Turkey Contra-Guerrila State (the planning of a war against the peop

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Subject: Turkey Contra-Guerrila State (the planning of a war against the people) PART II
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b. Proposals for Solutions:

(1) In relation to the Requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces
    Domestic Security Operation:

(a) The activities for the arrangement of the borders with Iraq,
started between 1983-1989, and interrupted due to the Gulf crisis,
should be restarted, and the necessary "Border Arrangements" be made
for the controls of the common border, which passes through severely
rough and restrictive land, to be placed in the more easily
controllable sections of land, in a manner beneficial to both sides.
Subsequent to this, it is imperative that the "Physical Border
Security System" be set up, and an asphalt road should be completed.

(b) The means of identification and determination of targets in the
    physical border security system on the Iranian and Armenia borders
    should be reinforced with rubber-tyred armoured vehicles,
    observation apparatus and lighting equipment.

(c) 44 helicopter pads for which there is a need in the region should
    be constructed.

(d) The need of military station and military base areas whose
    military units do not have any means of communication for
    telephones, mobile telephones and car phones, should be met.

(e) The modernisation projects of the Turkish Armed Forces should be
    continued.

(f) The vehicles and equipment presented in APPENDIX A. ADDENDUM 1, in
    particular those for target identification and determination,
    should be procured.

(g) The necessary payment should be designated for reconstruction of
    around 600 km of used by the security forces in a total of around
    3.200 km of route as explained in APPENDIX A, ADDENDUM 2.

(h) The maintenance and repair of about 1500 km of road should be
    conducted, APPENDIX A, ADDENDUM 2.

(i) 1200 km of road be asphalted according to a plan with the aim of
    preventing the terrorists from easily laying mines, APPENDIX A,
    ADDENDUM 2.

(j) The necessary payment should be designated for construction of a
    road bridge and 15 km of approach road with the aim of opening a
    second customs point in the Silopi region.

(k) The appropriate sum should be set aside for the construction of a
    3 km runway to respond to the existing needs of military planes on
    the 15 km road in question, and 15 billion TL resources should be
    designated for the General Roads Directorate for this purpose.

(2) In Relation to Activities to Dry Up the Financial Resources of the
    Terrorist Organisations(s):

(a) In order for the Pursuance and Direction Committee to be able to
    work effectively, follow developments and if necessary, direct, it
    should meet every month.

(b) Among the activities of the Pursuance and Direction Committee,
    decisiveness should be achieved in particular in dealing with the
    Mafia who secure great finances for the terrorist organisations
    with their illegal activities at home and abroad and are in the
    positions of being a focus point of black money.

(3) In Relation to Co-ordination and Direction of Intelligence between
    the Ministries, Institutions and Establishments:

(a) It is imperative that the intelligence sector, which has reached
    the state of being a means of making money in the region by reason
    of the independent and uncoordinated manner of working of the
    intelligence organisations, be unified at one centre. For the
    success of the "domestic security operation", which must be
    constructed upon correct, constant, timely and effective
    intelligence starting from this point, intelligence elements of
    MIT and Security Organisations should be instructed by circular to
    participation in meetings and activities at intelligence
    co-ordination centres formed on the level of provincial bases and
    security commands.

(b) The payment designated to these intelligence organisations for the
    struggle with terrorism should be spent on the co-ordination of
    this centre.

(c) Following this construction, the strategic intelligence of the state
should, as in other countries, concentrate on the removal of high
level director cadres of the terrorist organisation/

(d) It is deemed imperative that a "protection office" be created
    within the framework of MIT with the aim of safeguarding and
    protection of local agents (including confessors) to secure the
    continual flow of intelligence, that all precautions necessary be
    taken within a protection programme and that the state make its
    strength felt.

(4) In Relation to the Temporary Village Guard System:

(a) This establishment, which has produced successful results in the
    struggle with terrorism should be continued even if the State of
    Emergency is lifted.

(b) Additional GKK (Temporary Village Guard) members should be created
    in areas there is a need, and adjustments made between regions
    (APPENDIX B).

(c) "Voluntary Village Guards", who struggle in the same manner as
    GKKs
should benefit from compensation in cases when they fall as martyr or
are injured.

