone   + 90 228 212 1117
        Fax     + 90 228 212 2418

REPORT ON OSMAN'S FIRST HEARING
The turkish conscientious objector Osman Murat Uelke
(age 26) today has been released from military prison
by the Military Court of the General Staff, Ankara,
Turkey.  Immediately after his release, he is to be
taken to his military unit, the 9th Gendarme Unit in
Bilecik, in the Bursa area (near Istanbul).

The Turkish war resisters movement now fears - as does
the international delegation which attended the court
hearing - that Osman, as a person who criticises the
military, will not be safe in the hands of the military
itself. The movement is planning new activities to support
Osman, and his lawyers nd the delegation are thinking 
about going to Bilecik in order to show the commander of
the unit that there is an ongoing national and international
concern for the conscientious objector, Osman Murat Uelke.

If Osman Murat Uelke continues to resist military service
in the unit - and there is no doubt this is his intention
- after a period of one week in solitary confinement in 
a barracks cell and in case of persistent disobedience he may 
- according to Turkish Military Penal Law - be sentenced to 
between three months and three years in prison. And this sentence 
could be repeated several times.

Today's trial was the first in Turkey to deal with 
conscientious objection. Osman Murat Uelke received his draft
papers on 31 August last year. He did not go to his unit.
On 1 September, he declared himself to be a CO and burned
his military papers.  He satated: "I am not a soldier. I
am not going to be a soldier. And if I am taken to the 
barracks I will resist - until the end". He told the army
that he is not a draft evader. He would not hide himself.
The army could find him any day in the office of the Savas
Karstitlarie Dernegi - Izmir Association of War Resisters.

Today's hearing was that by the act of burning his military
papers Osmans was trying to "alienate the people from the 
military" (Article 155 of the Turkish Penal Code). Fifteen
lawyers were there to defend Osman. The military prosecutor
was not alone - he was accompanied by six others. When Osman
entered the courtroom, guarded by four soldiers carrying 
weapons, about 35 people in the public area -- including
three international observers from War Resisters' International
-- stoop up in honour and solidarity with Osman.

Throughout the trial the press and some TV cameras, including
German TV ARD, were reporting it. This shows that the question
of CO is on the public agenda in Turkey as part of the movement
for human rights and freedom of thought.

The trial began with the attempt of the first military judge
to reduce the number of lawyers. Finally, he accepted all of
them. Then the lawyers made some procedural arguments: one
of the three judges was not a qualified judge but only an
officer (the others were both qualified judges and officers
of the Turkish Army); the trial should have taken place in
the town where the 'crime' was committed; Osman is not a 
soldier but a civilian, so he should be tried in a civilian
court. The judges did not accept these submissions.

For the international delegation this showed some of the
problems of having both civilian and military courts in
Turkey. Today, it seemed that the military itself had
jurisdiction. In terms of Human Rights, it is more than 
doubtful whether an independent trial can be guaranteed.

Then there was some questioning of Osman about what he
had declared and done. Again, he declared himself a CO.
The military judge told him that there is no such law
in Turkey. Osman replied: "That might be the problem of
the Turkish state and the problem of the military court.
But it is not my problem."

After questioning Osman, the lawyers brought in some 
international declarations in support of the right to CO, 
such as the European Conventions of Human Rights.

After this, the trial was adjourned to give more time
to the lawyers and - as we think - to gve the military
judges time to find some counter-arguments. Osman Murat
Uelke was released from military prison, but at once
taken to his unit.

- Tony Smythe, War Resisters' International
- Holger Jaenicke and Jan Brauns, DFG-VK, Dortmund

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Nov 20 05:06:49 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 20 Nov 1996 05:06:49
Subject: Kurdish Suicide Commandos Strike
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961120000..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

Kurd Rebel Human Bomb Hits Turk Festivities

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey [sic] (Reuter) - A Kurdish rebel suicide team struck on
Turkey's most sacred day Tuesday [October 29, 1996], killing themselves and
four others in the second human bomb attack in less than a week. Police said
a female Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla blew up an explosive device
strapped to her body when she and another rebel were in a police car after
being detained in the central town of Sivas. The guerrillas had probably
planned a suicide attack during a military parade in the town for Tuesday's
Republic Day, a national holiday that marks Turkey's foundation in 1923.
"That is the most obvious thing that comes to mind." the spokesman said. The
parade went on as scheduled. It was the third such attack since Kurdish
rebels fighting for self-rule in southeast Turkey launched a campaign of
suicide bombings in July. All three bombers have been women.

A 17-year-old PKK militant carrying a bomb under maternity clothing killed
herself, three policemen, and a passer-by in a suicide attack on the
headquarters of a crack police unit in the southern city of Adana last
Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Tansu Ciller slammed the bombers. "When this
generation of brainwashed living robots is exhausted, the PKK and its dirty
history full of hate will soon be wiped off the face of the earth," she said
in a statement.

Security had been stepped up throughout the country in fear of PKK
disruption to Tuesday's celebrations. The public was kept away from a
military march in central Ankara attended by Prime Minister Necmettim
Erbakan and President Suleyman Demirel. Security officials said police had
prevented a suicide bombing on another parade Tuesday in the southeastern
city of Diyarbakir. They said a male PKK fighter intending to blow himself
was arrested at the weekend. Anatolian news agency quoted the would-be
bomber, named as Abdurrahman Marangoz, as saying a leading PKK commander
code-named Dr. Suleyman had chosen him from among 100 guerrillas at a
mountain camp for the task. "Dr. Suleyman told me to carry out a suicide
attack in Diyarbakir on October 29th for Republic Day. I accepted the duty,"
it quoted Marangoz as saying.

Local officials said a series of Republic Day civic events planned for later
in the day in Diyarbakir had been cancelled. More than 20,000 people have
been killed in fighting between the rebels and security forces since 1984.
Erbakan, who became Turkey's first Islamist premier in June, has promised to
end the insurgency through "Muslim brotherhood". But like his predecessors
he refuses to negotiate with the rebels. A tentative peace bid backed by his
Welfare Party has melted away under pressure from the military and
hardliners in parliament. The PKK killed 14 soldiers in a single clash in
Diyarbakir province in fighting that began Monday night, security officials
said.


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Nov 20 16:42:20 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 20 Nov 1996 16:42:20
Subject: Kurdish Political Prisoners In Germ
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961120113..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Kurdish Political Prisoners In Germany

Kurdish Political Prisoners In Germany
Charged With Paragraph 129a (Membership In A Terrorist Organization)

                             (date arrested - imprisoned in)

On trial in Frankfurt (since 25.9.95):

1. Senol Gungor	                  25.3.1994 	 Frankfurt
2. Ahmet Karadeniz 	           1.9.1994	  N/A
3. Dogan O=F6cerik	           2.7.1994	 Frankfurt

On trial in Hamburg (since 20.3.96):

1. Meryem Yagicubulut	         20.12.1994	 Hamburg
2. Azime Yilmaz 	         20.12.1994      Hamburg
3. Sait Bilgin                   20.12.1994      Hamburg

On trial in Stuttgart-Stammheim (since 10.4.96):

1. Zulfiye Sanil  	          21.3.1995      Stammheim
2. Mehmet Karaylan	         April 1995    	 Rastatt
3. Mehmer Nuri Akdeniz	          22.2.1995      Stammheim
4. Mehmetsirin =DCner  	          3.12.1995      Karlsruhe

On trial in Munich (since 10.10.1996):

1. Fevzi Alkan	                 14.10.1995  	 Munich
2. Kemal Coskun   	         14.10.1995    	 Munich
3. Erhan Sari      	         14.10.1995	 Munich

On trial in Stuttgart-Stammheim (trial will start on 8.11.1996):

1. Aslian Dogan 	          12.2.1996      Mannheim
2. Ibrahim Kaya 	          27.3.1996    	 Karlsruhe

On trial in Dusseldorf (trial will start on 26.11.1996):

1. Haydar Ergul (Aziz Yildirim)	  15.5.1996 	 Cologne
2. Nihat Azut   	           5.6.1995   	 L=FCbeck

On trial in Celle:

1. Shapour Badoshiyeh  	           5.1.1996    	 Hannover
2. Ismail Ozden  	         22.11.1995   	 Straubing

Other Kurds imprisoned for 129a:

Kani Yilmaz   	                 26.11.1995	 London
Ilhan Ektash 	                 Sept. 1995	 Berlin
Ahmed Demir	                  March 1996	 Koblenz
Abdurraham K. 	                  15.4.1996	 Stuttgart
Murat Ekinci 	              13. Juni 1996	 Cologne

Convicted under 129a in the Dusseldorf PKK-Trial:

Ali Aktas    		                         Schwalmstadt
Hasan Hayri G=FCler 		                 Bochum

Convicted in the Celle 129a-Trial:

Naim Kilic   		                         Wuppertal

(Translated by Arm The Spirit from Kurdistan-Rundbrief #22/96)



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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Nov 20 18:12:24 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:12:24
Subject: IFEX Alert For MED TV
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961120130..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

International Freedom of Expression eXchange Clearing House
Action Alert

Date: November 18, 1996

BELGIUM: Problems continue for MED TV/ROJ NV

ORIGINATOR: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ),
Brussels

     The IFJ and the Association of Professional Journalists of
Belgium (AGJPB) are disturbed by the continuing problems at the
Kurdish television station MED TV/ROJ NV.
     According to information the two organizations have
received, including from officers of the police special
investigations' brigade (BOB by its Flemish acronym), the Belgian
authorities are maintaining that MED TV/ROJ NV in itself is not
the subject of a criminal investigation and that there is no
conscious will on the part of the authorities to close down the
production studios. However, this has been the practical
consequence of the investigation.
     If, indeed, the authorities do not wish to shut down
production at this studio, IFJ and the AGJPB suggest certain
procedures which could be undertaken to enable the newsroom to go
back into production, without impinging on the investigation:

1. The betacam recorders and monitors removed from the newsroom
could be returned forthwith. This material is essential to the
work of the newsroom and without it no production can take place.
Further, the cables removed from the newsroom should be returned.

2. The archival books should be returned to the library of ROJ NV
and to the desks of journalists at the newsroom. If questions
arise as to the subject matter of a book, police should contact
the publisher, but not confiscate the legitimate property of
journalists.

3. Video archives, in particular those of Reuters and the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), should be returned. If the
grounds of the raid given to IFJ are correct, Reuters and BBC
should be contacted directly, but the videos should not have been
removed from these studios.

