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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 12, 2006 
 
 
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for April 12, 
¶2006.  Please note that Turkish press reports often contain 
errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for 
the accuracy of the reports summarized here. 
 
POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 
 
CUMHURIYET / RADIKAL / EVRENSEL:        Forty-seven non-governmental 
organizations and unions made a call to end provocations that 
lead to escalation of tension between Turkish and Kurdish 
people. 
 
EKSPRES / CUMHURIYET:   Cukurova University Rector Alper 
Akinoglu in Adana criticized Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir for 
his non-attendance at the celebrations held to mark the 161st 
anniversary of Turkish National Police's foundation. 
 
SABAH:  Parliamentary Commission Probing Semdinli Case 
prepared a draft report.  A statement in the report concludes 
that the commission can not determine decisively whether the 
bombing incidents in Hakkari in 2005 were all carried out by the 
PKK.  The report, as a response to Van Prosecutor Ferhat 
Sarikaya's indictment, branded attempts to link the suspicious 
bomb incidents with military authorities as "judicial 
fantasizing." The report did not include any statements about 
Land Forces Commander Yasar Buyukanit. 
 
CUMHURIYET:     The report of the commission established within the 
party organization of AKP to probe irregularities in tenders 
held in Hatay have reportedly acquitted the AKP deputies and 
determined that no irregularities or corruption was found. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   A delegation comprised of chairmen of IHD 
(Human Rights Association), TIHV (Turkish Human Rights 
Foundation) and Mazlum-Der (Human Rights and Solidarity for 
Oppressed People) went to Diyarbakir to conduct studies there. 
Claudia Roth, Germany's Green Party Co-Chairperson, also came to 
Turkey to pay a visit to Diyarbakir. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Leftist oriented students in the Cukurova 
University dismissed allegations about their alleged attack on 
an art exhibition in Cukurova University in Adana which was 
reported in many newspapers yesterday (see press summary 04/11). 
The students claimed that nationalist oriented people from 
Ceyhan were brought to the campus to carry out an attack on the 
leftist group which was protesting a "nationalist oriented" 
exhibition at the university. 
 
RADIKAL / SABAH (GUNEY) / EKSPRES / OZGUR GUNDEM:       An 
explosion took place in an open field in Adana's Seyhan district 
as five people were attempting to dismantle the tank of a 
fuel-oil delivery truck. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM: Ayhan Adiyaman (20) has been detained, arraigned 
and arrested on charges of "making propaganda of illegal 
terrorist organization" and "damaging public property" during 
Newruz celebrations on March 20 in Hakkari.  Meanwhile, four 
people, who have been under interrogation for four days at 
Mersin's Security Directorate, were arraigned on April 9 and 
arrested on charges of "being a member of the outlawed terrorist 
organization." 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Iranian officials reportedly killed a person 
attempting to cross Turkey's border with Iran around Van's 
Baskale district the previous day. The person was reportedly 
aiming to smuggle fuel-oil. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   A blast took place for unknown reasons when 
villagers attempted to burn hay in Bitlis's Mutki district.  Two 
villagers have been wounded.  Meanwhile, the daily noted two 
separate gun fights taking place between groups of people 
attacking each other for reasons not yet known. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Minister of Interior, which filed a lawsuit of 
indemnification to redress damage done to the public property 
against the family of a PKK terrorist killed in a March 2000 
operation in Bingol, has won the case and has been entitled to 
take an amount of 9000 new Turkish liras (approx. 6700 USD) from 
the family. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Nine people have been detained in Elazig's 
Aricak district in connection with the killing of one military 
officer and one Jandarma private on April 8 in Elazig (see press 
summaries 04/10 and 04/11). 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Middle Eastern Media Research Institute 
reportedly said in a report that the AKP government, which 
disfavored the Land Forces Commander Buyukanit's name as the 
next person to run for Turkish Chief of Staff, has been running 
 
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a campaign against Buyukanit. 
 
HURRIYET: Erdogan met with around 70 deputies from east and 
southeast Turkey ahead of changes that would be adopted in the 
Anti-Terror Bill.  PM Erdogan reportedly told Bitlis deputy 
Abdurrahim Aksoy not to be the mouthpiece of the PKK when Aksoy 
voiced demands for a general amnesty for political prisoners. 
 
HURRIYET/ SABAH:        Six children were wounded as a result of a 
mine blast in Sirnak.  The ages of children range between 13 and 
¶14. 
 
HURRIYET ONLINE: Twelve terrorists, two of whom were women, have 
been killed in an area in the north of Sirnak during a military 
operation. Two commissioned officers also died during the clash. 
REID