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KURDE
INSTITUT
DE PARIS
Information and liaison bulletin
N°268
JULY 2007The publication of this Bulletin enjoys a subsidy
from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGCID)
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E-mail: bulletin@fikp.orgContents:
• ANKARA AND TEHERAN AGAIN THREATEN IRAQI KURDISTAN
• THE YEZIDI COMMUNITY FALLS VICTIM TO ONE OF
THE WORLD’S WORST BOMB ATTACKS SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001
• TURKEY: ABDULLAH GUL IS ELECTED PRESIDENT BY THE
TURKISH PARLIAMENT
• THE IRAQI PRIME GOES MINISTER ON OFFICIAL VISITS
TO TURKEY AND IRAN
• IRAN: THE CAMPAIGN OF SUPPORT FOR THE TWO KURDISH
JOURNALISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
• A FRESH NATIONAL RECONCILIATION PROCESS IN IRAQ
HAS STARTED
• AS WELL AS …
ANKARA AND TEHERAN AGAIN lagers from these Kurdistan moun-
tains have thus fled from the area to
F
THREATEN IRAQI KURDISTAN escape shelling by the Iranian Army.
“Some 150 families have fled eight
villages. We are worried about the
OR fear of a Turkish military to their villages to find shelter in the situation in this area. If this shelling
incursion, dozens of Christian valley, out of range of the Iranian continues we may have to decree a
families who have sought artillery. On 25 August an Iranian state of emergency”, declared Hus-
refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan have Army helicopter crashed in the sein Ahmed, head of the Qalaa Diza
again been obliged to resume their Qandil mountains, in North=West district on 22 August. “The artillery
exodus. In June Iraq had officially Iran, near the Iraqi borders, causing fired eight shots today at Hajj
protested about Turkish shelling of the deaths of six Guardians of the Umran, on Mount Qandil. Two
villages in the Sharansh area of Revolution (the regime’s religious shells fell during the night”, pointed
Duhok Province. For over a year, militia). The Kurdish fighters out the official responsible for Hajj
this area has been the scene of regu- claimed that the aircraft had Umran.
lar clashes between the Iranian exploded through landing on a
Army and Kurdish fighters of the mine while the Iranian Army On 30Auguat, Iraq publicly
Free Life in Kurdistan Party blamed the weather. Qalaa Diza, in demanded that Iran put an end to
(PEJAK), a group close to the PKK. Iraqi Kurdistan territory, is close to its regular shelling of border areas.
Since the crash of an Iranian heli- the Iranian province of Western Baghdad warned that pursuing this
copter, many Kurdish civilians liv- Azerbaijan, mainly populated by shelling would affect relations
ing on Mount Qandil have decided Kurds. Several hundreds of vil- between the two neighbours. The• 2 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 269 • August 2007
artillery shelling “has unfortunately easy reach of Irbil airport, the US State Department makes no dif-
become a daily occurrence”, Kempinski luxury hotel chain is ference between Kurdistan and the
deplored the Iraqi Foreign Minister, building one its hotels while the rest of Iraq, strongly advising
Hoshyar Zebari. “We recently sum- new Naz housing estate is going Americans against going there.
moned the Iranian Ambassador and up with 14 story blocks of flats, all Other countries like Denmark,
handed him a letter of protest”. Iraq fitted with Broadband Internet Japan, Austria Sweden and Holland
“demands the immediate stopping access. have, nevertheless struck Kurdistan
of these attacks”, which hit innocent off their list of dangerous destina-
people and “cause material damage The Investment Council, a govern- tions, rejoices Felah Mustafa Bakir,
to property, to the area’s environ- ment agency, is said to have head of the Kurdistan regional gov-
ment and has also obliged many approved projects valued at over ernment’s external relations depart-
people to flee from their homes”. 3.5 billion dollars so far. However, ment. In May, the British tour oper-
the advice given by various foreign ator, Hinterland Travel, organised a
However, Kurdistan continues to be governments to their citizens who journey to the three Kurdish
a welcoming territory for many wish to travel abroad are hindering provinces for adventurous tourist in
refugees. Sunni Arabs are flocking Kurdistan’s development. Thus the their fifties and sixties.
to Suleimaniyah to escape the vio-
lence and find a peaceful haven
within the Kurdish community, THE YEZIDI COMMUNITY FALLS VICTIM
which had been so savagely TO ONE OF THE WORLD’S WORST BOMB
repressed by the Saddam Hussein ATTACKS SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001
A
regime. Hundreds of families are
crowing into a makeshift camp on
the outskirts of this town. “In the
last 18 months 3,672 families, that is CCORDING to official statis- beginning of the war in 2003, struck
about 18,500 people, have settled in tics, with 1,773 deaths Iraqi the Kurdish religious minority, the
Suleimaniyah. There are also some civilians losses increased by Yezidis. Over 500 deaths were
12,000 single men who have come to 7% in August. This assess- recorded by the Red Crescent, while
find work”, explained Mahmud ment, collected from different min- the local authorities published the
Othman, the official responsible for istries, was 1,653 the month before. figures of 344 killed and 70 disap-
keeping census the town’s census Official figures also record 87 killed peared. Four lorries, loaded with
records. According to him, 70% of in the ranks of the police and the explosives, were blown up in the
the arrivals are Sunni Arabs. Volun- national armed forces, whereas 224 villages of al-Khataniyah and al-
tary bodies, like the Red Crescent had been killed in July. For its part, Adnaniyah, two villages in the Sin-
and Kurdish charity organisations, the US Army lost 81 men in August, jar region, in the Western part of
have provided tents, water food a similar figure to that for July, Nineveh Province, some 370 Km
clothing and blankets. Over a hun- according to a body count made by North of Baghdad, essentially
dred of these refugees hold a doc- the Internet site icasualties.org. inhabited by Yezidis. The Ministry’s
torate and 5,500 are students, Between April and June the US Director of operations, General
according to the census. Army recorded about a hundred Abdel Karim Khalaf declared that
deaths a month. Washington the lorries were stuffed with two
Moreover, Nimrud Yukhan, the imputes this drop to the arrival of tons of explosives. These two
Minister of Tourism, whose ministry 30,000 reinforcements. In all, 3,700 attacks, imputed to the Iraqi branch
has 417 officials, is nursing ambi- US soldiers have been killed in Iraq of the Al-Qaida organisation by the
tious projects of more hotels and air- since the start of the conflict. As far US Army, wiped out whole families
lines. Yukhan’s ambitions and even as “terrorists” are concerned, the of Yezidis.
