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The following news is collected from various news sources.
None of them are written by the TRH volunteers except those
that has "TRH" after the date. Murat Erder and Murat Sonmez
have translated the news items from a daily summary of
Turkish papers we get here in California. Our radio
broadcasts usually include all of the articles from Turkish
papers and/or some of the articles that follow the Turkish
papers section.

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MORE THAN 200 DEAD IN MOST VIOLENT CLASH WITH THE PKK

    10/01/92, HURRIYET-- About 400 to 500 followers of the
Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) attacked three border posts near
Semdinli. The Turkish military responded to the attack and
pursued the terrorists into  Iraqi territory.
    During the fighting 31 Turkish soldiers and more than
200 PKK militants were killed. The Turkish military
announced that PKK had suffered heavily in the battle and
lost many experienced fighters.

US OFFICIAL VOICES SUPPORT OF TURKEY IN KURDISH DISPUTE
    10/01/92, TURKIYE-- Thomas Niles, a top level aid to the
US Secretary of State voiced the US government's support of
Turkey's ongoing fight with Kurdish rebels. Niles was
responding to questions posed to him during a meeting of the
House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Relations with
Europe and the Middle East.
    Niles said that the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)was a
terrorist organization which was trying to carve out
territory in Southeastern Turkey. Niles added that the US
government was concerned by the latest escalation in
violence and had warned the Turkish government that it
should adhere to international human rights standards.

TURKEY INCREASES VISA RESTRICTIONS FOR BULGARIANS
    10/01/92, MILLIYET-- Responding to the increased number
of Bulgarians entering Turkey for work purposes, the Turkish
government announced that it will tighten visa regulations
for Bulgarian citizens.
    From now on Bulgarians visiting their kin in Turkey will
have to have a round trip ticket and a minimum of 30 dollars
for each day they will be spending in Turkey.
    Visiting visas will also be restricted for a period of
one month.

TURKISH COURT RELEASES CYPRIOT VESSEL
    10/01/92, MILLIYET-- The Istanbul State Security Court
ruled that a Cypriot vessel on which custom officials had
uncovered arms could be released and deliver it's cargo to
Iran. The decision was made because no evidence was found of
any intend to unload the arms in Turkish territory.

TURKISH TEAMS SUCCESSFUL IN EUROPEAN CUPS
    10/01/92, CUMHURIYET-- Three of the four Turkish soccer
teams participating in the European Cups advanced to the
second round. While Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor
elimated their rivals, Besiktas was not able to overcome
their Swedish opponent.

LEFT-WING TERRORIST ORGANIZATION SUFFERS SETBACK
    09/30/92, TERCUMAN-- In a raid performed by the police
in Istanbul, 14 activists of the left wing terrorist
organization Dev-Sol were captured. Threeof them were killed
during the operation.

TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH BUTROS GALI
    09/30/92, TERCUMAN-- The Foreign Minister of Turkey,
Hikmet Cetin, met with the United Nations General Secretary,
Butros Gali, in New York. The two main issues discussed
during the 50 minute meeting were the Cyprus negotiations
and the crisis in Bosnia.
    Cetin voiced Turkey's support of the Turkish Cypriot
leader, Rauf Denktas, and expressed his view that the UN
decisions regarding Bosnia were not sufficient enough to
deter the Serbs.  Cetin was in New York to attend the UN
General Assembly.

POLL SHOWS PUBLIC IS AGAINST MILITARY INTERVENTION
    09/29/92, SABAH-- According to a poll conducted by Piar-
Gallup, 90% of the populace believes that the Kurdish
problem in Turkey can be solved with a democratic
government.
    Only 10% thinks that it is necessary to have a military
government to overcome the crisis.
    While 37.8% of the people who support a democratically
elected government believe that the existing government is
capable of handling the situation, 36% think that a new
government should be formed within the existing Parliament
and 16% are in favorof having new elections.

PKK ATTACKS MILITARY POST, 4 KILLED
    09/29/92, CUMHURIYET-- Four Turkish soldiers were killed
during a Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) attack on a military
post in Uludere. In a separate incident gunmen killed a
civilian in front of his house in the province of Mardin.

PAKISTANI PRESIDENT IN ANKARA
    09/29/92, MILLIYET-- The President of Pakistan, Gulam
Ishak Han, arrived in Ankara for an official visit to
Turkey. Gulam Ishak Han was greeted at the airport by
Turkish President Turgut Ozal.

