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Anadolu Agency: News in English, 01-11-19

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

Anadolu Agency

ANADOLU AGENCY

NEWS

19 NOVEMBER 2001 Monday


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.

    -AGRICULTURE MINISTER GOKALP LEAVES FOR BRUSSELS
    ISTANBUL - Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister Husnu Yusuf Gokalp left on Monday for Brussels.

    Gokalp told reporters that he would attend a meeting of the agriculture ministers of the European Union (EU) member and candidate countries.

    Initiatives of the EU candidate countries, including Turkey, in agriculture, fishery and food sectors would be evaluated during the meeting, Gokalp said.

    Gokalp noted that he would meet with agriculture ministers of EU member countries and hold bilateral contacts with his Dutch and Polish counterparts.

    -AYCELL TO START COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON DECEMBER 15
    ANKARA - Aycell, one of Turkey's four GSM operators, will start commercial activities on December 15.

    Sources told A.A correspondent on Monday that Aycell will enter into cell phone market by making a commercial inauguration in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Bursa, Antalya and Mugla provinces on December 15.

    Aycell plans to reach 800 thousand subscribers at the first stage.

    This GSM operator will serve in GSM 1800 band with the code number 505.

    Technical inauguration of Aycell was made on August 22, 2001.

    -IMKB EXCEEDS 11.800 POINTS
    ISTANBUL - Istanbul Stock Exchange (IMKB) National-100 Index exceeded 11.800 points in the first session of this week.

    The stock exchange which closed last week at 11.307.89 points increased 456.37 percent to 11.827.26 points in the first half of Monday's first session.

    The shares gained 4.01 percent in value.

    This positive atmosphere occured as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved additional source of 10 billion U.S. dollars in principle.

    The index is currently around 11.861.09 points.

    -COAST GUARD AND SECURITY TEAMS FORMED TO PROTECT STRAITS
    ANKARA - Coastal Security Command formed Coast Guard and Security Teams (SAGET) to guide and accompany the tankers loaded with hazardous materials during their passage through the straits, to ensure security of installations of strategic importance, and protect foreign war ships.

    A statement of Interior Ministry Coastal Security Command said on Monday that SAGET would accompany, guide and protect tankers loaded with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), and ammonia and giant fuel oil tankers, ensure security of installations of strategi importance, and protect foreign war ships visiting the harbours.

    SAGET will start to operate by a ceremony which will be held on Tuesday.

    -JUSTICE MINISTER ASK FOR CAREFUL HEALTH EXAMINATION OF INMATES
    ANKARA - Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk sent a circular to chief prosecutor's offices on Monday and asked for a careful health examination of the inmates.

    In the circular, Turk noted that there were some deficiencies in the medical examination of the inmates and said, ''it has been seen that some prison doctors do not make health examination of inmates while some of the doctors do not register the results of their examination.''

    Turk stated that inmates should be examined by the doctors as they were sent to prisons under the law on prisons and execution of punishments.

    ''Health examination of inmates as they are sent to a prison is of special importance for not only human rights, but also for international liabilities of our country. Deficiencies which occur in this examination is reflected to the reports of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture,'' Turk said.

    Turk noted, ''to this end, all the inmates sent to prisons should be checked by the doctors and the results of the health examinations should be registered and filed.''

    -''EAST MEDITERRANEAN 2001 INVITATION MANEUVER''
    -VESSELS FROM 4 PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES CAST ANCHOR AT ANTALYA PORT
    ANTALYA - Battleships participating in the ''East Mediterranean 2001 Invitation Maneuver'' which is one of the concerted maneuvers of Turkish Naval Forces cast anchor at Antalya Port on Monday.

    Seven vessels from four participating countries have nearly 2,500 personnel and they will depart from Antalya on Tuesday.

    Battleships of Turkey, the United States, Italy and Spain are participating in the maneuver which started from Izmir Port on November 13 and continued in Aegean and Mediterranean.

    Frigates, assault boats, submarines, logistic support vessels and helicopters from the Turkish Naval Forces and planes from the Turkish Air Forces are also joining the maneuver.

    The maneuver in which naval meneuver trainings and weapons trainings are being carried out will end on November 22.

    -TURKISH-MINEX 2001 MANOEUVRE STARTS
    IZMIR - ''Turkish-Minex 2001'' which is one of the planned manoeuvres of the Turkish Naval Forces starts on Monday.

    Totally 18 ships including five foreign ships cast anchor at Izmir port the same day.

    A General Staff written statement noted that the manoeuvre which was planned by the Fleet Command to improve mutual training and cooperation in mine battle between Turkish and ally naval forces, will be conducted by the Mine Fleet Commander.