the very existence of a Ministry of Iraqi government reports 472 killed
Tourism, testify to the great confi- and 2,019 taken prisoner in August. These attacks are the most murder-
dence in the future of Kurdistan, as ous since the overthrow of Saddam
are the ambitious building projects The most murderous attack that the Hussein four years ago — but they
that are being envisaged. Within country has experienced since the are also the most murderous in then° 269 •August 2007 Information and liaison bulletin • 3 •
world since the 2,973 deaths in the strength of US forces in Iraq has the AKP, and the controversy over
United States on 11 September 2001. fluctuated considerably, the previ- whether a man whose wife wears
The Yezidi community, estimated at ous peak was in January 2005, at this Islamic headdress can claim to
about 500,000, is a Kurdish-speak- 161,000, and corresponded with the hold high office is not new. The
ing religious minority living in Kur- holding of the general elections in Army regularly purges its ranks of
distan. Iraq. islamists and officers’ wives cannot
wear the headscarf. As against this,
Furthermore, four Kurdish police- On the other hand, on 29 August the the wives of a number of AKP lead-
men were killed and eight others Mehdi’s Army, Moqtada al-Sadr’s ers do wear this, like the wife of
injured in Diyala Province by militia, announced the suspension Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo-
“friendly fire” from the US Air of all “its armed actions” for a peri- gan. According to a survey carried
Force. Kurdish forces have been od of six months. Moqtada al-Sadr out by the mass circulation daily
deployed in Diyala Province, Main- ordered the militia to suspend its Hurriyet, the wives of 325 (out of
ly North of Baquba, at the request of activities following clashes between 550) members of the new Parlia-
the coalition forces to help fight ter- different Shiite groups that caused ment resulting from the 22 July elec-
rorism. The Kurdistan regional gov- 52 deaths in the holy city of Kerbala. tions are so veiled. However, Mrs
ernment has called for an enquiry. Some armed men attacked the Gul will not be the first to first to
The US has, at the moment the offices of the powerful Shiite Party, enter the Cankaya Presidential
strongest force in Iraq since the start the Supreme Council of the Islamic Palace wearing this headgear. In
of the war with some 162,000 troops Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) in five of fact, Latife Ussaki, Atatuk’s short-
deployed in the country, according the Country’s cities and set fire to lived wife, used to cover her head in
to the Pentagon. Although the some of them. the early days of the Republic,
founded in 1923, before removing it
following the secularisation laws.
TURKEY: ABDULLAH GUL IS ELECTED
O
PRESIDENT BY THE TURKISH PARLIAMENT Before proceeding to the election of
the Turkish President, the new Par-
liament met, for the first time, on 4
N 28 August, the Turkish place of this Islamic symbol in a August for the official swearing in
Parliament finally, but unsur- State that claims to be strictly secu- ceremony. In 1991, in the course of
prisingly, elected the former lar. Hayrunisa Gul, 27 years married this ceremony, Leyla Zana, the first
Turkish Foreign Minister, to Abdullah Gul, have applied to Kurdish woman to become a Mem-
Abdullah Gul, President of the the European Human Rights Court, ber of Parliament, had stupefied the
Turkish Republic. On the strength of when her husband was Foreign other members by addressing a
its election victory, the Justice and Minister, because she was barred message of peace to them in Kur-
Development Party (AKP), on 13 from access to University because of dish. Three years later, Mrs Zana
August, again proposed him as can- her headscarf. The proceedings and three of her colleagues were
didate to the Turkish Presidency. were finally dropped in 2004 after sentenced to 15 years imprisonment
Last spring, this nomination, which the Court dismissed the case of a (they served ten) on the grounds of
had already provoked a serious veiled young Turkish woman who “supporting a terrorist organisa-
institutional crisis between the AKP was protesting at this ban, which is tion”. None of the new Kurdish
government and the Turkish Army, strictly enforced in Turkey. The Guls Members repeated Mrs. Zana’s chal-
led to the early election — won with have a daughter, Kubra, who also lenge. The head of the Party for a
an absolute majority of seats by the wears the headscarf. For four years Democratic Society, (DTP), Ahmet
AKP on 22 July. she was one of the girls who hid this Turk, stated on the CNN-Turk news
bit of cloth under a wig — a way channel: “We wish to take part in
Turkey’s future “first lady” will adopted by militant Moslem stu- drawing up a peaceful and democ-
wear the Islamic headscarf, which dents to bye-pass the ban on wear- ratic process (…) in a spirit of concil-
is, however, forbidden in the Uni- ing the headscarf at University. This iation and dialogue: it is in this spirit
versities and public offices. This will veiling, a strong symbol of identity that we wish to carry out our mis-
renew the controversy over the amongst the rank and file electors of sion in parliament”. In the House,• 4 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 269 • August 2007
imitated by the other DTP Mem- against the PKK. Koksal Toptan, a clashes in Siirt Province, near the
bers, he even went so far as go to moderate conservative, the govern- locality of Pervari. Two other Kur-
shake hands with the president of ment’s candidate as the most likely dish fighters were killed the day
the National Action Party (MHP — to reconcile the nationalist opposi- before in Van Province. One of the
ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist) tion, was elected Speaker of the bloodiest clashes took place in a
Devlet Bahçeli, although he sup- House on 9 August at the first bal- rural area near Uludere, in Sirnak
ports the idea of a pitiless war lot. province. Two Turkish soldiers and
10 Kurdish fighters, including two
women, were killed in Hakkari
THE IRAQI PRIME MINISTER GOES ON AN Province. On 12 August, twelve
O
OFFICIAL VISITS TO TURKEY AND IRAN Turkish soldiers were injured by the
explosion of as remote controlled
mine on a road in Siirt Province, as
N 7 August the Iraqi Prime details of the agreement with the two Army vehicles were passing.
Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, Turkish authorities. Since the Iraqi On 7 August a Turkish soldier was
arrived in Ankara accompa- Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki has killed by the explosion of another
nied by a 30-man delegation, refused to sign the agreement until mine near Yuksekova in Hakkari
including Foreign Minister Hoshyar it has been put to the vote in Parlia- Province and on 5 August a PKK
Zebari. Mr. Maliki met his Turkish ment. fighter was shot down by security
opposite number, Recep Tayyip forces in Sirnak Province while
Erdogan and the President of For his part, on 7 August, the Prime three Turkish soldiers were killed by
Turkey, Ahmet Necdet Sezer before Minister of the Kurdistan regional the explosion of yet another mine in
leaving Turkey so as to visit Iran a government, Nechirvan Barzani, Diyarbekir Province.
day later. Turkey, whose Building minimised the disagreement with
and Public Works and transport Ankara. The Turkish troops that Some 1,500 members of special units
companies are already active in were in the Kurdish enclave were of the gendarmerie, which is a
Iraq, hopes to invest in the Iraqi fuel there with the consent of the local quasi-military force in Turkey, have
and power sectors. According to the authorities, Mr. Barzani declared in been carrying out combing opera-
Turkish Minister for Fuel and a press conference at Irbil, the tions in Tunceli Province, with heli-
Power, Hilmi Guler, Turkey and regional capital. Mr. Barzani urged copter gunship support. On 3
Iraq are going to build electric the Kurdish political leaders to dis- August two PKK fighters were
power stations, one in Iraq and the cuss with Turkey how to end the killed and two soldiers wounded in
other in Turkey. The agreement also differences over the PKK. “We hope two days during these operations
covers cooperation on the develop- that this visit (by Mr. Maliki) will On the other hand, some 350 mem-
ment and renovation of electric mark a beginning of a resolution of bers of an elite Turkish anti-PKK
power lines as well as in the area of all the problems. We are ready to commando penetrated into Iraqi
oil prospecting. discuss with Turkey whenever it Kurdistan territory during the night
wants” he added. of 5 August. Some villages near the
The Turkish authorities also asked town of Zakho were targeted by
the head of the Baghdad govern- The clashes have intensified since Turkish artillery without, however,
ment to act against the Kurdish the beginning of the year and injuring anyone.
fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Turkey has deployed forces all
Party (PKK) based in Iraq, even along the border and is threatening Furthermore, Nuri al-Maliki also
though Mr. Maliki’s room for to launch a military operation into visited Iran for discussions on secu-
manoeuvre is considerably reduced Iraqi Kurdistan. The Turkish Army rity in Iraq. He arrived in Teheran
by the security situation in Iraq and has been demanding political autho- on 8 August, two days after the first
by the crisis facing his government. risation for launching a cross-border meeting, in Baghdad, of an Iraqi-
Turkey and Iraq have agreed to sign operation since April, so as to carry Americano-Iranian commission set
a document envisaging fighting the out an incursion into Iraqi Kurdis- up for improving co-operation for
PKK. An Iraq delegation is later tan. On 29 August, eight Kurdish stabilising the country. This com-
expected in Ankara to discuss fighters were killed fighting in mission was set up in the wake ofn° 269 •August 2007 Information and liaison bulletin • 5 •
determining discussions held in and other high Iranian officials. Kurdish origin”, declared the head
Baghdad in May and June between Mahmud Ahmedinjad told the of the French Foreign Office in a
the Americans and the Iranians. Iraqi Prime Minister that Teheran communiqué. “France, fully
They were meetings held at the and Baghdad shared “a heavy engaged with its European partners
highest level between representa- responsibility” for establishing in favour of the universal abolition
tives of the two countries, which peace and security in the region. of capital punishment, calls on the
have had no diplomatic relations His arrival in Teheran coincided Iranian authorities not to carry out
since the Islamic Revolution in with an international meeting on this sentence”, he added. Mr.
1979. The Iraqi Prime Minister met, security in Iraq that opened in Kouchner also called on Teheran to
in particular, the Iranian President Damascus. “observe the freedom of the Press,
in accordance with its international
obligations”. On 3 August, the
IRAN: THE CAMPAIGN OF SUPPORT FOR European Union called on Teheran
THE TWO KURDISH JOURNALISTS not to execute the two Kurdish jour-
O
SENTENCED TO DEATH nalists and ensure them “an equi-
table trial”, according to a commu-
niqué from the Portuguese presi-
N 1 August, the organisation that they were in a very weak state”. dency of the Union. “The E.U. urges
for the defence of press free- Mr. Nikhbakht also sent his obser- the Islamic Republic of Iran to stay
dom, Reporters sans Fron- vations to the Association for the the execution of Messrs. Adnan
tières (RSF), launched a peti- defence of prisoners’ rights, who Hassanpur and Abdolvahed Boti-
tion to demand the release of two explained, in a communiqué that mar and ensure that the two jour-
Kurdish journalists, sentenced to “their demands are slight and easily nalist receive an equitable trial, in
death in Iran. On 16 July the Iranian satisfied. They wish to be trans- accordance with the International
courts had confirmed the sentence ferred to the common quarters of Pact regarding civil and political
of hanging passed on Abdelvahed the prison and be able to see their rights, which Iran has ratified”, the
Botimar and Adnan Hassanpur “for families and lawyers”. Campaigns communiqué points out. More gen-
being moharb”, a Persian word of support have already been erally, the E.U. says it is “deeply
meaning “enemy of God”. RSF also launched in Kurdistan. On 1 concerned by the series of public
demanded the release of the jour- August, about fifteen Turkish collective executions that have taken
nalist Farshad Gobanpur, detained Human Rights activists protested in place in several regions of Iran last
on 31 July for “unrevealed” reasons front of the Iranian consulate in month as well as by the growing
and of the former chief editor of the Istanbul. The demonstrators, number of death sentences being
daily paper Jomhuriat Emadoldin brought together by the Association passed”. On 2 August, the Italian
Baghi, sentenced on the same day to for Human Rights (IHD) read out a Foreign Ministry made public its
three years imprisonment for communiqué in front of the con- “great anxiety” and also indicated
“actions against national security” sulate criticising the tortures to that it was “very concerned” at the
and for “publicity favourable to which the journalists had been sub- death sentences against the two
opponents of the regime”. Accord- jected. Kurdish journalists in a commu-
ing to the organisation, eleven jour- niqué. “The Ministry of Foreign
nalists and Internet dissidents are at The death sentence on these two Affairs has informed the assistant
present imprisoned in Iran. The was also criticised by the United chargé d'affaires of the Iran
petition is open for supporting sig- States, the European Union, and Embassy in Rome, Hossein Mafi
natures on http://www.ref.org. The France. On 1 August the French For- Moghaddam, during a meeting that
two Kurdish journalists began a eign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, took place at the Ministry, of Italy’s
hunger strike over two months ago, condemned the death sentences great anxiety regarding the execu-
according to one of their lawyers. passed on the two journalists and tions which have taken place in the