(d) Temporary village guards and their families should benefit from
    health and retirement rights.

(e) The legal arrangements covering the above points in Law Number
    442, the Village Law, should be secured.

(5) In Relation to the Special Police Action Teams:

(a) As a general principle, their action orders should be given by
    security commanderships in order that all special police action
    teams may be effectively used in operations.

(b) They should be subject to refresher courses by military units
    according to a plan, and they should be raised to the position
    demanded by their physical conditions.

(c) The special police actions teams should be employed according to the
requirements of Law Number 3152 and used in road security placements.

(d) In the matter of public relations, activities should be initiated
    to ascertain that they are subject to training and that they
    participate in psychological operations conducted to win over the
    people.

(6) In Relation to the Creation by Public Institutions and Foundations
    of Special Security Establishments:

(a) Special Security Units should be set up by the relevant
    institutions and the weaknesses in the matter of the continuing
    shortage of firearms in certain security units already formed
    should be removed.

(b) Military units engaged in the security of buildings and roads
    should be removed from this job and it should be ensured that
    institutions and establishments set up "Special Security
    Organisations" according to the requirements of law number 2495,
    with the aim of increasing operational force.

(7) In Relation to Prisons and their Problems:

(a) The hitches in the prisons should be removed and the joint
    leadership in the administration created by the Ministry of
    Justice and the Ministry of the Interior should be abolished.

(b) There should be progress towards a cell system.

(c) Political remand prisoners and criminal remand prisoners should
    not be held under one roof, even those taking advantage of the
    remorse law.

(d) Those guilty of terrorist offences in closed prisons should not be
    allowed open visits.

(e) Those taking advantage of the remorse law should be brought onto
    the confessors protection programme.

(f) Directors expert in the matter of terrorism should work in prisons
    where those guilty of terrorism are held and psychological
    operations should be conducted against remand prisoners and
    convicts.

(g) The prisons being built for terrorist offenders should be finished
    as soon as possible and the necessary supplementary payment should
    be designated to this end.

(h) The construction of Special Prisons to European standards for
    terrorist offenders should be started without delay.

(i) Prisons in city centres should be pulled outside the cities,
    existing prisons should be reformed and the X-RAY system should be
    set up in all prisons.

(j) All employees in the prisons form representative prosecutors to
    wardens should be checked and any lack in training redressed.

(k) Health workers in the prisons should be strengthened, the number
    of teachers should be increased cultural programmes directed at
    reform should be organised and treatment should be increased.

(l) The sentence execution system should be rearranged in a manner
    genuinely aiming at the reform of the convicts.

(m) A judicial police establishment should be set up both in order
    that inquiries be conducted with speed and efficiency and that the
    external protection of the prisons and transfer of prisoners may
    be carried out with complete guarantees.

(n) The geographical and communication situations and the quantities
    and qualities of offences committed in these places should be
    noted and re-specified in a manner to secure opportunities so that
    the situations of provinces failing into the jurisdiction of the
    State Security Courts, where terrorist offenders are tried, become
    more secure, and trial becomes more secure and regular.

(o) From the point of view of public order, security and the speed of
    trial, it should be ensured that the promises of State Security
    Courts be built in places near to the prisons.

(8) In relation to the Economic and Social Problems of the Region:

(a) In the Political Field:

(I) HADEP should be kept under surveillance and control with the aim
    of passifying its activities.

(II) The necessary measures should be taken to cut off HADEP's foreign
relations.

(III) Overt and covert and persistent pressure should be placed on
HADEP by means of the state , civilian community organisations and
universities, and it should be dropped from the agenda.

(IV) Atrush camp, a source of militants for the organisation abroad,
should be evacuated.

(V) The resources in foreign countries giving support to terrorism, in
    particular Greece, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, the Russian Federation,
    Iran and European countries, should be dried up.

(VI) At home, the gathering and organisation of groups supporting the
organisation in the ghettos of large centres of population like
Istanbul, Izmir, Manisa, Adana and Mersin should be prevented.

(VII) The fact that the associations which support HADEP have taken
sides is their greatest weakness. This weakness should be used and
they should be dropped form the agenda by the use of public opinion.

