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Oct. 17 1997
 
 Arslan: Village guard system will remain

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Turkish Daily News

Ankara - Emergency Rule Regional Governor Aydin Arslan said on
Thursday that gossip was being intentionally spread against village
guards and the "special team." Arslan said that the village guard
system would remain even if the emergency rule was lifted.

In an interview with the Anatolia news agency, Arslan pointed out that
at present, emergency rule was in force in six provinces. He said so
far more than one thousand village guards had lost their lives in the
clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK). He noted that the village guard system was
regulated according to the Law on Villages and that it was not a
system affiliated to the Law on Emergency Rule.

About the "special team," Arslan said it was a force consisting of
volunteers from the police organization. He continued that those
people were on duty for the welfare and the peace of the people in the
region and that they had been working for the indivisible integrity of
the country, the flag and the nation. He said that the gossip
fabricated against the special team and the village guards aimed at
upsetting their morale.

Referring to the actions carried out by the illegal organization in
Turkey's Black Sea region, Arslan said that since the terrorist
organization had suffered considerable loss in the eastern region and
thus weakened, it may have gone to the Black Sea region in order to
deflect attention.

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