“They are on a water only strike”, asked that the sentences be not car- last few weeks in the country”, indi-
declared Mr. Nikhbakht on 20 ried out. “I learned with the greatest cated the office of Massimo
August who saw the condemned concern about the death sentence d’Alema. The Ministry deplores
men two days earlier and “realised passed on two Iranian journalists of “the reference also made to the• 6 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 269 • August 2007
accusations of homosexuality that in the world. Two men, found guilty Under this agreement, a Bill will be
occur in the charge sheets” of peo- of assassinating a senior Iranian placed before Parliament to replace
ple who have been hanged. On 15 magistrate in 2005 were hanged in the “de-Baathification law” adopted
August, the United States also indi- Teheran on 2 August before a crowd in 2003 on Washington’s initiative,
cated that the death sentences on come to see the first public execu- and thus allow former members of
the two journalists indicated tion in the capital for five years. Ten the Baath Party to re-enlist, with
Teheran’s determination to “flout its other people had been executed the senior posts, in the Army, the Civil
citizens’ rights ”. In a communiqué, day before in Iran, seven of them in Service and other institutions. The
the State Department spokesman, public at Mashhad (North-Eastern rehabilitation of former Baathists
Sean McCormack, denounced the Iran). An Iranian, sentenced to had been strongly demanded by the
sentence passed. “By sentencing the death for “murder of his mother-in- Sunni Arab political bloc. The Iraqi
journalists Adnan Hassanpur and law” was hanged at Babolsar, leaders also accepted the organisa-
the ecological activist Abdolvahed according to the daily paper Ete- tion of regional elections and the
Botimar to death after a biased trial, mead Melli. The condemned man continuing of the dialogue on ques-
the Iranian government once again was hanged in the town’s Bassij tions that divide them like constitu-
shows its determination to flout its Square. This execution brings the tional reform and the Oil Bill. The
citizens’ rights and to ignore the number of executions of those sen- presence of Vice-President Hashe-
basic principals of acceptable behav- tenced to at least 157 since the mi, a pillar of the Sunni Arab bloc
iour at international level”, declared beginning of the year, according to does not, however, necessarily mean
Mr. McCormack. AFP’s calculations, based on news the return of the Sunni Arab bloc to
published in the press and witness- the government. The Iraqi govern-
At least 177 people were executed in es. Treason, espionage, murder, ment has been paralysed for several
2006, according to Amnesty Interna- armed attacks, drug trafficking, months by internal quarrels
tional, which points out that Iran is, rape, sodomy, adultery prostitution between Sunni and Shiite Arabs,
along with China and Pakistan, one and apostasy are all liable to face which provoked the walk out of 17
of the three countries that make the capital punishment in the Islamic of the 40 ministers. On 6 August, the
greatest use of capital punishment Republic. ministers of the Iraqi National List,
secular Arabs close to the former
Prime Minister Iyad Alawi
A FRESH NATIONAL RECONCILIATION announced they were boycotting the
O
PROCESS IN IRAQ HAS STARTED government. On 1 August, the six
Ministers of the Front, the principal
Sunni Arab bloc in the government,
N 27 August, the Office of the out. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, with 44 of the 275 seats, had handed
Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, Iraqi President Jalal Tlabani, in their resignation to the Prime
announced in a communiqué Vice=President Tareq al-Hashemi, Minister following a month-long
that the Shiite, Sunni Arab Vice-President Adel Abdel Mehdi disagreement. Even earlier, in June,
and Kurdish leaders of Iraq had and the President Of the Kurdistan five ministers allied to the radical
committed themselves to relaunch Regional Government, Massud Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, had
the process of national reconciliation Barzani, made a rare appearance on resigned. On 16 August, the Shiite
by accepting to resolve the key television following the commu- and Kurdish parties had decided to
problems that divide them. niqué. This latest effort to extract the form a new alliance to try and bring
country from the political crisis fol- Iraq out of the political crisis, but
The leaders have agreed to reduce lows intense pressure from the without securing the immediate
restrictions on ex-members of for- American authorities and two participation of the Sunni Arabs.
mer dictator Saddam Hussein’s weeks before the presentation to The new alliance consists of four
Baath Party and to organise regional Congress of a report on Iraq by the parties and has 108 of the 275 seats
elections (one of Washington’s US Ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan in Parliament.
demands) and to help the security Crocker and the head of the coali-
forces put an end to the reigning tion forces on the spot, General Meanwhile, on 10 August, under
violence, the communiqué points David Petraeus. pressure from the United States ton° 269 •August 2007 Information and liaison bulletin • 7 •
commit itself further to stabilising attack that had killed 22 UN staff, sible cooperation, would relax the
Iraq, the United Nations accepted to including its special envoy to Iraq, US sanctions to which it is subjected
play an increased role. Resolution the Brazilian Sergio Vieira de Mello, or put pressure on Israel for it to
1770, unanimously adopted by the the organisation’s staff had reacted accept the return of the Golan to
UN Security Council, gives the UN in advance to resolution 1770. Syria.
Assistance Mission in Iraq
(UNAMI) a wider field of action, One of the architects of Resolution • A CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN
“should circumstances permit”, in 1770, the US Ambassador, Zalmay KURDISTAN. On 30 August, the
various domains: political, diplo- Khalilzad, pointed out that the Suleimaniyah Provincial Director of
matic, humanitarian, Human unanimous vote showed “that a Health, Sherko Abdullah,
Rights. These activities are the page has been turned in the history announced that six people had died
daily routine of the international of the UN Security Council’s role in of a cholera epidemic in the
organisation, but usually in post- Iraq”, referring to the latter ’s Province and that the region’s hospi-
conflict situations. Of the 300 mem- refusal to legitimise the 2003 mili- tals were treating 2,000 suspects. In
bers of the international UNAMI tary intervention. “This resolution the course of just one day, on 28 July,
staff, the number authorised to stresses the increasingly shared 250 people showing symptoms such
reside in Iraq is limited to 65. At feeling that everything that hap- as diarrhoea and vomiting were
present only 55 really live there, 5 of pens in Iraq has consequences for taken into hospital and 102 others
them in Irbil and 50 in Baghdad, the whole world, and not just for were admitted to hospitals the next
inside the Green Zone. Still trauma- the region”, added the American day, according to the Director.
tised by the 19 August 2003 bomb diplomat.
In Geneva, the World Health Organ-
isation (WHO) pointed out that 35
cases had been confirmed by local
AS WELL AS … laboratories. “We have found two
sources of the epidemic, one at
Suleimaniyah and the other at
• DAMASCUS WELCOMES AN accusing Syria of allowing armed Kirkuk”, indicated the WHO spe-
activists to infiltrate into Iraq
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON cialist on cholera, speaking of
through its territory. “major epidemic”. According to Mr.
