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2006-06-08 10:31:00
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Consulate Adana
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SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 07, 2006

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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 07, 2006


This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 07, 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 / RADIKAL / HURRIYET / CUMHURIYET: PKK militants opened
fire and killed two soldiers patrolling the border area on foot
at Hakkari's Semdinli district. Two soldiers have been wounded.
Hurriyet daily notes that PKK members killed the soldiers by
opening fire on a military vehicle.

ZAMAN / EVRENSEL / SABAH: PKK militants stopped four cars on
a road between Tunceli and Hozat, made propaganda of the PKK to
the drivers and kidnapped the driver of an official truck with
his vehicle. Terrorists then released the driver and left the
truck at an unspecified spot where they reportedly placed TNT
explosives around a gas canister. The security officials safely
cleared the area from explosives.

SABAH: PKK members reportedly carried out an attack with
remote controlled mines on a military vehicle carrying the
children of the security officers in Tunceli's Pulumur district.
Two soldiers have been wounded.

ZAMAN / RADIKAL / YENI SAFAK / CUMHURIYET / SABAH: The
autopsy report of the Diyarbakir Forensic Authority about
killing of Selahattin Aksu and his daughter in Mardin's
Kiziltepe district on June 3 (see press summaries 06/05 and 06)
said that the girl was 7 years old in contrast with reports of a
pro-PKK newspaper yesterday, which claimed that the girl was 4
years old. There were 11 shots and 21 shot in the bodies of the
daughter and father respectively, and the guns used were two
Kalashnikovs. Zaman daily also cited allegations that the
father was a PKK defector until 1998. The fact that Aksu was a
defector turns the PKK among the suspects of the incident, reads
Radikal daily.

OZGUR GUNDEM / EVRENSEL: Ozgur Gundem daily today reported
the age of the girl who was killed with her father in Kiziltepe
as 7. The daily further claimed that Aksu, the father who was
killed, was detained a week ago by Jandarma officials that found
Cannabis plant in the field Aksu worked at. The daily cites the

allegations of the owner of the field, Davut Bozan, that
Jandarma could have placed the Cannabis sacks on the field then.
The daily further reported that Aksu participated in a protest
activity against PM Erdogan when Erdogan came to Mardin last
weekend.

RADIKAL / HURRIYET / CUMHURIYET / SABAH: Fuat Gecen, Hatay
deputy from AKP, has been dismissed from the party after being
sent to the disciplinary committee for voicing allegations about
irregularities of AKP officials with public tenders in Hatay.

HURRIYET: The daily reported that one of the suspects of a
rape incident that took place in Van's Muradiye district (see
press summary 06/06) stayed in prison for two months in the
summer of 2004 for being a member of the terrorist organization
PKK.

OZGUR GUNDEM: Members from the Delegation of the European
Commission to Turkey paid a visit to the district mayor of
Agri's Dogubeyazit district. The delegation's political
secretary asked questions about the way the state approached the

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people, how much of the reforms required in the process of
harmonization to the EU have been implemented, and about the
economic issues of the region.

OZGUR GUNDEM: Diyarbakir Chief Prosecutor's Office (DCPO)
sent the indictment it prepared about seven DTP administrators
arrested during an April 14 raid on the DTP's Nusaybin chapter
to the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals
(SCA). DCPO has already sent indictments it prepared on
separate cases of DTP Siirt Provincial Chairman Murat Avci (see
press summaries 03/30, 04/03, 04/04 and 04/07) and DTP
Diyarbakir administrators (see press summary 04/07) to the
Prosecutor's Office of the SCA. The daily said that this
development indicates that authorities are paving the way for
the closure of DTP.

HURRIYET: According to a report of the National Resources
Defense Council of the U.S. there were 90 nuclear bombs in the
Incirlik Airbase of Adana.

EVRENSEL: Security cameras will be installed chiefly around
public institutions and in many other places in Sirnak's Cizre
district. Authorities have already installed 12 of them.


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ZAMAN: BOTAS (Petroleum Pipeline Corporation) kicked off a
new project to change the pipes on its pipelines that do not
need welding in order to prevent petroleum theft from the
pipeline.

ZAMAN: Former Van Prosecutor Ferhat Sarikaya sent a
written defense to the Istanbul First Instance Court and claimed
that the indictment he prepared for the Semdinli case was not
against the law.

SABAH (GUNEY): Ministers from Turkey, Iraq, Georgia and Syria
will participate in the opening ceremony of the International
Iraqi Fair that will start today in Gaziantep.

BOLGE / EKSPRES: Farmers in the Cukurova region reacted
strongly to the buying prices announced by the Agricultural
Products Office claiming that the price announced was only
covering the costs of production.
REID