PKK TERRORISM: PKK/KONGRA GEL PRISONER'S STATEMENT

S E C R E T ANKARA 007218 SIPDIS SIPDIS JAC MOLESWORTH FOR OIF TASK FORCE E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/08/2030 TAGS: PTER TU US PINR IZ DA SUBJECT: PKK TERRORISM: PKK/KONGRA GEL PRISONER'S STATEMENT ABOUT ROJ TV REF: ANKARA 6849 Classified By: Political Military Counselor Timothy A. Betts for reason s 1.4 (b, c, d). ¶1. (S) MFA Security Affairs Director General Hayati Guven on Dec. 7 raised with us the assertion by a PKK/Kongra Gel member who was arrested last month in Izmir that he received targeting information via Roj TV. (He had first informed us about this during a Nov. 18 meeting -- reftel.) Guven said he had been unable to get permission to pass us the transcript of the interrogation, but was authorized to provide an abstract of the relevant statements, which he passed to us as a non-paper (text at para 2). The statement was made on Nov. 7 at 10:00 PM. ¶2. (S) The following is the text of the non-paper provided by Guven: BEGIN TEXT The following is an abstract from the testimony of a PKK/KONGRA-GEL terrorist who had recently surrendered to Turkish security forces. The person in question had given his statement in the presence of his advocate in accordance with his will. ".......my training on explosives had lasted for ten days. After doctrinal training, we have done a couple of practices and then the training ended. At the end of the training, we had a discussion with the two trainers known as H. and F. They have instructed us, that we should follow the press statements made by the high level members of the organization which are broadcasted on ROJ TV and to organize terrorist attacks to state institutions, individuals etc. that have been frequently referred to with hateful remarks in ROJ TV broadcasts. We were informed that, we could undertake the responsibility of our attacks with different names. They gave me 200 USD for transportation costs... .." END TEXT WILSON