STABILISATION IN IRAQ, WITH
Abdullah, “the principal cause (of
THE UNUSUAL PARTICIPATION The Syrian delegation included the epidemic) is the bad quality of
OF THE UNITED STATES. On 9 Mohammad Mansura, head of the the water”. He nevertheless pointed
August, Damascus welcomed an Intelligence service responsible for out that most of the patients were
international meeting on the stabili- political security. Iran sent a group not suffering from cholera. “The
sation of the situation in Iraq, with of 15 diplomats and Intelligence hospitals I Suleimaniyah are treat-
the quite exceptional participation officers and the United States team ing cases of diarrhoea. But cases of
of the United States. Apart from the of diplomats from the Damascus diarrhoea are not necessarily cases
United States, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Baghdad Embassies. of cholera. We are taking every pre-
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and caution to prevent the illness from
Iran also took part in this meeting Since the intervention in Iraq, nearly spreading”, he stressed.
which dealt with the securing of the a million Iraqis have sought refuge
360 Km Iraqi-Syrian border and the in Syria, including a considerable
• A MAJOR MINISTERIAL
controlling of the networks of Iraqi number of former agents of Saddam
Baathists settled on Syrian soil since Hussein’s security services, who RESHUFFLE IN IRAN. The Iranian
the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Baghdad accuses of lending a hand President, Mahmud Ahmedinjad,
This meeting is the logical follow up to the Iraqi guerrilla. Some diplo- has replaced his Ministers of Oil and
of an earlier meeting of Syrian and matic sources in Damascus consider of Industry in a major reshuffle, con-
American leaders that took place in that till now Syria has remained sidered to be a means of strengthen-
May on the fringes of a conference vague about its policy in Iraq, hop- ing his hold on the industrial sectors
in Egypt. Washington has been ing that the US, in return for its pos- in which are concentrated the bulk• 8 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 269 • August 2007
of the country’s revenue. According a militant lesbian living in Canada. failures to observe the Islamic head-
to the official news agency IRNA, “I was informed that the press dress, any outward signs of Western
the Oil Minister, Kazem Vaziri supervision organism had ordered culture, particularly young people
Mahaneh, and the Industry Minis- the ban but we have not yet received wearing clothes bearing foreign
ter, Ali Reza Tahmasebi handed in official notification”, stated the inscriptions and Western hair styles.
their resignation and were replaced Director of the paper, Mehdi Rah-
by ministers who are just responsi- manian on 6 August. “We published Moreover, on 5 August, the media
ble for dealing with current ques- an interview of an Iranian women reported that a star host on the State
tions. However, on 13 August, the expatriate. They told us that this television channel had been laid off
bulk of the country’s major dailies woman had moral problems. She is after having criticised the Teheran
affirmed that Mr. Ahmedinjad had homosexual and boasts of it in her Chief of Police during a very popu-
in fact, fired the two ministers. The blog. We just interviewed her as a lar programme. This police chief has
State media gave no reason for the poet”, added Mr. Rahmanian. In its been waging a campaign against
alleged dismissals, limiting them- 4 August issue, Sharghi (East) had women whose heads are not suffi-
selves to publishing the Presidency’s published full-page interview, enti- ciently covered. Two weeks ago
official communiqué, which merely tled “feminist language”, of Saghi Farzad Hassani indulged in sharp
said that the Iranian President had Ghahreman, an Iranian poetess liv- criticism of the capital’s police chief,
appointed the President of the ing in Canada. The conservative Ahmad Reza Radan. The presenter
National Oil Company (NIOC), daily Kayhan then attacked Mrs. severely criticised the methods of
Sholam Hossein Nozeri as minister Ghahreman, describing her as a the police who had just launched a
in charge of Oil and Ali Akbar “counter-revolutionary in flight” campaign against Iranian women
Mehrabian, director of a chain of who ran “the organisation of Iranian who insufficiently covered their
Teheran shops as Minister in charge homosexuals”. Sharghi had started heads or who had western hair-
of Industry. to appear again in May, after a nine- styles.
month ban for having published a
Elected in 2005 on the basis of a caricature of President Mahmud • TURKEY-E.U.: CYPRUS EX-
populist programme, Ahmedinjad Ahmedinjad that was considered
POSES TURKISH THREATS FOL-
had, amongst election other promis- insulting.
es, promised to rid the country of LOWING INTERNATIONAL INVI-
what he had described as the oil Furthermore on 9 August the offi- TATIONS TO TENDER REGARD-
“mafias”. The Iranian President cial news agency IRNA reported ING OFF-SHORE OIL PROS-
was, however, forced to accept that the Iranian police had arrested PECTING ROUND THE ISLAND.
Sholam Nozeri Mahaneh in that 20 young girls and boys during a On 11 August, the Cyprus Foreign
post after parliament had thrice mixed party at Karaj (West of Minister, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
rejected the candidates he had pro- Teheran), a few days after the arrest declared that Turkey’s threats
posed for the post. Kazem was of 230 people during a secret concert regarding the exploration of oil-
recently accused by a former mem- of rock music, described as “satan- fields by Cyprus in Eastern Mediter-
ber of the government of having ic” in the same town. Over 110 of ranean waters could hinder Turkey’s
concluded a contract to sell petrol to those taking part were transferred to attaining membership of the Euro-
India and Pakistan for too low a the local prison. Consuming alco- pean Union. Turkey’s behaviour will
price. holic drinks and mixed parties are have serious repercussions on its
forbidden in Iran. The Iranian Chief application for membership,
• THE IRANIAN REGIME of Police, General Esmail Ahmadi warned the head of Cyprus’s foreign
Mogadam, declared that the cam- service, indicating that it had
STARTS A VAST MORALISA-
paign of moralisation, launched last already had important conse-
TION CAMPAIGN AGAINST April, was going to be pursued with quences regarding the Fuel and
FAILURES TO OBSERVE ISLAM- force “because of the support pro- power chapter of the negotiations.
