Turkey Celebrated Its Defeat In Silopi!
The Talk About Withdrawing Is A Ploy!

     The occupation of South Kurdistan by Turkish troops that began
on March 19, 1995 is continuing. But Turkey's Prime Minister, Tansu
Ciller, was in the border town of Silopi today to greet the troops.
She was accompanied by a group of her blood-sucking generals. The
event was, as usual, portrayed as a success. It was meant to
mislead both the local and the foreign press. It was a comedy:
Turkey celebrated a fictitious "victory".
     The occupation of South Kurdistan continues, notwithstanding
these media-directed manoeuvres. Although the Turkish army has
withdrawn its forces from a number of strategic locations, its
occupation goes on. According to Mustafa Karasu, a commander of the
People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan (ARGK), the Turkish retreat
is another word for defeat and he stated that the Turkish troops
have suffered greatly, having had more than 1,000 casualties.
     In the course of this occupation, Turkish troops destroyed a
number of Kurdish villages. Many civilian Kurds were taken into
custody, some were killed, and some have been tortured to death. As
Saddam had done a few years earlier, the retreating army is also
mining the Kurdish landscape so as to deny a life of peace for the
Kurds.

National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK) - European Section
May 1, 1995