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Information and Liaison Bulletin N°316 INSTITUT KURD E DE PARIS Information and liaison bulletin N°316 july 2011 The publication of this Bulletin enjoys a subsidy from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGCID) aqnd the Fonds d’action et de soutien pour l’intégration et la lutte contre les discriminations (The Fund for action and support of integration and the struggle against discrimination) This bulletin is issued in French and English Price per issue : France: 6 — Abroad : 7,5 Annual subscribtion (12 issues) France : 60 — Elsewhere : 75 Monthly review Directeur de la publication : Mohamad HASSAN Numéro de la Commission Paritaire : 659 15 A.S. ISBN 0761 1285 INSTITUT KURDE, 106, rue La Fayette - 75010 PARIS Tel. : 01-48 24 64 64 - Fax : 01-48 24 64 66 www.fikp.org E-mail: bulletin@fikp.org Bulletin 316 July 2011 Contents • IRAQI KURDISTAN: IRANIAN SHELLING AND INTENSE BORDER FIGHTING. • TURKEY: TRIAL OF STRENGTH IN PARLIAMENT, INCREASING INTER-ETHNIC VIOLENCE. • SYRIA: A LONG INTERVIEW WITH MACHAAL TAMMO ON THE SYRIAN SITUATION. • AZERBAIJAN: A KURDISH GROUP DEMANDS POLITICAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS. • PARIS: THE EIGHTH BEDIR KHAN FESTIVAL. IRAQI KURDISTAN: IRANIAN SHELLING AND INTENSE BORDER FIGHTING s Iranian shelling of However, the Iranian govern - Kurdistan members of Iraqi Kurdistan territo - ment replied that it reserved the Parliament visited the village of ry has recommenced, right to “ attack and destroy the ter - Choman, 10 Km from the Iranian A Kurdish and Iraqi offi - rorist bases in the border regions ” border that had particularly suf - cials protested and on the grounds that PJAK, the fered from the shelling. In a pub - demanded that Iran cease violat - Iranian branch of the PKK that lic report they noted that the ing their country’s sovereignty, was fighting against Teheran, Iranian forces had built roads taking advantage of the visit to had bases there. It even directly inside Iraqi territory in the areas Baghdad by Iranian Vice accused the Kurdish President of they had bombarded. President, Mohammed Reza intentionally supporting and Rahimi. protecting the PJAK bases on his On 18 July, a senior officer of the land. Iranians Revolutionary Guards, Iranian attacks on border vil - Delaver Ranibarzadeh, lages in Irbil and Sulemaniyah For his part, the President of announced that they “complete - Provinces have forced the inhab - Iraqi Kurdistan, Massud ly controlled” three PJAK camps itants of about twenty of them to Barzani, condemned these as well as the surrounding flee from their homes. attacks. A delegation of Iraqi region, near Serdash, while mili - • 2 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 316 • July 2011 tary operations were continuing. wounded while only admitting 4 as well as the deploying of “ sub - Ranibarzadeh also stated that wounded and 7 dead in their stantial forces including tanks and their objective was to eradicate ranks. artillery ”. Other villagers con - the PJAK bases totally. firmed what the Kurdish The Kurdish authorities Members of Parliament delega - Apart from civilian casualties, announced on 20 July that two tion had denounced: the build - the belligerents’ losses were villagers from the Choman ing of roads and military bases unclear and obviously tended to region had been arrested by the that suggested the beginning of vary according to the source. Iranian forces and that their a long-term occupation of these The Iraqi daily, Aswat al-Iraq herds had been seized by the border areas. published an estimate from an troops while 11 families had fled Iraqi military source indicating the fighting. Mamand Mami that about thirty Iranian soldiers Xali, who commands the Overall, some 200 families living may have been killed in the Kurdish Peshmergas in the area, in the border regions have been fighting. indicated that the Iranians had displaced for security reasons penetrated at least a kilometre and settled in temporary camps. For its part, Iran has only into Iraqi Kurdistan. Bernard Douglas, spokesman of acknowledged the loss of a sin - the Office of International gle Revolutionary Guard and In another village, near Qaladize Migrations (OIM) pointed out three wounded, while “ a great (Suleimaniyah Province), a man that these families needed, number ” of PJAK members had had been wounded and a school above all else, “shelter and been killed, including the com - damaged on the same day. The water”, and that the OIM had mander of the Merwan camp. village had been obliged to be provided them with tents and completely evacuated. Mamand beds while the Kurdish authori - For its part, PJAK declared to Mami Xali also reported that ties had supplied water purifica - AFP that the Iranians had suf - bombing could be heard at Haj tion kits. “ These families cannot fered heavy losses near Panjwin, Omran, in the Kodo Mountains, long