An Angry Look At German Reality

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Mon Jan 30 20:05:35 GMT 1995


From: newsdesk at newsdesk.aps.nl (Newsdesk Amsterdam)
Subject: Re: An Angry Look At German Reality
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--------------- Forwarded from : Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org> ----------------

KURD-A News Updates
January 21-23, 1995


There was heavy fighting between units of the Turkish army and
Kurdish guerrillas two days ago as a result of a military
operation in the area around Sason. According to KURD-A
correspondents, Kurdish guerrillas first attacked a flank of the
army's troops on Thursday. After heavy losses, the army troops
retreated in a convoy towards Batman, but their vehicals were
trapped by the guerrillas. To the south of the city of Gabar, our
correspondents report fighting between Turkish army units and
Kurdish guerrillas. (21.01.95)

Just like last week, Turkish army units have continued to punish
village communities which refuse to take part in the state's
village guard system. In the area around Mardin, army units set
fire to the village of Henidiliya, and in the area around Savur,
the village of Kose was burned. According to incomplete reports
from KURD-A correspondents, Turkish army units are also carrying
out actions against villages in the border region of Semdinan.
(21.01.95)

Last night, Kurdish guerrillas in the region of Mardin-Habizina
attacked four neighboring village guard settlements. These were
Midelbe, Tetra, Male Mihe, and Baminire. Turkish army units then
launched an operation in this area in the early morning.
(21.01.95)

Late yesterday afternoon, it became known that the political
police in Istanbul had arrested Suut Kilic, news editor of the
new Kurdish weekly newspaper Velate Me, on January 18. (21.01.95)

In an effort to become signatories of the Geneva Convention of
1949 and the first supplemental protocols of this Convention from
Geneva 1977, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will hold a press
conference on January 24, 1995, at the United Nations in Geneva.
The PKK will seek admittance into the Convention and thereby gain
recognition as a party at war in accordance with international
law. The PKK accuses Turkey of violating the Convention by using
force against civilians and by systematically destroying Kurdish
villages. (22.01.95)

The former senior member of the Deomcracy Party (DEP) in Izmir-
Kemalpasa, who was arrested at his home five days ago, has
disappeared. After Abdulselim Coban's wife, Melikiye Coban, made
inquiries about her husband at the local police station and with
the political police, she was told her husband was not there.
Now, Milikiye Coban fears that her husband has disappeared like
so many other Kurdish polticians. The wife of Abdulselim Coban
has called on international human rights associations to put
pressure on Turkey to find her husband. (22.01.95)

During protest actions by PKK-prisoners in October 1994 in the
political prison at Diyarbakir, Turkish security forces responded
with violence and one PKK-prisoner was killed and at least 100
others were injured. One of those seriously wounded was Suleyman
Ongun. After the prison riots, most of the prisoners were
transferred to other prisons. The seriously wounded Suleyman
Ongun was among those transferred. He was brought to Antep
prison. According to the human rights association IHD, he is not
being given medical treatment. (22.01.95)

In the region of Semdinli-Zerre, 27 villages were forcibly
evacuated by Turkish army units. The military commander of
Hakkari called together the 27 mayors of these villages a few
days ago and stated, "If you stay in those areas, you will be our
targets in the spring." The mayors were told to either "form one
joint village" or to leave the area. Last weekend, 10 Kurdish
villages were forcibly evacuated by Turkish army units for not
agreeing to take part in the state's paramilitary village guard
system. These villages were Kirdikle near Mardin, Hasena near
Mazidag, and at least eight other villages near Mardin-Savur and
Diyarbakir-Bismil. According to incomplete reports, Turkish army
units have surrounded two villages near Urfa-Suruc and completely
cut them off from the outside world. In these villages, people
who refuse to become village guards are seriously tortured.
(23.01.95)

On January 4, Ozgur Ulke editor Salih Gueler was arrested in
Diyarbakir and, according to KURD-A, taken to the secret police
barracks. His period of detention has since been extended, and
one witness claims to have seen Salih Guerler being tortured. The
witness described the Ozgur Ulke editor's health as very poor.
"Salih Gueler was naked on the floor for the last few days," said
the witness, "and his condition after the torture was not good.
Furthermore, he was being kept in chains." (23.01.95)


Translated by:

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