IC RULES. Iran closed down, for vided by the population”, reported
the second time in a year, the coun- the Mehr news agency. The Iranian Turkey is opposed to Cyprus’s
try’s major moderate daily, Shargh, police have been carrying out a vast action in granting licences for oil
after it published an interview with campaign since last April against and gas exploration in the Mediter-n° 269 •August 2007 Information and liaison bulletin • 9 • ranean, arguing that the Turkish- tion projects in 11 blocks defined relations with the Republic of Cypriot regime in Northern Cyprus by Cyprus off shore of the island. Cyprus, which is recognised by the that had the right to deciding about According to the local media, the international community, and the submarine wealth. Mrs. Kozak- Turkish research vessel Yunus S has joined the European Union in May ou-Marcoullis informed the United recently been sailing in the area for 2004. Cyprus has been divided States and the E.U. about Turkish Mediterranean exploration. Turkey since its invasion by the Turkish threats against the international is said to have send a letter to the Army in 1974, which followed a invitation to tender put out by UN General Secretary, Ban Ki- failed coup d’état by some Nicosia, the first cycle of which is moon, denouncing the fact that the Greek nationalist, backed by the due to end on 16 August next. The Greek-Cypriots were trying to “cre- Colonels Junta then in power in firms interested can submit their ate a fait accompli” in the region. Athens, aiming at annexing Cyprus bids for exploration and exploita- Ankara does not have diplomatic to Greece.
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Les pays arabes divisés devant l'offre américaine
1" août 2007
de vente d'armes
M"' Rice au Moyen-Orient pour contrer
l'influence de l'Iran
dénoncer un projet « pyromane », qui
BEYROUTH
vise à « semer la peur entre les Etats de la
CORRESPONDANTE
région et à les diviser, dans le but de com¬ Téhéran dénonce
La secrétaire d'Etat américaine, un projet
Condoleezza Rice, et le secrétaire à mercialiser les armes américaines ».
Aucun des pays destinataires de l'offre « pyromane »,
la défense, Robert Gates, étaient qui vise
attendus mardi 31 juillet à Charm américaine n'avait encore réagi lundi. Ils
attendaient d'y voir plus clair lors de la à « semer la peur
El-Cheikh en Egypte. Dans leurs bagages, entre les Etats
un projet de vente d'armes d'un montant réunion de Charm El-Cheikh, à l'issue de
laquelle M"" Rice devait se rendre en Ara¬ de la région »
de près de 20 milliards de dollars (près de
14 milliards d'euros) aux six- pays mem¬ bie Saoudite et M. Gates au
bres du Conseil de coopération du Golfe Koweït, dont l'émir. Cheikh
(CCG, Arabie Saoudite, Koweït, Qatar, Sabah Ai-Ahmed Al-Jaber suscitent aussi de fortes inquiétudes. Ses
Emirats arabes unis, Bahreïn et Oman). Al-Sabah, a effectué dimanche velléités d'étendre son influence au sein
M"" Rice, qui devait s'entretenir mardi une visite éclair à Djedda, où des communautés chiites autochtones, et
avec les ministres des affaires étrangères ses entretiens avec le roi Abdal¬ de se livrer à un prosélytisme reUgieux
de ces pays, ainsi que leur collègue égyp¬ lah Ben Abdel Aziz ont porté dans une région à écrasante majorité sun¬
tien, avait été très claire, la veille, en décla¬ sur l'offre américaine. nite n'ont rien de rassurant.
rant peu avant son départ des Etats-Unis Pour les pays arabes du Gol¬ Mais tant avec la Syrie qu'avec l'Iran,
que l'objectif de ce projet est d'* aider les fe, seules Al-Qaida et les orga¬ les Etats arabes du Golfe ont opté poiu- la
forces de modération et de soutenir une stra¬ nisations qui lui sont apparen¬ voie diplomatique, en suivant leur chef
tégie plus globale visant à confréries influen¬
tées sont des ermemis à abattre. En revan¬ de file saoudien. Après avoir tenté, sans
ces négatives d'Al-Qaida, du Hedjollah
che, et quelles que soient les suspicions et succès, d'amadouer Damas, notamment
[libanais], de la Syrie et de l'Iran ». les divergences réelles qui les opposent à à propos du Liban, Riyad s'est distancé
Un projet qui laisse perplexes les pays la Syrie, à l'Iran, ou encore au Hezbollah, du régime syrien, laissant la Ligue arabe
de la région concernés par la « sollicitu¬ les pays membres du Conseil de coopéra¬ prendre la relève. Ses ouvertures envers
de » américaine. Ces derniers, à la diffé¬ tion du Golfe cherchent à trouver des la République islamique ont connu un
rence des Etats-Unis, ne traitent pas en solutions poUtiques, malgré des pous¬ succès mitigé. EUes ont permis de cir¬
bloc de la même manière hostile les orga¬ sées de tension épisodiques plus ou conscrire un conflit armé menaçant
nisations et les pays désignés par . moins graves. Leur objectif est de préve¬ entre simnites et chiites au Liban, mais
nir de nouveaux foyers de conflit dans elles n'ont pas enrayé le soutien présumé
M Rice comme des «adversaires» et de Téhéran à des groupes armés chiites
confondus dans une même mise en qua¬ tme région déjà fortement perturbée par
la situation en Irak, en Palestine et au irakiens contre leurs concitoyens sunni¬
rantaine par les Etats-Unis poiu" « terro¬ tes. L'Iran s'est par ailleurs engagé à res¬
risme » ou « soutien au terrorisme ». Liban. C'est ce qui dicte leur refus d'une
éventuelle intervention militaire améri¬ ter à distance des communautés chiites
L'Iran qui s'est senti visé par le projet de la rive opposée du Golfe. Ces engage¬
de vente d'armes américain a été le pre¬ caine contre l'Iran soupçonné d'avoir
orienté son programme nucléaire à des ments résisteront- ils toutefois à un svu-ar-
mier à réagir. Téhéran s'est empressé de mement des monarchies arabes voisines
fins militaires.
Vue sous cet angle, l'offre américaine que l'Iran pourrait considérer comme un
Inquiétudes de la coalition casus belli ?
gouvernementale allemande est embarrassante. La refuser
reviendrait à contrarier un pays MOUNANAÏM
allié, les Etats-Unis, à se priver
Des responsables de la coalition au pou-
de moyens de dissuasion et
. voir à Berlin ont critiqué, lundi 30 juillet,
éventuellement de défense. L'ac¬
le projet américain de vente d'armes à
cepter reviendrait à éveiller
l'Arabie Saoudite et à cinq autres pays du
l'hostilité latente d'une ou des
Golfe pour contrer l'influence de l'Iran.
parties contre lesquelles cette
« Lorsqu'on ajoute des explosifs à une
offre est dirigée, dans l'esprit de
poudrière, on augmente le risque et on
Washington.
n'améliore pas la sécurité de la région », a
Damas et Téhéran sont cer¬
affirmé le président de la commission
tes soupçonnés, voire accusés par les
des affaires étrangères du Parlement, le
pays du Golfe, notamment l'Arabie Saou¬
chrétien-démocrate Ruprecht Polenz, au
dite, principale puissance politique régio¬
' quotidien Frankfurter Rundschau, qui
nale, de contribuer à la déstabihsation de
considère que l'Iran risque d'être incité à
se réarmer aussi. Quant au secrétaire
l'Irak. La Syrie et l'Iran sont également
tenus pour coupables d'ingérence négati¬
général du Parti social-démocrate, Huber-
ve au Liban et de soutien au Hezbollah.
tus Heil, il a critiqué le choix de M. Bush
Les ambitions nucléaires, présumées
de « dangereux » et propre à aggraver
une « situation instable ». - (AFP.)