(VIII) The drugs and weapons smuggling activities of the PKK terrorist
organisation and HADEP, which has the appearance of being its legal
extension, should frequently be processed from the point of view of
the damage it does to European countries and domestic and foreign
public opinion should be created in this matter.

(b) In the Field of Administration:

(I) People to be appointed to the region should be patriots, attached
    to the state, informed and experienced.

(II) The employment of people from the region should be kept at an
acceptable level.

(III) Personnel appointed to the region should work there for
substantial periods, mix with the local people and win their hearts
through service.

(IV) The retirement of people, in particular administration personnel,
appointed to the region, should be suspended for a minimum of two
years.

(V) It is imperative that people with a chance of success or promotion
    be given the opportunity to serve in the region , and their
    success should be tested in the region.

(VI) People to be employed in the region should be cleansed of
political influence and pressure.

(VII) Personnel working for public institutions and establishments in
the region but who harm to the struggle with terrorism should be
ejected from the region.

(VIII) Administrators and public servants to be employed in the region
should be selected from among authoritative and experienced people,
the image that the East and the Southeast are places of internal exile
should be erased and it should be ensured that meticulous measures are
taken with this aim.

(c) In the Field of Economics:

(I) Attractive centres with a high potential for development should be
    specified, these centres should be speedily developed with intense
    state assistance and thus acceptance of responsibility for the
    motor of the economic development of these centres and the region
    around should be ensured.

(II) All investments including private sector investments should be
directed to this region, the state should take on the investment into
the infrastructure, and private sector investment should be built upon
this.

(III) The development of the region should be planned, the plan should
concentrate on certain places and activities be defined by it.

(IV) Apart from state supported assistance, the private sector should
be encouraged to invest in the region with tax exemptions and other
incentives.

(V) The education, health, housing and transport problems of the
    region should be solved concurrently with the struggle with
    terrorism.

(VI) Unemployment should be restrained and employment opportunities
increased.

(VII) The soup kitchens being run in some provincial capitals in the
region should be extended to the district capitals and other towns.

(VIII) Priority should be given to providing state-supporting
villagers with electricity, roads, water, telephones and other
services.

(IX) The application of unemployment welfare should be started in the
region.

(X) Citizens suffering damages as a result of terrorism should be
    compensated.

(XI) Industrial foundations based on agriculture should be set up,
animal husbandry should be encouraged and reorganised, organised
industrial regions should be formed and emphasis must be placed on the
construction of housing, schools and hospitals.

(XII) Animal husbandry should be re-established in places where
terrorism has no influence and a labour-intensive livestock system
should be developed appropriate to the conditions of the region.

(XIII) Along with the South East Anatolian Project (GAP), a Regional
and Subregional Development Plan co-ordinated and integrated with the
whole region and all sectors should be drawn up and put into practice.

(XIV) By reason of the serious depletion in the stocks of the Turkish
Armed Forces in the struggle, which has so far been waged by
stretching the resources and stocks of the Turkish Armed Forces alone,
and the negative experiences from the running of other projects, the
payment designated to the struggle with terrorism from the national
budget should be spent with the co-ordination of the offices of the
Chief of General Staff.

(XV) The payment designated to the Turkish Armed Forces from the
general budget should be increased and an additional payment
designated.

(XVI) It should be ensured that the payment designated to the General
Gendarme Command, which carries out the duties of the police in many
districts where the security establishment has not been set up, be
increased.

(1) In Relation to Activities in Population Planning:

(a) A census should be conducted now as the basis for investments for
    problems likely to arise.

(b) A population planning campaign should be started under the
    co-ordination of the Ministry of Health.

(c) The local people should be informed through education.

(d) It should be ensured that radical measures be taken such as
    bonuses for few children and taxes for many children.

(2) In Relation to Investment in Education:

(a) An education campaign should be announced, and special measures
    taken for the education and teaching of in particular women and
    children who do not know Turkish.

(b) The construction of boarding schools in district capitals, other
    towns and subdistricts should be accelerated, education conducted
    centrally and thus the safety of teachers secured.

(c) The people should be made to adopt the struggle by methods such as
    the inclusion of the "Struggle with Terrorism" subject within the
    scope of national security lessons and compulsory study at
    universities across the whole country.