     Further, officers removed video material which was filmed in
and around Turkey, and contained statements and information from
Turkish and Kurdish individuals. Any such material, when
broadcast through MED TV, is first subjected to a pixelating or
other procedures in order to protect the anonymity of the
contributors. This technique is not applied directly to the
originals and therefore the BOB have confiscated highly sensitive
videos. This is a direct attack on professional journalists'
right to protect their sources, however, of even more immediate
concern is the fact that if any of these videos are in any way
released to members of the Turkish authorities, the people
displayed on them could be in serious physical danger.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Send appeals to authorities below:

- urging that they undertake all the measures mentioned above;
- if they are not willing to return the videos forthwith,
requesting to be provided with the guarantee that they have
neither been shown, nor will be shown, to any member or
representative of the Turkish authorities;
- requesting that the journalists at MED TV/ROJ NV be provided
with a complete inventory of what was removed from the station;
- expressing dismay that, when undertaking such an investigation,
the Belgian authorities have failed to protect the essential
human right to freedom of expression and its corollary, the
protection of sources.

APPEALS TO:

Mr Burm
Juge d'Instruction [examining judge]
Fax: +508 71 61

Mr Degemeppe
Procureur du Roi [Crown Prosecutor]
Fax: +508 70 97

Mr Vandewijngaarden
Operation Sputnik
Fax number unknown

Please copy appeals to the originator if possible.

For further information, contact Cailin Mackenzie at the IFJ, Rue
Royale, 266, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium, tel:+322 223 2265 or +322
219 7780, fax:+322 219 2976, e-mail: ifjsafenet at gn.apc.org.

The information contained in this alert update is the sole
responsibility of its originator.


IFEX CLEARING HOUSE
490 Adelaide St. W. #205 Toronto ONT M5V 1T2 CANADA
tel: 416-703-1638 fax: 416-703-7034
e-mail: ifex at web.net
World Wide Web: http://www.ifex.org/

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Echange international de la liberte d'expression MISE A JOUR
D'ALERTE

Date: le 18 novembre 1996

BELGIQUE: Problemes constants pour MED TV/ROJ NV

INITIATEUR: Federation internationale des journalistes (FIJ),
Bruxelles

Mise a jour des alertes de l'IFEX des 8 octobre et 20 septembre
1996

     La FIJ et l'Association generale des journalistes
professionnels de Belgique (AGJPB), sont preoccupes par les
problemes constants que rencontre MED TV/ROJ NV.
     D'apres les informations que la FIJ et l'AGJPB ont recues, y
compris celles de la Brigade speciale de recherche (BSR), les
autorites belges confirment que MED TV/ROJ NV en soi n'est pas
l'objet dune enquete criminelle, et qu'il n'y a aucune volonte
consciente de la part des autorites de fermer les studios de
production. Il n'empeche, cependant, que c'est precisement ce qui
a resulte de l'enquete.
     Si, en effet, il n'est pas dans l'intention des autorites de
fermer la production de ce studio, la FIJ y l'AGJPB suggerent
certaines procedures qui pourraient etre suivies afin de
permettre a la salle de redaction de reprendre la production,
sans pour autant empieter sur l'enquete:

1. Les enregistreurs betacam et les ecrans de controle qui ont
ete soustraits de la salle de redaction pourraient y etre
replaces des maintenant. Il est absolument essentiel que la salle
de redaction soit en possession de ce materiel sans lequel il ne
peut y avoir de production. De plus, les cables qui ont ete
enleves devraient y etre replaces egalement.

2. Les livres d'archives devraient etre remis a ROJ NV et aux
journalistes de la salle de redaction. Si des questions se posent
quant au sujet traite dans un livre, la police devrait contacter
l'editeur, et non pas confisquer ce qui est la propriete legitime
des journalistes.

3. Les archives video, en particulier celles de Reuters et de la
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) devraient etre rendues. Si
les motifs qui ont ete donnes pour justifier la descente sont
corrects, Reuters et la BBC devraient etre contactes directement,
mais les videos n'auraient pas du etre sortis des studios. 
En outre, des agents ont confisque des videos qui avaient ete
tournes en Turquie et aux alentours, et qui contiennent des
declarations et des informations d'individus turcs et kurdes. Un
tel materiel, quand il est diffuse par MED TV, est d'abord soumis
a un brouillage ou a toute autre technique permettant de proteger
l'anonymat des collaborateurs. Cette technique n'est pas
appliquee directement aux originaux. La BSR a donc confisque du
materiel video hautement sensible. Ceci constitue une attaque
directe du droit des journalistes professionnels a la protection
de leurs sources. Cependant, ce qui est encore plus inquietant
dans ce cas precis, c'est que si ces videos sont, d'une facon ou
d'une autre, remises aux autorites turques, les personnes
visibles sur les videos pourraient etre physiquement en danger.

ACTION RECOMMANDEE:

Faire appel aux autorites ci-dessous en:

- les priant instamment d'entreprendre les actions qui leur sont
demandees ci-dessus;
- si elles n'ont pas l'intention de rendre ces videos a MED
TV/ROJ NV de suite, leur demandant des garanties qu'elles n'ont
jamais ete et qu'elle ne seront pas montrees a un membre ou a un
representant des autorites turques, quel qu'il soit;
- demandant que soit remis aux journalistes de MED TV/ROJ NV un
inventaire complet de ce qui a ete saisi a la station;
- en denoncant que, par le recours a une telle enquete, les
autorites belges ont omis de proteger ce droit humain essentiel
qu'est la liberte d'expression et son corollaire, la protection
des sources.

FAIRE APPEL A:

M Burm
Juge d'Instruction
Telecopieur: +508 71 61

M Degemeppe
Procureur du Roi
Telecopieur: +508 70 97

M Vandewijngaarden
Operation Sputnik
Aucun numero de telecopieur disponible

Envoyer des copies de vos protestations a l'initiateur si
possible.

Pour plus de renseignements, contacter Cailin Mackenzie, FIJ, rue
Royale, 266, B-1210 Bruxelles, Belgique, tel:+322 223 2265 ou
+322 219 7780, telec:+322 219 2976, courrier electronique:
ifjsafenet at gn.apc.org.

L'initiateur est responsable de toute information contenue dans
cette alerte.

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 09:47:08 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 09:47:08
Subject: PKK Chief Says Turkish PM Seeks Tal
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961121001..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: PKK Chief Says Turkish PM Seeks Talks

PKK Chief Says Turkish PM Seeks Talks 

PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuter) - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was quoted 
on Wednesday as saying Turkish Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan 
had contacted his movement for peace talks but the Turkish army was 
blocking a dialogue. 

Ocalan, leader of the radical Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), told the 
French daily Le Figaro: ``We are waging war to force Turkey to accept a 
political solution. Erbakan has contacted us. But the army is not 
following.'' 

He gave no details of the reported contacts. 

Ocalan said the PKK sought a federal solution involving Iraq, Iran and 
Turkey, with a federal parliament and a Kurdish parliament. The movement 
has waged an armed struggle against the Turkish state for the past 12 
years in which more than 20,000 people have been killed. 

Interviewed ``somewhere in the Middle East,'' he acknowledged that PKK 
guerrillas had wiped out several Kurdish villages accused of 
collaborating with the Turkish army and blamed it on power struggles 
among the rebels. 

``I'm against the killing of civilians. But it is a fact that some of 
these acts were carried out by guerrillas. They killed some of our own 
people. They are destroying what I am trying to build,'' Ocalan said. 

``I am the leader but I am not God. Sometimes I have more conflicts with 
members of my own party than with the enemy. They challenge my 
authority,'' he said. 

Ocalan was quoted as saying the PKK had 15,000 guerrillas in southeastern 
Turkey and northern Iraq, including 4,000 women. 

He said he had personally never been a fighter or lived with Kurdish 
guerrillas in the mountains. 

Ocalan said he opposed sexual relations between men and women guerrillas. 

``If we are not strict, we will never the give the Kurds a new 
personality. We must establish a new style of sexual relations between 
men and women,'' he said. 

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 09:47:55 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 09:47:55
Subject: Turkey On Alert For More Rebel Kurd
Message-ID: <bac1c849.3293A8D8.2669@etext.org>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org>
Subject: Turkey On Alert For More Rebel Kurd Suicide Bombs

Turkey On Alert For More Rebel Kurd Suicide Bombs

TUNCELI, Turkey, Oct 30 (Reuter) - Security forces in
southeast Turkey are on alert for further suicide strikes
after rebel Kurds killed eight people and themselves in
human bomb attacks in the last week, military officials
said on Wednesday.

``We are getting tip-offs that there will be new suicide
attacks -- around three or four,'' an army official told
Reuters in the eastern town of Tunceli. ``We don't know
where or when, but generally their targets have been the
army or police.''

The official said the interior ministry had issued orders
for special precautions to be taken in the provinces of
Tunceli, Sivas, Diyarbakir, Erzincan and Bingol following
the attacks by female militants dressed up as pregnant
women with explosives strapped to their waist.

The ERNK, the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK), issued a statement late on Wednesday in which
it warned of ``a new era of metropolitan actions and new
examples of heroism...if the Turkish government continues
to refuse to take the warnings of the Kurdish people
seriously.''

A 17-year-old woman PKK guerrilla blew up herself and four
others in an attack in the southern town of Adana last
Friday.

Another female PKK militant -- identified as Guler Otas --
blew up an explosive device strapped to her body when she
and another rebel were in a police car after being
detained in the central town of Sivas on Tuesday, Turkey's
Republic Day holiday.

The rebels, three police officers and a civilian were
killed in that blast. It was the third since the rebels,
fighting for self-rule, launched a campaign of suicide
attacks.

The first attack, in July, was carried out by another
woman guerrilla in the province of Tunceli, haunt of
elusive PKK regional commander Semdin ``Fingerless Zeki''
Sakik.

Military officials say Otas was trained by Sakik, whom the
army has tried in vain to hunt down in numerous operations
since he arrived in Tunceli two years ago.

Turkish newspapers published pictures taken at Sakik's
camp in the mountains of Tunceli, showing Otas and the
first bomber, Zeynep Kinaci, standing next to Sakik.

Otas was no stranger to the police. Security forces issued
a statement on the Anatolian news agency late on Monday
that they were searching for Otas and another woman
guerrilla who had infiltrated Sivas town centre.

More than 21,000 people have been killed in fighting
between the rebels and security forces since 1984.

Interior Minister Mehmet Agar criticised police in Sivas
for failing to prevent the blast despite being on alert
over Otas and catching her before ceremonies in the town
for Republic day, a national holiday marking the
foundation of Turkey in 1923.

``They did not search her, and they unfortunately paid
with their lives for such a basic mistake,'' Agar told
Turkish television late on Tuesday.

``Our team suspected the woman, but could not search her
because there was no policewoman to do it,'' said a
policeman in Sivas, a conservative town with a strong
Islamist presence.

Police had detained Otas, dressed in black Islamic
``hijab'' women's clothing, after searching a minibus
ahead of the fatal explosion.

Security officials in Tunceli said the interior ministry
had issued a directive that women police and equipment for
searching for explosives should be present at all security
points in the region. And civilians should be searched not
less than 200 metres (yards) away from military positions,
the directive said.