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Les Iraniens confrontés Dans son bureau orné de livres reli¬
gieux, d'un portrait de l'imam Khomeiny
et du « guide » actuel, l'ayatollah Ali Kha-
menei, le directeur du journal ultraconser¬
au rationnement vateur Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari,
reprend les thèmes populistes du président
de l'Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pour
justifier le rationnement. « Cette mesure
de l'essence « Ça nefait plaisir à personne,
mais on s'adapte », dit un habi¬
tant de la capitale iranienne,
nécessaire, nous en discutions en Iran depuis
des années, et elle aurait dû être prise plus
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SYRIE CotSrier DU 2 AU 22 AOUT 2007
A la garden-party de l'axe du mal
Les discours enflammés sur le thème de la "résistance" sont depuis toujours la spécialité
du régime de Damas. Vu son rapprochement avec Téhéran, va-t-il passer à l'acte ?
YEDIOT AHARONOT
Tel-Aviv
A A gauche,
Tous les quinze jours ou le président syrien
presque, les Israéliens se Bachar El-Assad ;
posent la même question : à droite, le président
que veut [le président iranien Mahmoud
syrien] Bachar El-Assad ? A en juger Ahmadinejad.
par ce qu'il fait et ce qu'il dit, on se Sur le tableau :
demande s'il le sait lui-même. D'un "Je promets d'être
côté, il n'arrête pas de parler de paix, un vilain garçon.. . "
et de l'autre il pose des conditions Dessin de Moshik
dont il sait parfaitement qu'Israël aura paru dans Maariv,
du mal à les accepter ; ilclame n'avoir Tel-Aviv.
aucune confiance en l'Etat hébreu et,
plus important encore, ne cesse d'évo¬
quer la possibilité d'une "résistance",
et ce avec beaucoup plus de force
depuis la dernière guerre.
Il ne se contente d'ailleurs pas
d'en parler : il s'y prépare. Pendant des deux pays depuis qu'Assad père missiles - à la fois pour le front israé-
que le président syrien discourait sur avait soutenu l'Iran dans sa guerre lien et pour l'arrière. Des missiles balis¬
la paix, son homologue iranien pré¬ contre l'Irak, dans les années 1980, tiques, antichars, antiaériens, et divers
parait une "visite de congratulations" mû entre autres choses par son ani- types de roquettes sont par conséquent
à Damas pour célébrer la réélection mosité envers Saddam Hussein. en train de remplacer la vieille tactique
[par référendum le 27 mai] de Bachar Sous Bachar El-Assad, les liens entre militaire syrienne. C'est certainement
El-Assad. Et, conformément aux pré¬ Damas et Téhéran se renforcent là cette "résistance" dont Bachar El-
dictions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad au point de se concrétiser par une Assad ne cesse de parler.
n'est pas seulement venu [le 19 juillet]
alliance stratégique dans laquelle Que signifie tout cela ? Tout sim¬
présenter ses meilleurs vux : il a
l'Iran est l'associé principal et la Syrie, plement que Bachar El-Assad parle de
aussi apporté avec lui toute ime série
au mieux, le prestataire extérieur. paix, mais qu'en même temps il se pré¬
de "propositions d'affaires".
Le président syrien s'est rendu à pare à la guerre. Il est difficile, sinon,
Les deux hommes ont fini par
Téhéran à cinq reprises ces dernières d'établir un lien logique entre son désir
signer un accord stipulant que l'Iran
années et a accueilli Ahmadinejad de voir s'installer un processus de paix
versera 1 milliard de dollars à son
deux fois depuis que ce dernier a été avec Israël et la "fête de l'axe du mal"
partenaire pour financer l'achat
élu [le 3 août 2005]. Les deux pays qu'il a donnée dans son palais avec
d'armes de pointe russes, transférera
ont signé en juin 2006 un traité de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Nas¬
une partie de son propre armement
sécurité très complet et, en mars der¬ raUah, Khaled Mechaal, Ramadan Sha-
sur le sol syrien et contribuera au
nier, le ministre de la Défense iranien lah [chef dû Jihad islamique palesti¬
développement d'une industrie mili-
a déclaré que son pays mettrait si nien, installé à Damas] et d'autres. De
.taire en Syrie, ainsi qu'à l'instruction
nécessaire l'intégralité de son arsenal toute évidence, Téhéran procvu-e plu¬
des officiers syriens.
à la disposition de la Syrie. sieurs choses au président syrien : im
Un nouveau chapitre diploma¬
vrai sentiment de sécurité, un bol d'air
tique important a également été
DAMAS PARLE DE PAIX TOUT diplomatique, des équipements mili¬
ouvert : Bachar El-Assad - celui-là taires, une base arrière stratégique et,
EN SE PRÉPARANT À LA GUERRE
même qui proclame son désir de
On ne peut pourtant pas dire que surtout, une véritable alternative. Par
paix - a promis à Téhéran de ne pas
Bachar El-Assad soit dans le ailleurs, la situation est plutôt au point
s'engager dans un processus de paix
besoin. Il a récemment été révélé mort dans tous les côtés du triangle
avec Israël. En échange, l'Iran aidera
que son pays a dépensé dans la seule formé par Washington, la Syrie et
la Syrie à veiller à ses intérêts au
année 2006 la somme colossale de Israël, et apparemment le dégel n'est
Liban, c'est-à-dire d'abord en para¬
1,5 milliard à 2 milliards de dollars pas pour bientôt.
lysant le pays et ensuite en
[1,1 milliard à 1,5 milliard d'euros] Alors, que nous réservera la suite ?
au renversement de Siniora [Premier
en équipements militaires - en plus Essentiellement, la même chose. Autre¬
ministre libanais] .
des livraisons d'armes qu'il reçoit de ment dit, ime escalade de la tension et
Pendant qu'il était à Damas, le
l'Iran -, des dépenses en nette aug¬ des déclarations de plus en plus mus¬
président iranien a rencontré Hassan
mentation par rapport à toutes les clées : on évoquera une "résistance" .