(d) Special measures should be put into practice and measures be taken
    in the matter of private education in order to deal with the lack
    of teachers.

(e) Teachers to be appointed to the region should be selected from
    among those who wish to serve in the region and subjected to
    detailed orientation training in the matter of the struggle with
    terrorism.

(f) Higher wages should be paid to teachers appointed to the region.

(g) Activities should be started aimed at incentives like holidays and
    seminars for teachers working in the region.

(h) Since 90% of the imams working in the region are local people, it
    should be ensured by the Ministry for Religious Affairs that men
    of religion with the same qualifications be appointed from outside
    the region.

(3) In Relation to Investment in Health:

A mass health check-up should be conducted and a "health campaign"
started by the Ministry of Health, and plans should be made for
contributions of the Red Crescent and similar institutions (The Red
Crescent should assist in the region as much as they did in N.Iraq).
A subregion health policy aimed at the State of Emergency Region
should be specified in the framework of the national health policy,
available drugs should be determined, and the infrastructure of health
institutions, consultants and support personnel, equipment and
apparatus in the region should be made adequate and sufficient, the
practice of mobile health teams should be continued and the second
7-years health plan directed at the 23 provinces in the Southeast
Anatolia region* should be followed up and applied with sensitivity.

(* Exact details unknown to translator, but know to be a plan
concerning population control in the specified (predominantly Kurdish)
provinces).  The importance from the point of view of the region of
family planning and mother and child health services should be taken
into account, these services should be reinforced along the lines of
the BUKK*(2) decisions and the Prime Ministerial Circulars, importance
should be placed on their extension within the region and it should be
ensured that this matter is accepted and applied as a permanent state
policy.

*(2) The full form of the acronym is unknown to the translator,
research continues and an amended version of this translation will be
produced when appropriate).

(4) In Relation to Investments in Employment:

(a) Employment investments to be made in the region should be selected
    from labour-intensive investments.

(b) At the same time, these investments should be investments with a
    high capacity for employing unskilled workers.

(c) It should be ensured that preference is given to investments to be
    made in fields such as housing, forestry and mining, evaluating
    the resources of the region.

(5) In Relation to Investments in the Infrastructure:

(a) In order for the development steps to be initiated against the
    increase of population in the region to be successful, the State
    Planning Department, the Development Bank and the Provinces Bank
    should conduct feasibility studies and the establishment of the
    infrastructure should be completed according to a plan.

(b) Care should be taken that competitive tenders for investment in
    the region should not be granted to contractors sympathetic to the
    organisation.

(c) Those migrating form evacuated villages and hamlets and scattered
    centres of population should be combined and the "Koy-Kent"
    (Village-City*) projects put into practice. (* The Koy-Kent or
    "Village-cities" project is the resettlement of people from
    evacuated villages and hamlets in centralised new tons closer to
    the cities, justified by reason of security.)  In order to
    encourage this, people should be convinced that all kinds of
    services, like roads, education, security and health will be
    provided by the state in the "Village-Cities" to be set up.

(d) Because of the negative influence of the land problems in the
    infrastructure in the OHAL region on the struggle with terrorism,
    it should be ensured that cadastral activities in this region are
    completed.

d. In Relation to the Psycho-Social Situation of the Region:

(1) Media Activities:

(a) The publication of general or local press supporting the
    organisation and broadcasts of TV and radio channels praising the
    organisation, and in particular MED TV, should be obstructed by
    the state.

(b) The opportunities and attractions of watching television and
    listening to radio broadcasts in the region should be increased.

(c) Broadcasts like MED TV which support the organisation should be
    suppressed and interfered with by the use of technological
    equipment.

(d) Bearing in mind the effect it has on the people it should be
    ensured that the media is used, and effectively, along the lines
    of our own aims.

(e) In order to bring an end to the confusion of audio and visual
    broadcasting in the country, the National Frequency Plan should be
    put into immediate practice, taking into account the existing
    situation in the realities of the country.

(f) Administrative and technical measures to be taken against illegal
    destructive and separatist electromagnetic broadcast should be
    determined and it should be ensured that they are put into
    practice.

(2) On NGO Activities:

(a) The activities of non-government institutions (NGO), who carry out
    activities against the state in matter of Human Rights, should be
    closely monitored and obstructed.

