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TURKISH PROTESTERS CLASH WITH KURDS IN GERMANY
     BERLIN (APRIL 4) - There were violent clashes between
Turks and Kurds in several German cities Saturday as more
than 20,000 Turks demostrated to support Turkish military
action against Kurdish separatists in southeastern Turkey.
    In Stuttgart an estimated 10,000 Turkish protesters
clashed with an anti-Turkish government protest organized by
about 200 Kurds.
    Two police and several protesters were injured by stones
and ''violent fistfights,'' a Stuttgart police spokesman
said.
    Turks and Kurds also clashed on the fringes of a Turkish
demonstration in Hamburg.
    More than 20,000 Turks took to the streets Saturday in
German cities, including Berlin and Mainz.
    The German government banned arms shipments to Turkey
last month to protest Turkish military operations against
Kurds in southeast Turkey.
    More than 3,400 people have been killed since 1984 in
battles between Turkish forces and Kurdish separtists
seeking an independent state.
    German-Turkish relations are particlularly sensitive
because of the 1.5 million Turks who comprise Germany's
largest population of foreigners.

AMERICAN FIRM ANGERED BY "DISAPPEARANCE" OF $19 MILLION TO
CLEAR KUWAIT MINES
    (APRIL 6) - Dave Martin, an American businessman
involved in the clearance of explosive ordnance in Kuwait,
today issued a press statement alleging dirty business
practices here.
    Martin, the chief executive of Martin Explosives
Corporation, called a limited press conference to explain
that out of a total sum of $30 million being allocated for
the contract to clear ordnance from the area of the border
between Iraq and Kuwait known as the Turkish Sector de-
militarised zone, only $11 million is being spent on the
actual work stipulated in the contract.
    In December 5th 1991, Martin had agreed to a price of
$24 million for the work with a 10 per cent bond, in a
meeting with the Turkish main contractor. This Turkish
company had no experience of the type of work involved;
Martin's organisation was the only subcontractor, and was
engaged to carry out all work specified on the main
contract.
    The following day Martin had travelled into the de-
militarised zone in order to survey the area concerned, and
was captured by the Iraqis. While he was under detention in
Iraq a representative of his company had flown to Kuwait.
    He had no opportunity to speak to Martin, and the press
release states he was ''misinformed and misled'' into
signing ''an 11 million dollar sub-contract with an 11
million dollar cash bond'' for the same work. The Turkish
company was allocated $30 million by the Ministry of Defence
and was putting up a bond of only $4.5 million. ''This
leaves $19 million to be split among individuals that
perform no work in this contract,'' the statement adds.
    Martin has documentation to show exactly what has
happened, and also where the money has gone.
    He had intended to make this public today, but minutes
before the conference his attorney in America counselled him
to delay giving the full story for a few days, in order to
give an opportunity for matters to be regularised.
    Martin identifies the problem as being between the
Turkish company and its Kuwait agent. A further point for
concern is that the company made use of a retired Turkish
General, Ozdemir Kandemir in the negotiating stages of the
contract. The general has now returned to Turkey,
disassociating himself from the company and its activities
in relation to this contract, and saying that he feels his
good name is being threatened, according to Martin.
    ''There are people with dirty hands in this town,'' says
Martin. If there is no change, he will be making all his
documentation public on a world-wide basis.
    His statement ends, ''I feel a grievous and moral wrong
is being done to the State of Kuwait and its people. At the
same time Kuwait's present and future business climate is
being contaminated by this type of dirty business
practice.''

TURKISH PRESS BEING CENSORED AMIDST CHARGES OF AGGRAVATING
TENSIONS WITH KURDS
    ISTANBUL (APRIL 6)- With both the public and government
charging that media reports are aggravating tensions between
Kurds and Turks, distribution and printing agents here have
become more sensitive about what reaches the public's eye.
    A recent example of censorship by a distribution company
occurred last week when the Turkish Circulation Company
deemed "unpleasant" an article in the German weekly Der
Spiegel.
    The article, headlined "War Against Kurds," was not
allowed to see the light of day in Turkey, since the pages
on which it appeared were glued together by the company's
staff, whose director also ordered a "limited" distribution
of the paper.
    The article, published March 29, dealt with the clashes
between Turkish security forces and Kurdish Workers Party
(PKK) rebels in southeast Turkey during the Newroz Spring
Festival on Mar. 20-22.
    IPS was able to get a copy of the paper in which the
pages were not stuck together. In part the article read that
"during the bloody clashes in Turkey, the brutal operation
of the army against Kurdish nationalists resulted in
hundreds of casualties.
    "Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, known for his laid-
back approach, ignored the international condemnation (of
the incident) and converged on the scene with hardline army
generals."
    Berrin Erciyes, director of the Turkish Distribution
Company Duenya, said the article was in bad taste. "We are
responsible for every article before the law and this story
was rather unpleasant in content. We stuck the pages
together and distributed the issue on a limited scale."
    What was later discovered to be on "a limited scale" was
that only subscribers to the newspaper received the issue.
    However, in a fax sent yesterday to the publishers of
Der Spiegel in Hamburg, the company said only "a hundred or
so" copies of the Mar. 29 issue had been affected by the two
pages being glued together, or made unreadable by applying
black ink.
    It also denied any responsibility for gluing the pages
together, blaming individual distributors for taking this
action.
    But Burkhard Voges, director of the publication division
of Der Spiegel, is not convinced it was the fault of
individual distributors. "The small distributors do not
understand German," he said, adding "some other groups"
could have been responsible.
    Voges said between 1,000 and 1,500 copies of the news
magazine were distributed weekly by the Turkish distribution
agency to German tourists and Turks who had worked in
Germany.
    "This is the first time that Der Spiegel has been
subject to censorship in Turkey. No such incidents have been
recorded by us in the past six or seven years," Voges said.
    Turkish law holds owners of printing houses responsible
for the content of any material published. As a result, a
number of printing firms are reluctant to print dissident
local newspapers.
    Irfan Ozdizen, Istanbul's state security court attorney,
says the law does not apply to foreign publishers and
reporters, so the printing companies and distributors must
take ultimate responsibility for anything that is published.
    But sociologist and mass communications expert, Sibel
Szsoy, believes the Turkish circulation company took the
"exaggerated measures" because it found itself "trapped
between the force of the law" and its moral
responsibilities.
    "Some time ago, there was a debate about the possibility
of forestalling official censorship through self-censorship
by the press and the printing houses. What we see here is an
extreme example of how such a mechanism might be
interpreted," he said.
    Gungor Mengi, editor-in-chief of the daily Sabah, says
that while the circulation firm that censored the report is
an independent agency, it was the long arm of government at
work.
    "We have all done our best for the motherland. Some of
us got killed, and still others were stuck together like
glue," Mengi wrote Apr. 2. This was in reference to Izzet
Keser, one of the paper's reporters who was shot while
covering the clashes during the Newroz celebrations.
    There have also been other recent examples of
censorship, both by the court and by the owners of a
printing company itself.
    A widely discussed case was in late 1988, when the daily
Milliyet was banned by the state security court from
publishing a series of interviews with PKK leader Abdullah
Ocalan.
    The reporter who conducted the interview, Mehmet Ali
Birand, was also brought before the court, although no
action was taken against him.
    Then in 1990, the owners of a publishing house stopped
the press when it was discovered that the monthly
publication of the Democrat contained an interview with
Ismail Besicki, one of Turkey's most prominent researchers
on the Kurdish problem.
    Der Spiegel and a number of international daily, weekly
and monthly publications have been on the Turkish media
market for a long time. But only since the 1980's when
Turkey was integrated into the world market have these
papers have been distributed on a broader scale.

