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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 07, 2006 
 
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for July 07, 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 
 
SABAH:  Necirvan Barzani, the Prime Minister of the regional 
authority in northern Iraq, reportedly signed a deal with 
Microsoft Company to embark on efforts to produce a Kurdish 
language Windows operating system, reported the web site of the 
Iraqi Kurdistan Patriotic Union. 
 
SABAH / ZAMAN:  Ministry of Justice recommended that Van's 
Chief Prosecutor Kemal Kacan, who has been included in the 
decree which relocates positions of judges and prosecutors in 
Turkey (see press summary 07/07), be appointed to Bakirkoy 
Prosecutor's Office in Istanbul; a move, if realized, that would 
constitute a demotion for Kacan.  This recommendation reportedly 
does not oblige Higher Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HBJP) to 
issue the same decision. HBJP may appoint Kacan elsewhere as a 
regular prosecutor. 
 
HURRIYET:       The daily reported that PKK members raided a 
highland area in Hatay's Amanos Mountains on June 2 and forcibly 
took food from inhabitants as they told people that they were 
hungry.  Separately, the daily notes that a group of terrorists 
demanded food from a shepherd in a village of Gumushane and gave 
100 euros in exchange. 
 
HURRIYET / SABAH:       An explosion took place in a truck carrying 
bread to the police station in Diyarbakir's Dicle district 
yesterday at noon.  The explosion took place near the station, 
it killed the driver and wounded a commissioned officer and two 
soldiers from that station. 
 
HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM:        Police and Jandarma received a 
tip-off that two PKK militants would attempt to carry out an 
assassination against Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc 
during his visit next Saturday in Tunceli.  The intelligence 
obtained informed that the two militants had brought A4 and C4 
explosives to the province and they may target the governor and 
other high ranking officials in the city.  Meanwhile, Ozgur 
Gundem daily reported that intensified security measures and 
implementations similar to state of emergency rule have been 
continuing in Mardin's Kiziltepe district because of a tip-off 
that claimed two PKK terrorists arrived in the district. 
 
CUMHURIYET / SABAH / ZAMAN / OZGUR GUNDEM / YENI SAFAK: 
Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office prepared an indictment against, 
and demanded two years in prison for, DTP Chairperson Ahmet Turk 
and DTP member Aysel Tugluk for issuing a March 8 statement 
marking Women's Day for the attention of DTP branches which 
allegedly violated Turkish Political Parties Act.  Zaman daily 
reported that the Women's Day statement was in Kurdish and it 
praised terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   The daily reported that the number of 
investigations brought against Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir 
between 1998 and 2004 was 193.  The daily separately reported 
that nine DTP members have been detained in Izmir following a 
police raid at their houses yesterday morning.  Meanwhile, six 
out of seven DTP members, against whom action was brought for 
carrying posters of Ocalan and shouting slogans in support for 
him on September 1 Peace Day last year, have been acquitted. 
Then Chairperson of Human Rights Association's Adana chapter 
have been convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   According to the daily, PKK leader Murat 
Karayilan made a call to the foreign investors not to carry out 
investments in Turkey. 
 
OZGUR GUNDEM:   Diyarbakir's Sur Municipality delivered 4,000 
Kurdish books (fables) to children. 
 
 OZGUR GUNDEM:  The daily claims that five soldiers have been 
killed and 11 soldiers have been wounded during clashes between 
PKK and Turkish military in rural sections of Bingol. 
 
EVRENSEL:       Villagers in Tunceli's Hozat district filed a 
complaint with the Hozat Prosecutor's Office because of a mortar 
shell which landed on a section close to their settlement area 
in Dag hamlet. 
 
EVRENSEL:       Diyarbakir Bar Association, Mazlum-Der (Solidarity 
Association for Oppressed People) and Human Rights Association 
will file a complaint against the alleged extra-judicial killing 
of a PKK member after being caught and interrogated in August 
¶2005.  The PKK member was allegedly brought then to an operation 
 
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area to make him appear as if he was killed in a clash, reported 
07/01 edition of Ozgur Gundem daily. 
 
RADIKAL / EVRENSEL / BOLGE:     Several non-governmental 
organizations protested the new Anti-Terror Law in Adana and 
sent a letter to President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to veto the law. 
 
CUMHURIYET / RADIKAL / HURRIYET / SABAH / OZGUR GUNDEM: 
Twenty-four hard-discs, which were found damaged in a January 
2000 operation conducted against the Hezbollah terrorist 
organization in Istanbul, were sent then to the U.S. to recover 
the information on them.  The discs reportedly were used also to 
archive detailed information about the rector, department heads, 
professors and assistant professors at the Dicle University in 
Diyarbakir.  Ozgur Gundem daily pointed out to alleged links 
between Turkish police and Hezbollah members as allegedly 
revealed in the hard discs. 
 
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA):    Eighty-eight people, who entered the 
country illegally from Iran, have been caught in two separate 
operations in Van's Baskale district.  The people were from 
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China. 
 
HURRIYET:       DYP (True Path Party) Provincial Chairperson in 
Adana shot a truck driver he quarreled with in his leg and 
wounded him.  The cause of the quarrel was that the two people 
did not allow one another to pass on a road. 
 
ZAMAN / SABAH (GUNEY) / CUMHURIYET:     Parents of a 20 year-old 
girl claimed that 54-year-old CHP party assembly member in Adana 
allegedly abducted their daughter on June 30. 
 
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA):    Initiative against Nuclear Power in 
Mersin held a protest activity against nuclear plants. 
 
RADIKAL:        Kyrgyz people, who first migrated from Pamir 
Highland in Afghanistan to Pakistan and later came in 1982 to 
Van's Ulupamir village in Ercis district, has been the focus of 
research at Van's Centennial University since 1997.  A 20 volume 
book has been written during the research. 
 
ZAMAN / BOLGE:  Aircraft pesticide spraying ban, which was 
imposed on May 26, has been temporarily lifted, announced 
Ministry of Agriculture.  The farmers in the Cukurova region are 
reportedly pleased about the development. 
 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS 
 
SABAH (GUNEY) / BOLGE:  A meeting has been held by Assembly of 
Turkish-American Associations (ATAA) at Chamber of Commerce in 
Adana.  SMEs in the Cukurova region, who attended the meeting, 
were given information about a system providing lower cost 
opportunities for SMEs on opening an office in the U.S. in order 
to export goods to this country. 
REID