Subject: Flash Bulletin!!!
From: Int. Initiative (info@freedom-for-ocalan.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 19:17:03 CST
28.02.2000
Flash Bulletin
1. "To Supress Is To Create No Solution", PKK Presidential
Council Member Murat Karayilan speaks.
2. "The Public is Not Haulting Its Devotion", the public support
continues for HADEP.
3. "U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Koh: Time for reconciliation
with Kurds", Assistant Secretary of State Harold Hangju Koh talks
on reconciliation with Kurds.
1. - Ozgur Poltika - "To Supress Is To Create No Solution" :
The PKK Presidential Council Member Murat Karayilan
states that "supression will bring no solution" on recent string of attacks
on the People's Democratic Party. He also added that "Anti democratic approaches
will for certain not bring a solution. From now it should be acknowledged
that there are Kurds, there is the Kurdish Public. Since there is the Kurdish
public they will have their own language, culture, and politics. You cannot
deny this".
2. - Ozgur Poltika - "The Public is Not Haulting Its Devotion" :
In regards to the arrests of HADEP Municipal Mayors
yesterday was also a scene of demonsrations. In Dersim and Hakkari administrative
province bulidings HADEP requested that the municipal mayors be released,
whom are the peoples representitives. There were protests also in HADEP
Yenipazar neighbourhood and in Istanbul a group of Kartal Democratic Platform
members protested the arrests of mayors.
3. - Kurdish Observer - "U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Koh: Time for reconciliation with Kurds"
Following the issuance of the U.S. State Department's annual Human Rights Reports, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Assistant Secretary of State Harold Hangju Koh, responding to questions from journalists, drew attention to the pressures currently being exerted by Turkey against the People's Democracy Party (HADEP).
Koh, answering a journalist who, noting the the recent arrests of the three HADEP mayors, asked whether or not the U.S. was following this issue and what its actual Kurdish policy was, said, "We are naturally following these developments. I went to Turkey in August.
I also visited Turkey's southeast for several days. I went to Diyarbakir. I had a very good day together with the HADEP Mayor of Diyarbakir, Mr. Feridun Celik, who has just been arrested." Noting that he's drawn attention to the situation there upon his departure from Turkey, Koh reminded that similar statements had also been made by President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Albright, who had traveled to Turkey in November 1999. Stating that the situation is ripe for a solution to the Kurdish problem following the incarceration of PKK Chairman Abdullah Ocalan on Imrali Island, Koh noted that a great many people in Turkey also want this. Responding to the same question, Koh said that the Kurds are only seeking cultural and linguistic rights and added, "This would also be a major opportunity for a solution."
HADEP mayors
Stating that he was not aware of the details of the HADEP mayors who have been arrested and stripped of their offices, Koh said, "Let me just say that in talks which I had with them in the southeast, their efforts for a political solution and the future of the southeast impressed me greatly." He also stated, "From our vantage point, the current actions of the government are very puzzling and worrisome." Noting that Turkish President Demirel had earlier received the HADEP mayors in his office and that Foreign Minister Cem had expressed views that paralleled those of the U.S., Koh said, "I also want to underscore that the government very recently lifted the State of Emergency (OHAL) in the Siirt region. Now the arrest of the HADEP mayor of this city appears somewhat suspect."
At the end of his statement, Koh called upon Turkey as follows: "In my opinion, the basic point is that the current period is a very opportune time for Turkish Prime Minister Ecevit and President Demirel to continue with fundamental approaches to the problem that are based on reconciliation with the Kurds."
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