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Cablegate: Southeast Turkey Press Summary for October 05, 2006

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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 05, 2006


This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for October 05,
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

2. OZGUR GUNDEM / EVRENSEL: Sixty-four civil society
organizations, including representatives of political parties
such as DTP, CHP, AKP, ANAP, DYP, SHP and SP, held a joint press
announcement at Diyarbakir Chamber of Commerce and Industry in
Diyarbakir, and made a call to the government to take action in
response to the cease-fire.

3. RADIKAL: Ali Topuz, CHP Deputy Group Leader, said that
recent AKP policies were aiming to win the votes it has been
losing to date from the electorate base sympathizing with the
PKK.

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4. RADIKAL / OZGUR GUNDEM: Parliamentary Assembly of Council
of Europe (PACE) ratified on Wednesday (10/04) the report "The
Cultural Situation of the Kurds." (see press summary for October
3.) The report said that PKK's fight against the Turkish
military worsened the situation of the Kurds. The report
branded the conflict situation "a de facto civil war." Terry
Davis, General Secretary of Council of Europe, held a press
announcement and said that Kurdish issue must be resolved in due
adherence to the territorial integrity of Turkey. To resolve
the issue, the parties should reportedly sit at a table to talk
and take action. PACE also said that Turkey should take up the
issue of retrying Abdullah Ocalan.

5. EVRENSEL: Second Heavy Penalty Court in Malatya continued
to hear the case of Commissioned Officer Tanju Cavus, who opened
fire and caused the death of one person following the bombing
that took place in Hakkari's Semdinli district on November 9,
2005.

6. OZGUR GUNDEM: Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir went to
Italy to attend a conference called "Urban Diplomacy."

HUMAN RIGHTS

2. RADIKAL / OZGUR GUNDEM: 104 houses have been constructed
to date in an area where there was a risk of landslide in a
quarter of Adana, after settlement permit was issued ten years
ago despite that risk. When cracks were detected on the walls
of 24 houses, the Governor's Office provided a one-year rent aid
for evacuation. Nineteen of the families recently returned to
their houses, when the period of the aid expired.

3. OZGUR GUNDEM / SABAH (GUNEY): Diyarbakir's Baglar
Municipality distributed food aid to 7000 economically
disadvantaged families. Seyhan Municipality in Adana has also
been distributing food aid to disadvantaged families.

ECONOMY

4. RADIKAL: Nezahat Ozgenc, a 38-year-old woman in Hakkari's
Yuksekova district, founded a carpet weaving workshop after
obtaining 60 unused looms from the Governor's Office to add them
to her 150 looms, despite the oppression of women from local
clans and their codes. Ozgenc trained carpet weavers and
established a business providing employment for 450 women in the
villages. Ozgenc's business has been exporting Hakkari's
carpets to countries including China.

CRIME/LAW ENFORCEMENT

5. OZGUR GUNDEM / EVRENSEL: During a fight that broke out
between two clans in Siirt, eleven people have been wounded.
Special team members extended support to the police to quell the
unrest. The tension in the district has reportedly been
continuing. Meanwhile, two people died in a fight that broke
out between two families in Hatay when the cows of one family
trespassed on the field of the other family.

6. BOLGE: Jandarma teams caught a person with two
kilograms of hashish in Adana's Ceyhan district.

CULTURE/SOCIETY

7. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): The reported first Kurdish
stand-up show will be held in the municipality's theater hall on

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October 8 in Adana.

8. BOLGE: The new academic year started with an opening
ceremony held at the Cukurova University.

9. OZGUR GUNDEM: A fifteen-year-old child committed suicide
in Van's Muradiye district.
GREEN

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