>STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > >Times of India >September 2, 2000 > >6 hurt, many held in Turkey peace day protests >DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Six people were injured and at >least 72 others were detained on Friday as Turkish >police clamped down on Kurdish protestors >demonstrating accross the country to mark world peace >day, the Anatolia news agency reported. > >The police crackdown came as member of the pro-Kurdish >People's Democracy Party (HADEP) went ahead with their >planned meetings despite a ban by Turkish officials on >the activitires. > >In Diyarbakir, the regional capital of Turkey's >southeast, truncheon-wielding police clamped down on >some 300 protestors outside the office of the >pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HADEP), an AFP >correspondent witnessed. > >Six people were injured while an unspecified number of >others were detained, HADEP said in a statement. > >Police were continuing to enforce strict security >measures across the city, which is located in the >heart of a 15-year Kurdish insurgency, the AFP >correspondent said. > >In the eastern city of Van, 40 HADEP members and >sympathisers were taken into custody when police >dispersed a group of demonstrators outside the party >building, Anatolia said. > >The agency added that 29 party members were detained >in the central Anatolian city of Konya for holding an >illegal demonstration and three others were taken in >by police in Istanbul for putting up posters on world >peace day without permission from authorities. > >In a written statement earlier Friday, HADEP chairman >Ahmet Turan Demir denounced Ankara's ban on their >plans to hold meetings, which he said were aimed at >issuing peace messages. > >He said that officials in Ankara had banned HADEP >meetings in the cities of Mersin in the south, Izmir >in the west, Diyarbakir, Van and the Turkish capital >even though local officials in some cities had given a >preliminary go-ahead to the activities. > >"Our supporters have reacted strongly to this >decision," he added. > >He added that the aim of the meetings was to call for >a general amnesty, including rebels of the Kurdistan >Workers Party (PKK), the abolition of the death >penalty and the lifting of restrictions on the use of >the Kurdish language. > >HADEP, which seeks a peaceful resolution to the >Kurdish question and recognition of cultural rights >for Turkey's Kurds, faces a possible ban for alleged >links to the PKK, which Turkey describes as a >"terrorist organisation". > >The PKK has fought for self-rule in southeastern >Anatolia since 1984, but declared an end to the armed >conflict last year following an appeal from its leader >Abdullah Ocalan, on death row for treason, for a >peaceful resolution to the Kurdish issue. > >Turkey's southeast has been relatively calm since then >as normally heavy fighting between rebels and >government troops, which has claimed some 36,500 >lives, has scaled down considerably. (AFP) > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