GERMANY READY TO HELP KYRGYZSTAN DEVELOP MARKET ECONOMY
    BONN (APRIL 7) - GERMANY IS READY TO HELP KYRGYZSTAN TO
DEVELOP A FREE MARKET ECONOMY AND PROMOTE COOPERATION
BETWEEN THE FORMER SOVIET CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLIC AND THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER HANS-DIETRICH
GENSCHER TOLD VISITING KYRGYZ PRESIDENT ASKAR AKAYEV AT A
MEETING ON TUESDAY.
    AKAYEV, IN HIS TURN, WELCOMED GERMAN INVESTMENTS INTO
THE REPUBLICAN ECONOMY, SAYING FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS ARE
BEING CREATED FOR THIS IN HIS COUNTRY, ACCORDING TO A
STATEMENT CIRCULATED HERE BY THE GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY.
AKAYEV INVITED GENSCHER TO VISIT KYRGYZSTAN, ACCORDING TO
THE STATEMENT.

    TURKEY TO WARN SYRIA AGAINST SUPPORTING KURDISH REBELS,
SAYS INTERIOR MINISTER
    ANKARA, TURKEY (APRIL 7) - Turkey will warn Syria to
stop supporting Kurdish rebels who have attacked Turkish
security forces for the past eight years, Interior Minister
Ismet Sezgin said Tuesday.
    Sezgin, scheduled to travel to Damascus next week, said
he would discuss the issue of Syrian support for the Kurdish
Workers Party, or PKK, which has sworn to set up an
independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.
    The minister's trip follows four days of clashes last
month between security forces and PKK rebels in the
southeast as the Kurds were celebrating Now Ruz, the
traditional New Year.
    ''I am going .. to warn the Syrians once and for all
against their support for terrorism,'' Sezgin told a local
news agency.
    Syrian support for the PKK came into focus last month
amid reports that the Kurdish rebels were training between
500 and 1,000 guerrillas in Lebanon's Syrian-controlled
Bekaa valley. The party announced it was sending 300 newly-
trained guerrillas to Turkey.
    ''What we are saying is that Syria is following a stance
which does not comply with friendly neighborly ties,''
Sezgin said.
    ''We know that the Syrian intelligence provides support
for the PKK, and we know that Syrians are helping the PKK to
amass arms and ammunition in their territory and are aiding
the militants to infiltrate into Turkey,'' he said.
    Turkish analysts said earlier that Damascus appeared to
be using the PKK rebels as a bargaining chip in its dispute
with Turkey on the amount of water Ankara allows to flow
into Syria in the Euphrates River, which originates in the
Turkish mountains.
    Sezgin, however, dismissed speculation that there would
be any bargaining during his discussions with Syrian
officials.
    ''There will be no such thing as telling them: Don't do
this, otherwise we will cut your water,'' the minister said.
    Ankara has known since 1984 that Syria was supporting
the PKK, and warned Damascus several times, he said.
    ''In any case, Syria is known as a country which
protects terrorism,'' he said. ''We want to have good
relations with the Syrians, with whom we have been living as
neighbors for the last 500 years.''
    Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Sulayman Demirel said
the PKK had a force of 10,000 trained guerrillas and an
unspecified number of supporters among the Kurds of
southeastern Turkey.
    He said the rebels had killed 1,200 people in the region
in a bid to terrify Kurds who supported the government.
    Independent reports said that since 1984, nearly 3,500
people, including PKK guerrillas, have been killed in
clashes between the rebels and security forces.
    Precise figures for the number of guerrillas killed were
not known, because the rebels usually carry away their dead
after clashes.
    Turkey boosted its forces in the region last year after
reports that the PKK had received a massive supply of arms
from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting in retaliation
for Ankara's support to the U.S.- led coalition forces in
the 1991 Gulf War.

