Israel helps Turkey fight against K

[mchyet at library.berkeley.edu]

From: mchyet at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: Israel helps Turkey fight against Kurds


03/17 1156  Israel helps Turkey in fight against Kurds: report

PARIS, March 17 (AFP) - Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish 
government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the weekly "confidential" 
newsletter TTU said Friday. 
   The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey was hoping to benefit
from Israeli expertise and claimed a delegation of about 50 Israeli military 
security officials recently went to Ankara to give the government there advice.
   They proposed that Turkey set up a security cordon like the one that Israel
has established in south Lebanon against pro-Israeli Hezbollah guerillas, with 
mine fields and radar to detect intruders, according to the report, which could 
not be independently verified. 
   Israeli spy planes have also intensified flights over the Bekaa Valley in
Lebanon, particularly in the Yanta area, near the Syrian border, where the 
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has training camps, said the newsletter, whose 
initials stand for Tres, Tres Urgent (Very, Very Urgent). 
   hm/rp/ms