Topic: voa
Subject: GERMANY/TURKS (S ONLY) By DAGMAR BREITENBACH/BONN
From: "Demetrios E. Paneras" <dep@bu.edu>
 
DATE=3/30/95
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-176285
TITLE=GERMANY/TURKS (S ONLY)
BYLINE=DAGMAR BREITENBACH
DATELINE=BONN
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:

INTRO:  ARSONISTS HAVE AGAIN FIREBOMBED TURKISH BUSINESSES IN A
NUMBER OF CITIES THROUGHOUT GERMANY. AS V-O-A'S DAGMAR
BREITENBACH REPORTS FROM BONN, POLICE SUSPECT KURDISH MILITANTS
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACKS.

TEXT:  TURKISH TRAVEL BUREAUS AND CULTURAL CENTERS WERE
FIREBOMBED LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN AT LEAST TEN GERMAN CITIES,
INCLUDING BERLIN, MAINZ, HEIDELBERG, HANNOVER AND GOETTINGEN.

 LITTLE DAMAGE WAS DONE IN THE ATTACKS EXCEPT IN HEIDELBERG,
WHERE FIREBOMBS GUTTED A TURKISH TRAVEL AGENCY. NO ONE WAS
INJURED IN THE ATTACKS, AND NO ONE HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THEM.

GERMAN POLICE SUSPECT THE MILITANT KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY, THE
P-K-K, IS BEHIND THE ARSON. WEDNESDAY'S ATTACKS ARE THE LATEST IN
A SERIES OF ALMOST NIGHTLY FIREBOMBINGS OF TURKISH PREMISES OVER
THE PAST WEEKS.

 SINCE 1984, THE P-K-K HAS BEEN FIGHTING THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT
FOR AN INDEPENDENT HOMELAND IN SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY. THE KURDISH
GROUP HAS ALSO TAKEN ITS BATTLE ABROAD --GERMANY HAS A LARGE
TURKISH POPULATION OF ALMOST TWO MILLION PEOPLE.

THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT HAS CONDEMNED THE ATTACKS, CALLING ON
POLICE IN GERMANY'S 16 STATES TO STEP UP PROTECTION OF TURKISH
PREMISES. (SIGNED)

NEB/DB/MH

30-Mar-95 6:27 AM EST (1127 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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