IRAN CLAIMS IT HAS NO LINK WITH TURKISH HEZBOLLAH GROUP
    TEHRAN (APRIL 7, 1992) - The Foreign Ministry Saturday
categorically denied Iran's alleged connection with an
anonymous organization called 'Hizbollah of Turkey'.
    Turkish Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin claimed last
Thursday that the Turkish Hizbollah is basically an Iranian
organization, active in southeastern regions of the country
with the aim to overthrow the Ankara government.
    A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry here said the
allegation was ''unfounded'' and expressed surprise that
such remarks were made by a Turkish official.
    ''Although forging of realities and attributing such
charges to the Islamic Republic of Iran are common practice
of Turkey's propaganda machinery, yet it is surprising that
such baseless claims are coming from a responsible authority
of that country.''
    Apparently the Turkish government has resorted to such
tactics to deviate the public opinion from the enormous
domestic problems.
    An Istanbul weekly ''2000'e Dogru'' recently carried a
report on a Hizbollah group saying it is organized by Ankara
government to create clashes between the Muslim groups and
Kurdish Labor Party of Turkey.
    According to the weekly, members of the group are being
trained at the anti-riot centers of Turkey in Diyarbakir,
southeastern Turkey.

U.N. TROOPS MAY PULL OUT OF CYPRUS BY YEAR'S END DUE TO LACK
OF MONEY
    NICOSIA (APRIL 7)- A shortage of money may force the
United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping troops known as
UNFYCIP from Cyprus after 28 years, the U.N. reported today.
    Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali said in a
statement issued today that funding is inadequate, and
nations contributing troops are unwilling to make larger
contributions in cash as well.
    ''It seems unlikely that I shall be able to maintain
UNFYCIP in its present form beyond the end of the current
year'' the statement said.
    The Secretary General said he would examine alternatives
and report to the U.N. next month. The U.N. stationed troops
in Cyprus after the Turkish army invaded in 1974. Since then
Greek and Turkish Cypriots have lived apart, and there have
been few incidents along the buffer zone. Nicosia is now the
only capital city in the world divided by a wall.

MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENT EXHIBITION SAYS WATER RESOURCES
PRECIOUS IN GCC STATES
    DUBAI, (Apr. 7)- The first Middle East environment
exhibition opened in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this
week with experts warning that the most pressing issue for
the next decade will be how to conserve the region's
dwindling water resources.
    Population growth, industrial expansion and the far-
reaching effects of pollution and oil spills from the Gulf
war will heighten demand for already scarce water, the
experts said.
    Water demand is growing at the rate of 10 percent a year
in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states of Saudi
Arabia, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait as a result of
population and industrial expansion.
    "The Gulf has one of the highest population growth rates
in the world due to the influx of expatriate workers. They
are also diversifying their economies by developing
industry. They will put added pressure on water resources,"
said economist Ibrahim Youssef.
    Environmentalists fear the oil lakes covering 60 percent
of Kuwait may sink into the UAE's underground water table. A
reduction in rainfall in the last few years and high
evaporation rates have exacerbated the problem,
environmentalists say.
    "The Tigris and Euphrates rivers provide some relief in
the upper Gulf but during the past decade inflow from these
rivers has drastically been reduced because of massive
irrigation projects in Turkey, Iraq and Syria," said Nasser
Al Saleh, manager of the Dammam-based Saudi Fisheries Co.
    GCC officials are meeting in October to discuss ways to
ensure water supplies, UAE Electricity and Water Minister
Humaid Al Owais told the "WAM" official news agency.
    The oil-rich states are particularly vulnerable to
spills because of their heavy reliance on water from the
Persian Gulf for drinking. About 70 percent of their demand
is filled by the region's more than 100 desalination plants
which are costly to build and maintain.
    Interest in the environment has sharpened in the Gulf
after a health alarm was sounded when oil fires raged in
Kuwait for eight months. Reports of the billions of fish and
birds dying also added to the concern.
    But the clean water issue is by no means a new thing on
the states' agendas. Water became a major bargaining point
during the Middle East peace talks late last year.
    Analysts say that in the absence of a peace agreement,
countries controlling the waters of the Jordan, Tigris and
Euphrates rivers may remain in a state of permanent tension
as their populations grow and water demand increases.
    A United Nations survey has concluded that without
international agreements on water sharing, nations which do
not think they are receiving their fair share could go to
war.
    "The currency in 20 years is not going to be oil or
gold, it's going to be water," said Maneka Gandhi, India's
former environment minister, at the opening of the exhibit
yesterday.
    "Already people are fighting over it or stealing it in
our country," Gandhi said. "Each state says they will not
share their supplies with neighboring states. Politicians
are resigning over inadequate supplies."
    The Gulf oil spill has precipitated an already serious
water shortage problem in India.
    "Tankers cleaning out their bilges have already polluted
the Bay of Bengal," said Gandhi. "With the Gulf oil spill,
we are surrounded on both sides with polluted water. Seventy
percent of available water in India is polluted."
    The exhibit, which ends on Apr. 10, has drawn 100
participating countries. Some are showing high-technology
products to wealthy Gulf states which are set to spend
billions of dollars on water projects in the next five
years.
    The UAE is spending $137 million on a new desalination
plant and $900 million on other water and electricity
projects. Bahrain has earmarked $196 million on new
desalination and utilities projects.
    The UAE is also considering plans to import water by
pipeline from Turkey to Oman to supplement its annual
desalinated water production of 85 billion gallons in its 17
plants.
    Many of the participants in the exhibition are Western
environmental industries or oil companies, selling products
and technology or attending as part of a public relations
exercise.
    Some are approaching environmental problems with
"academic rhetoric," said a Gulf-based environmentalist.
    Foreign companies, selling everything from oil booms to
water filters at the exhibition, are seeking a share in the
$1.2 billion Gulf clean-up effort.

 EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK ARRIVES IN ANKARA
    ANKARA (APRIL 8) - EGYPT'S PRESIDENT HOSNI
MUBARAK ARRIVED TODAY ON A MULTINATIONAL TOUR TO BRIEF
FOREIGN  LEADERS ON THE LATEST DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO RESOLVE
LIBYA'S DISPUTE WITH THE WEST.
    MUBARAK'S VISIT FOLLOWS A MEETING BY ARAB LEAGUE
MEDIATORS WHO HAVE BEEN SEEKING A SOLUTION TO THE LIBYAN-
WESTERN CRISIS OVER TRIPOLI'S ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN THE
BOMBINGS OF TWO WESTERN CIVILIAN AIRLINERS. THE ARAB
MEDIATION HAS NOT YET ACHIEVED ANY PROGRESS.
    DURING THE VISIT, THE EGYPTIAN LEADER WILL ALSO DISCUSS
BILATERAL ISSUES, INCLUDING A DEFENSE DEAL, WITH HIS TURKISH
COUNTERPART TURGUT OZAL.
    OZAL WELCOMED MUBARAK AT ESENBOGA AIRPORT WILL  FULL
CEREMONIAL HONORS.
    "WE ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE TO SUCH EXCHANGES OF VIEWS
AND WANT TO DO IT MORE OFTEN," OZAL SAID IN A WELCOMING
SPEECH.
    MUBARAK-OZAL TALKS WILL FOCUS ON THE U.N. RESOLUTION
ADOPTED LAST WEEK TO IMPOSE AIR, ARMS SALES AND DIPLOMATIC
SANCTIONS ON TRIPOLI. THE SANCTIONS WILL TAKE EFFECT ON
APRIL 15 IF LIBYA DOES NOT COMPLY WITH A U.N. DEMAND FOR THE
SURRENDER OF TWO LIBYAN SUSPECTS IN THE 1988 BOMBING OF A
PAN AM FLIGHT THAT KILLED 270 PEOPLE.
    THE RESOLUTION ALSO URGES LIBYA TO HAND OVER FOUR OTHER
LIBYANS FOR INVESTIGATION ABOUT THE 1989 BOMBING OF A FRENCH
AIRLINER OVER NIGER, IN WHICH 171 PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
    THE DEFENSE DEAL, WHICH MUBARAK AND OZAL WILL DISCUSS IN
THEIR TALKS, WILL COST EGYPT ABOUT 1.3 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS
IN PURCHASING 46 F-16 MILITARY AIRCRAFT BUILT IN TURKEY. THE
FIRST PLANE WILL BE DELIVERED LATER THIS YEAR.
    MUBARAK WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FOREIGN MINISTER AMR
MOUSSA ON THE TOUR, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES PORTUGAL AND
TUNISIA.

TURKISH IMAMS VISIT SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN
    ALMA-ATA (APRIL 8)- "THERE IS PEACE BETWEEN CONFESSIONS
IN KAZAKHSTAN, THE NUMBER OF MOSLEM COMMUNITIES AND MOSQUES
HAS LATELY INCREASED, WHICH IS PROMOTED BY AUTHORITIES"
HALIF ALTAY, FAMOUS THEORETIC OF ISLAM, SAID BEFORE
DEPARTURE FROM ALMA-ATA ON WEDNESDAY.
    THE TURKISH IMAMS, LED BY HALIF ALTAY, WHO HAD BEEN IN
KAZAKHSTAN FOR MORE THAN ONE MONTH, VISITED KAZAKH CITIES
AND VILAGES, MET LOCAL MULLAHS AND ADDRESSED MOSLEMS THERE.
IMAMS FROM ISTANBUL AND ANKARA NOW RENDER ASSISTANCE IN
TRAINING OF THEIR KAZAKH COUNTERPARTS.

EC COMMISSION V.P. SAYS FLEXIBILITY NEEDED IN HELPING
CENTRAL, EASTERN EUROPE
    BRUSSELS, Belgium (APRIL 8)  - Western nations must be
flexible in helping Central and Eastern European countries
switch from demand to market economies, the vice president
of the European Community Commission said Wednesday.
    ''The providers of assistance must increasingly tailor
their programs to a more complex world,'' Frans Andriessen
told officials from 24 industrialized countries coordinating
support to former communist nations.
    He said the need among the recipients of aid from the
Group of 24 industrialized nations ''are now highly
differentiated, ranging from humanitarian aid to support for
the institutions of civil society.''
    ''Our action plans must evolve to fit today's more
complex reality and to provide the kind of support which
corresponds with each partner's priorities '' he said.
    Andriessen said the G-24 has offered 41 billion European
Currency Units ($51.25 billion) in aid since its inception
in late 1989.
    ''The reforming countries have shown courage and
determination, despite popular discontent at the inevitable
costs of system change,'' he said.
    Andriessen listed four conditions for economic growth
and development in the recipient countries:
    -Strengthening regional markets, which remain
economically interdependent.
    -Establishing in each country a legal framework for a
favorable climate for business and investment.
    -Continued commitment by reforming countries to sound
fiscal and monetary policies.
    -Determination to halt internal divisions and conflict
in certain countries before they jeopardize further public
welfare and economic reform.
    The G-24 includes the 12 EC countries, the six nations
of the European Free Trade Association, plus the United
States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Turkey.
    The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development also
contribute to the assistance program.
    The recipient countries are Poland, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania,
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
    The program includes financial assistance for currency
convertibility and balance of payments problems, aid to
economic restructuring and privatization emergency aid,
export credits and investment guarantees.