NasraUah [dirigeant du Hezbollah] et
années précédentes. possible et on s'y préparera. La grande
Khaled Mechaal [responsable du
Cela signifie peut-être que l'une crainte à avoir est que ceux qui parlent
Hamas basé en Syrie], dont il a aussi
des leçons tirées par Damas de la der¬ autant de "résistance" ne finissent par
rempli les poches après avoir exprimé '
nière guerre [au Liban, à l'été 2006] être tentés de faire quelque chose et
toutes ses félicitations pour l'applica¬
est qu'il n'y a pas de différence entre que les missiles présentés au premier
tion de la loi islamique à Gaza. Ce à
le firont et l'arrière, et qu'il faut donc acte ne soient lancés au troisième.
quoi nous assistons ici, c'est à une
s'équiper de missiles - de beaucoup de Roee Nahmias
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Journalistes kurdes iraniens condamnés à mort: "vive
préoccupation" de Paris
PARIS. 1 août 2007 (AFP) - llh36 - Le ministre français des Affaires iraniennes à ne pas exécuter cette peine", ajoute-t-il.
étrangères Bernard Kouchner a exprimé mercredi sa "vive préoccupation" M. Kouchner appelle également Téhéran "à respecter la liberté d'expression et
après la condamnation à mort prononcée en Iran contre deux journalistes de la presse conformément à ses obligations internationales".
kurdes iraniens et demandé que cette sentence ne soit pas appliquée.
L'Iran a confirmé pour la première fois mardi que deux journalistes kurdes
"J'ai appris avec la plus vive préoccupation la condamnation à mort de deux iraniens, Abdolvahed Bohimar et Adnan Hassanpour, avaient été condamnés à
journalistes iraniens d'origine kurde", déclare le chef de la diplomatie la pendaison comme "ennemis de Dieu".
française dans un communiqué.
"La France, pleinement engagée avec ses partenaires de l'Union européenne
en faveur de l'abolition universelle de la peine de mort, appelle les autorités
PKK: La Turquie proteste contre l'Autriche
ANKARA, 1 août 2007 (AFP'\ - La Turquie a protesté contre travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK, séparatiste).
l'Autriche auprès de l'OSCE et s'apprête à une démarche similaire à l'Onu Altun avait été mis en examen en février en France pour des activités
pour avoir laissé partir en Irak un rebelle kurde recherché par Ankara, a terroristes présumées et placé sous contrôle judiciaire, avec interdiction de
indiqué mercredi un responsable turc. quitter la région parisienne.il s'est rendu ensuite en Autriche où les autorités
"Nous n'avons pas reçu d'explications satisfaisantes de la part de l'Autriche l'on laissé partir le mois dernier vers le nord de l'Irak malgré un mandat
sur cet incident", a indiqué aux journalistes Lèvent Bilman, porte-parole du d'arrêt international à son encontre et le fait que le PKK soit classé comme une
ministère turc des Affaires étrangères."Nous nous sommes plaint auprès de organisation terroriste par l'Union européenne.
l'Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (...) Nous allons La semaine dernière, le ministre turc des Affaires étrangères Abdullah Gui
aussi déposer bientôt une protestation auprès des Nations unies", a-t-il avait fustigé l'Autriche pour avoir laissé filer Altun en Irak, parlant de "grosse
précisé. erreur, aberrante et inacceptable" .Ankara attend une réponse de Bagdad sur sa
Interrogé pour savoir si Ankara envisageait de réduire le niveau de ses demande d'extradition d'Altun, a ajouté M. Bilman.
relations diplomatiques et économiques avec Vienne, M. Bilmen a déclaré; La Turquie ne supporte plus que les retselles du PKK continuent à bénéficier
"Nous évaluons cette situation".Au centre de la polémique se trouve Ali Riza d'un sanctuaire dans les zones kurdes du nord de l'Irak et menace d'intervenir
Altun, considéré comme l'un des fondateurs et le "trésorier" du parti des militairement.
Six combattants kurdes et trois soldats turcs tués
LaTribune dans le sud-est de la Turquie
02 août 2007
- ( 02/08/07)
The Associated Press Six Dogan. semaine prochaine à Ankara pour
séparatistes kurdes et trois soldats Les attaques des séparatistes kurdes
évoquer les moyens d'empêcher les
turcs sont morts mercredi au cours ont causé la mort d'au moins 80 combattants kurdes d'utiliser le
d'affrontements dans le sud-est de la soldats turcs depuis le début de territoire irakien pour des attaques en
Turquie, ont annoncé mercredi les l'année. Ankara envisage de lancer Turquie, a fait savoir mercredi la
responsables provinciaux. une opération militaire contre les diplomatie turque.
Après avoir été prises pour cible sur bases de la guérilla séparatiste en Depuis 1984, le Parti des travailleurs
le Mont Mercan, dans la province de Irak voisin, mais les Etats-Unis du Kurdistan (PKK) est en lutte pour
Tunceli, les forces turques ont s'opposent à toute incursion, l'autonomie du sud-est turc où sont
dépêché des dizaines d'hommes dans craignant qu'elle n'entraîne dans le concentrés les Kurdes. Ce conflit a
le secteur ainsi que des camions chaos le Kurdistan irakien (nord), à fait des dizaines de milliers de morts.
militaires équipés de mitrailleuses, ce jour encore relativement calme. AP
selon les images diffusées jeudi par Le Premier ministre irakien Nouri al-
l'agence de presse indépendante Maliki est d'ailleurs attendu la
L'explosion d'une mine tue trois soldats
dans le sud-est de la Turquie
DIYARBAKIR (Turquie). 4 août 2007 (AFP) - 18h24 - Trois soldats militaires revenaient d'opérations contre le PKK, ont ajouté ces sources,
turcs ont été tués samedi soir dans le sud-est de la Turquie lors de l'explosion précisant que l'engin explosif avait été actionné à distance.
d'une mine posée par les rebelles kurdes du Parti des travailleurs du Le PKK, considéré comme une organisation terroriste par Ankara, les Etats-
Kurdistan (PKK) au passage de leur véhicule, ont affirmé des sources locales Unis et l'Union européenne, a accru depuis le début de l'année ses attaques
de sécurité. dans le sud-est de la Turquie, où la population est en majorité kurde.
L'explosion, qui a blessé un quatrième soldat, est survenue dans une zone Huit rebelles et trois soldats ont perdu la vie cette semaine lors d'accrochages
rurale de la province de Diyarbakir, près de la localité de Dicle, alors que les dans la province de Tunceli (est).You can also read
