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(1) The Department of State, in its 1995 re-
port entitled ‘‘Country Reports on Human Rights’’,
documented a systematic and widespread pattern of
human rights abuses by the Government of Turkey.
According to the portion of the report relating to
Turkey, ‘‘the human rights situation in Turkey
worsened significantly in 1994’’.
(2) Amnesty International, Human Rights
Watch, the United Nations Committee Against Tor-
ture, the European Parliament, the International
Human Rights Law Group, the Lawyers Committee
for Human Rights, Physicians Without Frontiers,
Freedom House, the Humanitarian Law Project, the
Turkish Human Rights Associations, and other
human rights monitoring organizations have docu-
mented extensive and continuing human rights
abuses by the Government of Turkey, including the
widespread use of torture.
(3) The actions of the Government of Turkey
are in violation of several international human rights
agreements to which Turkey is a party, including
the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Final Act of the Conference on Security
and Cooperation in Europe, and the European Con-
vention on Human Rights.
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(4) The Government of Turkey continues to
deny the existence of its 15,000,000 Kurdish citizens
and has used military force to deny them an iden-
tity, destroying more than 2,000 Kurdish villages
and uprooting more than 2,000,000 Kurds.
(5) Turkey continues its illegal military occupa-
tion of Cyprus and has obstructed efforts to reach
a just and lasting resolution to the division of Cy-
prus and the massive uprooting of Greek Cypriots
caused by the 1974 invasion by Turkey of Cyprus.
(6) The Government of Turkey continues to
blockade Armenia, obstructing the delivery of Amer-
ican and international humanitarian relief supplies.
(7) Turkey continues to place prohibitive re-
strictions on the religious leadership of Christian
communities within Turkey and has failed to protect
these communities adequately from acts of violence
and vandalism.
(8) The Congress, in the fiscal year 1995 budg-
et for foreign assistance, withheld 10 percent of the
principal amount of direct loans to Turkey because
of that country’s human rights record and the situa-
tion in Cyprus. The Government of Turkey has stat-
ed that it would reject any United States assistance
tied to its human rights record, which, according to
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independent human rights monitoring organizations,
has continued to deteriorate.
SEC. 3. RESTRICTIONS ON ASSISTANCE FOR TURKEY.
(a) RESTRICTIONS.—Of the funds made available for
fiscal year 1996 for assistance to the Government of Tur-
key under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the
Arms Export Control Act, the President shall withhold,
first from grant assistance, if any, and then from loan as-
sistance, $500,000 for each day that Turkey does not
meet the conditions of section 4.
(b) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of subsection (a) if the President determines that it
is in the national security interest of the United States
to do so.
SEC. 4. CONDITIONS.
The conditions of this section are met when the Presi-
dent certifies to Congress that the Government of Tur-
key—
(1) allows free and unfettered monitoring of the
human rights situation within its territory by domes-
tic and international human rights monitoring orga-
nizations, including but not limited to, the Turkish
Human Rights Association, the Conference on Secu-
rity and Cooperation in Europe, Amnesty Inter-
national, and Human Rights Watch;
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(2) recognizes the civil, cultural, and human
rights of its Kurdish citizens, ceases its military op-
erations against Kurdish civilians, and takes demon-
strable steps toward a peaceful resolution of the
Kurdish issue;
(3) takes demonstrable steps toward the total
withdrawal of its military forces from Cyprus and
demonstrates its support for a settlement recogniz-
ing the sovereignty, independence, and territorial in-
tegrity of Cyprus, with a constitutional democracy
based on majority rule, the rule of law, and the pro-
tection of minority rights;
(4) completely removes its blockade of United
States and international assistance to Armenia; and
(5) removes official restrictions on Christian
churches and schools and offers sufficient protection
against acts of violence and harassment directed at
members of the clergy, and offers sufficient protec-
tion against acts of vandalism directed at church
and school property.
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