Anadolu Agency: News in English, 04-02-09

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CONTENTS [01] TOURISTS VISITING TURKEY IN JANUARY INCREASE BY 47.3 PERCENT [02] SEVEN CIVILIANS WOUNDED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRBIL BROUGHT TO ANKARA FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT [03] DE SOTO TO MEET WITH DENKTAS [04] DEATH TOLL RISES TO 89 IN COLLAPSED BUILDING IN KONYA [05] FM GUL MEETS WITH POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER CIMOSZEWICZ [06] FITCH UPGRADES TURKEY'S RATING TO B+ [07] SOCCER-ILHAN MANSIZ TO BE IN JAPAN ON TUESDAY [08] U.S. TOP ADMINISTRATOR IN IRAQ SAYS TERRORISM IS COMMON PROBLEM OF TURKEY AND UNITED STATES [09] AI SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS SHE WILL DEAL WITH INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS CASES IN ISTANBUL [10] PRESIDENT MUBARAK OF EGYPT DUE IN TURKEY [11] FOREIGN MINISTRY DELEGATION GOES TO UNITED STATES [12] TOBB CHAIRMAN IN IRAQ TO HOLD SEVERAL MEETINGS [13] WOMAN PULLED OUT ALIVE FROM RUBBLE TO BE SENT TO GATA HOSPITAL IN ANKARA [14] OYK APPROVES SALE OF TUPRAS [15] DOCTORS SAY STATE OF HEALTH OF NEW SURVIVOR OF BUILDING COLLAPSE IS NOT GOOD [16] DEATH TOLL RISES TO 85 IN BUILDING COLLAPSE IN KONYA [17] PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN MEETS WITH BUSINESS CIRCLES IN SOUTH KOREA [18] SECURITY FORCES CONFISCATE 115 KG HEROIN AT KAPIKULE BORDER GATE [19] DEATH TOLL RISES TO 74 IN BUILDING COLLAPSE IN KONYA [20] PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN IN SEOUL [21] FOREIGN MINISTER GUL GOES TO POLAND [22] SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAMS REACH ONE PERSON ALIVE IN COLLAPSED BUILDING IN KONYA [23] FOREIGN MINISTER GUL SAYS EVERYBODY SHOULD BEHAVE CAREFULLY ABOUT CYPRUS ISSUE [24] TRNC PRESIDENT DENKTAS LEAVES FOR NEW YORK [25] ONE TEENAGER RESCUED FROM COLLAPSED BUILDING IN KONYA [26] PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN GOES TO SOUTH KOREA

ANKARA - Totally 533,653 tourists visited Turkey in January, 2004 with an increase of 47.3 percent when compared to the same month in 2003.

[02] SEVEN CIVILIANS WOUNDED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRBIL BROUGHT TO ANKARA FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT

ANKARA - Totally seven civilians who were wounded in terrorist attacks against offices of Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (IKDP) and Iraqi Patriotic Union for Kurdistan (PUK) in Irbil on Feb. 1 were brought to Ankara for medical treatment as a result of Turkey's initiatives.

[03] DE SOTO TO MEET WITH DENKTAS

NEW YORK - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's special representative to Cyprus Alvaro De Soto will have a meeting with TRNC President Rauf Denktas on Monday.

[04] DEATH TOLL RISES TO 89 IN COLLAPSED BUILDING IN KONYA

KONYA - Death toll increased to 89 in the collapse of an eleven-storey building in Konya on Monday.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 20:04

[05] FM GUL MEETS WITH POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER CIMOSZEWICZ

WARSAW - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, who is currently in Polish capital Warsaw on a two-day official visit as the guest of Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, has begun holding talks with Polish officials.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 17:27

[06] FITCH UPGRADES TURKEY'S RATING TO B+

ANKARA/ISTANBUL - Fitch Ratings upgraded on Monday the long-term foreign and local currency ratings of Turkey from ''B'' to ''B+''

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 17:27

[07] SOCCER-ILHAN MANSIZ TO BE IN JAPAN ON TUESDAY

TOKYO - Ilhan Mansiz will arrive in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday to sign for J-League club Vissel Kobe.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 17:26

[08] U.S. TOP ADMINISTRATOR IN IRAQ SAYS TERRORISM IS COMMON PROBLEM OF TURKEY AND UNITED STATES

BAGHDAD - U.S. top administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer said on Monday that terrorism was the common problem of Turkey and the United States.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 17:26

