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Turkish Press Review, 05-09-02
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
02.09.2005
ERDOGAN: “WE SHOULD
KNOW THAT THE RESOURCES AREN’T UNLIMITED AND
USE THEM EFFICIENTLY”
GUL: “WE HONESTLY
SIGNED THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL, ARE NOW
EXPECTING THE EU TO BE HONEST”
HISTORICAL ROLE FOR
TURKEY
FISCHER: “HEADS OF EU
STATES AND GOVERNMENTS SHOULD KEEP THEIR
PROMISE AND BEGIN TURKEY’S EU TALKS ON OCT.
3”
BRITISH FM: “I BELIEVE
TURKEY’S EU TALKS WILL BEGIN ON OCT. 3, AS
SCHEDULED”
AGAR PROPOSES GOVT
DEMAND SPECIAL SUMMIT FROM THE EU
PKK HOLDS SPORTS AND
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE
FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM
THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
PAIN OF OCTOBER 3
BY DERYA SAZAK (MILLIYET)
CONTENTS
[01] ERDOGAN: “WE SHOULD KNOW
THAT THE RESOURCES AREN’T UNLIMITED AND USE
THEM EFFICIENTLY”
[02] GUL: “WE HONESTLY SIGNED
THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL, ARE NOW EXPECTING
THE EU TO BE HONEST”
[03] HISTORICAL ROLE FOR TURKEY
[04] FISCHER: “HEADS OF EU
STATES AND GOVERNMENTS SHOULD KEEP THEIR
PROMISE AND BEGIN TURKEY’S EU TALKS ON OCT.
3”
[05] BRITISH FM: “I BELIEVE
TURKEY’S EU TALKS WILL BEGIN ON OCT. 3, AS
SCHEDULED”
[06] AGAR PROPOSES GOVT DEMAND
SPECIAL SUMMIT FROM THE EU
[07] PKK HOLDS SPORTS AND
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE
[08] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[09] PAIN OF OCTOBER 3
BY DERYA SAZAK (MILLIYET)
[01] ERDOGAN: “WE SHOULD KNOW
THAT THE RESOURCES AREN’T UNLIMITED AND USE
THEM EFFICIENTLY”
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
yesterday attended an award ceremony of the
“Using Resources Efficiently and Reducing
Costs Project in 2005.” Addressing the
gathering, Erdogan said that in the public
sector savings replaced wasteful
expenditures, adding that owing to this fact
Turkey achieved great progress in
development. Erdogan said that he
appreciated the contribution of all
ministers and public administrators to this
positive process. “All of us should know
that the resources of the state are not
unlimited and use these resources
efficiently,” he added. /Turkiye/
[02] GUL: “WE HONESTLY SIGNED
THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL, ARE NOW EXPECTING
THE EU TO BE HONEST”
Speaking yesterday before flying to Britain to attend the unofficial
meeting of the European Union member states,
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that
Ankara honestly signed the additional
Customs Union protocol, which wouldn’t mean
recognition of Greek Cyprus and now that it
was turn of the EU to be honest. Gul
stressed that since Ankara was honest about
the issue, it wouldn’t let this honesty to
be exploited. Gul further stated that Turkey
had fulfilled the EU criteria, adding that
he would tell this to EU foreign ministers
at the meeting. Asked about possible opening
of Turkey’s ports to Greek Cyprus, Gul said
that Turkey wasn’t yet a full member and
that the expectations from full members and
candidate states should be different. /Star/
[03] HISTORICAL ROLE FOR TURKEY
Istanbul hosted a historical meeting yesterday. Israel, which has no
full diplomatic relationship with the
Islamic countries apart from Turkey, Jordan,
Egypt and Mauritania, took an initial step
to establish bilateral relations with its
neighboring Islamic countries in Istanbul
with the mediation of Ankara. Israeli
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and his
Pakistani counterpart Hursit Mahmud Kasuri
met in Istanbul with the mediation of Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The meeting
was of great importance since it was the
first official meeting between Pakistan and
Israel. At the press conference Shalom and
Kasuri stated that they had decided to
establish bilateral relationship. Shalom
also said: “It is not a coincidence that
this meeting is held in Istanbul. Turkey is
a very big democratic, secular country, an
important friend of Israel. Israel’s
relationship with Turkey is a proof that
Israel can establish mutual beneficial
relationships with its Islamic neighbors.”
State Minister Mehmet Aydýn who hosted the
meeting on behalf of Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, stated that an important
step had been taken in terms of the Middle
East peace process. /Aksam/
[04] FISCHER: “HEADS OF EU
STATES AND GOVERNMENTS SHOULD KEEP THEIR
PROMISE AND BEGIN TURKEY’S EU TALKS ON OCT.
