BAKU - Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu, who is currently in Baku, said regarding motion demanding launching a parliamentary investigation about him which was submitted by Republican People's Party (CHP) to the parliament that he dealt with every issue which he received so far.
Aksu told the A.A correspondent on Wednesday that he would give more information regarding the motion for investigation about him during meetings in the parliament.
Stating that all issues which were sent to the ministry were investigated and examined, Aksu said, ''when the issue is discussed in the parliament, we will say necessary things.''
Assessing his contacts in Azerbaijan, Aksu said that they took up measures which would be taken against human trafficking and security issues which concerned the two countries during meetings in this country.
Aksu said that there were two basic agreements foreseeing comprehensive cooperation against human and drug trafficking and organized crimes and added that one of these agreements was signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan in 1994 and the other was signed among Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia last year.
Stressing that Turkey and Azerbaijan had a strategic location in fight against human trafficking, Aksu said that people from countries where there was lack of stability and economic problems tried to pass illegally to Balkan and European countries via Turkey.
Noting that this route slid to south of Mediterranean and north of Black Sea due to measures which Turkey took recently, he said that but there was need for cooperation and new measures for a more effective fight against human trafficking.
Aksu said that they made a new proposal in process of fight against human trafficking to Azerbaijan and stated that they submitted Reacceptance Agreement Draft to Azerbaijani Interior Ministry through Foreign Ministry.
Aksu said that the agreement would be signed after Azerbaijan finished its studies on draft and stated that they separated illegal migration from human trafficking with an important amendment in the penal code.
Noting that more than 414,000 people who entered Turkey through illegal ways were captured for five years, Aksu said that organized crime networks were formed on human trafficking. He added that they made agreements with all neighboring countries and European countries.
Aksu said that they expected approval of Reacceptance Agreement which Turkey made with Bulgaria last week and stated that there would be more effective fight against human trafficking with putting into practice Reacceptance Agreement.
''A country is obliged to hand over illegal immigrants, who are captured within borders of the country, to the country from which they entered. All countries should act carefully and not allow human smuggling within its borders. Human smuggling creates an important source for terrorism. Fight against human smugglers also means fight against terrorism,'' he said.
Aksu said, ''the draft reassociation law received both criticisms and positive reactions. We attribute importance to approach of the public opinion to the draft. However, there are two marginal groups displaying different approaches. One of them wants general amnesty instead of reassociation. They want to use martyrs for their own political benefits. We acted with sensitivity to protect an important balance. As you know, some laws like the Repentance Law was adopted in the past. However, this draft is very different. It is not a law envisaging amnesty. It aims at reassociating people.''
Referring to yesterday's attack on Governor Ali Cafer Akyuz of eastern province of Tunceli, Aksu said, ''the other marginal group is administrations of terrorist organizations. They are concerned that they could lose their members. They put on pressure to their members not to benefit from the law. Terrorist organization may have accelerated their activities due to the draft.''
Describing the attack as extremely shameful and hateful, Aksu added, ''this armed attack targeted our governor and his convoy. Two soldiers lost their lives in the attack. An operation has been launched in the region to capture the assailants.''
(EÖ-UK-AÖ) 09.07.2003