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SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 19, 2006 
 
 
JACQUELINE H. IYIELMA 
Secretary/AdminThis is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for 
 
SIPDIS 
July 19, 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 
 
RADIKAL/EVRENSEL/ULKEDE OZGUR GUNDEM: 24 pro-peace women aged 
between 40 and 75 have been sentenced to 10 months of 
imprisonment for undertaking actions for improving prison 
conditions and demanding a general amnesty. The group has been 
charged with making "separatist propaganda." These women had 
blocked a road in Diyarbakir and had displayed a banner reading 
"Mr. Ocalan is our political will power" on February 22, 2006. 
 
ULKEDE OZGUR GUNDEM: Sirin Bagli, an administrator at DTP 
provincial office of Batman, was put in custody while traveling 
from Batman to Diyarbakir during a road check on the ground that 
there was an arrest warrant against him. Bagli has been taken to 
the Anti-terror office of the Batman Security Directorate and 
his house has also been searched by police. 
 
EVRENSEL: The newly adopted Anti-terror Bill has been put into 
force after being published in the official gazette. The 
government gave "political instructions" to the army for a 
cross-border operation in northern Iraq. Annual leaves for the 
army has been annulled and more troops and military equipment 
have been amassed along the border. Special Operations Team 
members have been deployed in city centers. Opposition parties 
have been supporting a cross border operation. Non-governmental 
Organizations expressed their reaction and urged the government 
to solve the problems through democratic means. Mazlumder's 
National President Ozkaya said that a cross-border operation 
would cause faults within the country while KESK -Public 
Employees' Union- President Tombul said an operation at Kandil 
Mountain in northern Iraq would not be the solution to the 
problem. 
 
HURRIYET: Omer Fetah, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan 
Region Administration in northern Iraq, announced that he signed 
an agreement with one of the biggest Saudi Arms and Defense 
Products companies, Azib-Integraph, for purchasing 16 "333 
Schweizer" U.S. make helicopters for the Kurdish Government for 
35,455,788.- U.S. Dollars. Experts mentioned that the 
helicopters would be used for VIP visitors and transporting a 
limited number of personnel. 
 
CUMHURIYET/ZAMAN: The Sirnak Governorate announced that jandarma 
units searching the countryside in Idil township found over 46 
kilos of A4 explosives, 70 assault type hand grenades and fuses, 
and over 5000 bullets for Kalashnikof weapons. An investigation 
is underway, the officials said. 
 
SABAH-GUNEY: Because of Israel's bombing of Lebanon, a total of 
14 persons -4 French, 3 Belgians, 1 Chilean, 3 Dutch, , 1 
German, and 2 Danes- fleeing from Lebanon arrived at Mersin port. 
 
YENI SAFAK/ULKEDE OZGUR GUNDEM/CUMHURIYET: It has been 
discovered that the recent explosion which killed 5 soldiers had 
occurred because of a remote control bomb not because the 
military vehicle had passed over a mine. Finger prints of a 
village guard have been detected on the remote control of the 
device used in the incident. The village guards who have been 
detained are being interrogated by jandarma. 
 
REID