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Created
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06ADANA124
2006-05-30 11:31:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Adana
Cable title:
SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 24 MAY 2006
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SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 24 MAY 2006
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for May 24, 2006.
Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or
exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy
of the reports summarized here.
POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS
ZAMAN: The daily reported that so-called general secretary
of TKP-ML TIKKO (Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of
Turkey),who was caught with seven other members of the
terrorist organization in Nigde province on May 16 (see press
summary 05/22),recruited his 15-year-old niece to the
organization and had been indifferent to the rapes committed on
her by the organization members. It has reportedly been found
out that TKP-ML general secretary was the person who gave
instructions to conduct a bomb attack on Cankiri Governor back
in 1999.
ZAMAN / EVRENSEL / CUMHURIYET / YENI SAFAK: The US State
Department's Iraq Coordinator, James Jeffrey, said US Ambassador
to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, had met Iraqi Kurdish leaders in
Northern Iraq to discuss measures against PKK.
RADIKAL / HURRIYET / YENI SAFAK: PKK terrorists detonated the
previous night a bomb they placed on a section of BOTAS
petroleum pipeline located between Agri and its Dogubeyazit
district. Material damage has been reported. Separately, a
remote controlled bomb exploded on a road in Diyarbakir's Ergani
district. Police officers traveling on that road were saved
when the bomb went off earlier than estimated arrival time of
the officers.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Fifty-one foreign nationals, who have
attempted to cross the border illegally in Edirne, a
northwestern province, have been caught in the last two days.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Mahmut Tasci, one of the attorneys of
terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan, protested prison authorities
who attempted to strip-search him last week before he would be
allowed in the prison where Ocalan is being kept. Tasci was
denied entrance when Tasci objected to that prison policy.
CUMHURIYET / EVRENSEL: Mayor of Diyarbakir's Hazro district has
been arrested on grounds that he violated the political parties
act during the 2002 election time by hanging the flag of his
former party (DEHAP) on his house window during a time slot
before the polling day when all campaigning by the political
parties for the election must have stopped.
YENI SAFAK / CUMHURIYET / EVRENSEL / RADIKAL: A lawsuit has
been instituted against four senior administrators of DTP
Diyarbakir branch on grounds that they "helped the terrorist
organization willingly and committed crime on behalf
unauthorized protests of late March in Diyarbakir. DTP
administrators are facing 5 to 15 years of prison sentences.
EVRENSEL: Two thousand soldiers of the Bolu and Kayseri
Brigades have launched military operations in separate sections
of Hakkari's Yuksekova district.
YENI SAFAK: LPG tanker trucks piling up at the Habur Border gate
has been posing a grave danger in Sirnak's Silopi district.
CUMHURIYET: A group of secularists will hold a march today in
Adana.
EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM: Quarantine has been imposed in two
villages in Mus's Varto district because of foot-and-mouth
disease detected in the farm animals.
REID
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 24 MAY 2006
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for May 24, 2006.
Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or
exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy
of the reports summarized here.
POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS
ZAMAN: The daily reported that so-called general secretary
of TKP-ML TIKKO (Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of
Turkey),who was caught with seven other members of the
terrorist organization in Nigde province on May 16 (see press
summary 05/22),recruited his 15-year-old niece to the
organization and had been indifferent to the rapes committed on
her by the organization members. It has reportedly been found
out that TKP-ML general secretary was the person who gave
instructions to conduct a bomb attack on Cankiri Governor back
in 1999.
ZAMAN / EVRENSEL / CUMHURIYET / YENI SAFAK: The US State
Department's Iraq Coordinator, James Jeffrey, said US Ambassador
to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, had met Iraqi Kurdish leaders in
Northern Iraq to discuss measures against PKK.
RADIKAL / HURRIYET / YENI SAFAK: PKK terrorists detonated the
previous night a bomb they placed on a section of BOTAS
petroleum pipeline located between Agri and its Dogubeyazit
district. Material damage has been reported. Separately, a
remote controlled bomb exploded on a road in Diyarbakir's Ergani
district. Police officers traveling on that road were saved
when the bomb went off earlier than estimated arrival time of
the officers.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Fifty-one foreign nationals, who have
attempted to cross the border illegally in Edirne, a
northwestern province, have been caught in the last two days.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Mahmut Tasci, one of the attorneys of
terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan, protested prison authorities
who attempted to strip-search him last week before he would be
allowed in the prison where Ocalan is being kept. Tasci was
denied entrance when Tasci objected to that prison policy.
CUMHURIYET / EVRENSEL: Mayor of Diyarbakir's Hazro district has
been arrested on grounds that he violated the political parties
act during the 2002 election time by hanging the flag of his
former party (DEHAP) on his house window during a time slot
before the polling day when all campaigning by the political
parties for the election must have stopped.
YENI SAFAK / CUMHURIYET / EVRENSEL / RADIKAL: A lawsuit has
been instituted against four senior administrators of DTP
Diyarbakir branch on grounds that they "helped the terrorist
organization willingly and committed crime on behalf
unauthorized protests of late March in Diyarbakir. DTP
administrators are facing 5 to 15 years of prison sentences.
EVRENSEL: Two thousand soldiers of the Bolu and Kayseri
Brigades have launched military operations in separate sections
of Hakkari's Yuksekova district.
YENI SAFAK: LPG tanker trucks piling up at the Habur Border gate
has been posing a grave danger in Sirnak's Silopi district.
CUMHURIYET: A group of secularists will hold a march today in
Adana.
EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM: Quarantine has been imposed in two
villages in Mus's Varto district because of foot-and-mouth
disease detected in the farm animals.
REID