European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Innocent kurd area sought by kurd As Independent Homeland in Turkey continued from Page 23 vide Comfort closes up shop iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein could attack Northern iraqi kurd sending a massive wave of refugees across the Border into Turkey they remember Well the 800,000 iraqi kurd who massed on the turkish Border in 1991 after the kurd so rebellion against Saddam Hussein was crushed. That crisis is what prompted operation provide Comfort in the first place. These debates Are renewed every six months when the turkish parliament deities whether to renew the operation. The last few renewals have squeaked through by increasingly narrow margins. To complicate matters the turks Cross Border raids against turkish kurd often catch iraqi kurd in the Cross fire. A we done to want to interfere with turkeys internal problems but we. Oppose the pkg running away from Turkey to hide in our land a said Roth Shaw Ais Deputy prime minister of the Kurdistan democratic party one of two warring groups of Northern iraqi kurd. A we done to want them to use our land As a base of course. But we also done to support and done to agree with the turkish government coming Over  last month pkg leaders became Ini a Sas Censed that a cease fire Between the Kip and its rival the patriotic Union of Kurdistan included a pledge to a respect turkeys Security concerns a according to the state department official. The pkg considered this tantamount to siding with the enemy the official said. To retaliate the guerillas commenced a series of at kurdish women carrying Large cans used to hold water and cooking Oil go about the daily Challenge of finding food for the family. Tacks on Kip troops that have killed 79 people including 37 last week. Still not everyone considers the pkg a terrorist organization. A i am not one of their followers but i done to want to Call them terrorists a said Osman Salim a doctor working for kurdish life Aid a British humanitarian group operating in Northern Iraq. A they Are no different from the Chechnya is fighting for their  soldiers Arentt the Only pkg people who end up in Northern Iraq. About 40,000 pkg family members who were driven from Southeastern Turkey by the turkish military within the last year now \ live in a refugee Camp at Atrush in Northern Iraq. The Camp huddled against the base of a Mountain Range consists of hundreds of tents and crude structures patched together with mud and rocks. A a they re Safe Here a said Kip spokesman Abdul Aziz As he surveyed the Camp from a High Mountain Road. A if they were in another area of Iraq the turks could bomb them. But. Here they Are under . United nations  the Kip accuses the Puk of being affiliated with the pkg in the Puk Strong he cd of Erbil. The Puk suggests Kip officials Are the ones in cahoots with the terrorists in the Kip stronghold of Dahouk. In Irbell and in other Puk territories there is no pkg and they Are creating no problems for us right now said Puk prime minister Rasul Ali. A they Are in the Dahouk area. And we have no info rotation about their activities because no supporters of the Puk Are allowed to go to  pkg members could not be reached for comment. 24 the stars and stripes wednesday september 13, 1995