The police officer in Sivas told Reuters by telephone that
they also held a third rebel who escaped Tuesday's blast
after being separated from Otas.

``We have not had time to question him yet,'' he said.
``But I know that if they could have blasted the bomb
during ceremonies, it would have killed at least 50
people.''


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 09:47:57 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 09:47:57
Subject: Turkey On Alert For More Rebel Kurd
References: <bac1c849.3293A8D8.2669@etext.org>
Message-ID: <bac1c849.3293A8D8.2669@etext.org>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org>
Subject: Turkey On Alert For More Rebel Kurd Suicide Bombs

Turkey On Alert For More Rebel Kurd Suicide Bombs

TUNCELI, Turkey, Oct 30 (Reuter) - Security forces in
southeast Turkey are on alert for further suicide strikes
after rebel Kurds killed eight people and themselves in
human bomb attacks in the last week, military officials
said on Wednesday.

``We are getting tip-offs that there will be new suicide
attacks -- around three or four,'' an army official told
Reuters in the eastern town of Tunceli. ``We don't know
where or when, but generally their targets have been the
army or police.''

The official said the interior ministry had issued orders
for special precautions to be taken in the provinces of
Tunceli, Sivas, Diyarbakir, Erzincan and Bingol following
the attacks by female militants dressed up as pregnant
women with explosives strapped to their waist.

The ERNK, the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK), issued a statement late on Wednesday in which
it warned of ``a new era of metropolitan actions and new
examples of heroism...if the Turkish government continues
to refuse to take the warnings of the Kurdish people
seriously.''

A 17-year-old woman PKK guerrilla blew up herself and four
others in an attack in the southern town of Adana last
Friday.

Another female PKK militant -- identified as Guler Otas --
blew up an explosive device strapped to her body when she
and another rebel were in a police car after being
detained in the central town of Sivas on Tuesday, Turkey's
Republic Day holiday.

The rebels, three police officers and a civilian were
killed in that blast. It was the third since the rebels,
fighting for self-rule, launched a campaign of suicide
attacks.

The first attack, in July, was carried out by another
woman guerrilla in the province of Tunceli, haunt of
elusive PKK regional commander Semdin ``Fingerless Zeki''
Sakik.

Military officials say Otas was trained by Sakik, whom the
army has tried in vain to hunt down in numerous operations
since he arrived in Tunceli two years ago.

Turkish newspapers published pictures taken at Sakik's
camp in the mountains of Tunceli, showing Otas and the
first bomber, Zeynep Kinaci, standing next to Sakik.

Otas was no stranger to the police. Security forces issued
a statement on the Anatolian news agency late on Monday
that they were searching for Otas and another woman
guerrilla who had infiltrated Sivas town centre.

More than 21,000 people have been killed in fighting
between the rebels and security forces since 1984.

Interior Minister Mehmet Agar criticised police in Sivas
for failing to prevent the blast despite being on alert
over Otas and catching her before ceremonies in the town
for Republic day, a national holiday marking the
foundation of Turkey in 1923.

``They did not search her, and they unfortunately paid
with their lives for such a basic mistake,'' Agar told
Turkish television late on Tuesday.

``Our team suspected the woman, but could not search her
because there was no policewoman to do it,'' said a
policeman in Sivas, a conservative town with a strong
Islamist presence.

Police had detained Otas, dressed in black Islamic
``hijab'' women's clothing, after searching a minibus
ahead of the fatal explosion.

Security officials in Tunceli said the interior ministry
had issued a directive that women police and equipment for
searching for explosives should be present at all security
points in the region. And civilians should be searched not
less than 200 metres (yards) away from military positions,
the directive said.

The police officer in Sivas told Reuters by telephone that
they also held a third rebel who escaped Tuesday's blast
after being separated from Otas.

``We have not had time to question him yet,'' he said.
``But I know that if they could have blasted the bomb
during ceremonies, it would have killed at least 50
people.''


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 16:32:49 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 16:32:49
Subject: Rights Group Condemns Kurd Rebel Su
Message-ID: <bac1c849.32942E6B.16BC@etext.org>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org>
Subject: Rights Group Condemns Kurd Rebel Suicide Bombings

Rights Group Condemns Kurd Rebel Suicide Bombings

ANKARA, Nov 21 (Reuter) - U.S.-based rights monitor Human
Rights Watch/Helsinki on Thursday condemned a wave of
suicide bombings by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
guerrillas in Turkey.

The human rights group also expressed concern at the
ongoing trial of 41 members of the People's Democracy
Party (HADEP), the only legal Kurdish political party in
Turkey, on charges of links to the PKK.

Three female rebels in civilian clothes have killed
themselves and around 20 people in separate human bomb
attacks since July.

``The feigning of civilian or non-combatant status to
attack an enemy is a serious violation of customary law,''
the rights group said in a statement.

Ten soldiers were killed in the first bombing in eastern
Turkey on July 1. The suicide bombers struck twice in
October, killing mostly policemen.

PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan had earlier warned of such
attacks. The rights group said it was concerned that
statements this month by Ocalan on Kurdish Med-TV might
imply more suicide attacks were planned.

``We call on General Secretary Ocalan, who in December
1994 announced that the PKK would abide by the Geneva
Conventions, to renounce such tactics as suicide
bombings,'' it said.

The suicide bombings marked a move away from classic
guerrilla warfare tactics used by the PKK during its
12-year-old campaign for self rule in southeast Turkey.
More than 21,000 people have died in the conflict.

The rights group also expressed concern about the trial of
the HADEP members.

``Primary among these concerns are that individuals not be
punished for exercising their right to free expression,
and that testimony presented be given voluntarily, not
under coercion through maltreatment or torture,'' the
group said.

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 18:13:11 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:13:11
Subject: The Latest Military Actions Of The
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961121130..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: The Latest Military Actions Of The ARGK

The Latest Military Actions Of The ARGK

(Translated By Arm The Spirit From Kurdistan-Rundbrief #23/96)

Successful Balance Of The "Fall Offensive" Published

The Press Office of the People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan (ARGK)
has published the balance from the first month. The ARGK carried out
a total of 368 actions, during which 701 soldiers (including 4
officers), 62 policemen and special forces, and 48 "village guards",
a total of 831 state forces, were killed and 94 soldiers and 41 
village guards were wounded. 2 state agents and 33 village guards 
were taken prisoner by the ARGK. 4 military stations had to be
abandoned by the Turkish army, and in Hakkari province, 4 village
guard settlements have decided to cease their activities.

The guerrilla suffered 97 losses during this time period, according to
the ARGK Press Office, and 95 other fighters were wounded. One guerrilla
was wounded and captured.

Various Statements Concerning The Suicide Actions

The ARGK has stated that the woman guerrilla known as Bermal,
who carried out the suicide bombing of the police car in Sivas,
was named Guler Otas and had been a member of the ARGK since April 1993.
She was born in Yolagz village in Batman province in 1967 and was
forced to leave her village. She began political work with the ERNK
(National Liberation Front of Kurdistan) in 1987, was arrested in
1989, and then worked in a factory until joining the guerrilla. During
this period, both her brother and her nephew were murdered by the
contra-guerrilla.

The ERNK European Organization cited the three suicide bombings as
a warning to Turkey and her allies. "At the present level, our army,
the ARGK, is currently on the offensive, and the army of the
Turkish Republic, is on the defensive and in flight...If the war
progresses further, the Turkish Republic will have to pay the
consequences. If it wishes to avoid its total disintegration, it
must sit down with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) at the negotiating
table at once. Otherwise, every region where Kurds live will become
a living hell for the Turkish Republic."

The ARGK commander for Amed (Diyarbakir) stated: "The actions in Dersim,
Adana, and Sivas were not suicide bombings, they were acts of sacrifice.
If necessary, such actions with similar methods will be carried out
further. Such actions are breathing new life into the Kurdish regions."

PKK Chairman Abdullah Ocalan stated that all three suicide attacks
were carried out on the guerrillas' own initiative. "If I had given
the order, the actions would have been 100 times more violent. These
three women carried out symbolic acts which were not ordered by me.
But now we can see that, if we want, all Kurds could become living
bombs."

"What is most characteristic of the PKK guerrillas is that they
are all willing to sacrifice their lives for a great goal, that is
their incredible strength. Such actions show the spirit of
sacrifice of guerrillas which is most evident in the PKK. We have
not yet made use of this incredible potential."

"These women had the consciousness and will to be free women, to
show an important message, to be an example for women all around the
world. It is wrong to characterize their actions as suicide acts, for
they were just the opposite. They possessed an incedible force of
life."

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 21:34:00 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 21:34:00
Subject: TamilNet Information Service
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961121152..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

TamilNet Information Service (TamilNet) 
Reporting On Tamil Affairs Around The World

TamilNet is an independent electronic information service that brings
you news and views from the Tamil Homeland, Tamil Eelam. It gives
worldwide coverage on issues related to the Ilam (Eelam) Tamil Nation.
Our main concern is to bring the actual situation prevailing in the
Tamil Homeland to the outside world.

The sources of information to TamilNet are: Jaffna Citizen Committee
(JCC), International Secretariat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lankan Government Agent of Jaffna (GA),
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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 21 21:37:36 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 21:37:36
Subject: United Resistance Brings Victory
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961121150..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

United Resistance Brings Victory

12 Political Prisoners Gave Their Lives In A Death Fast In
Turkey

By Arm The Spirit

(ATS Note: The following article was written for "Prison News Service", a
North American prison journal. They can be reached at: PNS, P.O. Box 5052,
Stn. A, Toronto, Ont., M5W 1W4 Canada. E-mail: pns at pathcom.com)

When Aygun Ugur, an imprisoned militant from the outlawed Turkish
Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML), died on the 63rd day
of a hungerstrike, Turkey was shocked. In a nation which is
continually rocked by political crises and rebellion, this
summer's death fast by left-wing political prisoners posed the
greatest threat to the the Turkish government in recent years.
Weeks of public denial and fierce repression could not stop the
prisoners, and in the days after Ugur's death, 11 more martyrs
were to fall in Europe's most serious political hungerstrike
since 10 Irish POW's died in the 1981 IRA/INLA hungerstrike.

This summer's hungerstrike, the climax of more than a year of
continued prison resistance in Turkey and Kurdistan, began on May
19, 1996. At the outset, more than 1,500 political prisoners took
part, most from militant communist organizations such as the
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), the
TKP/ML, and others. Kurdish political prisoners, mostly from the
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), soon joined in as well, and the
resistance displayed a great deal of unity among Turkey's
fractured radical-left and leftist Kurdish groups as well.