    EGYPTIAN PRES. VISITS TURKEY DISCUSSES U.N. SANCTIONS
AGAINST LIBYA, RELATIONS
    ANKARA (APRIL 8) - EGPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI
MUBARAK ARRIVED IN ANKARA TODAY FOR A ONE-DAY WORKING VISIT
AIMED AT EXCHANGING VIEWS ON U.N. SANCTIONS TO BE IMPOSED ON
LIBYA AND PROMOTING BILATERAL RELATIONS.
     THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT WAS GREETED AT THE ANKARA
AIRPORT BY HIS TURKISH COUNTERPART TURGUT OZAL.
     MUBARAK SAID UPON ARRIVAL THAT HE WOULD HOLD TALKS WITH
OZAL AND TURKISH PRIME MINISTER SULEYMAN DEMIREL ON REGIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AS WELL AS BILATERAL RELATIONS.
    ON HIS PART, OZAL SAID THAT TURKEY ATTACHES GREAT
IMPORTANCE TO EXCHANGING VIEWS ON REGIONAL ISSUES AND
BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH THE EGYPTIAN LEADER.
    TURKISH SOURCES SAID THAT MUBARAK WILL BRIEF ANKARA ON
THE ARAB OUTLOOK ON U.N. SANCTIONS TO BE IMPOSED ON LIBYA IF
TRIPOLI DOES NOT HAND OVER TWO LIBYANS SUSPECTED OF BLASTING
A PAN AM PLANE BEFORE APRIL 15.
    THE SOURCES SAID THAT ANKARA STRESSED THAT IT WOULD LIKE
TO SEE A PROPER SOLUTION TO THE ISSUE BEFORE THE SANCTIONS
ARE IMPLEMENTED.
     MUBARAK'S VISIT FOLLOWED A MEETING OF A SEVEN-MEMBER
ARAB LEAGUE COMMITEE IN CAIRO TUDESDAY. THE TIMING INDICATES
THAT TURKEY WILL BE INFORMED "FIRST HAND AND AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL" OF THE VIEWS OF THE ARAB STATES TOWARD THE
RESOLUTION, SAID THE  SOURCES.
     "PRESIDENT MUBARAK WILL HOLD CONSULATIONS WITH THE
TURKISH LEADERS ON THE RESOLUTION AND WILL GIVE INFORMATION
ON CAIRO'S MEDIATION EFFORTS WHICH HAVE SO FAR BEEN
UNSUCCESSFUL," A SENIOR FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL SAID.
     DURING MUBARAK'S VISIT, THE TALKS WILL ALSO BEEN
FOCUSED ON THE SALE OF EGYPTIAN ARMORED VEHICLES TO ANKARA
IN EXCHANGE FOR 46 F-16 FIGHTERS WHICH TURKEY WILL ASSEMBLE
FOR EGYPT, SAID THE SOURCES.
     THE SALE WAS BROUGHT UP DUING EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
AMR MOUSSA'S VISIT IN FEBRUARY,  BUT ANKARA HAS NOT GIVEN
DEFINITE CONSENT TO THE DEAL.
     MUBARAK IS LIKELY TO REOPEN THE SUBJECT AND ASK OZAL
FOR HIS HELP TO PULL THE DEAL THROUGH, SAID THE SOURCES.
TURKEY AND EGYPT WILL ALSO DISCUSS THE ISSUE OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN CLUB, WHICH WAS PROPOSED BY MUBARAK AS A GROUP
OF COOPERATION IN SECURITY, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FIELDS
AMONG THE COASTAL COUTRIES.
     THE SOURCES SAID THAT MAGHREB COUNTRIES, ITALY, SPAIN,
PORTUGAL AND GREECE AND TURKEY HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN
THE PROJECT.
     THE EGYPTAIN PRESIDENT, WHO IS ALSO TO VISIT PORTUGAL
AND TUNISIA, WILL LEAVE ANKARA THURSDAY MORNING.

    IRAQI RADAR TRACKING ALLIED PLANES NEAR TURKISH BORDER,
SAYS DEFENSE DEPT.
    WASHINGTON (APRIL 8)  - Iraqi radar operators who
control surface-to-air missiles have electronically tracked
allied warplanes flying armed reconnaissance missions near
the Turkish border, Defense Department officials said
Wednesday.
    The officials, who spoke under conditions of anonymity,
said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein also has moved ''a
variety'' of missiles just south of the 36th parallel. Iraqi
armed forces may not operate north of this line under the
terms of the cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War.
    The radars ''locked on'' U.S., British, French and
Turkish warjets flying armed reconnaissance missions over
north Iraq with Operation Provide Comfort, a joint allied
effort to protect Kurdish refugees, they said.
    In London, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister John Major
said that in the last 10 days, Iraq has moved anti-aircraft
missiles and associated radar units into northern Iraq,
north of the 36th parallel, threatening U.S., British and
French planes patrolling the region to protect the Kurdish
population.
    During a meeting Wednesday, Major and Gen. Colin Powell,
chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed how to
respond to the movement of the missiles, the spokeswoman
said.
    U.S. F-16 and A-10 fighters, F-111 long-range fighter-
bombers, KC-135 tankers, Turkish F-4 fighters, British
Jaguar fighters and French Mirage fighters are among the
aircraft participating in the missions out of Incirlik Air
Base in southern Turkey.
    Defense Department officials said Iraqi radar units have
tracked allied aircraft ''a number of times,'' but not on a
daily basis.
    ''I don't want you to get the impression that it's
happening every day,'' a Defense Department official said.
''But it is happening, and even once is too much. ... It has
not been taken lightly - we can't afford any mistakes.''
    The officials, who declined to comment on ''rules of
engagement'' governing when a pilot is allowed to pull the
trigger, said nevertheless that allied fliers ''will protect
themselves.''
    ''Firing on radar is a step that could be taken,'' he
said. ''But it has not been taken.''
    The U.S. F-4G Wild Weasel is specifically designed to
ferret out radar sites and destroy them with Harm and Shrike
missiles that home in on electronic emanations. It was used
with deadly accuracy during the Persian Gulf War.
    Generally, U.S. Air Force rules of engagement call for
pilots to first take evasive action when they detect radar
tracking. The next step is to attack the radar site, but
radar tracking of of allied planes or movement of missiles
is not specifically addressed in the cease-fire agreement
with Iraq.
    The missiles Saddam has moved near the northern towns of
Mosul and Erbil may be used to suppress a Kurdish revolt,
Defense Department officials said. Iraq in recent weeks has
renewed artillery attacks against Kurdish rebel enclaves in
the north.
    Iraqi 155mm cannons have been aimed at villages along
the Great Zab River, specifically at a bridge in the town of
Aski Kalak used to supply Kurdish rebels seeking to
overthrow Saddam, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
said last week.
    ''We characterize the situation as one of continued
troop movements and skirmishes between Iraqi forces and
Kurds,'' he said. ''I wouldn't characterize it at this point
as a major offensive.''
    Iraq also has ''reinforced its positions'' near Kirkuk
and Mosul, he said, and U.N. peacekeeping forces have
evacuated 400 Kurds from the area near the bridge in Aski
Kalak.
    Allied forces established a security zone north of the
36th parallel following a failed Kurdish rebellion after the
Persian Gulf War. It was designed to bolster the cofidence
of 1.5 million Kurdish refugees in Iran and Turkey so that
they would return home.
    Iraqi warplanes Sunday flew for the first time since
Operation Desert Storm. Defense Department spokesman Pete
Williams said, however, they were just training flights and
did not violate peace accords.
    In a related development, the commander of a U.S. Navy
battle group in the Persian Gulf said Wednesday his men were
closely monitoring the renewed flights by the Iraqi air
force over the southern Iraq-Iran border.
    Rear Adm. Douglas Katz, commander of the USS America
battle group, said in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that his
ships were carefully observing events and awaiting the
outcome of discussions in Washington on whether the Iraqi
air force could defend itself north of the Persian Gulf War
cease-fire line if it is attacked again by Iran.
    ''We're monitoring their aircraft flights like we always
do,'' Katz said. ''We're just watching them more closely.
We're still at war. This is the finality of Operation Desert
Storm. We're still not sure what Iraq is going to do.''

