INSIDE: 9 page special election supplement Printed by Tridant Press, Edenbridge, Kent. Published by Idolrare Ltd, 377 City Road, London EC IV Kurdish people escalated on March 21, the Kurdish new Year Newroz', with a massacre centred on the towns of Simak and Cizre, a stronghold of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)
The Newroz celebrations, traditionally a focus for Kurdish demonstrations, developed into a near-insur rectionary rising in North West Kurdistan, South Eastern Turkey. Mase demonstrations were attacked by Turkish troops near the Syrian and İraqi borders. In the following days warpianes, tanks and artillery bombarded the region around Sirnak, supposedly focusing on guerilla bases run by the PKK But Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals and MPs have gone on hunger strike, claiming that the operation is a campaign of genocide against the Kurdish people. Reports indicate that more than a hundred civilians had been killed in the first three days of the assault. be considerably higher, with Turkish warplanes flying bombing sorties into Trag After sealing the 170-mile border with Irag, Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel claimed 'not even a bird could get through.
The barbarie attacks have reached such a level that now Germany, a fellow-NATO has halted military supplies, describing tions as in total contravention of the reisink Final Acr But Nechervan Barzani, a leader of the Iragi-based Kurdish Democratic party, said in a side-swipe at the PKK 1do not believe that the Kurdish problem in Turkey can be solved by force.
The KDP has recently had open talks with Turkish president Turgut Ozal, and relations with the PKK have always been hostile. This intervention is likely to bring relations to new depths.