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Turkish Press Review, 04-08-16

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From: Turkish Directorate General of Press and Information <http://www.byegm.gov.tr>

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16.08.2004

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CONTENTS

  • [01] ERDOGAN MEETS WITH TRNC PREMIER TALAT IN ISTANBUL
  • [02] IRAQI PRESIDENT TO VISIT TURKEY
  • [03] CHP DISCIPLINARY COUNCIL EXPELS THREE DEPUTIES
  • [04] HISARCIKLIOGLU: “FINANCING THE HIGH CURRENT ACCOUNTS DEFICIT WITH SHORT-TERM CAPITAL INCOME WOULD BE RISKY”
  • [05] TURKISH WEIGHTLIFTERS BREAK OLYMPIC RECORDS
  • [06] OLYMPIC BOXERS ULUSOY, KARAGOLLU QUALIFY FOR SECOND ROUND
  • [07] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
  • [08] THE DEEP MYSTERY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
  • [09] BY SERDAR TURGUT (AKSAM)

  • [01] ERDOGAN MEETS WITH TRNC PREMIER TALAT IN ISTANBUL

    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday met with his Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) counterpart Mehmet Ali Talat in Istanbul to discuss recent developments on the Cyprus issue. Later, Erdogan met with Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan and discussed recent economic developments, and later he received Kucukcekmece Mayor Aziz Yeniay. /Aksam/

    [02] IRAQI PRESIDENT TO VISIT TURKEY

    Iraqi President Gazi Al Yaver is due to arrive in Turkey today to pay an official visit. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are to meet separately with Yaver to discuss a number of issues, including the safety of Turkish citizens in Iraq and trade ties between the two countries. During their meeting, Erdogan and Yaver will likely discuss Turkey’s sensitivity over the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, with Erdogan stressing that efforts to change the demographic structure of the city should not be tolerated. Erdogan is further expected to urge Yaver not to support the terrorist group PKK_KONGRA-GEL. Yaver will be accompanied during his visit by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and two other government ministers. /Turkiye/

    [03] CHP DISCIPLINARY COUNCIL EXPELS THREE DEPUTIES

    The opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Supreme Disciplinary Council yesterday decided to expel two Istanbul deputies, Ahmet Guryuz Ketenci and Hasan Aydin, as well as Ankara Deputy Mehmet Tomanbay. Speaking afterwards, council Chairman Ismet Canakci said that the decision was firm. With the decision, the number of CHP deputies in Parliament fell from 171 to 168. In related news, Tomanbay charged that the decision was unacceptable. /Aksam/

    [04] HISARCIKLIOGLU: “FINANCING THE HIGH CURRENT ACCOUNTS DEFICIT WITH SHORT-TERM CAPITAL INCOME WOULD BE RISKY”

    Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges (TOBB) Chairman Rifat Hisarciklioglu yesterday warned that financing Turkey’s high current accounts deficit with short-term capital income would be risky, adding that the deficit wouldn’t pose any threat to the economy if financed with foreign direct investment (FDI). Hisarciklioglu further stressed that Ankara signing a new three-year standby with the International Monetary Fund would be beneficial and urged Turkey to complete its structural reforms, continue to pursue tight monetary policy, and achieve a high primary surplus this year. /Hurriyet/

    [05] TURKISH WEIGHTLIFTERS BREAK OLYMPIC RECORDS

    Turkey’s Nurcan Taylan won the gold medal in the women’s 48 kg category at the 28th Summer Olympics in Athens this weekend. Lifting more than twice her own weight, Taylan combined a world record of 97.5 kg in the snatch and a trembling 112.5 kg lift in the clean and jerk for a new world record total of 210 kg to take the gold in her weight class. Breaking two world and three Olympic records, Taylan’s success went down in Turkish sports history as the nation’s first female weightlifter to score a gold. Meanwhile, Halil Mutlu, “the Little Dynamo,” won his third consecutive Olympic weightlifting gold medal. Mutlu lifted 135 kg in the snatch and hoisted 160 kg in the clean and jerk for a winning total of 295 kg. In addition, Serdar Artuc lifted 125 kg in the snatch and 155 kg in the clean and jerk to take home the bronze. /All papers/

    [06] OLYMPIC BOXERS ULUSOY, KARAGOLLU QUALIFY FOR SECOND ROUND

    Bulent Ulusoy and Mustafa Karagollu of Turkey qualified for the second round in boxing this weekend at the Olympic Games in Athens. Ulusoy qualified for the second round in the men’s light middleweight (69 kg category), and Karagollu qualified in the 64 kg category. /All papers/

    [07] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…

    [08] THE DEEP MYSTERY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

    [09] BY SERDAR TURGUT (AKSAM)

    Columnist Serdar Turgut comments on Turkey and the European Union. A summary of the columns is as follows:

    “Dan Brown’s best-selling novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is a fictionalized account of material explored in ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail,’ a self-described expose written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. According to Brown, there is a secret organization going back to the Middle Ages called ‘The Priory of Sion’ whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci, and which was dedicated to preserving the ‘truth’ that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife and bore him at least one child, and that this bloodline has had a long history in Europe and still exists. In ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail,’ the authors claim that they took the evidence which their book is based on from a man named ‘Pierre Plantard,’ who became the ‘Grand Master’ of the secret organization after Jean Cocteau’s death. Plantard’s and as a matter of fact the priory’s ultimate aim is suspected to be the reunification of Judaism and Christinanity and the creation of a monarchic ‘European Union’ that would become the next hyper-power in a new world order. Last week the Catholic Church's most senior theologian, the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said that Turkey should not attempt to join the European Union because it is a majority Muslim country with Muslim roots. In response to these comments, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the Vatican should not interfere in the EU’s policies. Unfortunately such statements only exacerbate the complexity of the current situation and are useful for nothing besides covering up certain facts about the old continent. The European Union can be seen as a religious institution, a kind of sect, established under the control of an organization which is hostile to Catholicism. Gnostic Christianity aims to create a passive Islamic world so as to control religious movements in a new world order. The Vatican sees Gnosticism as an aberration within Christianity due to its links to Jewish mysticism, but as a matter of fact the Gnostics are about to win a war over the Vatican as they have already occupied the European Union. The religious identity of the Union is laid bare in its own flag. Although the ranks of its member states keep swelling, the number of stars on its flag remains constant at 12. The flag bearing a design of 12 stars in a circle derives from the 12 stars that in Catholic tradition are the halo around the head of the Virgin Mary. The stars stem from the belief that 12 is the symbol of perfection and what is unchangeable. In addition, there are 12 gates at the Union’s central headquarters in Brussels. Without considering such details, Turkey will fail to understand the EU’s true nature. Some of our intellectuals are making a grave mistake by trying to portray the EU as if it only means freedom and human rights. In the light of this information, we must ask ourselves why such an EU is still in contact with us. This is the question that we must focus on.”

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