    TURKEY IMPOSES CURFEW AFTER UNREST IN SILVAN PROVINCE
    DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY (APRIL 8) - Turkish authorities in
the southeast Anatolian province of Silvan imposed an
indefinite curfew Wednesday after riots broke out when two
people were shot dead on an open road.
    The Anadolu news agency reported that all slo'q had
closed in Silvan whilst more than 3,000 Kurds were hoping to
hold a burial ceremony for the two men cut down by
unidentified gunmen earlier. The gunmen escaped.
    The authorities reportedly used forcE t/ jreak up a
crowd of people who had crowded round them, firing on and
wounding one man in the process. The situation was described
as remaining tense.
    Unal Erkan, regional governor responsible for ten
predominantly Kurdish regions presently tn 'er a state of
emergency, said he understood the two men who had died were
members of the militant separatist Kurdish Workers Party
(PKK).
    He said they had been killed by the Hezbollah Shiite
organisation and that PKK members had killed one Hezbollah
member and wounded another in retaliation.
    The curfew had been imposed, he said, to facilitate the
reimposition of order and the tracing those responsible for
the shootings.

    KYRGYZSTAN PRESIDENT ASKAR AKAYEV SATISFIED WITH TALKS
WITH GERMAN LEADERS
    BONN (APRIL 8) - PRESIDENT ASKAR AKAYEV OF THE REPUBLIC
OF KYRGYZSTAN, CURRENTLY HERE ON A WORKING VISIT, HAS
EXPRESSED SATISFACTION WITH THE RESULTS OF HIS TALKS HERE
WITH GERMAN LEADERS: PRESIDENT RICHARD VON WEIZSAECKER,
CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL, AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
HANS-DIETRICH GENSCHER.
    IN AN INTERVIEW WITH RUSSIAN TELEVISION AND ITAR-TASS,
THE LEADER OF KYRGYZSTAN SAID THE PURPOSE OF HIS FIRST VISIT
WAS TO MARK THE BEGINNING OF SHAPING AND DEVELOPING
ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND OTHER VERSATILE CONTACTS
BETWEEN HIS REPUBLIC AND GERMANY.
    THE ECONOMY OF KYRGYZSTAN, AKAYEV SAID, IS ORIENTED
TOWARDS THE SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIALS. THIS ORIENTATION SHOULD
BE CHANGED. GERMANY HAS UP-TO-DATE TECHNOLOGIES AND
EQUIPMENT. KYRGYZSTAN WOULD LIKE TO DRAW GERMAN INVESTMENTS
IN ITS ECONOMY AND GET EQUIPMENT FOR THE PROCESSING BRANCHES
OF INDUSTRY.
    HAVING STATED THAT GERMANY ALSO SHOWS INTEREST IN
KYRGYZSTAN, AKAYEV SAID THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR SUPPORTED
MANY PROPOSALS OF KYRGYZSTAN AND DECIDED TO IMMEDIATELY FORM
A DELEGATION CONSISTING OF AGRICULTURE, MINING, ENGINEERING
AND MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALISTS TO BE SENT TO BISHKEK
TO PREPARE AN AGREEMENT ON LARGE-SCALE ECONOMIC COOPERATION.
KOHL ACCEPTED AN INVITATION TO VISIT KYRGYZSTAN THIS YEAR.
AKAYEV EXPRESSED HOPE THAT INTER-STATE TREATIES WOULD BE
SIGNED DURING THE VISIT.
    AKAYEV'S CONVICTION IS THAT MANY ETHNIC GERMANS WHO LIVE
IN KYRGYZSTAN OPT TO REMAIN IN THE REPUBLIC, NOT TO EMIGRATE
TO GERMANY. AT THE SAME TIME, AKAYEV SAID, KYRGYZSTAN WOULD
LIKE TO RETAIN NOT ONLY GERMANS BUT MEMBERS OF ALL THE OTHER
ETHNIC MINORITIES AS WELL.

    THREE KILLED IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY CLASH INVOLVING
KURDS
    ISTANBUL (APRIL 8) - TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED TODAY
IN A CLASH BETWEEN THE KURDISH WORKERS' PARTY (PKK) AND THE
HEZBOLLAH ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY, THE STATE-
RUN TELEVISION REPORTED.
    THE TV QUOTED IBRAHIM SAHIN, GOVERNOR OF DIYARBAKIR
PROVINCE, AS SAYING THAT TWO CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND ONE
INJURED IN THE CLASH.
    BUT THE GOVERNOR DID NOT SAY WHY PKK AND THE HEZBOLLAH,
A PREVIOUSLY UNKOWN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST GROUP, CLASHED
WITH EACH OTHER.
    ALSO TODAY, GUNMEN FROM ONE OF THE TWO GROUPS ATTACKED A
SHOP IN THE TOWN WITH RIFLES, KILLING ONE PERSON AND WOUNDED
ANOTHER, SAID THE OFFICIAL.
    THE GOVERNOR ALSO SAID THAT A CURFEW WAS IMPOSED IN THE
TOWN TO PROVENT FURTHER CLASHES.
    SAHIN TOLD REPORTERS THAT OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, SIX
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND FOUR WOUNDED IN CLASHES BETWEEN
THE TWO GROUPS.
    THE PKK HAS BEEN WAGING A SEPARATIST WAR SINCE 1984 IN
SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY, WHERE HALF OF TURKEY'S 12 MILLION
ETHNIC KURDS LIVE.