The main impetus for this latest hungerstrike was the order which
was issued on May 6, 1996 by the new Turkish Justice Minister
Mehmet Agar. Ever since inconclusive parliamentary elections in
December 1995 had left Turkey in a state of political stalemate,
a shaky coalition government was evetually formed by the two main
secular conservative parties, the True Path Party (DYP) and the
Motherland Party (ANAP). Mehmet Agar was well known to leftists
in Turkey, especially the prisoners, and his career as a
policeman and politician was one marked by torture, murder, and
bloodshed. Agar had served as police chief in Ankara following
the September 9, 1980 military coup, and his tenure there was
marked by the death of scores of revolutionaries. In 1990, Agar
became police chief in Istanbul, where he continued his reign of
terror. According the the DHKC Information Office in Amsterdam,
police raids directed by Agar resulted in the deaths of 124
left-wing militants with another 22 tortured to death. Agar was
also responsible for the murder of 8 left-wing journalists and
the imprisonment of 55 others.

Mehmet Agar's May 6th order announced the establishment of
several new special isolation prisons in Eskisehir and other
cities, and the planned dispersal of political prisoners to
remote areas far away from their families and lawyers. This order
marked the highpoint of increased repression against political
prisoners in Turkey and Kurdistan.

Turkey has a long history of militant left-wing struggle,
especially since the 1970s, and prison resistance has always been
an integral part of movement activity. Following the 1980
military coup, when thousands of militants were imprisoned and
tortured, there were several waves of hungerstrikes and prison
resistance, organized mainly by the urban guerrilla organization
Devrimci Sol (now known as the DHKP-C) and the PKK. But the
return of "democracy" to Turkey in the 1980s did not mean that
prison conditions became any better. Indeed, following the
launching of the PKK's armed struggle offensive in Kurdistan in
1984 and the hanging of martial law over all Kurdish provinces in
1987, the repression in the prisons became much worse as the
number of political prisoners began to rise.

In the 1990s, prison resistance continued, and one of the largest
hungerstrikes in Turkish history began on July 14, 1995, when
nearly 10,000 Kurdish political prisoners and prisoners of war
began a hungerstrike to demand better prison conditions and to
call for an end to the dirty war in Kurdistan. July 14th is a
significant date in history for the PKK movement. It recalls the
hungerstrike launched on July 14, 1982 by PKK cadre Hayri Durmus,
Kemal Pir, Ali Cicek, and Akif Yilmaz, all of whom fell as
martrys in their resistance. A wave of solidarity hungerstrikes
by Kurds across Europe and even in America, including clashes
with riot police in London and several German cities, helped draw
international attention to the war in Kurdistan and to the plight
of political prisoners in Turkey. But this hungerstrike ended
without achieving any results after 35 days. Four people were
martyred in this hungerstrike: Fesih Beyazcicek, Remzi Altinas,
Latifa Kaya, and Gulnaz Baghistani; Gulnaz died in Berlin,
Germany following a police attack on Kurdish solidarity
hungerstrikers.

Prison resistance spread from Kurdistan during the summer of
1995, particularly following the dramatic escape from prison on
July 17, 1995 of four DHKC prisoners. Their escape led to a wave
of repression against other prisoners and prisoners' families,
and resistance to state terror in the prisons eventually took the
form of a nationwide prison uprising on September 12, 1995. Both
Kurdish and Turkish political prisoners from several left-wing
organizations acted together during this resistance. The state
responded with heavy force, however, attacking Buca prison in
Izmir on September 21, 1995. A raid by soldiers and police on the
prison left 3 DHKC prisoners dead and another 60 prisoners
seriously wounded.

Resistance and repression continued, however, and soon Urmaniye
prison in Istanbul became the focus. On December 13, 1995, the
police and army attacked rebellious inmates, even using
helicopters, leaving 1 dead and scores more wounded. But
prisoners successfully barricaded themselves and held off the
state forces until another, more deadly state attack on January
4, 1996 left yet another 3 DHKC prisoners dead. By this point, a
rather large movement outside the prisons had formed and began
taking to the streets to demand an end to torture and death in
Turkish prisons. Following the January 4th massacre, Turkish
targets across Germany were firebombed, and thousands of people
in Turkey took to the streets in protest. At the funeral for two
of the DHKC martyrs, riot police in Istanbul made some 4,000
arrests, injuring scores of people. World-wide attention became
focused on the situation in Turkey's prisons following this,
largely due to the murder by police of Emin Goktepe. Emin, a
journalist for the leftist daily "Evrensel", was dragged away by
police during the funeral procession in Istanbul. His battered
corpse was found in a ditch a few days later. Turkish police at
first denied they had any knowledge of Emin's murder, but
overwhelming evidence soon proved to the world that Emin was the
latest in a series of "disappearances" and murders of leftist
journalists in Turkey. Bowing to pressure from the European
Parliament, several Istanbul police officers were indicted for
Emin's murder this spring.

It was against this background of continued intense repression
that the May 19th hungerstrike was launched. Prisoners demanded
that the May 6th order be rescinded, that all special isolation
prisons be closed down, and they also demanded an end to the
attacks on family members and lawyers which have become so
routine in Turkey and Kurdistan. The collapse of the DYP-ANAP
right-wing coalition in May changed the situation slightly,
however. A new coalition, made up of former Prime Minister Tansu
Ciller's DYP party and the Islamic Refah Party, removed Agar and
named Refah member Sevket Kazan to be the new Justice Minister.
At this point, PKK prisoners halted their hungerstrike,
apparently fooled by promises of reform. But the prisoners from
the Turkish left continued and indeed escalated their resistance.
After all, fascism is fascism, for despite Refah's occasional
anti-Western rhetoric, the party still must do the bidding of the
oligarchy and the military to stay in power, and the party's
Islamic fundamentalism does not mean that its ideology is any
less nationalistic or reactionary than its DYP-ANAP secular
counterparts.

The analysis by the DHKC and others proved correct, as Kazan
promised to continue with the state attacks on revolutionary
prisoners and to push through the new restrictions and special
prisons. The hungerstike became a death fast, with hundreds of
prisoners vowing to perish before they would cease their
resistance. State repression was heightened, and a media
black-out was ordered by the Refah government, reminiscent of the
German state's repressive measures during the RAF hungerstrike in
the autumn of 1977. But Turkey's political prisoners are very
well-organized and resourceful, and they managed to smuggle a
video tape of the prison conditions and the death fast to the
outside. When these images were broadcast to Turkey and the
world, the government could no longer deny the resistance which
was underway. Rallies by prisoners' families and supporters grew.
Riots broke out in the Gazi district of Istanbul and other areas
as well. The state vowed never to negotiated with "terrorists",
but when Aygun Ugur fell on July 21st, the situation changed. In
the following days, more prisoners died, and yet the resistance
continued. By now, the bourgeois left were shocked, and even
pro-state media began to question the inhumane stance of the new
regime. Sedat Ergin, a leading newspaper commentator in Ankara,
noted that the fast had become a "direct challenge" to Prime
Minister Erbakan's new Islamic government. On July 25th, with 8
strikers already dead, the Kurdish PKK prisoners announced that
they too would join the death fast. The Kurdistan Parliament in
Exile in Europe issued a declaration in support of the
hungerstrikers. With social discontent and protest mounting, the
media black-out having failed to keep a lid on the situation,
famed author Yasar Kemal and other noted human rights activists
attempted to mediate between the prisoners and the state. On
Saturday, July 28, 1996, the prisoners announced that the death
fast was over when the government gave in to all their demands.

The government stated it would close down the Eskisehir prison in
central Anatolia, it would stop the dispersal of prisoners to
remote locations, end the attacks on family members and lawyers,
and seek to improve prison conditions. After 69 days of
determined resistance and the death of 12 prisoners, the
hungerstrike by Turkish revolutionaries ended in victory. But
Turkey is still a country in turmoil. As the urban underclasses
continue to rise up in the cities in the west and the Kurdish
liberation struggles gains in strength in the east, state
repression will continue, and this summer's hungerstrike will
certainly not be the last in the struggle for socialism and
freedom in Turkey and Kurdistan.

Arm The Spirit, September 1996

The following martyrs fell during the 69-day hungerstrike: 

Aygun Ugur (TKP/ML), Altan Berdan Kerimgiller (DHKP-C), Olginc
Ozkeskin (DHKP-C), Huseyin Demircioglu (MLKP), Ali Ayata,
(TKP/ML), Mujdat Yanat (DHKP-C), Tahsin Yilmaz (TIKB), Ayse Idil
Erkmen (DHKP-C), Hicabi Kucuk (TIKB), Yemliha Kaya (DHKP-C),
Osman Akgun (TIKB) and Hayati Can (TKP/ML).

For more information on the liberation struggle in Turkey and
Kurdistan, visit the DHKP-C homepage on the Internet:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ozgurluk 

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ont.
M5W 1P7 Canada

E-mail: ats at etext.org
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(Source: Prison News Service #55 - Fall 1996)

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From WRI-AG.FOEGA at OLN.comlink.apc.org  Fri Nov 22 05:25:00 1996
From: WRI-AG.FOEGA at OLN.comlink.apc.org (WRI-AG.FOEGA at OLN.comlink.apc.org)
Date: 22 Nov 1996 05:25:00
Subject: Turkey: Osman taken to unit /UPDATE 22.11.96
References: <APC.2.0.4a152694.e38@gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <6LL.DZsS.TB@oln-68.oln.comlink.apc.org>

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

WRI-AG der FoGA                            Tel.: +49-441-203864
Brahmweg  178                              Fax: +49-441-2489661
D- 26135 Oldenburg      email: WRI-AG.FOEGA at OLN.comlink.apc.org
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                                                     22.11.1996

OSMAN MURAT UeLKE ON HIS WAY TO HIS MILITARY UNIT
-------------------------------------------------

Today we learnt from the lawyers of the war resisters of Izmir,  
that Osman Murat Uelke, who was arrested on October 7th and had  
his first trial date for "alienating the people from the mili- 
tary" on November 19th was taken to the military today. He left  
Ankara military prison this morning and is expected to arrive at  
his military unit in Bilecik/Bursa area this afternoon.
The people form War Resisters of Izmir fear for his safety in the  
military unit. Therefore they call to send telegramms (the fax  
number given before is no longer working for civilian use):

9. Jandarma Er Egitim Alayi
Bilecik/Bursa
Turkey

For further information please contact:

warresisters at gn.apc.org           War Resisters' International
wri-ag.foefa at oln.comlink.apc.org  Federation of Nonviolent Action
                                  Groups, Germany (WRI section)
OSI at info-ist.comlink.apc.org      War Resisters of Izmir

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Tel.: 0441/2489 663                     Fax:  0441/2489 661
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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sat Nov 23 11:49:29 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 23 Nov 1996 11:49:29
Subject: Belgian Police Raid Suspected PKK T
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961123012..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Belgian Police Raid Suspected PKK Training Camp

Belgian Police Raid Suspected PKK Training Camp 

BRUSSELS, Nov 22 (Reuter) - Belgian police have raided a holiday resort 
believed to be a training camp for members of the banned Kurdistan 
Workers Party (PKK), a Brussels public prosecutor's office spokesman said 
on Friday. 

