Turkish Press Review

[kurdeng at aps.nl]

                   THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 1995
                   -----------------------

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

TURKEY URGES PROTECTION OF TURKS IN GERMANY


Turkey said yesterday it had asked Germany to step up efforts
to protect the Turks living in that country and their property.
After a week-long series of firebomb attacks against Turkish
targets in Germany, Foreign Ministry Acting Undersecretary
Gunduz Aktan summoned the German charge d'affaires in
Ankara on Tuesday to ask that measures be increased to end the
attacks by supporters of the PKK terrorist organization.
He also urged Germany to immediately begin deporting
those involved in the attacks to Turkey in line with a March
accord. "Aktan pointed out that most of those responsible for
previous attacks had not been caught, and that this may have
been an encouragement for new attacks" Foreign Ministry
Spokesman Nurettin Nurkan told journalists in a weekly news
briefing. Turkey and Bonn agreed in March that Germany would
expel militants, but Nurkan said that to his knowledge none
had been deported since then. /Milliyet/


TURKEY DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF PRESSURE ON FOREIGN MEDIA


The Foreign Ministry yesterday denied a press report that foreign
media members working in Turkey were being pressurized by the
government not to write anti-Turkish news stories. Foreign
Ministry Spokesman Nurettin Nurkan told a weekly press briefing
that the report was unfounded. "The press is completely free in
Turkey" Nurkan said. "Those foreign media members who report
objectively and without prejudice are received well in Turkey
and enjoy full cooperation and assistance from relevant Turkish
authorities" he said. "But it is only natural that we will not
behave in the same way and will not cooperate with journalists
who are mouthpieces of terrorism and who deliberately release
untrue and misleading reports against Turkey" Nurkan said.
But he emphasized that measures to be taken by the authorities
in such cases would be confined to "no cooperation" and nothing
else. "Moves to issue untrue news reports, to act as tools of
terrorism and likewise to exploit the freedom of the press are
unacceptable" he added. /Hurriyet/



PKK CAMPS IN GERMANY


It is reported that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
has ten training camps in Lower Saxony Germany and that youths
trained in these camps are being sent to eastern Mediterranean
countries.
The Department for the Protection of the Constitution in the
Province of Lower Saxony is aware of the location of these camps.
According to this Department, the PKK is the most dangerous
terrorist organization in Germany.
Daniel Cohn Bendit, a member of the European Parliament and
Chairman of the Frankfurt Multicultural Department, also said
that he was against the PKK and added: "We have to protect the
twelve thousand Kurdish civilians living in Germany from the
violance of the PKK." /Hurriyet/


PKK COLLAPSING

Inan Aslan Durgun, 21, son of the top level PKK terrorist
responsible for the Tunceli region Muslum Durgun, who was killed
last year by the PKK terrorist organization, has surrendered
himself to the local Turkish security forces. Under questioning,
Inan Aslan Durgun said that he had started working for the PKK
oganization two years ago, but after the murder of his father,
he had many times tried unsuccessfully to escape. "Many PKK
members also want to leave the organization. The PKK is
collapsing. All of its members are suspicious of each other,"
Durgun noted. /Milliyet/


PEACE MEETING IN NORTHERN IRAQ

Due to the fact that Ankara has voiced concern over a meeting
of northern Iraqi Kurds organized by the US, Washington
officials have reassured the Turkish government that the aim
was to establish peace in the region, not to hold a new Paris
Conference. Upon the request of Ankara for information about
the subject of the meeting, US representatives stressed that
at the meeting, peace in northern Iraq would be discussed, and
that no room would be given to threats against the territorial
integrity of Iraq. /Hurriyet/



---
 * Origin: APS Amsterdam (aps.nl), bbs +31-20-6842147 (16:31/2.0)