Measures to be taken against PKK ac

[stk at schism.antenna.nl]

				  SECRET
                                   T.C.
                             INTERIOR MINISTRY
                   Public Relations Office Chairmanship


NUMBER: B050HID0000073/472                                   03/01/1997

MATTER: Measures to be taken against PKK activities in 1997

REGARDING: Prime Ministerial orders dated 12.11.1993

       New measures to be taken in addition to the old measures to be
applied in 1997 in order to render the armed activities of the PKK
separatist terrorist organisation and their political activities, as well
as those in other fields, ineffective.

                                     
                 1. Measures to applied at specific times:

       1. In response to the PKK separatist terrorist organisation's
steering of men of thinking and art and other influential people who may
impress the public at home and abroad to serve its aims:

       People who may be qualified as thinkers and are currently being
used by the organisation should be identified and their past histories and
intelligence information relating to them be secured (January-March 1997).

       People the organisation may use should be presented to the public
at home and abroad in such a manner as to remove any influence they may
have (January-May 1997).

       International institutions and organisations should be correctly
informed regarding people the organisation presents as thinkers, and files
prepared with this aim should be sent to international institutions and
organisations (January-May 1997).

       2. In response to the possibility that the organisation will target
people taking the side of the state and put psychological pressure on them
with accusations of spying and banditry, or carry out massacres and
various armed actions; practices should be applied which will secure the
raising of the morale of citizens supporting the state, in particular
temporary village guards, and the public should be informed in a suitable
manner in the matter of the malintenioned reports in the press that the
Temporary Village Guard System is to be abolished (January-May 1997).

       3. With the aim of preventing the organisation from exploiting
Newroz, the functions required by the special project to be prepared in
this matter should be carried out (March 1997).


                  II. Measures to be applied continuously

       Measures should be taken to secure that the population in the 14-25
year age group be distanced from the organisation in response to the
activities of the PKK separatist terrorist organisation to collect
militants in order to broaden its cadres.

       1. State officials at every level should be continuously in contact
with the citizens and the matter should be continuously dealt with to
render organisation propaganda on the youth ineffective.

       People likely to join the organisation should be placed under close
surveillance and persuasion applied to them and their families.

       2. In response to the setting up of so-called front headquarters in
so-called provinces defined by the organisation and activities of the
creation of institutions of logistics, education, finance, health,
military branches, people's courts and the like, collaborators should be
speedily exposed, persuasion should be applied to them, a spectacle should
be made of them, and if necessary they should be penalised.

       3. In response to the organisation and its supporters using
international institutions, non-governmental organisations, human rights
organisations, news agencies, news and TV establishments, universities and
internationally known people against Turkey;

       The special international enlightenment programmes should be
applied, visits should be made to regional people who have suffered from
terrorism in the presence of these individuals and institutions, faxes,
letters, cards and photograph album campaigns <sic> should be organised.

       Those suffering damages from terrorism should be made to apply to
organisations like the Helsinki Watch Committee and International Human
Rights with documentation and information, and protests should be made at
the biased attitudes of these institutions.

       Protest campaigns should be organised with the participation of
various associations and institutions by reason of biased attitudes of the
European Churches Association, press and publications organs, local and
national governments and local administrations.

       Programmes should be drawn up to discredit the thesis propounded
abroad that the organisation has chosen the method of terrorism as there
is not a democratic environment and that it is a political party, and this
should be applied by means of the press, face to face meetings on
television, enlightenment and information.

       4. In response to the organisation creating an environment of
closer collaboration with extreme left-wing organisations, Yezidis, Alevis
and radical Islamic groups, its setting into action of the institutions it
has formed and its carrying out of direct action at home and abroad;

       With the aim of preventing extreme left-wing elements from uniting
with the PKK in actions and thought, possible leaders in thought and
action in this matter should be suitably enlightened, and those who cannot
be directed should have their influence over the public rocked as
professional degenerates.

       Measures should be taken to support those who are in the positions
of being natural leaders of Alevi and Yezidi groups at home and who
support the state, in such a manner as to increase their influence over
these groups and to prevent exploitation of these groups by means of these
people.

       Measures should be taken to secure the reduction of influence over
groups of people the PKK terrorist organisation directs and wishes to make
into leaders, and who may make an impression.

       It should be secured that prominent Alevis, Yezidis, and radical
Islamists make declarations against the units the PKK has created and that
these declarations be made known to the public at home and abroad (by
means of the press and media).

       Measures should be taken directed at enlightening the public in the
matter of the aim of creation of the units under the control of the PKK
separatist terrorist organisation (like the Aleviler Birligi (1), the
Yezidiler Birligi (2) and the Kurdistan Islami Hareket (3), and the degree
to which they exploit the targetted people (academics should be made to
give conferences on this matter).

       5. In cases when the organisation provokes incidents of migration
from Turkey to Northern Iraq, Iran or Syria, or vice-versa with the aim of
influencing the attitude towards the region of the United Nations High
Commission of Refugees in particular or other influential international
institutions and the US administration or directing them along the lines
of their own interests, or uses the citizens in Atrush camp to similar
ends;

       The propaganda of organisation representatives in sensitive
districts and villages should be rendered ineffective in a manner to
prevent the people becoming provoked or agitated.