    DEMIREL MEETS WITH ABHAZIAN GROUP
    09/29/92, TURKIYE-- Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, met
with a group from Abhazia, a region of Georgia where
fighting has escalated in the last couple of weeks. The
Abhazian representatives criticized the Georgian government
for its treatment of the minorities in Georgia.

BOSNIAN PRESIDENT STOPS OVER IN ANKARA
    09/29/92, TURKIYE-- The President of Bosnia and
Herzogovina, Aliya Izzetbegovic, met with Turkish officials
briefly while flying back from a trip to Pakistan.
    During the meeting Izzetbegovic said that he did not
have much hope that the upcoming negotiations in Geneva will
produce any positive results for the Bosnian crisis.

SINGLE ALPHABET FOR TURKIC LANGUAGES
    09/28/92, TURKIYE-- An initial step towards a unified
language among Turkic speaking nations was achieved in
Ankara with the meeting of the International Turkish
Language Congress.
    A 34 letter common alphabet was proposed during the
meeting attended by all Turkic speaking republics.

SOLDIERS KILLED IN PKK RAIDS
    09/28/92, HURRIYET-- 14 Turkish soldiers were killed in
an ambush in the province of Bitlis. 2 Kurdish Workers Party
(PKK) members also died during the skirmish. In a separate
incident 4 Turkish soldiers were killed in a PKK raid on a
military post.

GERMANY SAYS TURKEY CAN USE GERMAN ARMS AGAINST KURDISH
REBELS
    09/26/92, CUMHURIYET-- Turkish officials were happy with
the German government's announcement that Turkey could use
arms purchased from Germany in its fight against the Kurdish
rebel group, the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Turkish
officials said that they were aware of this but it was good
to have a public announcement.

IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA

    09/26/92, HURRIYET-- The Turkish Foreign Minister,
Hikmet Cetin, said that it was highly probable for Turkey
and Armenia to set up diplomatic ties in the near future.
Cetin made this announcement after a meeting with the
Armenian President, Petrosyan.

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ISSUES WARNING
    09/26/92, HURRIYET-- In a first announcement of it's
kind the National Security Council (NSC) warned public
institutions against supporting the acts of the Kurdish
Wokers Party (PKK).
    The NSC announcement specifically singled out the
Kurdish dominated left wing party, the Peoples Labor Party
(HEP)and said that any institution that helped the PKK will
be closed down.

AZERBAIJANI, ARMENIAN FORCES ACCUSE EACH OTHER OF CONTINUING
ATTACKS
     MOSCOW (SEPT. 26) - Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in
and around the war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh enclave accused
each other of continuing attacks Saturday and violating a
Russian-mediated cease-fire that had been scheduled to take
effect Armenia charged that Azerbaijani forces were
attacking settlements inside Nagorno Karabakh and along the
Armenian border throughout the day Saturday, killing two
people and leaving a number of wounded, the independent
Interfax news agency said.
    Azerbaijan, meanwhile, accused Armenian fighters of
shelling Azerbaijani territory on several fronts.
    Armenia and Azerbaijan, both former Soviet republics,
were to stop shooting at midnight Friday in accordance with
a truce signed a week ago by the two warring sides' defense
ministers in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
    The accord, which Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev
helped mediate, is the latest of a number of short-lived
cease-fires negotiated during the four-year conflict which
has claimed about 2,500 lives.
    Nagorno-Karabakh is a mostly Christian Armenian enclave
inside predominately Muslim Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan and the
neighboring republic of Armenia have been struggling over
the enclave even when both republics were part of the now
defunct Soviet Union. Armenia and Azerbaijan, now
independent, are part of the Commonwealth of Independent
States.
    Nagorno-Karabakh meanwhile voted last year to become
independent from Azerbaijan in a referendum declared illegal
by Baku.
    Alongside the latest cease-fire agreement,
representatives from Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan had
reached agreement on withdrawal of both sides' forces, a
prisoner-of-war exchange, a ban on combat flights, creation
of a 6-mile wide security corridor and the introduction of
C.I. S. observers into the area.
    There had been earlier reports that the cease-fire was
broadly holding despite minor clashes, and the Russian
Defense Minister had even dispatched six observers to the
conflict zone to monitor the truce, the Russian news agency
Itar-Tass said.
    But reports that the fighting had ended Saturday
appeared premature.
    Both countries accused each other of shelling across the
Azerbaijani- Armenian border in the area around the Lachin
road. Armenian militants earlier this year had seized that
mountainous road, which serves as Nagorno Karabakh's
lifeline across Azerbaijani territory to Armenia.
    The shelling near the road wounded eight people in the
village of Kornidzor in the Goris district of southern
Armenia near the Azerbaijani border. Two people were killed
and several wounded in the Krasnoselsk district of western
Armenia.
    Azerbaijan also accused Armenian fighters of shelling
the Azerbaijani town of Agdam, just north of the enclave.
    Interfax, quoting reports from the Nagorno Karabakh
regional authorities, said the Azerbaijani army mounted a
barrage of artillery and ''grad'' missiles Friday night and
Saturday against Armenian settlements in the west, central
and southern districts of the enclave, causing ''significant
damage and wounded.''
    An Azerbaijani tank assault was underway Saturday
against two Armenian villages in the central and northern
districts of the enclave, with casualties on both sides,
Interfax said.