He said 36 people were detained after the raid on Thursday, including 18 
minors from Germany. Most of them had been reported missing by their 
parents, he said. 

Police found PKK propaganda and paramilitary clothes but arms were not 
discovered at the holiday barracks in Zutendaal, northeastern Belgium. 

The spokesman said the minors were invited to a one-week cultural course 
but forced to stay for several months during which they were 
"indoctrinated".

Kon-Kurd, the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe, said the 
young Kurds all took part in the camp voluntarily and with the approval 
of their parents. 

"The programme of the camp is made up of courses and seminars on the 
culture, history and socio-economic situation of Kurdistan," it said. 

In September, police raided houses of Kurds and Kurdish organisations 
allegedly linked to the PKK, including the Kurdish-language satellite 
station Med-TV, which Belgian authorities suspect of laundering money for 
the PKK. 

Med-TV, which has its offices in Belgium, denies the allegations. 

Over 20,000 people have been killed in a 12-year conflict in southeast 
Turkey where government forces are battling Kurdistan PKK guerrillas 
fighting for autonomy or independence for the mainly Kurdish
region. 


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sat Nov 23 16:59:16 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 23 Nov 1996 16:59:16
Subject: German Guerrilla Suspect In Kurdist
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961123115..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: German Guerrilla Suspect In Kurdistan, PKK Leader Says

German Guerrilla Suspect In Kurdistan, PKK Leader Says

BONN, Nov 23 (Reuter) - A woman wanted for the spectacular 1993 bombing 
of a newly-built high security prison in Germany is living in the Middle 
East as a supporter of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the radical 
group's leader has said. 

PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine Andrea 
Wolf was one of several Germans helping the PKK in its bloody battle for 
Kurdish autonomy in southeast Turkey. 

"Andrea is living in Kurdistan at the moment," Ocalan said in an 
interview released ahead of publication on Monday. "No one could make me 
extradite our friends. When they go back one day, they'll           
represent the Kurdish cause in their homeland."

Wolf is suspected of involvement in an attack by Red Army Faction (RAF) 
urban guerrillas on a jail in Weiterstadt, south of Frankfurt. 

They blew up the state-of-the-art prison in March 1993, causing 100 
million marks' worth of damage, just days before it was due to be 
inaugurated. 

Ocalan also warned of attacks on tourist facilities in Turkey unless 
Ankara changed its policy towards the Kurds. 

"If the war against the Kurds is not brought to an end, then the whole of 
Turkey is a war zone. The tourist industry feeds the war machine and 
that's where we have to act," he said. 

Asked if attacks could take place in the Christmas holidays, he replied: 
"We will watch developments and strike in the summer if necessary. Then 
we will destroy holiday villages and hotels with acts of sabotage. 
Violence against people is not planned."


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sat Nov 23 17:00:22 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 23 Nov 1996 17:00:22
Subject: Three Die In PKK Prisoner Escape In
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961123115..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Three Die In PKK Prisoner Escape In Turkey

Three Die In PKK Prisoner Escape In Turkey 

ANKARA, Nov 22 (Reuter) - Two Kurdish rebel prisoners and a Turkish 
gendarmerie policeman were killed on Friday when the inmates tried to 
flee a hospital in central Turkey, Anatolian news agency reported. 

It said the two Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas tried to escape 
after being taken from a jail in the central province of Tokat for 
treatment in a nearby hospital. 

Security officials opened fire on the prisoners after one of them seized 
the gendarme's gun and shot him dead. 

Another PKK member was captured unhurt by guards. 

The PKK, thousands of whose members are held in Turkish prisons, has 
fought a 12-year armed struggle with the military for Kurdish self rule 
in which over 21,000 people have died. 


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Tue Nov 26 17:08:33 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 26 Nov 1996 17:08:33
Subject: Iranian Government Implicated In Mu
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961126094..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Iranian Government Implicated In Murder Of Kurdish Dissidents

Iran Angrily Denies German Charges It Was Involved In Killings Of
Dissidents

Dubai, Iran (Reuter - November 14, 1996) Iran protested to
Germany Thursday over allegations by a German federal prosecutor
that Iranian leaders ordered the killings of four dissident Kurds
in Berlin, Iranian state television reported.
     Germany's envoy to Tehran was summoned to the foreign
ministry where Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi told him:
"The German judiciary and judicial authorities, under the
influence of the Zionists, have embarked on an evil political
game against the Islamic Republic of Iran", said the television,
monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
     "Their repetition of insulting remarks and baseless
allegations against the highest authorities of the Islamic
Republic of Iran...shows that the German judiciary...has turned
the Mykonos trial into a political one and has thus marred its
credibility", Sarmadi was quoted as telling the ambassador.
     He was referring to allegations by the German Federal
Prosecutor's office on Tuesday accusing the Iranian leadership of
being responsible for the murders of four Iranian Kurdish
opposition figures in Berlin's Mykonos restaurant in 1992.
     The German prosecutor's office told the court in Berlin that
an Iranian special state committee, which allegedly included
supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, had ordered the assassinations.
     "The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does not
accept, under any circumstances, such insulting actions and
considers that responsibility for any consequences rests with the
German government", Sarmadi added.
     The ambassador was quoted as saying as saying he would
convey Iran's position to the German government.
     Iran earlier denounced the Geman prosecutor for his remarks
and suggested it might take legal action against him.
     "Germany's prosecutor has stepped outside his bounds and
through this grave error has committed an offense which makes him
liable for legal action", said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mahmoud
Mohammadi, quoted by Tehran radio. He did not elaborate.
     He reiterated Iran's denial of any involvement in the
slayings of the three Kurdish opposition leaders and their
translator for which an Iranian and four Lebanese are on trial.
     The newspaper Kayhan called on Tehran to break ties with
Bonn, its biggest trade partner, and suggested that Muslims would
take unspecified actions against Germany.
     "After this affront to the sanctities of the Muslim nation
of Iran, it is the duty of the honorable government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran to expell Germany's ambassador without
hesitation and to cut all trade, economic and political ties with
this government", the hardline daily said.
     "Of course, the Iranian Muslim nation and other Muslims know
their duty in the face of this indignity and will certainly not
let this affront to Islam and Muslims go unanswered", Kayhan
added. It did not elaborate.

Germany, Iran Trade Barbs Over Accusations Tehran Approved
Assassination Of Kurdish Dissidents

Bonn, Germany (Agence France-Presse - November 20, 1996)
Germany's foreign ministry warned Iran Wednesday against an
escalation of tensions between the two countries after Iranian
Shiite clergymen threatened German prosecutors with a
'Rushdie-style' fatwa, or death decree.
     Muslim clergymen in the Iranian city of Qom threatened to
issue the death sentence in response to accusations by German
prosecutors that Iranian leaders - including paramount leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - approved the 1992 murder of four Iranian
Kurdish opposition figures in Berlin.
     Foreign ministry spokesman Martin Erdmann said the ministry
had learned of the threats via the media and warned "all Iranian
officials against an escalation" of the dispute between the two
countries.
     Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel meanwhile said that "an active
policy of influence" was needed to improve relations between the
two countries, rather than a "critical dialogue."
     Germany and the European Union use the term "critical
dialogue" to describe their policy of continued ties with Iran, a
concept that is rejected by the United States. Washington favors
a policy of isolation.
     On Wednesday, officials from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's
Christian Democratic Union called for the policy of "critical
dialogue" to be abandoned in favor of tougher action against
Tehran.
     Kinkel said the term had taken on too much of a "symbolic
value", but said that maintaining relations with a country was
always better than excluding it.
     Germany is Tehran's largest trading partner.
     Development Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger also criticized
what he called "Iranian state terrorism", which, he said, had
become evident in the Mykonos case, referring to the Berlin
restaurant where the killing of the four Kurds took place.
     "Unveiled death threats against representatives of the
German legal system are intolerable and show the Tehran regime's
disdain of people", he said in an interview with the mass
circulation Bild.
     "Terrorism at home or overseas can never be tolerated and
must be fought with all legal means."
     The Iranian threats were made during a rally by several
thousand clergymen and religious students from seminaries in Qom.
     "We find this insult to be in the same category as The
Satanic Verses", the protesters said, referring to the
controversial British novel that earned author Salman Rushdie a
death sentence in a "fatwa", or religious decree issued in 1989
by Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
     "The mercenary prosecutors should be given the maximum
punishment for this treason and crime", they said in a final
resolution.
     An Iranian opposition group Wednesday condemned the threats
which "once again show how far this regime indulged in terrorism
to blackmail and intimidate other countries and advance its
foreign policy", the National Council of Resistance of Iran said.



From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Nov 27 16:34:54 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:34:54
Subject: Extra Judicial Killings By The Turk
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961127112..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Extra Judicial Killings By The Turkish Government

From: AKIN <akin at kurdish.org>

Security Forces Allegedly Involved in Turkish Criminal Gang

By Kelly Couturier

Wednesday, November 27, 1996
The Washington Post

YUKSEKOVA, Turkey -- This bleak, gritty town near the Iranian border sits
deep in Turkey's southeastern guerrilla war zone, a harshly beautiful
mountain region that has been battered by 12 years of armed conflict
between government forces and Kurdish separatists.

Like many other towns in Turkey's southeast, Yuksekova is full of former
villagers who have come here after losing their homes and livelihood, if
not their loved ones, to the war. More than 21,000 people have been killed
in the government's campaign against the Marxist Kurdish Workers Party
(PKK), a conflict that is costing Ankara billions of dollars and has come
to affect every area of Turkish policy, from economics to foreign
relations.

And just like throughout this region, there are people here who have
personal nightmares, stories of killings, torture, kidnappings and other
crimes against them or their families that have left them tense and
untrusting. Both sides in the war have committed human rights abuses
against the civilian population, rights groups say, although the state has
denied allegations of security force excesses.

But here in Yuksekova, authorities recently uncovered a gang that includes
several members of security force special counterinsurgency teams and
village guard contingents who have been arrested on charges of involvement
in a kidnapping-extortion case. And, in a highly unusual development, a
group of lawmakers, including a prominent former cabinet minister, is
demanding a government investigation to "reveal the true extent of the
involvement of the security forces" in the gang, which the lawmakers say
was involved in extrajudicial killings, extortion and drug trafficking.
Two reports by the lawmakers, citing eyewitness testimony, point to the
involvement of an armed forces officer in the gang.

No charges have been filed against the officer named in the report, Maj.
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, who has been transferred to a foreign assignment,
according to his former brigade commander. The lawmakers' report quotes
Yurdakul's commander as describing him as a "very successful" soldier and
denying any allegations of wrongdoing involving the major.

But Ercan Karakas, a former culture minister and one of the authors of the
report, alleges a coverup in the Yuksekova gang case to protect any
high-ranking officers who may have been involved. "Clearly the military
must be involved in some way" in the gang, Karakas said recently in his
office at the National Assembly.