[09] AI SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS SHE WILL DEAL WITH INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS CASES IN ISTANBUL

ISTANBUL - Amnesty International (AI) Secretary General Irene Khan said on Monday that she would deal with individual human rights cases in Istanbul and see the real conditions.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 15:02

[10] PRESIDENT MUBARAK OF EGYPT DUE IN TURKEY

ANKARA - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt will pay an official visit to Turkey between February 11 and 12, 2004.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 15:02

[11] FOREIGN MINISTRY DELEGATION GOES TO UNITED STATES

ISTANBUL - Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ugur Ziyal and accompanying delegation flew on Monday to New York, the United States to represent Turkey in a meeting on Cyprus.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 15:01

[12] TOBB CHAIRMAN IN IRAQ TO HOLD SEVERAL MEETINGS

BAGHDAD - Rifat Hisarciklioglu, the Chairman of Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), came to Iraq on Monday upon invitation of top U.S. administration in Iraq Paul Bremer.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 15:01

[13] WOMAN PULLED OUT ALIVE FROM RUBBLE TO BE SENT TO GATA HOSPITAL IN ANKARA

KONYA - Yasemin Yaprakci who was pulled out alive from the rubble 157 hours after an eleven-storey building collapsed in Konya, will be transferred to the Gulhane Military Faculty of Medicine (GATA) Hospital in Ankara with a helicopter or an ambulance plane.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 15:01

[14] OYK APPROVES SALE OF TUPRAS

ANKARA - Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan announced on Monday that the Higher Board of Privatization (OYK) approved sale of the Turkish Oil Refineries Corp (Tupras) to the Efremov Kautschuk GmbH group

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 11:24

[15] DOCTORS SAY STATE OF HEALTH OF NEW SURVIVOR OF BUILDING COLLAPSE IS NOT GOOD

KONYA - Konya Numune Hospital's Chief Doctor Riza Saribabisci said on Monday that state of health of Yasemin Yaprakci, the new survivor of the building collapse in central Konya province, was not good.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 11:24

[16] DEATH TOLL RISES TO 85 IN BUILDING COLLAPSE IN KONYA

KONYA - Death toll rose to 85 on Monday in the building which collapsed in central Konya province last week.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 11:23

[17] PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN MEETS WITH BUSINESS CIRCLES IN SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Monday with business circles and businessmen in South Korea

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 11:23

[18] SECURITY FORCES CONFISCATE 115 KG HEROIN AT KAPIKULE BORDER GATE

EDIRNE - Security forces confiscated 115 kilograms of heroin at Kapikule Border Gate on Sunday.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 09:37

[19] DEATH TOLL RISES TO 74 IN BUILDING COLLAPSE IN KONYA

KONYA - Death toll from the collapse of an eleven-storey building in Konya increased to 74 early on Monday.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 09:36

[20] PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN IN SEOUL

SEOUL - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that a solution to the Cyprus issue depended not only on efforts by Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot side and also Greece and the Greek Cypriot side should be willing and determined to reach a just and lasting solution until May 1.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 09:31

[21] FOREIGN MINISTER GUL GOES TO POLAND

ANKARA - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul went to Poland on Sunday for a two-day official visit.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 09:31

[22] SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAMS REACH ONE PERSON ALIVE IN COLLAPSED BUILDING IN KONYA

KONYA - Search and rescue teams reached on Monday one person alive in the rubble of the building which collapsed in central Konya province last week.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 09:30

[23] FOREIGN MINISTER GUL SAYS EVERYBODY SHOULD BEHAVE CAREFULLY ABOUT CYPRUS ISSUE

ANKARA - Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said on Sunday that not only Turkish side but also everybody should behave carefully about Cyprus issue.

09 Žubat 2004 Pazartesi -- 09:30

[24] TRNC PRESIDENT DENKTAS LEAVES FOR NEW YORK

ISTANBUL - TRNC President Rauf Denktas left Istanbul on Sunday for New York upon the invitation of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.

08 Žubat 2004 Pazar -- 12:57

[25] ONE TEENAGER RESCUED FROM COLLAPSED BUILDING IN KONYA

KONYA - One teenager who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in central province of Konya was rescued early on Sunday.

08 Žubat 2004 Pazar -- 10:51

[26] PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN GOES TO SOUTH KOREA

ANKARA - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan left for South Korea on Saturday night.

08 Žubat 2004 Pazar -- 09:55

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