_________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ---------- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newsday.com/ap/international/ap210.htm Turkey Issues Kurdish Guidelines ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey has called on state-owned broadcasting company to avoid calling Kurdish citizens of Turkey ''Kurds'' or using terms which might suggest sympathy for Kurdish rebels, news reports said Friday. The new Interior Ministry guidelines for reporting on Kurdish issues were sent earlier this week to TRT, the state-owned television station, the daily Turkish News reported. A similar report was carried in the Turkish Daily News. An official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, confirmed that the guidelines were issued. Turkey does not recognize its 12 million Kurds as a minority and views Kurdish cultural identity as a threat to the Turkish state. Turkish troops have fought a 15-year war against Kurdish rebels in the country's southeast. Some 37,000 people have died as a result of the conflict. According to the memorandum, broadcasters should avoid references to ''Kurds'' or ''people of Kurdish descent'', and should instead talk about ''Turkish citizens,'' the Turkish News reported. The banned Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, should be described simply as ''the terrorist organization,'' it said. Most broadcasters already use that term to describe the PKK. The guidelines also bar references to a ''Kurdish state'' in northern Iraq, an autonomous area dominated by Kurdish groups since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. It says the term ''entity in Northern Iraq'' should be used. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
