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Turkey vows no tolerance of Kurd militants
26.11.2005
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ANKARA, Turkey
Nov 25 (AP) - Turkey vowed Friday to offer no
tolerance for Kurdish militants despite concern over
actions of its own security forces after a convicted
rebel was allegedly targeted in a grenade attack
earlier this month.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan presided at a
security meeting of Cabinet ministers and military
commanders to discuss the Nov. 9 attack on a book
shop in the mainly Kurdish town of Semdinli, which
killed one person but not its apparent target.
The attack raised fears that security forces had
attempted the kind of summary execution that was
common in the fight against Kurdish rebels in the
early 1990s. It sparked days of rioting by Kurdish
rebel sympathizers that left four people dead.
The government has promised a thorough investigation
and no cover-up, and parliament this week voted to
set up its own committee to look into the attack.
A brief statement issued after the security meeting
said ``all necessary measures'' were being taken to
solve people's problems, but stressed ``no tolerance
should be shown primarily toward separatism and
every kind of illegal actions.''
The Kurdistan Workers Party has been fighting the
military for autonomy for Kurds in southeastern
Turkey since 1984, and some 37,000 people have died.
The group is considered a terrorist organization by
Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
The book store attacked Nov. 9 is owned by Seferi
Yilmaz, a former guerrilla who served 14 years in
prison for participating in the group's first armed
attack in August 1984.
After the Nov. 9 attack, Yilmaz and bystanders
chased the suspected attacker to a car and captured
him and two paramilitary police officers standing
nearby.
Inside the car, allegedly owned by the paramilitary
police, there were reportedly hand grenades similar
to the one used in the attack, guns, plans of the
shop and a list indicating which Kurdish clans were
pro-state and which were not.
In violence Friday, suspected Kurdish guerrillas
fired two rockets at a police station and the house
of a local police chief in the southeastern town of
Idil in Sirnak province, bordering Iraq, causing
damage to the building but no injuries, the Anatolia
news agency reported.
AP
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