Subject: GERMANY / TURKS (S ONLY) By DAGMAR BREITENBACH /BONN From: "Demetrios E. Paneras" DATE=3/21/95 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-175812 TITLE=GERMANY / TURKS (S ONLY) BYLINE=DAGMAR BREITENBACH DATELINE=BONN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ARSONISTS ATTACKED A NEWSPAPER OFFICE AND TURKISH BANKS IN SEVERAL GERMAN CITIES EARLY TODAY (TUESDAY) IN THE LATEST OF THE FIREBOMBINGS OF TURKISH BUSINESSES AND MOSQUES IN GERMANY. V-O-A'S DAGMAR BREITENBACH REPORTS POLICE SUSPECT KURDISH EXTREMISTS ARE RESPONSIBLE. TEXT: NO ONE WAS INJURED AND LITTLE DAMAGE WAS DONE IN THE FIREBOMBINGS, BUT POLICE DETAINED TWO SUSPECTS IN GELSENKIRCHEN, WHERE PETROL BOMBS WERE HURLED AT A TURKISH BANK. ANOTHER BANK WAS ATTACKED IN COLOGNE, AS WELL AS A TRAVEL BUREAU AND THE OFFICES OF HURRIYET NEWSPAPER IN BERLIN. THERE HAVE BEEN SIMILAR INCIDENTS THROUGHOUT GERMANY EVERY NIGHT FOR THE PAST WEEK. WITH ALMOST TWO-MILLION PEOPLE, THE TURKS ARE GERMANY'S LARGEST FOREIGN COMMUNITY. NO ONE HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACKS, BUT POLICE SUSPECT THE BANNED KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY -- THE P-K-K -- IS BEHIND THE ARSON. THE PARTY HAS BEEN FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT IN ANKARA SINCE 1984 FOR AN INDEPENDENT HOMELAND IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY. THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO BONN, ONUR OEYMEN, CALLED ON THE GERMAN POLICE TO PROVIDE MORE PROTECTION FOR TURKS LIVING HERE. GERMAN INTERIOR MINISTER MANFRED KANTHER HAS CONDEMNED THE ATTACKS, URGING POLICE IN GERMANY'S 16 STATES TO INCREASE THEIR PROTECTION OF TURKISH PREMISES. (SIGNED) NEB/DB/MH 21-Mar-95 7:36 AM EST (1236 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America ------------------------------------------------------------------------------