(b) The activities of the Human Rights Enquiries lower and higher
    committees, set up in order to render the accusations directed at
    this country in the matter of Human Rights ineffectual and to
    clarify the necessary corrective measures, should be continued in
    a more effective manner.

(c) Units should be formed in institutions relating to Human Rights
    and an active co-ordination should be set up between these
    institutions and establishments.

(d) It should be ensured that legal arrangements appropriate to the
    European Convention on Human Rights be set up without delay.

(3) On Activities of Shaping Public Opinion:

(a) A psychological action group should be set up within the framework
    of each state ministry, organisation should be conducted in the
    region and psychological action should be taken on a systematic
    basis.

(b) Programmes directed at the securance of national and moral values
    and unity and wholeness should be rearranged in all the schools.

(c) The media should be used and the people given anti-terrorist
    information.

(d) Public institutions and establishments and civil service chiefs
    should be held responsible in the first degree for the
    psychological operation.

(e) Conferences, small business institutions and discussion meeting in
    cafes should be organised by civil service chiefs, teachers and
    religious officers.

(f) The application of KOY*, which has had an important effect on the
people, should be run under the co-ordination of civil service chiefs.
(* The full form of the acronym is unknown to the translator, research
continues and an amended version of this translation will be produces
when appropriate)

(g) Experts who will act as advisors in public relations should be
    appointed to the civil service chiefs.

(h) The psychological operation should take women and children into
    account primarily as its target group.

(i) The psychological operation should be run by the Ministry of
    Culture as priority business of the state.

(j) Delegations coming should be very well evaluated and those
    delegations supporting the organisation or of whom there are
    suspicions or false companies and institutions should be
    obstructed.

(k) Tours should be arranged of the region for parliamentarians and
    high level authorities.

(l) All possible political measures should be taken against the
    attempts to have the state tried under the concepts of human
    rights and democracy because of our international obligations.

(m) It should be ensured that tours of and visits to the region, other
    than for investment, service or duty, be kept to a minimum.

e. Legal Arrangements Felt to be Needed and Other Matters:

(a) The bill of law securing opportunities for the gendarmes to
    conduct intelligence activities against threats directed from home
    and abroad should be enacted.

(b) The existence of small centres of population on the borders or in
    the near vicinity facilitate the passage of terrorists across
    borders and the provision of logistic support by means of
    collaborationists in these centres. For this reason, a border
    strip should be evacuated and buffer zones formed, and following
    the evacuation of a 5-10 km strip in this manner, it should be
    announced as a dangerous and prohibited region.

(c) Legal limitations should be introduced for the provision of guns
    to personnel other than special security officers and soldiers and
    the police, other than hunting rifles carried by hunters for sport
    (except pump action rifles).

(d) Permission should only be granted to retired security personnel to
    carry and be in possession of firearms, their sale and transfer
    should be prohibited and the firearms should be placed in the
    treasury as income in the case of the decease of the security
    officers.

(e) The penalties for gun smuggling in the Turkish Penal Code should
    be brought up to deterrent level.

(f) The rewards given to those informing about unlicensed firearms
    should be increased in order to seize and determine unlicensed,
    illegal firearms.

(g) The connections in organised gun running occurring in Turkey often
    go as far as politicians and arms smugglers are taking advantage
    of the immunity of parliamentarians in return for various
    interests. For this reason, the law of parliamentary immunity
    should be rearranged so that offences committed by
    parliamentarians outside the Assembly remain outside the scope of
    immunity.

(h) On condition that the membership of the Mehmetcik Foundation* and
    the Turkish Armed Forces Reinforcement Foundation should be set up
    for gendarmerie under the name of "Public Order Foundation" by
    creating new resources, separate from the resources of these
    foundations, or else the name of the police foundation should be
    changed to "Public Order Foundation" and the foundation made into
    a joint police and gendarme foundation. (*The Mehmetcik Foundation
    is a foundation which supports and collects donations from the
    public for the Turkish Army)

(i) It should be ensured that the upper limit for compensation for the
    operation indicated at paragraph A of article 28 of Decree Number
    375 in the Rule of Law be lifted.

