Subject: GERMANY KURDS (L UPDATE) [2] By EVANS HAYS/BONN (fwd) From: Stratos Safioleas INTRO: GERMANY'S INTERIOR MINISTER MANFRED KANTHER HAS URGED GREATER PROTECTION FOR TURKISH BUSINESSES AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE WAKE OF SEVERAL DAYS OF FIREBOMB ATTACKS AGAINST TURKISH TARGETS. POLICE IN GERMANY ARE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE WAVE OF ATTACKS AND WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STRONGER ACTION TO PREVENT THEM. VOA'S EVANS HAYS IN BONN FILES THIS REPORT. TEXT: INTERIOR MINISTER KANTHER CONDEMNED THE WAVE OF ATTACKS DIRECTED AT TURKISH TRAVEL AGENCIES, CULTURAL CENTERS AND MOSQUES. MR. KANTHER URGED THE POLICE IN GERMANY'S 16 STATES TO INCREASE THEIR PROTECTION OF TURKISH PREMISES. NO ONE HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WEEK-LONG ATTACKS, BUT MR. KANTHER SAYS THERE ARE CLEAR SIGNS THEY HAVE BEEN THE WORK OF KURDISH EXTREMISTS BELONGING TO THE BANNED KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY, OR P-K-K. THE P-K-K HAS BEEN WAGING A BATTLE FOR YEARS TO SECURE A KURDISH HOMELAND THAT INCLUDES PART OF TURKEY. TURKISH AUTHORITIES HAVE REACTED VIGOROUSLY TO THIS CAMPAIGN AND THERE HAVE BEEN PERSISTENT ALLEGATIONS OF BRUTALITY ON THE PART OF TURKISH AUTHORITIES. GERMAN AUTHORITIES ARE WORRIED THAT THE VIOLENCE IS ONCE AGAIN SPILLING OVER INTO THEIR COUNTRY. GERMAN POLICE HAVE ALSO EXPRESSED THEIR CONCERN OVER THE RECENT VIOLENCE. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE GERMAN POLICE UNION, KLAUS STEFFENHAGEN, SAYS FOREIGNERS DETAINED WHILE CARRYING OUT VIOLENT ATTACKS SHOULD BE DEPORTED. IN A NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW (EDITORS: OSNABRUECKER ZEITUNG), MR. STEFFENHAGEN SAID POLICE ARE OVERWORKED AND CANNOT PROTECT ALL THE POTENTIAL FOREIGN TARGETS IN THE COUNTRY. HE SAID PUTTING MORE POLICE ON THE STREETS WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. THE FEDERAL DEPORTATION ORDER OF KURDS FROM GERMANY TO TURKEY WAS IMPOSED EARLIER. BUT IT WAS SUSPENDED LAST YEAR WHILE AUTHORITIES LOOKED INTO ALLGEATIONS THAT KURDS ARE PERSECUTED AT HOME AND THUS DESERVE POLITICAL ASYLUM. AUTHORITIES NOW SAY THERE IS NO STRONG EVIDENCE OF PERSECUTION AND THE DEPORTATIONS WILL RESUME. BUT THAT IS A FEDERAL ORDER FROM BONN AND GERMANY'S 16 STATES ARE NOT OBLIGED TO COMPLY WITH IT. STATES GOVERNED BY THE MAIN OPPOSITION SOCIAL DEMOCRATS HAVE INDICATED THAT, FOR THE MOST PART, THEY WILL HOLD OFF ON THE DEPORTATIONS. AUTHORITIES ARE NOW BRACING THEMSELVES FOR POSSIBLE TROUBLE TO COINCIDE WITH THE KURDISH NEW YEAR. AT THIS SAME TIME LAST YEAR, KURDISH MILITANTS BLOCKED MANY OF GERMANY'S MAIN HIGHWAYS TO MARK THE OCCASION. (SIGNED) NEB/EH/KK/GPT 20-Mar-95 2:41 PM EST (1941 UTC) Source: Voice of America