    TURKISH PREMIER SENDS MESSAGE TO PLO LEADER YASSER
ARAFAT
    ISTANBUL (APRIL 8) - PRIME MINISTER SULEYMAN
DEMIREL SENT A MESSAGE TODAY TO PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER
ARAFAT AFTER HIS PLANE CRASHED IN A DESERT IN SOUTHERN LIBYA
TUESDAY NIGHT.
    "I AM PLEASED TO LEARN THAT ARAFAT ESCAPED UNHARMED FROM
THE PLANE ACCIDENT. I CONVEY MY WISHES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY
TO ARAFAT AND STRESS, ON THIS OCCASION, THE BROTHERHOOD AND
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE TURKISH AND PALESTINIAN PEOPLE,"
DEMIREL SAID IN HIS MESSAGE.
    THE PALESTINIAN EMBASSY IN ANKARA SAID ARAFAT AND HIS
DELEGATION HAD BEEN RESCUED AND TAKEN TO A NEARBY
PALESTINIAN TRAINING BASE.
    THE EMBASSY'S STATEMENT SAID ARAFAT'S PLANE WAS FORCED
TO CRASH- LAND IN THE LIBYAN DESERT DUE TO AN UNEXPECTED
SANDSTORM.
    "WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE TURKISH PEOPLE AND FOREIGN
MINISTER HIKMET CETIN FOR THEIR CLOSE INTEREST," SAID THE
STATEMENT.
    A LIBYAN AIR FORCE PLANE FOUND THE SURVIVERS IN THE
LIBYAN DESERT AT DAWN. AFTER BEING RUSHED TO A NEARBY
HOSPITAL FOR A MEDICAL CHECK-UP, ARAFAT ARRIVED IN THE
LIBYAN CAPITAL OF TRIPOLI THIS AFTERNOON, SUFFERING ONLY
SLIGHT BRUISES IN THE CRASH.

    ONE DEAD, EIGHT INJURED IN ATTACK ON TURKISH POLICE BUS
IN BORNOVA
    IZMIR (APRIL 9) - One person died Thursday in a
terrorist attack on a Turkish police bus in Bornova near
Izmir, the Anatmla' news agency reported.
    Eight people were injured, three seriously, when gunmen
opeoe ' fire on the vehicle as it went past.
    Four people suspected of carrying out the attack were
reported to have been arrested, while police were searching
for further suspects.

    EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK ENDS ANKARA VISIT
    ISTANBUL (APRIL 9) - EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI
MUBARAK LEFT ANKARA TODAY AFTER TALKS WITH TURKISH LEADERS
ON BILATERAL TIES AND REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES.
    BEFORE MUBARAK'S DEPARTURE, TURKISH PRESIDENT TURGUT
OZAL SAID AT ESENBOGA AIRPORT IN ANKARA THAT HE AND MUBARAK
HAD HELD "PRODUCTIVE" TALKS ON BILATERAL TIES AND REGIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES.
    OZAL SAID THAT THEY DISCUSSED THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE
PROCESS, THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION AFTER THE
GULF WAR AS WELL AS THE DISPUTE BETWEEN LIBYA AND THE WEST
OVER THE 1988 BOMBING OF A PAN AM FLIGHT.
    TURKISH SOURCES SAID THAT MUBARAK BRIEFED OZAL ABOUT
ARABS' VIEWPOINTS ON U.N. SANCTIONS TO BE IMPOSED ON LIBYA
IF TRIPOLI DOES NOT HAND OVER TWO LIBYAN SUSPECTS BY APRIL
15.
    A U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION, ADOPTED ON MARCH 31,
WILL IMOPOSE AIR, ARMS SALES AND DIPLOMATIC SANCTIONS
AGAINST LIBYA UNLESS THE TWO LIBYANS CHARGED WITH BLOWING UP
THE PAN AM FLIGHT OVER LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND, ARE EXTRADITED
FOR TRIAL. THE BOMBING KILLED 270 PEOPLE.
    THE SOURCES SAID ANKARA IS CONCERNED OVER THE POSSIBLE
ESCALATION OF THE LIBYAN-WESTERN CRISIS AS LIBYA HAS SHOWED
NO SIGN OF COMPLIANCE.
    THE TURKISH PRESIDENT ALSO SAID THAT THE TWO LEADERS
DISCUSSED THE ISSUE OF ESTABLISHING THE MUBARAK-PROPOSED
MEDITERRANEAN CLUB FOR PROMOTING COOPERATION IN SECURITY,
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FIELDS AMONG THE MEDITERRANEAN
COUNTRIES.
    THE TURKISH SOURCES SAID THAT THE TALKS BETWEEN THE TWO
LEADERS ALSO COVERED A MILITARY DEAL, UNDER WHICH CAIRO WILL
BUY FROM TURKEY 46 F-16 FIGHTERS.
    THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ALSO SAID THAT HE HAS INVITE OZAL
TO VISIT CAIRO. "WE CAN FURTHER DISCUSS SOME REGIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES THERE," SAID MUBARAK.
    MUBARAK'S VISIT TO ANKARA IS THE FIRST LEG OF A
MULTINATIONAL TOUR WHICH ALSO INCLUDES PORTUGAL AND TUNISIA.