Such allegations against the security forces by members of the assembly are
extremely rare, given the privilege and power of the Turkish armed forces,
considered by many to be the country's most respected institution. Others
who have made similar allegations, including rights groups and journalists,
have been accused by state officials of spreading PKK propaganda and often
have landed in jail.

The government largely has been supported by the Turkish public and the
mainstream press in its military campaign against the PKK, which began
fighting for an independent Kurdish state in 1984. The United States also
has supported Turkey against PKK acts of terrorism, though it has been
critical of human rights abuses committed by the government.
But as the war drags on, the state no longer appears as immune from
domestic criticism of its anti-PKK fight as it once was.

Karakas, a member of the opposition Republican People's Party who said he
has been approached by private citizens who want the war stopped, claims a
"war lobby" is now in place in Turkey "which is firmly opposed to ending
the conflict in the southeast, because a lot of people are making a lot of
money from it."

Many of the alleged human rights abuses by the security forces in the
southeast, including in the Yuksekova gang case, are blamed on the special
counterinsurgency teams and local Kurdish village guards enlisted by the
government to fill the particular needs of a guerrilla war. A large number
of special team members and village guards have criminal records, according
to Karakas.

In the botched kidnapping case that uncovered the Yuksekova gang, a phone
call by the kidnappers, who had passed themselves off as members of the
PKK, was traced to the headquarters of a local special team, according to
the report.

The village guard system, in particular, has been criticized heavily by
rights groups for putting villagers in a dilemma: either to join the guards
and risk being killed by the PKK, who frequently target village guards and
their families, or to refuse to join and risk reprisals by security forces.
For many villagers in the southeast, according to reports by rights groups
and others, problems begin when security forces enter their village and
give the men an ultimatum: Become village guards or we will evacuate and/or
destroy your village.

That is what happened to Abdullah Canan, a wealthy businessman from a
village near Yuksekova, according to the lawmakers' report.
Canan had filed suit against members of the security forces who had
destroyed several homes in his village after the men there refused to
become village guards, according to the report and accounts given by his
relatives.

According to the lawmakers' report, Canan was warned by Maj. Yurdakul to
drop his complaint against the security forces. When Canan failed to do so,
he disappeared. His mutilated body was found a month later.
"What bothers me most was the signs of torture on his body," Canan's son,
Vahap, said recently in Yuksekova.

"They had carved pieces off his face and ears. Bits of his fingers were
burned away by electric shocks. They had slit his throat and stuck his
identity card inside," he said. "A very professional job.

The lawmakers' report accuses the Yuksekova "gang in uniform" of Canan's
death and calls for the National Assembly to investigate similar
extrajudicial killings in the southeast, of which there have been hundreds,
according to rights groups.


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Nov 27 21:52:28 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 27 Nov 1996 21:52:28
Subject: Kurdish Women Attend Communist Conf
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961127135..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Kurdish Women Attend Communist Conference

YAJK Attends Conference Of Marxist-Leninist Parties

(Translated by Arm The Spirit from Kurdistan-Rundbrief #23/96)

The Kurdish women's organization YAJK took part in the
International Women's Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties which
was held in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, on November 2, 1996.
The opening speech was given by Man Mohan Adhikari of the
Communist Party of Nepal. She stated that people must not abandon
their hope for socialism and that the resolution of women's
problems is linked to the resolution of social contradictions
through the equal struggle of women and men on the basis of
equality and respect. Women from various countries described their
struggles against the oppression and exploitation of capitalism
and imperialism.

The YAJK introduced the women's army of the PKK and read a
communique from the recent suicide bombing actions of Kurdish
women. The YAJK stated that the thousands of years of slavery
which Kurdish women have endured would be brought to an end by the
PKK. The PKK has won women over to the side of the revolution and
was responsible for the developments and efforts towards creating
free women.

The conference was prepared by women from Nepal, Argentina, India,
and Germany. The Kurdish women of the YAJK along with women from
Norway were part of the executive committee.


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 28 05:38:33 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Nov 1996 05:38:33
Subject: The Struggle of the Kurds Photo Exh
Message-ID: <bac1c849&v01540b00aec29ebf9d89@[>

From: akin at kurdish.org (AKIN)
Subject: The Struggle of the Kurds Photo Exhibition

(a public service announcement)

When The Borders Bleed

The Struggle of the Kurds

An exhibition of photographs

by Ed Kashi

December 2 - 6, 1996

at the

Russell Senate Office Building

in

Washington, DC

USA

The Russell Rotunda is located in the Russell Office Building at First and
Constitutional Streets and is open to the public from 9 am to 6 pm.

for more information contact: Debra Baida @ 415.641.4636


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 28 06:43:52 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Nov 1996 06:43:52
Subject: Kurdish Political Prisoners In Engl
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961128013..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Kurdish Political Prisoners In England

Kurdish Prisoners In British Jails

By Nicki Jameson

     In July 1996 the court of Appeal gave its judgement in in
the case of three Kurdish prisoners: Cafer Kovaycin, Hikmet Bozat
and Servet Ozen. All three were convicted in 1994 on two charges:
one of 'conspiring to commit arson with intent to endanger life';
the other of committing arson, in specific attacks against
Turkish banks.
     Cafer and Hikmet were sentenced to 15 years each on the
conspiracy charge and 12 years for the arson attack; Servet, who
was only 18 at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to 12 and 10
years. The trial judge also recommended that they be deported to
Turkey at the end of their sentences. At the 'leave to appeal'
hearing in February 1996, the court rejected the men's
applications to appeal against their convictions but agreed they
could appeal against the length of sentence and the
recommendation that they be deported.The court ruled that it was
wrong for the conspiracy sentences to be longer than those for
the specific offences and reduced the 15 year sentences to 12
years and Servet's 12 to 10. It further conceded that Servet's
sentence was still too long and reduced it to eight years. Then
came the ruling on the deportation recommendations. The appeal
Court judges agreed with the submission that the trial judge was
wrong to make a recommendation for deportation while failing to
give any reasons. So they quashed recommendation but substituted
their own recommendation for deportation with reasons. They then
recommended that Cafer and Hikmet be deported but that Servet,
whose family has indefinite leave to remain, be permitted to
stay. Servet Ozen's family has supported him throughout and had
collected 5,500 petition signatures in support of his appeal.
Although the judges dismissed this as having 'political
undertones', there is no doubt that they were influenced by the
number of references, school reports and letters of support.
Servet is now 21 and, having spent the past two years in a Young
Offenders Institution, is about to be moved to an adult male
prison. He will be eligible for parole in 1998.
     Meanwhile Cafer Kovaycin and Hikmet Bozat face another five
years followed by deportation to Turkey. Even in prison their
safety is not guaranteed. Just one month after he was sentenced,
Cafer Kovaycin was the victim of a nearly fatal attack when
boiling oil was poured over him in Swaleside prison. The final
decision on deportation lies with the Home Secretary and
supporters will be collecting evidence to back up their
application to stay. Readers of FRFI who have information should
write to them c/o P.O. Box 10831, London N8 OBH. We hope to
prepare a dossier which will help these prisoners and others who
find themselves in the same situation.

(Source: Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! - October/November
1996)

Release Kani Yilmaz

By Trevor Rayne

     October 26th marks the second anniversary of the arrest of
Kani Yilmaz, European Representative of the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK). Kani Yilmaz was seized by the Metropolitan police
outside the Palace of Westminster on his way to address British
MPs, at their request, on prospects for a political solution to
the Kurdish question. He was then jailed as 'a threat to national
security'. He remains in Belmarsh Prison facing extradition to
Germany. As Kani Yilmaz puts it, "I was invited to bring a
message of peace and it is as if I have been put in prison for
mentioning peace! I see what has happened as an attempt to defeat
the democratic process."
     The Divisional Court ruled against Kani Yilmaz's appeal
against extradition in July, but did acknowledge that the
supposed crimes committed in Germany for which the order was
issued are of a political nature. Kani's case has now been
appealed to the house of lords on the legal point of whether the
1989 Extradition Act permits a dual purpose in its definition of
political offence; in this case that an offence can be of a
political nature if it is directed at the German and the Turkish
states simultaneously. The court ruled that it could only be a
political offence if directed solely against the requesting
state. The British judiciary will not judge in favour of Kani
Yilmaz when across the European Union a systematic process of
criminalising immigrants and refugees is underway in the name of
European security. It is a disgrace that Kani Yilmaz was held
even for a day. It is a indictment of the parliament that invited
him and yet permits this criminalisation of an international
public figure and legitimate representative of the Kurds, of the
supine Labour Party leadership which accepts the Home secretary's
word as writ, and the miserable British left that, with a few
exceptions, has done nothing to fight for the Kurds and Kani
Yilmaz.

(Source: Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! - October/November
1996)

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 28 06:44:00 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Nov 1996 06:44:00
Subject: Kurdish Political Prisoners In Engl
References: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961128013..@burn.ucsd.edu>
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961128013..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Kurdish Political Prisoners In England

Kurdish Prisoners In British Jails

By Nicki Jameson

     In July 1996 the court of Appeal gave its judgement in in
the case of three Kurdish prisoners: Cafer Kovaycin, Hikmet Bozat
and Servet Ozen. All three were convicted in 1994 on two charges:
one of 'conspiring to commit arson with intent to endanger life';
the other of committing arson, in specific attacks against
Turkish banks.
     Cafer and Hikmet were sentenced to 15 years each on the
conspiracy charge and 12 years for the arson attack; Servet, who
was only 18 at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to 12 and 10
years. The trial judge also recommended that they be deported to
Turkey at the end of their sentences. At the 'leave to appeal'
hearing in February 1996, the court rejected the men's
applications to appeal against their convictions but agreed they
could appeal against the length of sentence and the
recommendation that they be deported.The court ruled that it was
wrong for the conspiracy sentences to be longer than those for
the specific offences and reduced the 15 year sentences to 12
years and Servet's 12 to 10. It further conceded that Servet's
sentence was still too long and reduced it to eight years. Then
came the ruling on the deportation recommendations. The appeal
Court judges agreed with the submission that the trial judge was
wrong to make a recommendation for deportation while failing to
give any reasons. So they quashed recommendation but substituted
their own recommendation for deportation with reasons. They then
recommended that Cafer and Hikmet be deported but that Servet,
whose family has indefinite leave to remain, be permitted to
stay. Servet Ozen's family has supported him throughout and had
collected 5,500 petition signatures in support of his appeal.
Although the judges dismissed this as having 'political
undertones', there is no doubt that they were influenced by the
number of references, school reports and letters of support.
Servet is now 21 and, having spent the past two years in a Young
Offenders Institution, is about to be moved to an adult male
prison. He will be eligible for parole in 1998.
     Meanwhile Cafer Kovaycin and Hikmet Bozat face another five
years followed by deportation to Turkey. Even in prison their
safety is not guaranteed. Just one month after he was sentenced,
Cafer Kovaycin was the victim of a nearly fatal attack when
boiling oil was poured over him in Swaleside prison. The final
decision on deportation lies with the Home Secretary and
supporters will be collecting evidence to back up their
application to stay. Readers of FRFI who have information should
write to them c/o P.O. Box 10831, London N8 OBH. We hope to
prepare a dossier which will help these prisoners and others who
find themselves in the same situation.

