ANKARA - KURD

[kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu]

59:45 -0800


FT 16 08 95 -- After four years, Turkey's security forces have almost
completed their scorched earth campaign in the mainly Kurdish
south-east. They have razed hundreds of villages and burned farmland
and forests that could offer refuge for guerrillas of the Kurdistan
Workers' party (PKK), leaving thousands of people homeless. A human
rights worker said "there are hardly any more [pro-PKK] villages left
in the south-east". About half the region's 5,000 villages have been
forcibly evacuated, he said. Most of the rest are garrisoned by
pro-government Kurdish militia.


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