       The people should be immediately informed in response to
disinformation.

       Individuals likely to spread disinformation and provoke the people
should be kept under surveillance and measures should be taken to remove
any credible influence people of this kind may have over the people.

       In practices aimed at the people, people with the characteristics
of being able to direct the people by giving them information and key news
carriers should be found and advantage taken of them.

       6. Parlementarians, men of religion, representatives of the press
and in particular members of NGO's like International Human Rights and
Amnesty International who may come from abroad with the aim of collecting
propaganda material should be steered appropriately and followed, and
advantage should be taken of Diyarbakir Press Office to this end.

       7. In response to the activities of the organisation to convene
their provincial councils, the national council and the national congress; 
  
       All activities of the separatist terrorist organisation to this end
should be prevented.

       Relations with the organisation as well as previously committed
offences of members of the PKK terrorist organisation participating in the
meetings on its agenda should be publicised to the public at home and
abroad.

       8. Administrative and legal measures should be taken against those
attempting to propagate the Kurdish language, form institutions conducting
research to make it a language of literacy and to start education and
Kurdish literacy courses directed at front activities <sic>.

       9. In response to the probability that the organisation will target
people taking the side of the state and accuse them of spying and
banditry, or carry out massacres and various armed actions;

       High school or youth educated to a higher level who are likely to
join the organisation should be kept under surveillance.

       Visually recorded determinations in heated clashes with
peculiarities which may be considered under the scope of the Geneva War
Convention should be exposed and published.

       10. In response to the efforts of the PKK to develop television and
radio broadcasting along the lines of its aims;

       Letter, fax and telegramme campaigns should be organised and
directed at foreign institutions and governments giving permission for
broadcasting by non-governmental institutions and individuals.

       Information and documentation to the effect that MED TV does not
broadcast the music and entertainment for which it obtained the licence,
but that the broadcasts are of political content and aimed at supporting a
terrorist organisation, should be communicated to the countries granting
broadcasting permission, and the initiatives to obstruct the broadcasts
should be continued.

       MED TV should be prevented from making programmes in Turkey.
       
       Each malintenioned programme made by MED TV should be refuted to
the international institutions thereafter, and this should be done through
NGO's rather than directly.

       11. In response to the organisation's activities aimed at opening
ERNK <National Liberation Front of Kurdistan> offices and fortifying
existing offices with the aim of propagating front activities, special
security inquiries should be held into those working in the offices in
question, and if necessary, their extradition should be requested from the
relevant countries, giving the criminal grounds.

       12. Whenever a decision is made or a statement released by
international institutions in favour of the separatist terrorist
organisation or against Turkey in a manner criticising practices in the
matter of the separatist terrorist organisation: letter, telephone,
telegramme and fax protest campaigns by means of individuals and
institutions should be organised, and the families of martyrs and
charities and institutions related to the families of martyrs should take
part in these campaigns.

       13. In response to the exploitation by the organisation and other
separatist circles of the colours yellow, red and green, which they have
made their symbol and which they try to advertise by all means available,
academic meetings should be held in the matter that these colours are
traditional Turkish colours.

       14. It should be emphasised by all means available that despite the
statements of the organisation and other separatist circles in various
situations, of, `We have no itention of separating fron the State of the
Republic of Turkey', their actual ideas are of self-determination and
independance.

       15. With the aim of preventing the organisation searching for new
fields of activity;

       Street trading should be prevented in the provinces of Adana, Icel,
Antalya, Sivas, Konya, Nevsehir, Kirsehir, Tokat, Ankara, Istanbul and
Izmir.

       Measures should be taken to prevent joint activity between extreme
left-wing elements and the PKK separatist terrorist organisation.

       Non-religious activities directing our citizens of Alevi beliefs in
the Cemevis (4) should be kept under control.

       Emphasis should be placed on activities like sports clubs, folk
dancing and music activities, and the young in the population should be
drawn on organisations of this kind.

       Taking into account that people settled or those newly settling in
the Region are not registered, law number 1774 of Identity Registration
should be applied with fastidiousness.

       16. Kuran courses, which are likely to be steered by the Kurdistan
Islamic Movement organisation, which is under the control of the
organisation, should be monitored.

       17. In response to organisation's activities injurious to the
respect among the public of the security forces, measures should be taken
to raise the morale of the security forces and solidify their public
relations.

       18. Working reports of the activities conducted should be sent to
the Ministry of the Interior State of Emergency Coordination Committee
General Secretariat at the end of March, June, September and December.

       19. The secrecy of this order should be preserved and unnecessary
duplication avoided.

       I request your cooperation.

                                          Dr. Meral AKSENIR
                                          Interior Minister
                                          State of Emerg. Comm. Chair
                                          (signed)


DISTRIBUTION:
By necessity:                      For information:
- State of Emergency Regional      - MGK <National Security Council>
  Governorate                        General Secretariat
- 80 Provincial Governorates
- General Gendarme Command
- General Security Directorate



(1): Aleviler Birligi = Alevis Association
(2): Yezidiler Birligi = Yezidis Association
(3): Kurdistan Islami Hareket = Kurdistan Islamic Movement
(4): Cemevi = Alevi place of worship/meeting place (translator)