3”
Speaking to German daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung yesterday, German
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said that
heads of European Union states and
governments should keep their promise they
gave at last December’s EU summit to begin
Ankara’s EU talks on Oct. 3. Fischer further
said that the EU member states should also
sign the negotiation framework document. The
German foreign minister added that he was
sure that the experience of Britain, which
currently holds the rotating EU term
presidency, would ease reaching a common
resolution on Turkey’s EU bid. In related
news, Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister George
Lacovou said that if the EU does not call
for Ankara to recognize Greek Cyprus, they
will not veto Turkey’s EU talks. /Turkiye/
[05] BRITISH FM: “I BELIEVE
TURKEY’S EU TALKS WILL BEGIN ON OCT. 3, AS
SCHEDULED”
British Foreign Minister Jacques Straw said yesterday that he believed
Ankara would begin its European Union
accession talks on Oct. 3, as scheduled.
Speaking to journalists, Straw said that it
was important for Turkey to implement the
additional Customs Union protocol it signed.
Straw further stated that the content of the
EU declaration, which was decided to be
issued at yesterday’s EU permanent
representatives’ meeting, would be
determined by the EU ambassadors next
Wednesday. In related news, EU Commissioner
for Enlargement Olli Rehn said that there
would be no more conditions for Ankara’s
talks to begin. /Sabah/
[06] AGAR PROPOSES GOVT DEMAND
SPECIAL SUMMIT FROM THE EU
In a written statement yesterday, opposition True Path Party (DYP)
leader Mehmet Agar said that the government
should demand a special summit from the
European Union. Agar claimed that the Union
wants Turkey to make concessions, by
suspending its EU talks. The government
should recognize this game and take
necessary measures. /Turkiye/
[07] PKK HOLDS SPORTS AND
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE
The activities of the terrorist organization PKK in Europe, which
caused the reaction of General Yasar
Buyukanit at the August 30 Victory Day
reception, were included in the intelligence
reports. After London attacks, separatist
organization had changed tactics, and
started a “light show” with sports and
cultural activities. According to the
intelligence reports, Europeans are ignoring
the terrorist PKK’s activities. Therefore,
the PKK can ask freedom for Abdullah Ocalan,
organize terrorist activities and also
cultural and sports events. The PKK had
organized a bicycle tour from Lahr to
Freiburg in Germany, under the title of
“Let’s develop the resistance, free Ocalan”.
After the bicycle tour, the separatist
organization started a “homeland and
freedom” march from Brussels to Cologne.
/Aksam/
[08] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[09] PAIN OF OCTOBER 3
BY DERYA SAZAK (MILLIYET)
Columnist Derya Sazak comments on Turkey’s full membership. A summary
of his column is as follows:
“Although Turkey received the date of
Oct. 3 for starting membership talks with
the European Union on Dec. 17, now the EU
wants to stipulate Turkey to recognize the
Greek Cypriot administration due to the
rejection of France and Austria. EU foreign
ministers will discuss the problems of
enlargement and Turkey-EU Negotiations
Framework Document at a meeting in Newport,
Wales. Although the EU ambassadors gathered
together in Brussels before the meeting and
decided to issue a declaration concerning
Cyprus, they didn’t emphasize the issue of
recognition. This situation was interpreted
as the way to start membership talks on Oct.
3 was opened. However, the lobby on
including binding provisions in the
Negotiations Framework Document concerning
the solution of the Cyprus issue is
continuing. Although France seems to have
withdrawn, the pressure of the privileged
membership is still valid. Even if
membership talks start with the EU on Oct.
3, the process of full membership will
continue at least until 2015. Referendums in
France and the Netherlands were the
expression of concerns about the
enlargement. Election results in Germany
might also create new obstacles on Turkey.
It would be honest for the EU to stand
behind the decision it took on Dec. 17. An
article, which was published on the French
daily Le Figaro, was the expression of the
frustration seen in Turkey and some European
countries. It wrote, ‘As certain European
governors say, the concept of privileged
membership can’t be the alternative of full
membership. This proposal was discussed at
the European Commission in December last
year, but it was rejected and this proposal
was referred to as open-ended negotiations
in the Council’s final declaration. These
terms, which were never used in previous
enlargement processes, might have hurt
Turkey, but they were considered one of the
ambiguous words of the international
diplomacy and accepted. If the aim weren’t
full membership, none of the candidate
countries would bother to issue tens of
thousands of laws and regulations. Besides,
it’s difficult to understand what sort of an
additional advantage can be offered to
Turkey as part of the privileged membership.
Turkey has been a member of the Customs
Union for a long period of time. As a NATO
member, Turkey and the EU have the common
position in issues of security and it
benefits from financial and technical aid,
which supports reform programs. We couldn’t
understand what sort of an added value,
except the full membership, can develop the
Turkish-EU relations.’ We hope the meeting
in Newport will end with an answer to this.”
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