Topic: voa
Subject: BRITAIN / TURKEY (S-UPDATE) by ANDRE DE NESNERA/LONDON
From: Yanni@ix.netcom.com (Ioannis Bousnakis)
 
Topic: voa

DATE=4/6/95
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-176702
TITLE= BRITAIN / TURKEY (S-UPDATE)
BYLINE= ANDRE DE NESNERA
DATELINE= LONDON 
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  TURKISH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER HIKMET CETIN HAS HELD TALKS
WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DOUGLAS HURD IN LONDON.  AS V-O-A 
CORRESPONDENT ANDRE DE NESNERA REPORTS, MR. CETIN'S VISIT WAS THE
LATEST IN A SERIES OF CONTACTS TO ALLEVIATE WESTERN FEARS OVER 
TURKEY'S MILITARY MOVE.  

TEXT:  MR. CETIN SAYS TURKEY'S MILITARY INCURSION INTO NORTHERN 
IRAQ WAS FOR SECURITY REASONS AND TO END ALLEGED TERRORIST 
ACTIVITIES BY THE KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY -- KNOWN AS THE P-K-K.

FOLLOWING HIS MEETING WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DOUGLAS 
HURD, MR. CETIN TOLD REPORTERS TURKEY KNEW THE P-K-K WAS 
ESTABLISHING MILITARY CAMPS IN NORTHERN IRAQ -- AND ANKARA HAD  
NO  OTHER CHOICE BUT TO GO IN.

                         // CETIN ACT //

         OUR OBJECTIVE IS VERY CLEAR -- TO TRY TO GET RID OF THE 
         CAMPS AND THE LOGISTICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN NORTHERN IRAQ
         -- AND TO PREVENT THE P-K-K FROM ESTABLISHING A 
         SO-CALLED LIBERATED ZONE IN THAT PART OF IRAQ AND TO END
         CROSS-BORDER INFILTRATION INTO TURKEY. 

                          // END ACT //

MR. CETIN DID  NOT  SAY PRECISELY WHEN THE 35-THOUSAND TURKISH 
TROOPS WOULD RETURN HOME -- BUT HE INDICATED THEY WOULD LEAVE 
WITHIN WEEKS RATHER THAN MONTHS.

IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT, THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE SAID MR. HURD 
REPEATED BRITAIN'S CALL FOR AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL AND POINTED OUT 
THE DAMAGE THE MILITARY MOVE IS DOING TO TURKEY'S INTERESTS IN 
CLOSER TIES WITH THE WEST. (SIGNED)

NEB/ADEN/MH /MMK

06-Apr-95 1:30 PM EDT (1730 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America