Topic: voa Subject: GERMANY/TURKEY (S) By DAGMAR BREITENBACH / BONN From: "Demetrios E. Paneras" DATE=4/3/95 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-176491 TITLE= GERMANY/TURKEY (S) BYLINE= DAGMAR BREITENBACH DATELINE= BONN CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER ERDAL INONU HAS HELD TALKS IN BONN ON A TOUR OF WESTERN CAPITALS WHERE THERE IS GROWING CRITICISM ABOUT TURKEY'S OFFENSIVE AGAINST KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ. FROM BONN, V-O-A'S DAGMAR BREITENBACH REPORTS THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER REMAINED VAGUE ABOUT EXACTLY WHEN HIS COUNTRY WOULD WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS FROM IRAQ. TEXT: FOREIGN MINISTER INONU SAYS TURKEY WILL RECALL ITS TROOPS FROM NORTHERN IRAQ ONCE ALL CAMPS AND WEAPONS ARSENALS OF THE SEPARATIST KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY, THE P-K-K, HAVE BEEN DESTROYED THERE. THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER DID NOT GIVE A DATE, OR SAY HOW LONG THE OPERATION IS EXPECTED TO TAKE. GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER KLAUS KINKEL URGED TURKEY TO WITHDRAW THE 35-THOUSAND TROOPS THAT CROSSED THE IRAQUI BORDER TWO WEEKS AGO. WE WANT TO MAINTAIN GOOD RELATIONS WITH TURKEY, MR. KINKEL SAID, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO SAY CLEARLY THAT WE THINK THE OPERATION IN IRAQ MUST END AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, TOMORROW IF POSSIBLE. BUT MR. INONU DEFENDED HIS GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO SEND TROOPS TO IRAQ, SAYING TURKEY IS NOT GOING TO OCCUPY THE AREA, BUT WANTS TO, IN HIS WORDS, CREATE A SECURITY SITUATION IN WHICH THE P-K-K CANNOT ATTACK TURKEY FROM NORTHERN IRAQ. THE P-K-K HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR AN INDEPENDENT HOMELAND IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS. (SIGNED) NEB/DB/MH/CF 03-Apr-95 8:17 AM EDT (1217 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America ------------------------------------------------------------------------------