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06ADANA134
2006-06-07 05:38:00
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Consulate Adana
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SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 06, 2006
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SIPDIS
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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 06, 2006
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 06, 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
HURRIYET: The security forces, who continued military
operations following the PKK members' killing of one soldier and
wounding 8 more on Bingol-Elazig road (see press summary 06/05),
killed three PKK members.
HURRIYET / EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM / CUMHURIYET: An armored
vehicle had an accident in Tunceli and one police officer has
been killed.
EVRENSEL: DTP (Democratic Society Party) decided that it will
annul the co-chairmanship model.
RADIKAL / HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM / CUMHURIYET / YENI SAFAK:
The Hurriyet and Yeni Safak dailies carried in their front page
coverage the outrage that was sparked among people in Van's
Muradiye district when a Swiss national female biker who was
touring the world with a friend on a bicycle was attacked and
raped by five men in the district six days ago. Five hundred
people, infuriated by that incident, gathered at the district
and, in vigilante-style, targeted the assailants as they were
being brought out of the prosecutor's office in the district.
Security forces were not able to calm down the crowd, and 40
anti-riot team members had to be sent to the district.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): One person was killed in fighting that
broke out between two families in Mardin's Kiziltepe district.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): As a result of the joint operations of
the Diyarbakir, Mersin and Van police, seventy kilograms of
hashish was seized in the diesel-fuel tank of a truck which set
off from Van. Two people have been detained.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / ZAMAN: Upon receiving a tip-off, Adana
Jandarma Command teams found in a truck 17 tons of crude oil
stolen from pipelines in Ceyhan.
ZAMAN: Recent deployment of military units at the border
areas with Iran reportedly decreased the level of fuel-oil
smuggling from Iran to Turkey.
EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM / ZAMAN: Evrensel and Ozgur Gundem
dailies report that Selahattin Aksu, who was shot dead with his
daughter with 92 shots fired from two firearms in Mardin's
Kiziltepe district (see press summary 06/05),was detained one
week ago at a jandarma station in the district on charges that
Cannabis plant was found in his field. Aksu was allegedly
threatened by a senior officer there then.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported that
Kurdish youth have been going to the mountains to join the ranks
of the PKK because of the oppression the state has been exerting
in the southeastern region. Reportedly, last month, 100 young
persons, who can no longer put up with such oppression, have
joined the PKK.
EVRENSEL: Women in Adana held a march to demand from
authorities to withdraw the draft penal code, to stop the
military operations and to draw attention to the democratic
rights of the Kurdish people.
CUMHURIYET / RADIKAL / ZAMAN / BOLGE / EKSPRES / OZGUR GUNDEM:
Municipality workers using the wrong pesticide against
mosquitoes at Ceyhan district of Adana have poisoned 39 people,
all of whom have been hospitalized.
ZAMAN: The daily reported an article on allegations of
Greenpeace General Director Gerd Leypold on alleged nuclear
weapons kept at the Incirlik Airbase in Adana.
REID
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 06, 2006
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 06, 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
HURRIYET: The security forces, who continued military
operations following the PKK members' killing of one soldier and
wounding 8 more on Bingol-Elazig road (see press summary 06/05),
killed three PKK members.
HURRIYET / EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM / CUMHURIYET: An armored
vehicle had an accident in Tunceli and one police officer has
been killed.
EVRENSEL: DTP (Democratic Society Party) decided that it will
annul the co-chairmanship model.
RADIKAL / HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM / CUMHURIYET / YENI SAFAK:
The Hurriyet and Yeni Safak dailies carried in their front page
coverage the outrage that was sparked among people in Van's
Muradiye district when a Swiss national female biker who was
touring the world with a friend on a bicycle was attacked and
raped by five men in the district six days ago. Five hundred
people, infuriated by that incident, gathered at the district
and, in vigilante-style, targeted the assailants as they were
being brought out of the prosecutor's office in the district.
Security forces were not able to calm down the crowd, and 40
anti-riot team members had to be sent to the district.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): One person was killed in fighting that
broke out between two families in Mardin's Kiziltepe district.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): As a result of the joint operations of
the Diyarbakir, Mersin and Van police, seventy kilograms of
hashish was seized in the diesel-fuel tank of a truck which set
off from Van. Two people have been detained.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / ZAMAN: Upon receiving a tip-off, Adana
Jandarma Command teams found in a truck 17 tons of crude oil
stolen from pipelines in Ceyhan.
ZAMAN: Recent deployment of military units at the border
areas with Iran reportedly decreased the level of fuel-oil
smuggling from Iran to Turkey.
EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM / ZAMAN: Evrensel and Ozgur Gundem
dailies report that Selahattin Aksu, who was shot dead with his
daughter with 92 shots fired from two firearms in Mardin's
Kiziltepe district (see press summary 06/05),was detained one
week ago at a jandarma station in the district on charges that
Cannabis plant was found in his field. Aksu was allegedly
threatened by a senior officer there then.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported that
Kurdish youth have been going to the mountains to join the ranks
of the PKK because of the oppression the state has been exerting
in the southeastern region. Reportedly, last month, 100 young
persons, who can no longer put up with such oppression, have
joined the PKK.
EVRENSEL: Women in Adana held a march to demand from
authorities to withdraw the draft penal code, to stop the
military operations and to draw attention to the democratic
rights of the Kurdish people.
CUMHURIYET / RADIKAL / ZAMAN / BOLGE / EKSPRES / OZGUR GUNDEM:
Municipality workers using the wrong pesticide against
mosquitoes at Ceyhan district of Adana have poisoned 39 people,
all of whom have been hospitalized.
ZAMAN: The daily reported an article on allegations of
Greenpeace General Director Gerd Leypold on alleged nuclear
weapons kept at the Incirlik Airbase in Adana.
REID