Clancy Lends His Pen to the Cause of Barbarity!

By Kani Xulam March 4, 1997 Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Acts of War, the newest Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik novel is sure to sell well, if for no other reason than their introduction of the new bad guys of the Middle East, the Kurds. To be sure, Clancy and...

Half Mast at Atrush

By David Markovich February 6, 1997 August 18, 1992, marked the commencement of a Turkish government military offensive in Sirnak. All media access to the region was restricted for several days and Turkish military sources said that its forces had acted to repel a...

Indict the Butcher of Bagdad!

The Initiative of a British Member of Parliament, Ann Clwyd January 15, 1997 INDICT The campaign to indict Iraqi War Criminals INDICT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED AT PARLIAMENT ON THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GULF WAR LONDON (15 January): INDICT, the international campaign to...

Disappearances – An Alarming Trend

By Kathryn Cameron Porter January 2, 1997 On December 8, 1996, the representatives of the International League for Human Rights, a Paris-based NGO, gave its annual award to the representatives of what are in Turkey called “Saturday Mothers” a group of...

The European Parliament Resolution on Turkey

Adopted December 12, 1996   The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions on Turkey, A. gravely concerned about the continuing deterioration of the human rights situation in Turkey, B. seriously alarmed by the initiatives of the...