Cablegate: Southeast Turkey Press Summary for August 29, 2006

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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 29, 2006

This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 29,
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

EVRENSEL: People in Tunceli's Ovacik district protested a
non-commissioned officer who wounded two people he had an
altercation with. The officer reportedly surrendered himself
after the incident and was arrested.

EVRENSEL: Eighteen non-governmental organizations in
Diyarbakir launched a campaign to send aid to the Lebanese
people who reportedly suffered from oppression of Israel. The
campaign will last 50 days.

EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM: Peace and Democracy Festivity will
be held in Diyarbakir on September 3. The organizing committee
made a call to the people to participate in the celebrations.
DTP provincial party organization said that they will extend
support to the public meeting. Another organizing committee in
Sirnak's Cizre district applied to the subgovernor's office to
get authorization for a public meeting that will be held on
September 1 Peace Day. The daily notes that the Peace Day
celebrations will be held for one week starting from August 31,
in the Cukurova region which includes Adana, Mersin, Gaziantep
and Hatay provinces. People will reportedly stand duty for one
night on August 31 for peace, make press announcements on
September 1, and distribute hand-outs to people throughout the
week.

OZGUR GUNDEM: The daily reports the growing anger among
people against confinement of Abdullah Ocalan in his prison
cell. Nearly 100 young people in quarters of Adana blockaded a
road with Molotov cocktails. The protests of the group
reportedly lasted two hours.

OZGUR GUNDEM: The inmates in the prisons who are former PKK
members will launch a series of protest activities in the jails.
The prisoners might engage in a hunger strike protest for an
indefinite period.

EVRENSEL: Police seized 4,120 hemp roots in the garden of a
house in Gaziantep.

CUMHURIYET / EVRENSEL / ZAMAN: A reported racist hacker
hacked the website of Istanbul Chapter of the Human Rights
Association.

EVRENSEL: KESK (Confederation of Public Employees' Unions)
spokesperson in Adana and Chairperson of Adana Chapter of
Egitim-Sen (Teachers' Union) condemned the bomb attack that took
place in front of the CHP party building in Adana on August 25.

EKSPRES: Abdullah Caliskan, Adana deputy from AKP (Justice
and Development Party), reportedly made a call to the U.S.,
Britain and Israel and said, "You can not draw maps on desks or
computer desktops. The maps of the countries are generally drawn
by the blood shed for them." Meanwhile, Kemal Sag, Adana deputy
from CHP (Republican People's Party) paid a visit to the
Cukurova Journalists' Association. Sag reportedly criticized the
government decision to contribute to the U.N. peacekeeping
force.

HURRIYET / SABAH A member of the Kurdistan Patriotic Union,
which is being led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, said that
3000 or 4000 PKK members, who have been entangled in the area in
the northern Iraq, should go back to Turkey and carry out its
activities as a political force in that country.

HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Ayhan Senbayrak, Chairperson of CUGIAD
(Cukurova Young Businessmen Association), protested the fact
that Adana was not included in the list of the provinces who
received sizeable migrating population. According to Senbayrak,
Adana province will not be able to make use of the EU funds
because of that.

CUMHURIYET: A supermarket owner in Bingol claimed that five PKK
members stole sacks of goods and items from his shop yesterday
night.

ZAMAN: A court order has barred access to the internet site
of a terrorist organization called TAK (Kurdistan Liberation

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Hawks) effective beginning August 27. The site was reportedly
also making propaganda of the PKK terrorist organization. The
site had also published claims that TAK members were responsible
from the fierce fires that have raged in various forest lands in
Turkey.

SABAH: PM Erdogan will come to Adana on September 1 to
conduct studies at the BTC (Baku-Tibilsi-Ceyhan Project)
terminal in Ceyhan district. PM Erdogan will fly over the site
of the BTC with a helicopter.
GREEN

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