    FOUR KURDISH REBELS KILLED IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY
    ISTANBUL (APRIL 9) - FOUR KURDISH REBELS OF THE
OUTLAWED KURDISH WORKERS' PARTY (PKK) WERE KILLED IN THREE
CLASHES  WITH SECURITY FORCES IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY, THE
REGIONAL GOVERNOR'S OFFICE SAID TODAY.
    THE CLASHES OCCURRED NEAR THE TOWN OF BESNI AND IN THE
VILLAGES OF CUKURDERE AND GORUMLU WEDNESDAY, THE OFFICE
SAID.
    ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, PKK REBELS ATTACKED HOUSES AND
OFFICES IN THE TOWN OF IDIL, WOUNDING TWO CIVILIANS, THE
SEMI-OFFICIAL ANATOLIA NEWS AGENCY REPORTED TODAY.
    THE GOVERNMENT TODAY DECLARED IT WOULD NOT TOLERATE ANY
ACTIVITIES THAT AIM TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY BY THE KURDISH
REBELS WHO HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR AN INDEPENDENT STATE SINCE
1984.
    MORE THAN 50 KURDS WERE KILLED LAST MONTH IN THE
SOUTHEAST DURING THREE DAYS OF KURDISH DEMONSTRATIONS WHICH
TURNED INTO CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES.
    ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN INTENSIFIED
SINCE LAST MONTH WHEN THE PKK VOWED TO STEP UP ITS SPRING
OFFENSIVE. SINCE THEN, OVER 100 KURDS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN
THE FIGHTING.

    TURKS KILL FOUR KURDISH PKK PARTY REBELS, ANATOLIAN NEWS
SAYS
    ANKARA (APRIL 9) -Four Kurdish PKK Party rebels were
killed yesterday in three clashes with security forces in
southeastern Turkey, the Anatolian news agency said today.
The report said police seized 11 RPG launchers and 107
grenades, 103 hand grenades, three machine guns, 14
Kalashnikovs and 10 anti-tank mines during a roadblock
search at Cizre.

    TURKEY TO REACH ISLAMIC REPUBLICS WITH SATELLITE TV
    ANKARA (APRIL 10) -Turkey is launching a satellite TV
channel to reach the new Muslim republics of the former
Soviet Union, Turkish TV said today. The audience will total
more than 55 million when the programmes start next month,
the agency said. The republics have given up a Moscow TV
channel and allocated it to the Turkish satellite, a TV
executive was quoted as saying. Premier Suleyman Demirel is
to visit each of the republics from April 27 to sign
broadcasting agreements, Turkish television reported.

    GREEK PREMIER BYRON POLYDORAS TO VISIT TURKEY IN JUNE
    ATHENS (APRIL 10) - GREEK GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN
BYRON POLYDORAS TODAY CONFIRMED THAT PREMIER CONSTANTINE
MITSOTAKIS WOULD VISIT TURKEY IN JUNE.
    POLYDORAS SAID THAT MITSOTAKIS HAD AGREED IN PRINCIPLE
TO GO TO ISTANBUL IN JUNE FOR THE SIGNING OF AN AGREEMENT BY
THE COUNTRIES ATTENDING THE 'BLACK SEA INITIATIVE.'
    HE SAID THAT TURKISH PRIME MINISTER SULEIMAN DEMIREL HAS
SENT A GOODWILL MESSAGE TO HIS GREEK COUNTERPART CONSTANTINE
MITSOTAKIS.
    THE MESSAGE WAS CONVEYED BY MS. TANSU CILLER, TURKISH
MINISTER IN CHARGE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS WHO IS IN ATHENS
ATTENDING THE 'EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN FORUM.'

    EXPLOSION ROCKS TURKISH CONSULATE IN AZERBAIJAN
    TABRIZ (APRIL 10) - A small package of explosives went
off in front of the Turkish Consulate General in this
northwestern provincial capital Wednesday night, smashing
window panes but causing no casualties.
    An anonymous caller rang up the IRNA office here
introducing himself as the spokesman for a group called
'Shahin,' and claimed responsibility for the explosion.
    He said: ''This explosion was in protest to the Turkish
government's measure against Iraqi Kurds and against putting
a Turkish air base at the disposal of the U.S. forces.''
    He warned that in case the Turkish government failed to
revise its anti-Kurdish policy, ''Shahin will deal blows on
all Turkish interests inside this country and in other
countries over the world, including the Turkish embassy in
Tehran.''
    A security official in Tabriz confirming the explosion
said the explosive was carbide planted in a pipe and placed
in the opposite direction of the street in front of the
Turkish Consulate building.
    The explosion made a low noise similar to that of
shooting from a G3 machine gun, he added.
    Tabriz police said that disciplinary forces were
seriously following the case, and there was no reason for
concern about the safety of the staff of the Consulate
General.

    CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES KILL THREE KURDISH
GUERRILLAS IN TURKEY
    ANKARA (APRIL 10) - THREE KURDISH GUERRILLAS WERE
KILLED IN TWO SEPARATE CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES IN
SOUTHEAST TURKEY, LOCAL PRESS QUOTED REGIONAL GOVERNOR'S
OFFICE AS SAYING.
      THE CLASHES OCCURRED ON THURSDAY IN THE TOWN OF  DICLE
AND NEAR THE VILLAGE OF YESILKAYA, THE OFFICE SAID.
      IN  ANOTHER  DEVELOPMENT,  SECURITY  FORCES  RECOVERED
THE BODIES OF TWO GUERRILLAS DURING A SEARCH IN DOGANLI
VILLAGE, THE SITE OF AN EARLIER CLASH WITH GUERRILLAS.
     KURDISH GUERRILLAS OPERATING IN THE REGION REPORTEDLY
BELONG TO THE OUTLAWED KURDISH LABOR PARTY (PKK).
     THE  PARTY  HAS  BEEN  FIGHTING  SINCE 1984 FOR A
SEPARATIST KURDISH STATE IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY, WHERE ABOUT
HALF  OF  THE COUNTRY'S 12 MILLION ETHNIC KURDS LIVE.
      MORE  THAN  3,000 PEOPLE, INCLUDING CIVILIANS,
SOLDIERS AND REBELS, HAVE BEEN KILLED OVER THE PAST EIGHT
YEARS.

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