(Source: Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! - October/November
1996)

Release Kani Yilmaz

By Trevor Rayne

     October 26th marks the second anniversary of the arrest of
Kani Yilmaz, European Representative of the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK). Kani Yilmaz was seized by the Metropolitan police
outside the Palace of Westminster on his way to address British
MPs, at their request, on prospects for a political solution to
the Kurdish question. He was then jailed as 'a threat to national
security'. He remains in Belmarsh Prison facing extradition to
Germany. As Kani Yilmaz puts it, "I was invited to bring a
message of peace and it is as if I have been put in prison for
mentioning peace! I see what has happened as an attempt to defeat
the democratic process."
     The Divisional Court ruled against Kani Yilmaz's appeal
against extradition in July, but did acknowledge that the
supposed crimes committed in Germany for which the order was
issued are of a political nature. Kani's case has now been
appealed to the house of lords on the legal point of whether the
1989 Extradition Act permits a dual purpose in its definition of
political offence; in this case that an offence can be of a
political nature if it is directed at the German and the Turkish
states simultaneously. The court ruled that it could only be a
political offence if directed solely against the requesting
state. The British judiciary will not judge in favour of Kani
Yilmaz when across the European Union a systematic process of
criminalising immigrants and refugees is underway in the name of
European security. It is a disgrace that Kani Yilmaz was held
even for a day. It is a indictment of the parliament that invited
him and yet permits this criminalisation of an international
public figure and legitimate representative of the Kurds, of the
supine Labour Party leadership which accepts the Home secretary's
word as writ, and the miserable British left that, with a few
exceptions, has done nothing to fight for the Kurds and Kani
Yilmaz.

(Source: Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! - October/November
1996)

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variety of material, including political prisoners, national 
liberation struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism, 
the fight against patriarchy, and more. We regularly publish our 
writings, research, and translation materials in our magazine and
bulletins called Arm The Spirit. For more information, contact:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Nov 28 19:43:48 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Nov 1996 19:43:48
Subject: Turkey's Interference With Torture
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.961128143..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Turkey's Interference With Torture Treatment Centers

From: stk at schism.antenna.nl (stk at schism.antenna.nl)

Subject: TURKEY--INTERFERENCE WITH TORTURE TREATMENT CENTERS
Date:    Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:25:48 -0500
From:    EMUNOZ <emunoz at AAAS.ORG>
Reply-To:AAAS Human Rights Action Network <AAASHRAN at GWUVM.GWU.EDU>
To:      Multiple recipients of list AAASHRAN <AAASHRAN at GWUVM.GWU.EDU>


20 November 1996

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE HUMAN RIGHTS
ACTION NETWORK (AAASHRAN)

UPDATE
Turkey -- Turkish Government Continues Efforts to Interfere with
Work of Torture Treatment Centers

CASE NUMBER:  TU9432.ONEN
(Previous alerts issued on 9 January  1995, 16 February 1996, 26
April 1996, 14 May 1996, and 30 September 1996.)

ISSUES:  Right to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality; right
to freedom of expression

FACTS OF THE CASE:  AAAS Science and Human Rights Program has
been monitoring the trials against the Human Rights Foundation of
Turkey since they began on 10 May 1996.  The trials are the
result of a campaign launched by Turkish government officials to
stop the Foundation's documentation of human rights violations
and their provision of medical treatment to victims of police
torture and abuse.  The latest trials against Foundation
representatives took place on 1 and 8 November in Istanbul and
Adana respectively.  On 1 November, the Istanbul Beyoglu Penal
Court of Peace No. 3 acquitted Dr. Sukran Akin, a medical doctor
and director of the HRFT's Istanbul treatment center, of  the
charge of operating a private hospital.  The fourth hearing
against the Foundation's Adana representatives Tufan Kose, a
medical doctor, and Mustafa Cinkilic, a lawyer, who are being
prosecuted on charges of "operating an unlicensed health center,"
and "negligence in denouncing a crime" continues.  The next
trial will take place on 17 January 1997.

The trial against Dr. Akin represents the latest in a series of
legal attacks targeting the HRFT's efforts  to document human
rights violations and provide medical treatment  for victims of
police torture and abuse.  During her trial, Dr. Akin's lawyers
pointed out that the trials against the Human Rights Foundation
of Turkey's executives and staff were in contravention of
international conventions to which Turkey is a state party.  They
also stressed the political nature of the trials and the
interference with the judiciary process that is evident from a
letter written by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 29 January
1996, which initiated the investigations against the Foundation.

The Court's acquittal was based on the grounds that "the legal
elements of the prosecution were non-existent."  The prosecution
had demanded 3 to 15 days in prison and a fine of approximately
US$2,000.

The fourth trial against the Foundation's Adana Center
representatives took place on 8 November.  As in previous trials,
which took place on 10 May, 6 July, and 13 September, no decision
was handed down.

A new judge, the third to preside over this case, stated that he
did not feel prepared to make a final decision on the case.
Lawyer's representing the Foundation complained of the difficulty
in presenting the case to three different judges.  In two
previous trials, the Court demanded medical records from the
Foundation s Adana treatment center for torture survivors,
including confidential records from victims of torture and the
names of individuals who have collaborated with the center.  The
Foundation has refused the Court s order citing doctor-patient
confidentiality as one of its arguments.  In their defense,
Lawyer's presented a 13 June 1996 ruling handed down by the
United States Supreme Court protecting the records of
psychological therapists from prosecutors and plaintiffs'
lawyers.  This protection was extended to psychologist,
psychiatrist, and social worker records. They also presented
statements from international medical professionals about the
operating procedures of other torture treatment centers around
the world, and the importance of establishing a relationship of
trust between care providers and patients.  In the 13 September
trial, the Foundation submitted a summary of its patient files to
comply with the Court s request without violating doctor-patient
confidentiality.  Yet the Court maintained its position that the
Foundation has not complied with its demands.

The Adana court's demands that the Human Rights Foundation of
Turkey turn over its medical files represent a serious breach of
internationally accepted standards of medical ethics, which
protect the patient-care giver relationship.  The confidentiality
of this relationship is codified in the World Medical
Association's 1948 Geneva Declaration, which states:

    I [The Physician] shall respect the secrets which are
confided in me.

The Turkish Medical Association is a member of the World Medical
Association.

In addition, the continuing prosecution of HRFT representatives
for their documentation of incidents of torture violates
international human rights standards, including the right to free
speech.  Under the European Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (which Turkey ratified in
1948):

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression (Article 10).

(Sources of information for this case include AAAS staff
attending Foundation trials, the Lawyers Committee for Human
Rights, and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:  Please send telexes, telegrams, faxes, or
airmail letters requesting that the Turkish government:

o    Drop all requests for the Foundation's medical files on the
     grounds that they fall under the protection of
     doctor-patient  confidentiality; and
o    Drop all charges against the Foundation and its
     representatives.

APPEAL AND INQUIRY MESSAGES SHOULD BE SENT TO:

Head of State
President Necmettin Erbacan
Office of the President
Cumhur Baskanligi
06100 Ankara, Turkey
Fax:  011 90 312 468 5026

Minister of Justice
Adalet Bakanligi
06559 Ankara, Turkey
Fax:  011 90 312 417 3954

Copies to:
Ambassador Nuzhet Kandemir
Embassy of the Republic of Turkey
1714 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Ambassador Marc Grossman
Embassy of the United States of America
Ataturk Blvd.
PSC 93, Box 5000
Ankara, Turkey
APO AE 09823
Fax:  011 90 312 467 0019

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Fri Nov 29 00:04:04 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 29 Nov 1996 00:04:04
Subject: Turkey Extends Emergency Rule In Ni
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Subject: Turkey Extends Emergency Rule In Nine Provinces

Turkey Extends Emergency Rule In Nine Provinces 

ANKARA, Nov 28 (Reuter) - Turkey's parliament on Thursday voted to extend 
emergency rule for four months in the southeast, where troops have been 
fighting a Kurdish insurgency for more than 12 years. 

"Emergency rule has been extended for four months in nine provinces. Let 
us hope this is for the last time," deputy parliament speaker Kamer Genc 
told MPs after the vote, which was decided on a show of hands. 

Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan vowed earlier this month to lift 
emergency rule completely. 

The new extension abolished emergency rule in Mardin, bordering Syria, 
but the military will have extensive powers there as it adjoins the 
emergency rule region. 

The four-month extension goes into effect from November 30. 

Emergency rule has been in force in 10 provinces since 1987 as part of 
Ankara's strategy to combat Kurdish rebels fighting for self-rule in 
southeastern Turkey. 

More than 21,000 people have died in the conflict between Kurdistan 
Workers Party (PKK) rebels and Turkish armed forces. 


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From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 30 Nov 1996 06:58:18
Subject: In Memory Of Mehmet Sincar
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Your Eyes Smile To Our Liberation

