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ternational telephone calls, which deprives PTT of revenues (see "RFE/RL Iran Report," 28 May 2001).

PKK transfers money from Syria to Iran

The Turkish Daily News
March 27, 2002
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has begun transferring the $20 million that it stashed away in Syrian banks after the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan to banks in Iran.
It has been stated that Cemil Bayik, a member of the PKK's leadership Council, brought $1.4 million in cash to Iran via Northern Iraq on March 21.
Turkey is preparing to ask for the extradition of Bayik, currently undergoing treatment in Urumiye for his kidney disease.
Ties between the Iranian Intelligence Service and the PKK were exposed by a report prepared by Turkish security units. The report includes interesting and important information about PKK activities in Iran.
"Iran, despite all of Turkey's objections, continues to support the terrorist organization. Although, it sometimes suspends its support, Iran always prefers to support the PKK rather than Turkey," the report said.

Man strangled his own daughter

TEHRAN, March 18 (AFP) - A heroin addict in Iran strangled his 13-year-old daughter for "sullying his honour", the Iranian government newspaper reported Monday.
It said the 47-year-old man,

named only as Mohammad-Reza G, gave the girl Arezou a sedative, then injected her with heroin and strangled her out of fury with her habit of running away.
"I had had enough. My drug addiction stripped me of my honour and the little that was left was taken away by my daughter," the father said, quoted in Iran.
Social workers say cases of runaway daughters, who are often forced into prostitution to survive, are common in Iranian families where a parent suffers from drug addiction, a serious problem in Iran.

BBC Monitoring Service
Apr 7, 2002
Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA
Tehran, 7 April: Spokesman of Iran's Ministry of the Interior Jahanbakhsh Khanjani here Sunday [7 April] rejected as "baseless" reports in the Turkish media that Iran has arrested a leading member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Khanjani said the reports are meant for propaganda purposes and said Tehran has asked Ankara for documentary evidence on the case.
He said that Iran and Turkey have adequate security agreements and the reports on the arrest of PKK member could be discussed in joint security meetings.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Khanjani said Tehran and Ankara will exchange views on security issues in the upcoming