    Minesweepers, mine hunting and mine planter ships of the Turkish Naval Forces, one plane from Air Forces, and NATO Mine Counter Measures Forces of NATO Southern Europe (MCFORSOUTH) ships from Italy, Britain, Germany, Spain and Greece will join the manoeuvre.

    -WHO EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH COMMITTEE MEETING STARTS IN ISTANBUL
    ISTANBUL - World Health Organization (WHO) European Environment and Health Committee's 2001 fall meeting started in Istanbul on Monday.

    Addressing the opening of the meeting, Health Ministry Undersecretary Sefer Aycan said that Turkey prepared ''National Environment Health Programme.''

    Noting that the National Environment Health Action Plan was formed within the scope of the programme, Aycan said that Turkey wanted preparation of ''European Tourism, Environment, and Health Action Plan'' and taking onto agenda ''good practices in envirnonment, health and security administration.''

    Aycan stressed that concepts like enviroment, environmental health and people's health have to be revised and new arrangements have to be made.

    The meeting will end on Nov. 21.

    -INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY MEETING TO BE HELD IN ADANA
    ADANA - Annex-13 and Annex-14 meetings which are held under the International Energy Agency Energy Storage Implementing Agreement (IEA ECES- IA) will be held at Adana's Cukurova University on Nov.26-Dec.1.

    Prof. Halime Paksoy from Chemistry Department of Cukurova University, who has been chairing the meetings since 1999, told the A.A that Turkey signed an agreement with IEA ECES-IA in 1995 and therefore gained significant experience and knowledge in thermal energy storage.

    Paksoy said that the goal of this agreement was to make research and development activities more widespread in the world which is facing an energy shortage.

    ''These systems are becoming more attractive all around the world since they decrease the emission of harmful gasses that are released to the athmosphere,'' he said. ''This system is offering an alternative solution to Turkey which is also trying to solve its energy problems mostly by using fossile fuels.''

    Experts from Turkey,Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Norway will attend the meeting.

    -AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS MINISTER GOKALP ARRIVES IN BRUSSELS
    BRUSSELS - Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister Husnu Yusuf Gokalp arrived on Monday in Brussels, Belgium to attend a meeting in which European Union (EU) member and candidate countries' agriculture ministers will participate and to hold several contacts.

    Gokalp will attend on Tuesday a conference on ''Future of Joint Agriculture Policy'' organized by European Parliament Agriculture Committee.

    Gokalp who is scheduled to meet with Agriculture Minister Jan Laurens Brinknort of the Netherlands will return to Ankara on Wednesday after attending some briefings that will be given at the Turkish EU Permanent Representation.

    -A.A CORRESPONDENT INTERVIEWS TALIBAN'S SOLDIERS AT KABUL PRISON
    KABUL - Some 600 Taliban soldiers and sympathizers were arrested only in Kabul after the Northern Alliance forces entered the city.

    The A.A correspondent interviewed Taliban soldiers who are under arrest at Kabul Central Prison. Gulam Nebii, one of the soldiers of Afghan origin, said ''We're fighting against the United States and the Northern Alliance forces on the way to Allah. Americans are the enemies of Muslims. They brought terrorism not only to Afghanistan but to the whole world. They caused the deaths of thousands of Muslims.'' Nebii said it is every Muslim's duty to fight against the United States.

    Another soldier Abdullah Mesvali who is 55 years old said he came to Kabul a month ago from Dir city ''to fight for Allah.'' ''America bombed Kabul and killed only civilians....I think very bad things will happen at the end of this war. The war hasn't started yet,'' he said.

    -SEN SAYS FULL SUPOORT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO EU MEMBERSHIP OF TURKEY WHICH IS
    ONLY SECULAR REPUBLIC AMONG 56 ISLAMIC COUNTRIES
    BERLIN - Faruk Sen, the director of Essen, Germany-based Turkey Studies Center (TAM) said on Monday that full support should be extended to European Union (EU) membership of Turkey which is the only secular republic among the 56 Islamic countries.

    Speaking at an experts meeting on ''Joint Islam Policy Within EU'' in Vienna, Austria, Sen cricized that Islam religion representation had been left to Syrians and Egyptians in Austria although 60 percent of Muslim population in this country was composed of Turks.

    Noting that with their 3.6 million population, Turks formed the biggest group among the Muslims living in Europe, Sen stressed that Turkey was the most important secular and liberal representative of Islam among the 56 Islamic countries.

    Sen said that the EU should deal intensely with problems of nearly 13 million Muslims living in the EU countries which had a 376 million population.


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