By Hatip Dicle


Wednesday, September 4, 1996
Ozgur Politika


Dear Mehmet,

        I am writing this letter to you from Closed Prison in Ankara.  It
is the third anniversary of your rise to martyrdom.  Frankly, I am a bit
stressed; my heart is sprained and filled with rage.
        We have lived through some important developments ever since your
untimely murder three years ago.  The Turkish State still insists on it's
old policies.  The crimes against humanity perpetrated on people have
multiplied from that day onward.  They have kept up with the destruction of
our villages.  They have been bombing our hills and mountains. They have
burned our forests, our vineyards and our orchards. These oppressors have
expelled millions of our people from their lands.  They have murdered
hundreds of our unarmed and defenseless people on the streets, in torture
chambers and in the rural settings.  They have martyred hundreds of our
youth each representing the brightest hopes of the Kurdish society for
standing up against the unbridled oppression.  They have continued putting
to chains the writers with conscience.  They have attacked our party and
party buildings, but despite all that, having failed to silence it, they
decided to close it down and put an end to its legal existence.  Trampling
on the universal law and democratic traditions, they have lifted our
parliamentary immunity sending some of us to forced exile and others to the
prisons.  Today, they have been suppressing and encircling the HADEP
(People's Democracy Party) the successor to the DEP (Democracy Party).  And
who knows what else will follow...
        But don't let this news distress you... All of these savage
aggressions have failed to deter our people.  Their love of freedom remains
strong and no one has succeeded to declare a victory over it.  Because our
people must resist and win despite the dire conditions that surround them.
Because they have paid a heavy price and are still paying it.  Most
important of all, because our people are right.
        The state with its unlawful policies is with every passing day a
bit more exposed and isolated in the international arena.  Even her old
loyal friends shy away from the "ally" whose crime dossiers are adding new
chapters to the annals of barbarous history.  On the other hand, the
Kurdish movement is winning new positions and friends in the international
diplomatic arena.
        You might remember, we met for the first time at the Human Rights
Association (HRA/IHD) in Diyarbakir where you had come to seek help in
order to fetch the body of your brother who had fallen in the line of duty
with the Turkish soldiers.  I was then the head of the Diyarbakir Human
Rights Association.  How could I have known then, that later on, I would
work with you as a duly elected parliamentarian and also be present at the
time of your martyrdom!  Who could forget the direct, brief and clear
manner in which you would express your thoughts at party meetings when you
took your turns to talk on the decisions that effected all of us?  Who
could forget your willingness and enthusiasm with which you shouldered the
tasks that were assigned to you, that meticulous striving while on duty?
Who could forget your sincere loyalty to the people and the struggle based
on decisiveness, your trust in organized struggle and your courage against
the oppressors, and that warm smile and humor-filled style amongst your
friends? Don't worry, I am not writing these lines to praise you; I know
that you do not need praise.
        You will remember we did many things together.  We were also
together during what turned out to be your last assignment in Batman.  On
September 2, 1993,  Batman was once again smeared in blood, one of the DEP
officials, Habip Kilic was martyred in an attack by the so called "unknown
assailants."  As a result of this event, the Executive Council of the DEP
met and decided to send a fact finding mission to Batman.  The committee's
task was to pay a visit to the victim's loved ones and also undertake
contacts with the local people and to tell them that their party DEP stood
by them in these difficult times. Kemal Bilget, Nesimi Kilic, Leyla Zana,
Remzi Kartal, Ali Yigit, Nizamettin Toguc and myself towards the end of the
day flew to Diyarbakir.  As soon as we landed at the airport, the police
surrounded us and detained Mr. Kilic.  When they put him into the police
car, you were there and told us that you recognized the person with sun
glasses and dark complexion, the infamous informer Aladdin Kanat who was in
the police car.  When we went to Police headquarters to see to it that our
friend Mr. Kilic was released, we were told that Mr. Kilic was detained by
orders from the Police Chief in Batman the city of our destination.  We
insisted that he be released and he was and we later surmised that his
detention was ploy to delay our mission to the city.  We stayed in
Diyarbakir that night and left for Batman early in the morning.
        The first thing we did when we arrived in Batman was to send Mr.
Kartal and Mr. Toguc to meet with the Police Chief in Batman.  After they
returned, we paid a visit to the family of the Mr. Habip Kilic and held a
meeting with the party rank and file.  In the afternoon, we began our
visits to local businesses, and addressed the assembled crowds.  Throughout
the visit, we noticed that we were being followed or some might say
"protected" by the police.  However, on September 4, our usual unofficial
company of police officers were no where to be found.  We assessed the
situation with local party officials and concluded that we needed to be
more careful.  We visited the people of Batman; the Kurdish people came out
in large numbers to greet us.  We established a very warm dialog especially
with local businessmen who were considered to be the base of the Hizbullah
Party.  There was a lot of anxiety about the bloodshed in the city.  All
wanted the killing "by unknown assailants" come to a halt and all were
right.
        When the group that had Mr. Kartal, Mr. Yigit and I concluded our
work and came back to the party building around 6 p.m., we received a
telephone call about the attack on you from behind by an armed person who
the eyewitnesses later told us was short, stocky and dark complexioned.  We
ran immediately to the scene.  Even though less than five minutes had
passed over the event, the police milled everywhere and were busy with
checking the identity cards of our party members who were part of the group
that was attacked.  Our friend Kemal Bilget who survived the attack unhurt
told us that you, Mr. Toguc and the chief provincial official of our party
Metin Ozdemir were wounded.  He also said he thought you and Mr. Toguc were
critical condition and that all of you were taken to the hospital right
away.
        Dear Mehmet, we both witnessed the events that I have just narrated
so far, but what about what followed thereafter?  With your permission, I
would also like to tell you about them.  When we arrived at the hospital,
we learned that you had already reached martyrdom and so had Mr. Ozdemir,
but that Mr. Toguc's wound was light.  In less than fifteen minutes
following the event, with a faint smile and open eyes, you were listening
to the police announcements over the laud speakers that declared the
beginning of a martial law starting at 6:30 p.m..  You were aware of the
entire plan, weren't you?  How ready and present was the State?  Within ten
minutes, how quickly they had brought the entire city under their control.
Neither in Batman nor in Ankara, did any state official felt the need to
call us and ask us anything related to the event. Ahmet Cem Ersever, the
Turkish colonel who founded and worked for JITEM, an army intelligence
group with shadowy links, later confessed to your murder and perhaps in so
doing he himself became a victim of murder "by unknown assailants."  Let me
quote you what he said about you, "Alaattin Kanat and Adem Yakin of Batman
were involved in the event (assassination) of Mehmet Sincar.  Let me say
this also, Aladdin Kanat will never pull the trigger.  He is the brain of
the team.  Adem Yakin was in on this with Mr. Kanat.  Mr. Yakin rose to the
level of a commander within the PKK.  He then became a turncoat.  He and
others are residing, since 1986, in the housing complex of the OHAL (OHAL
is a Turkish acronym of "Olaganustu Hal" which literally means
Administration for Extra-Ordinary Times in Turkish Kurdistan).  The State
is nurturing these turncoats.  Go and ask Unal Erkan (the Governor of OHAL)
do these turncoats have any official titles?  Then, why are they residing
in (OHAL's) housing complex?  Adem Yakin has been living in the complex
since 1986.  The assassin of this team is Adem Yakin.  He is short, dark in
complexion and stocky."
        This is how it is my dear friend...  The script of the events that
rolled after we arrived at Diyarbakir is thus crystal clear and the
aggressors of this attack are well known.  I would dare say that this
script might have been written even at the moment you did not rise to your
feet for the President (of Turkey) at the opening ceremony of the national
Assembly... As you will remember very well that President Suleyman Demirel
clearly made all of us a target in his opening speech that day, and almost
all of the representatives at the Assembly applauded his words approvingly.
        Under these circumstances, how could we take your body to the
Turkish Grand National Assembly when there was such a clear encouragement
and approval by the Assembly to target us for their hatred?  How could we
ignore the fact that the bullets that were emptied on you came from the
same source that empties bullets daily on our (Kurdish) people?  I am
absolutely sure that should you have been alive you would have understood
us and concurred with us in refusing to give in to the demands that we
should hold a ceremony for you in the Turkish parliament.
        At the DEP offices, we decided to pick your body up from the
hospital morgue for a civil ceremony at our headquarters.  Then we were
going to take you to the Maltepe Mosque for a religious ceremony.  Then we
were going to fly you to Kiziltepe, your birthplace in Kurdish province of
Mardin.  However, the powers that be afraid of the demonstrations of the
tens of thousands of people decided to stop our program.  They did not even
allow us to pick you from the hospital.  They prevented hundreds of busses
carrying thousands of people to even enter the city of Ankara.  They closed
Necatibey street where the headquarters of our party office is located to
all traffic.  They surrounded the party building with a wall of police.
They prevented even the senior officials of the party from reaching the
building.  These partners of the crime against you would not let us perform
a burial ceremony, to achieve this end they unleashed with no sense of
concern, a great terror.
        They openly told us: "We won't return (the body of) your
representative.  We will take him from the hospital to the party building
in a vehicle.  We will allow only the party officials and representatives
to participate in the civil ceremony.  Also, we will take him from the
party building to the mosque with a vehicle without the participation of
the masses."  Tell me please, could we accept a condition that forced on us
such a humiliating imposition?  Was not unleashing of such a terror at the
last journey of a Kurdish representative an admission of guilt, while
encouraging tens and thousands people to participate at the ceremony of
Ugur Mumcu?
        That is how things were, dear Mehmet....Do you understand now why
we were not with you when the State took you to Kiziltepe for burial?  Did
I make myself clear?  They murdered you and they buried you, allowing only
eight people to be present.  Both at the time of the killing and at the
time of burial, they were guilt-ridden, scared and cursed.  Whereas your
chin was up and you had nothing to be ashamed of.  You have became immortal
and established your throne in the hearts of millions of people.  How
fortunate you are!...  You should be proud of your entire family,
especially of your dear father Tevfik, our beloved Uncle, now the father of
three martyred sons and of your wife Mrs. Cihan Sincar.  They have
displayed tenacity, loyalty and decisiveness worthy of the greatest pens.
I have learned once again that the Kurdish people has earned the right to
be proud of its martyrs and of the honorable families of their martyrs.
Let me repeat it also that do not worry about your children....  They are
in the care of the Kurdish people and the Kurdish movement.  They are the
owners of a glistening treasury that they inherited from their father and
from their two uncles.
        Dear Mehmet, as I part company from you, please convey my respects
and admiration to the memories of our other martyrs, Ape Musa, Vedat Aydin,
Muhsin Melik and to all of the known and unknown fighters of the Kurdish
liberation.  I am kissing your eyes that smile to our freedom.

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sat Nov 30 07:03:35 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 30 Nov 1996 07:03:35
Subject: "Grey Wolves" Are Behind Arson Fire
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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: "Grey Wolves" Are Behind Arson Fires In Greece

TURKISH DEPUTY REVEALS: 
"GREY WOLVES" ARE BEHIND ARSON FIRES IN GREECE

A Turkish deputy from Tansu Ciller's True Path Party (DYP) yesterday
revealed that Turkish paramilitary organizations are responsible for
arson fires in Greece's islands while, at the same time, an article
published in the pro-government Turkish daily "Yeni Safak" provocatively
boasted in its title: "We Burned Rhodes". 

According to the DYP deputy Sedat Bucak, the perpetrator of these
fires was Abdullah Chatli, the leader of the extremist group "Grey
Wolves". Chatli was recently killed in a notorious car accident in Turkey
which brought to light the relations between Turkish mafia and the
government. 

These revelations came to confirm reports the Greek authorities
already had in their hands, according to which, the fires that have
devastated the Greek islands every summer were an act of arson performed
by specially-trained forces of Turkish agents. 

Greece's alternate Foreign Minister George Papandreou stated that the
Turkish deputy's statements are "especially worrisome and show that
various sabotage raids have been committed in our country with Turkish
instigation." 

Moreover, Mr. Papandreou pointed out that these disclosures by
themselves constitute a criminal act which, in conjuction with Ms.
Ciller's statements ("it is an honor for those who shoot for Turkey"),
should trouble the international community. 

Before proceeding to the necessary actions, the Greek Government
awaits the immediate probe and reaction on behalf of the Turkish
government, which, according to Mr. Papandreou, bears the essential
responsibility. 

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