(2) In Relation to Other Matters:

(a) There are districts in the State of Emergency, neighbouring and
    sensitive provinces where there is no police
    establishment. Security and public order in the town centres in
    these districts are ensured by gendarme members. Gendarme units
    concentrating on town centres are unable to prioritise their
    operational activities in the hills. Police establishments should
    be set up in the towns which do not have them and the influence of
    the state should be established.

(b) It should be ensured that the Prime Ministerial State of Emergency
    Coordination Committee carry out effective activities.

(c) Activities directed at controlling the migration movement should
    be continued with the aim of obstructing the PKK terrorist
    organisation taking advantage of the migration movements by
    activities of taking shelter, forming bases, training, preparing
    for actions and securing logistic support.

(d) Lower and higher committees should immediately be set up the
    struggle with drugs and the functionality of these committees
    should be ensured.

(e) Activities in the matter of the prevention of the hijacking of
    transport vehicles should be accelerated.

(f) With the aim of preventing the PKK holing up in Northern Iraq and
    ensuring that their hit and run attacks directed at Turkey are
    rendered ineffective, cross-border operations should be conducted
    by our Armed Forces through the initiative of the Offices of the
    Chief of General Staff on the Iraq side of the Turkey-Iraq border
    in the settled region by the name of the Green Line. The
    operations in question, which will be conducted against the
    territory of Northern Iraq outside the Green Line should be
    continued with the approval of the government and the
    co-ordination of the civil service offices.

(g) The activities being carried out to fill the power vacuum in
    Northern Iraq within the framework of the territorial integrity of
    Iraq should be continued more actively.

(h) It should be ensured that a central unit is set up to provide
    opportunities for more effective help to be given to Turkish
    citizens living abroad with their problems and for better
    organisation and direction along the lines of our national
    interests.

(i) There should be settlement of the people form vacated and
    evacuated villages and hamlets in settlement regions to be formed
    in attractive centres to be created in the region.

(j) Importance should be placed at border points such as Habur and Dil
    Ucu at Nahcivan, on border trade which will rejuvenate trade in
    the region, the necessary arrangements should be made at these
    points and a part of the income to be secured from here should be
    turned into service for the local people.

(k) A series of dams should be built, following a study of the
    subsidiaries of the Hezil, Habur, Zap and Semdinli rivers, in
    appropriate places in a manner to present a physical obstruction,
    which the aim of increasing security on the Iraqi border.

(l) Southeast and Eastern Anatolia and the region of N. Iraq adjoining
    to our borders are tribal land by their nature. The tribes in
    question play an important role in drawing people to the side of
    the state and winning over the local people. The necessary warmth
    and assistance should be displayed to the tribes.

(m) The fact that the press prosecution, which is the decision-making
    (sic) body in the struggle with damaging publications, is based in
    Istanbul, is a cause of delay. For this reason, a press
    prosecution should also be created in Diyarbakir.

(n) Modern, meticulous and co-ordinated measures should be taken at
    all customs points, especially the Gurbulak border point through
    which entry is effected form Iran, directed at the prevention of
    the entry of arms and drugs.

(o) The proposed measures should be transferred to the field of
    practice in order to prevent passage by illegal methods through
    the borders (including the coasts) and the border points.

(o) In connection with this, all possible support should be afforded
    to the trial bodies, and the trial procedures should display at
    least as much sensitivity to the struggle with terrorism as the
    security forces.

(p) The Turkish Armed Forces should continue to benefit from the
    practice of reduced fares with Turkish Airlines even in the case
    that the State of Emergency is lifted.

(r) The pensions of martyrs and veterans should be increased.

(s) The families of martyrs should be housed and the children of
    martyrs given the right to enter university without passing the
    university entrance examinations.

(t) It should be ensured that the mothers and fathers of martyrs
    receive pensions without being subject to the 85 year age limit.

ENCLOSURES:

APPENDIX-A

(Military Requirements, ADDENDUM 1, Means and Equipment of Target
Determination/ Identification, ADDENDUM 2, Plans for Roads to be
Constructed and Maintained, New Road Construction and the Need to
increase Capacity)

APPENDIX-B 

(The Education, Teaching and Health Situation, The GKK
Teams and their Current Situation, Vacated Villages and Hamlets)


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