survive without help. (…) in Suleimaniyah Province — some 250 Km North –East of Many have had to abandon their between 150 and 200 killed or Irbil, as well as in other districts, crops and their herds ”. TURKEY: TRIAL OF STRENGTH IN PARLIAMENT, INCREASING INTER-ETHNIC VIOLENCE olitical tension in the On 15 July, 13 Turkish soldiers hatred and barbarism ”. However, Turkish Parliament, and 7 PKK fighters lost their Selettin Demirtas, while regret - following the boycott lives in fighting near Silvan, in ting the deaths attacked the P of the elected Kurdish Diyarbekir Province, making absence of any political settle - Members in protest at this the bloodiest clash between ment of the Kurdish question, the imprisoning of two of them the Army and Kurds in the last 3 while the 36 Kurdish M.P.s has resulted in a fresh outbreak years. This triggered a series of refused to take the oath of office of armed clashes and political “condolences ” from the US White so long as their comrades overstatements by the BDP. House. The Turkish Prime remained in jail. Minister cancelled all his On 8 July, a clash between the appointments to hold a crisis On 12 July, the CHP, which had Army and the PKK in the meeting with top ranking offi - also refused to take its seats in Plumur regions killed one cers of the Army, the Security Parliament for the same reasons Turkish soldier and wounded Forces and the Minister of the as the BDP, accepted that its three others. On 11 July two Interior, Besir Atalay. M.P.s take the oath and also, other Turkish soldiers were jointly with the AKP, issued a killed by Kurdish guerrillas as For his part, Cemil Çiçek, the call to the rest of the M.P.s who well as a civilian working for the Speaker of the Turkish parlia - were continuing the boycott (i.e. Health Ministry, not in the ment, violently attacked the the Kurds). However, on the course of a military but at a road - Kurdish 'M.P.s (who announced same day the BDP also held a block. Witnesses state that armed a boycott of the session) by ask - parliamentary session — in Kurdish activists had stopped ing them “ to chose their camp ” Diyarbekir, the capital of the vehicles, later found aban - between, in his words “ democra - Turkish Kurdistan, thus defying doned by those occupying them cy, peace and freedom ” and “ blood, Ankara. At that session it contin - n° 316 • July 2011 Information and liaison bulletin • 3• ued to demand the release of the the Turkish national anthem. Kurds into the economic system, imprisoned M.P.s as well as This incident was taken up by all which means that they are more changes to the Constitution. In the Turkish press as well as for - than ever present which creates the absence of any reply from eign papers, which considered resentment amongst Turks who the government, the BDP this a worrying deterioration in already had a position in the system. declared that this Diyarbakir the relations between the coun - On the other hand, the Kurds are Parliament would continue to sit try’s two peoples — particularly increasingly educated and are until their demands had been in the case of a public that, till increasingly living in the towns of met. On 15 July, this “ Kurdistan then, was seen as open to other the West and South where they can Assembly ” proclaimed its “ demo - cultures. “ These people, at a jazz express their anger more forcibly ”. cratic autonomy for a peaceful reso - concert, can be considered a more lution of the Kurdish question ”. sophisticated Turkish public. They Thus, some young Turks carried knew that someone was going to out intimidatory raids on an Thereupon, the legal reaction sing a Kurdish song and they could Istanbul shantytown, which has was immediate — a charge sheet not tolerate it. This shows the depth been mainly inhabited by was drawn up and issued for the of the trauma, not only amongst the Kurdish refugees for the last two authors of this initiative while Turks but, I believe among the decades. Ertugrul Kurkçu, a the death in action of the 13 Kurds ” commented Soli Ozwl, Turkish BDP Member of Turkish soldiers was inflaming political editor of the daily paper Parliament also made similar public opinion and giving rise to Haberturk. In his view, this inci - forecasts from a Kurdish point of fears of clashes between Kurds dent is the sign of a growing view, speaking about the and Turks in those towns in polarisation as between Kurds younger generations born dur - which the two lived side by side. and Turks, adding that even at ing the war, whose families were the tougher period of the war in displaced, killed or traumatised Thus, in Istanbul, during an inter - the 90s, there had not been this in various ways by the conflict. national jazz festival, the Kurdish spread of inter-ethnic hostility in “Their hostility towards the present singer, Aynur Dogan, was unable the towns of Western Turkey.
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