Turkish Press Review

[kurdeng at aps.nl]

       id VT16876; Wed, 06 Sep 1995 16:51:06 -0800


                   MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1995

Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press
this morning

TURK SHOT DEAD IN COLOGNE

A 42-year-old Turkish man was shot dead and his two children
criticially injured in the west German city of Cologne overnight,
German police said. Three people fled by car after the shooting,
which occured outside a catering establishment, but police
later detained a 21-year-old Turkish man. Police said that the
incident was probably an internal Turkish affair and dismissed
the theory of a political attack, usually attributed to members
of the PKK terrorist organization. /Sabah/


OPERATIONS AGAINST PKK

The Turkish Armed Forces have initiated in Tunceli a new
operation against the PKK terrorist organization. More than
10,000 specially trained commandos will take part in the
operation aiming to destroy PKK camps in the Tunceli region. A
military official noted that the operation would be a "smashing
blow" against the separatist organization.

Clashes between the PKK organization and the Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) continue in Northern Iraq.  KDP Ankara
representative, Sefin Dizayi, said that the KDP had began to
gain control over the region. Skirmishes between the PKK and
KDP, have continued for 20 days, 50 people from both sides have
been killed. PKK terrorists, mainly using hit-and-run tactics,
have attacked the town of Zaho in Northern Iraq. Dizayi noted
that the goal of the KDP was to clean the PKK out of the region
and then to prevent their penetration into the region again.
The KDP representative said that some difficulties had arisen
from the geographic characteristics of the region and added that
the PKK had to be pushed out of the region before the winter
came, because the winter would provide some strategic advantages
to PKK terrorists.

On the other hand, Governer of the Emergency Region, Unal Erkan,
noted that during the first eight months of 1995, 500 PKK
terrorists surrendered to the security forces and 4,000 others
were rendered ineffective. Turkish security forces have also
suffered casualities: According to Defence Minister Mehmet
Golhan, 2,762 Turkish soldiers have been killed in the struggle
against the PKK terrorist organization so far. /Cumhuriyet,
Milliyet, Hurriyet/

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