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Anadolu Agency: News in English, 02-06-15
CONTENTS
[01] KARAKOYUNLU RETURNS HOME FROM UKRAINE
[02] CULTURE MINISTER TALAY GIVEN POLAND STATE MEDAL
[03] YILMAZ:''I ADVISE ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO REVIEW THEIR POSITIONS
[04] TURK:''WE MUST HOLD TURKEY'S NATIONAL INTERESTS ABOVE OTHER
[05] CILLER: ''GOVERNMENT SHOULD EXPLAIN WHAT THEY WILL DO ON EU ISSUE
[06] TURK:''WE MUST HOLD TURKEY'S NATIONAL INTERESTS ABOVE OTHER
[07] GUREL:''TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP IS ABUSED AND EXPLAINED
[08] AYTEKIN MEETS WITH BULGARIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ARSENOVA
[09] CAKMAKOGLU:''ANY INTERFERENCE TO IRAQ'S DOMESTIC AFFAIRS WOULD NOT
[10] RAHSAN ECEVIT: ''MY HUSBAND CANNOT COME TO SEE YOU SINCE DOCTORS
[11] DIE SAYS 1,635,000 CHILDREN WORK IN TURKEY
[12] SECURITY FORCES CAPTURE 41 PEOPLE IN EDIRNE
[13] ARTIST LUTFU GUNGORER INVITED TO INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE-2002 IN
[14] CAKMAKOGLU:''THERE IS AN INTENTION TO DESTROY TURKEY'S LINGUISTIC
[15] 3,500 PEOPLE FROM SEBINKARAHISAR COMES TO ANKARA TO EXPRESS BEST
[16] ERDOGAN SAYS GOVERNMENT SHOULD HOLD AN EARLY ELECTION IF IT
[01] KARAKOYUNLU RETURNS HOME FROM UKRAINE
ISTANBUL - State Minister Yilmaz Karakoyunlu announced Saturday that
Turkish people including businessmen would benefit from a label visa
system when they travel to Ukraine, just like Turkey offers this system
to Ukrainians.
[02] CULTURE MINISTER TALAY GIVEN POLAND STATE MEDAL
ISTANBUL - Culture Minister Istemihan Talay was given Poland State
Medal for his contributions to the development of cultural relations
between Poland and Turkey on Saturday.
[03] YILMAZ:''I ADVISE ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO REVIEW THEIR POSITIONS
ON TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP''
BALIKESIR - BALIKESIR (A.A) - Motherland Party (ANAP) Chairman and
Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz has said the he would accept
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer's proposal regarding abolition of death
sentence but said that they cannot start it with approving the protocol
since this would require a government agreement.
[04] TURK:''WE MUST HOLD TURKEY'S NATIONAL INTERESTS ABOVE OTHER
THINGS''
ISTANBUL - Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk has said that the
political parties should focus on formulas which have a higher
possibility for compromise rather than propositions that are not likely
to be accepted, in order to bring a solution to the death penalty
issue.
[05] CILLER: ''GOVERNMENT SHOULD EXPLAIN WHAT THEY WILL DO ON EU ISSUE
AT PARLIAMENT''
ANKARA - True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller has said that the
government should explain what they would do on the European Union (EU)
issue at Parliament.
[06] TURK:''WE MUST HOLD TURKEY'S NATIONAL INTERESTS ABOVE OTHER
THINGS''
ISTANBUL - Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk has said that the
political parties should focus on formulas which have a higher
possibility for compromise rather than propositions that are not likely
to be accepted, in order to bring a solution to the death penalty
issue.
[07] GUREL:''TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP IS ABUSED AND EXPLAINED
INCORRECTLY''
KIZILCAHAMAM - KIZILCAHAMAM (A.A) - State Minister Sukru Sina Gurel has
said that the issue of Turkey's EU membership is something that is
''abused and explained incorrectly.''
[08] AYTEKIN MEETS WITH BULGARIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ARSENOVA
SOFIA - Environment Minister Fevzi Aytekin who came to Bulgaria to
attend the Meeting of Black Sea Environment Ministers met with
Bulgarian Environment Minister Dolores Arsenova on Saturday.
[09] CAKMAKOGLU:''ANY INTERFERENCE TO IRAQ'S DOMESTIC AFFAIRS WOULD NOT
YIELD THE DESIRED EFFECT''
ANKARA - ANKARA (A.A) - National Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu
has said that any interference to Iraq's domestic affairs would not
yield the desired result.
[10] RAHSAN ECEVIT: ''MY HUSBAND CANNOT COME TO SEE YOU SINCE DOCTORS
TOLD HIM NOT TO ATTEND MEETINGS''
ANKARA - Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit's wife and Democratic Left Party
Deputy Chairwoman Rahsan Ecevit said on Saturday that Ecevit could not
come to see them since the doctors told him not to attent the meetings
for some time.
[11] DIE SAYS 1,635,000 CHILDREN WORK IN TURKEY
IZMIT - State Statistics Institute (DIE) said on Saturday that
1,635,000 children between the ages of 6 and 17 were working in
Turkey.
[12] SECURITY FORCES CAPTURE 41 PEOPLE IN EDIRNE
EDIRNE - Security forces captured on Saturday 38 foreigners and three
Turkish people who attempted to proceed to Greece illegally during the
controls in northwestern Edirne province.
[13] ARTIST LUTFU GUNGORER INVITED TO INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE-2002 IN
THE UNITED STATES
ANKARA - Artist Lutfu Gungorer who make sculptures with telephone wires
was invited to ''International Sculpture-2002'' organized in the United
States.
[14] CAKMAKOGLU:''THERE IS AN INTENTION TO DESTROY TURKEY'S LINGUISTIC
UNITY BEHIND THESE INNOCENT LOOKING DEMANDS''
ANKARA - National Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu has said that
there are Turkish people who speak different languages and added that
there are intentions to destroy Turkey's linguistic unity behind the
demand of education in mother tongue, which at first look like an
innocent call.
[15] 3,500 PEOPLE FROM SEBINKARAHISAR COMES TO ANKARA TO EXPRESS BEST
WISHES TO ECEVIT
ANKARA - A group of 3,500 people from Giresun's Sebinkarahisar township
came to Ankara's Oran district to express best wishes to Prime Minister
Bulent Ecevit on Saturday morning.
[16] ERDOGAN SAYS GOVERNMENT SHOULD HOLD AN EARLY ELECTION IF IT
SINCERELY WANTS EU MEMBERSHIP
ISTANBUL - Justice and Development (AK) Party leader Recep Tayyip
Erdogan called on the coalition parties to change the government or to
have an early election soon if ''they really want Turkey to join the
EU''.
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