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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ADANA 000153 
 
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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 28, 2006 
 
 
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 28, 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 
 
HURRIYET / RADIKAL / SABAH:     Ankara Security Directorate (ASD), 
after examining the statements made, slogans chanted, banners 
and posters waved at Sunday's DTP congress, finalized its probe 
into the congress and filed a complaint with the Ankara Chief 
Prosecutor on grounds that people made propaganda of PKK during 
the congress.  Prosecutor's Office solicited the text of the 
speeches of National Chairperson Ahmet Turk and former 
co-chairperson Aysel Tugluk made at the congress and the footage 
taken by ASD upon receiving the complaint. If Prosecutor's 
Office finds out that Political Parties Act has been breached 
during the congress, it will file an investigation against DTP 
which might pave the way for a court action that demands the 
closure of DTP. (This summary is from 06/27 editions.) 
 
EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM:        Ahmet Turk and Aysel Tugluk 
provided statements at the Ankara Court Hall concerning a text 
of a declaration made by the DTP Women's Assembly on March 8. 
 
HURRIYET:       One of the defendants of the Semdinli case, 
non-commissioned officer Ali Kaya, who has been at an Ankara 
based military hospital because of a pulmonary disease during 
the last two hearings of the case, has been discharged from the 
hospital and has been sent to Van's Military Jail. 
 
HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM:        Ambassador Hans Jorg Kretschmer, 
Head of the Delegation of European Commission in Turkey, came to 
Van the previous day with two delegates from Brussels and paid 
visits to Van Governor, Chief Prosecutor, Human Rights 
Association, Mazlum-Der (Solidarity Association for Oppressed 
People), VAKAD (Van Women's Association), VANGIAD (Van Young 
Businessmen Association), Van Chapter of Goc-Der (Solidarity and 
Culture Association for Displaced People), etc. (This summary is 
from 06/27 edition of Hurriyet and 06/28 edition of Ozgur 
Gundem.)  The delegation went to Hakkari's Semdinli district 
yesterday.  Kretschmer will pay visits to Semdinli Mayor Hursit 
Tekin and non-governmental organizations. 
 
EVRENSEL:       Kretschmer reportedly told mainstream Milliyet 
newspaper that DTP could not pursue political goals without 
putting distance between itself and the PKK. 
 
CUMHURIYET / YENI SAFAK / EVRENSEL / RADIKAL / HURRIYET / ZAMAN: 
Higher Board of Judges and Prosecutors overturned the petition 
of former Van Prosecutor Ferhat Sarikaya which requested 
reevaluation of the court decision that expelled him from his 
profession. 
 
ZAMAN:  Diyarbakir Prosecutor's Office finalized the 
indictment it had been preparing against Diyarbakir Mayor Osman 
Baydemir for Baydemir's statements made in support for 
terrorists following the violent Diyarbakir demonstrations in 
late March.  Baydemir reportedly said in response to the 
indictment that if attaining democracy, social peace and 
stability required the sacrifice of Osman Baydemir, please let 
it happen. 
 
YENI SAFAK / EVRENSEL / ZAMAN:  The dailies reported remarks 
of U.S. Ambassador Ross Wilson in Izmir.  Wilson reportedly said 
that the U.S. has not been able to do everything it can with 
regard to Turkey's fight against the PKK. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   The daily reports that military operations 
have been continuing in Tunceli, Hakkari, Mardin, Diyarbakir, 
Agri, Elazig and Bingol provinces.  According to the daily, 30 
soldiers and 8 PKK members have allegedly died in clashes over 
the last week.  The daily further reported that Turkish military 
forces have launched a military operation in Elazig's Palu 
district the previous day and a village guard reportedly died in 
a clash there.  Military forces reportedly have deployed 
soldiers in an area situated in the triangle of Diyarbakir's 
Hani, Lice and Genc districts. 
 
CUMHURIYET / YENI SAFAK / EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM / RADIKAL: 
According to the report of the Diyarbakir Bar Association's 
Women's Rights Center, 50 murders have been committed in 
Diyarbakir in the name of honor killing in the last six years. 
 
CUMHURIYET:     Diyarbakir Chamber of Commodity Exchange criticized 
AKP government for not including Diyarbakir in the list of 
provinces where a project will be implemented to create centers 
in the east of Ankara which would attract people in order to 
prevent migration to western cities. 
 
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OZGUR GUNDEM:     A seminar called "Sharing of Experiences 
among Street Childen" will be held through joint efforts of GAP 
Regional Development Authority and UN Development Program in 
Batman. 
 
HURRIYET:       Five children have been wounded because of an 
explosive, which they found in a village of Agri's Dogubeyazit 
district. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Saban Ayhan, who applied to Loss and Damage 
Assessment Commission of Hakkari Governor's Office for wounds he 
incurred during a 1991 bomb incident in Hakkari's Yuksekova 
district, was denied any compensation because of a Jandarma 
report claiming that the explosive used at the bombing belonged 
to the local clans. 
 
SABAH (GUNEY):  Farmers in the Cukurova region have been 
objecting to the decision of Ministry of Agriculture which bans 
pesticide spraying through planes. 
REID