    BLAZE DESTROYS SHOPS IN OLD PART OF TURKISH TOWN
    ANKARA (SEPT. 28) - A fire destroyed 160 shops at the
old Alipasha Bazaar in the northwestern Turkish town of
Edirne early Monday, the Anadolu news agency reported.
    The Turkish army was called in to help firemen bring the
blaze under control, provincial governor Koru Engin said.
First reports said there were no casualties. The cause of
the fire was not known.

    CEASEFIRE ENDS AS ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJAN FORCES CLASH IN
KARABAKH
    MOSCOW (SEPT. 28) - Renewed heavy fighting between
Armenians and Azerbaijan forces left the latest ceasefire in
Nagorny Karabakh in tatters Monday.
    Mardakert district of Nagorny Karabakh took a heavy
shelling from Azerbaijani artillery until early Monday, the
Moscow news agency Interfax reported, while tanks had
attacked the town of Gadrut.
    The Azerbaijanis charged that the Armenians had shelled
the Agdam and Fizuli districts overnight.
    As the fighting flared late Sunday, Russian Defence
Minister Pavel Grachov called for intervention by other
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) armies or United
Nations peacekeepers to stop the war.
    The Azeri interior ministry retorted Monday that no one
had the right to deploy foreign troops inside Azerbaijan.
    The ill-fated ceasefire in Nagorny Karabakh, an enclave
inside Azerbaijan, was agreed to in the middle of this month
and was on the verge of implementation Saturday, with CIS
observers already attaching themselves to the army commands
in Yerevan and Baku.
    A two-month state of emergency declared Saturday in
Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria autonomous
republic in Russia, across the border from Georgia, was
lifted Monday by regional president Valeri Kokov.
    Demonstrators calling for the release from detention of
Yuri Shanibov, leader of the Conference of Caucasian
Mountain Peoples, attacked the government complex in Nalchik
on Saturday. Eighteen interior ministry personnel were
seriously hurt.
    Shanibov had been arrested on criminal charges.
    In Moscow, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze met
his Russian counterpart, Boris Yeltsin, in an effort to
defuse growing tension between the two countries over the
Ossetia and Abkhazia conflicts.
    As the talks started, Shevardnadze said he was keen to
salvage Russo-Georgian relations and head off the looming
conflict.

    SYRIA, IRAQ AND TURKEY DISCUSS WATER RIGHTS
    DAMASCUS (SEPT. 28) - Experts from Syria, Iraq and
Turkey began three days of talks Monday in a bid to forge an
agreement on how to divide waters of the Euphrates and
Tigris rivers among the three neighbouring countries.
    The subject has been a source of recurrent tensions
between the two Arab countries and Turkey.
    Arab diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
the talks would focus on concluding a tripartite agreement
that would regulate the flow of waters of the two rivers
amongst them.
    Topping the agenda, they said, would be efforts to
coordinate the consumption of water as well as irrigation
projects.
    Syria and Turkey are bound by two agreements signed in
Damascus in 1987 by then Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, now
Turkey's president, and former Syrian Premier Abdul Ra'uf
al-Kasem.
    The agreements called for Turkey to let flow 500 cubic
metres of water per second from the newly constructed
Giantataturk Dam.
    Attempts by Syria and Iraq lately to persuade Turkey to
increase this quantity had failed.
    Monday's meeting of the three countries' Joint Technical
Committee is the 16th since it was set up in 1982.