Topic: voa
Subject: U-S-TURKEY (S) By RON PEMSTEIN/STATE DEPARTMENT
From: "Demetrios E. Paneras" <dep@bu.edu>
 
DATE=3/27/95
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-176129
TITLE=U-S-TURKEY (S)
BYLINE=RON PEMSTEIN
DATELINE=STATE DEPARTMENT
CONTENT=

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INTRO:   THE UNITED STATES IS WARNING TURKEY AGAINST KEEPING ITS
TROOPS TOO MUCH LONGER IN NORTHERN IRAQ.  V-O-A'S RON PEMSTEIN
REPORTS FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

TEXT:   SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER HAS SENT TURKEY A
MESSAGE THAT AMERICAN PATIENCE WITH TURKEY'S TREATMENT OF KURDISH
CIVILIANS IN NORTHERN IRAQ IS WEARING THIN.

OVER THE WEEKEND, MR. CHRISTOPHER EXPRESSED HIS CONCERN TO
TURKEY'S PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT REPORTS OF
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE WEEK-LONG INCURSION DIRECTED
AGAINST KURDISH TERRORIST BASES.

SPEAKING ALONSIDE DENMARK'S FOREIGN MINISTER, THE SECRETARY OF
STATE SAYS THE UNITED STATES IS WORRIED ABOUT THE LENGTH OF THE
TURKISH MILITARY ACTION IN NORTHERN IRAQ.

                      ///CHRISTOPHER ACT///

         WITH RESPECT TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, WE TOLD THEM
         THAT THE SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE
         INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WOULD BE FORTHCOMING ONLY IF THE
         TROOPS WERE PROMPTLY WITHDRAWN AND IF THEY LIVED UP TO
         THE COMMITMENTS THEY HAD MADE AT THE TIME THE TROOPS
         WERE FIRST SENT IN.

                          ///END ACT///

MR. CHRISTOPHER SAYS THE TURKISH ACTION IN IRAQ IS AN ACT OF
SELF-DEFENSE BUT SHOULD BE LIMITED IN TIME AND SCOPE. (SIGNED)

NEB/RP/PT

27-Mar-95 4:32 PM EST (2132 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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