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Anadolu Agency: News in English, 01-11-18

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From: The Anadolu Agency Home Page at <http://www.anadoluajansi.com.tr/>

Anadolu Agency

ANADOLU AGENCY

NEWS

18 NOVEMBER

2001 Sunday

CONTENTS

  • [01] TURKEY-PRESS SCAN

    • [01] TURKEY-PRESS SCAN

    These are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey's press on November 19, 2001. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

    HURRIYET (LIBERAL)

    PHOENIX MIRACLE
    Ozdemir Ince, a columnist of Hurriyet daily, examined Galatasaray, which has become the fourth best team in the world in the last five-year standings following Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Galataray lost 11 best players after it won UEFA and Super Cup in 2000. Firstly Emperor Fatih Terim then a giant like Hagi left the team. Despite all these, Galatasaray continued to be successful. Lucescu defined Galatasaray as a team which represents not only Turkey but the Islam world, Balkans and the East. Lucescu also defined his team as a team of poor which beats the rich and seniors.

    TURKISH MODEL TO GREEK ARMY
    Greece took Military Council in Turkey as an example to end the influence of the politicians on the military appointments. Greek Defense Ministry has launched initiatives on ''Turkish model'' to abide appointment and promotion methods in the army by the NATO standards and to reduce the influence of politicians in appointments. If this project is legalized, the administrative quadre in the army will be appointed by the council just like in Turkey. This council will be named ''General Staff Supreme Council.''

    ECEVIT: ''SECULARISM IN ISLAM WILL BE STRENGTHENED''
    Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that secularism would be strengthened in all Islam world following the incidents in Afghanistan. Ecevit noted, ''some serious steps are being taken although the principle of secular state is not officially accepted.''

    MILLIYET (LIBERAL)

    CLOSE FRIEND OF TAYYIP MISSING
    Mustafa Acikalin, who was the General Secretary of the Istanbul Municipality when Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the mayor, got lost three days before a warrant of arrest was issued for him. Police intensify on the possibility of abduction. Acikalin knew about every step taken in the municipality and every tender that was awarded by the municipality when he was the general secretary. Shortly, he was like the black box of Tayyip Erdogan. Police intensify on two possibilities. They think that Acikalin either got lost by guessing that he could be arrested or he was abducted by powers who do not want him to speak.

    MUMCU CONVEYED 'RESIGN' MESSAGE
    It was revealed that Motherland Party (ANAP) leader Mesut Yilmaz conveyed ''resign'' message to his deputy Erkan Mumcu, who harshly criticized Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, with a diplomatic language. It is said that Mumcu could be dismissed from the deputy leadership of ANAP.

    SABAH (LIBERAL)

    THEY HAVE SUNK IT THIS WAY
    Some people who would resign in a few months were appointed to the general directorates. Installations, the general directors of which changed every three months, collapsed. Sumer Holding General Director Kadir Kanat asked for the closure of the holding. Now, it has been revealed that the holding was turned into a holding of the retired. Some powerful people were appointed to the general directorates under the umbrella of Sumer Holding. Thus, these people got retired by taking great deal of bonuses and compensation. Twenty-four general directors and deputy general directors were appointed to only three factories in Antalya, Bergama and Manisa which were under the auspices of Sumer Holding. Some of these people got retired in 23 days. Thus, all these three factories had a loss of 9 trillion 481 billion Turkish liras (TL) last year.

    TIBUK MEDIATOR IN CHECHEN CASE
    Besim Tibuk, a businessman and leader of the Liberal Democracy Party (LDP), also participated in the delegation which the Chechens sent for peace talks with Russia. Tibuk went from Istanbul to Moscow together with Sakayev, the representative of Chechen leader Mashadov. He had a meeting with the Russians for two hours and then he returned to Istanbul.

    CUMHURIYET (LEFT)

    TURKEY'S PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT ANTIQUATED
    World Bank said in the Public Expenditures and Institutional Review carried out together by Turkey that Turkish system of public expenditure management is antiquated, fragmented and inflexible and requires a major overhaul. The report said that waste and fraud should be discouraged by the system of internal control and external audits.

    TAKE MUMCU TO LUNA PARK
    Touching on the statements of Erkan Mumcu, deputy leader of Motherland Party (ANAP), Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said, ''his statements are away from seriousness. When Mumcu was underestimating village-city concept, the World Bank supported the project.'' Members of Democratic Left Party (DSP) said, ''he has some personality problems. We recommend Mumcu's relatives to sometimes take him to luna park.''

    RADIKAL (LEFT)

    RETIRED ADMIRAL KIYAT MAKES A CALL TO TSK: ''PROPERTY DECLARATION OF
    GENERALS
    SHOULD BE ANNOUNCED''
    Retired admiral Atilla Kiyat, who noted that corruption allegations related with Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had increased, requested that the property declarations of the generals should be announced as they were promoted and retired. Kiyat said, ''TSK thinks that confidence in itself will be shaken if those who make corruption is made public. However, the confidence in the army will increase if this is announced.''

    INVOICE OF ECONOMIC PROGRAM INCREASES
    The cost of the economic program which was launched by the government in 1996 to fight against inflation increased to 36 billion. The program was launched by a 8.5 billion U.S. dollar support.

    TURKIYE (RIGHT)

    PRIME MINISTER: ''ECONOMY INSPIRES HOPE''
    Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that some hope inspiring developments started to be seen although there were still some problems in the economy. Ecevit noted that the conflicts between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Motherland Party (ANAP) would not affect the coalition.

    WINTER HAS COME
    Snowfall is paralyzing daily life throughout Turkey. Snow thickness is changing between 20 and 30 centimetres in Central Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia regions. Communication is cut with 200 settlements in eastern Van, Bitlis and Hakkari provinces and their townships.

    ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)

    REFERENDUM FATE TO BECOME CLEAR ON WEDNESDAY
    The Parliamentary General Assembly will vote for a second round on the bill which will change the article 86 of the Constitution regarding the rights of the deputies on Wednesday. The new bill foresees the arrangement of appropriations, travel allowances and retirement proceedings of the deputies with laws.

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