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TRKNWS-L Turkish Press Review (October 5, 1995)
From: hristu@arcadia.harvard.edu (Dimitrios Hristu)
Subject: TRKNWS-L Turkish Press Review (October 5, 1995)
CONTENTS
[01] TURKEY SHARING IN PETROL PIPE DEAL
[02] DEMIREL: PEACE IS ONLY ALTERNATIVE
[03] FOREIGN AID TO DINAR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS MOUNTS
[04] ANKARA TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR BOSNIA
[05] IRAN TO BRIEF TURKEY ON MEETINGS WITH N.IRAQI KURDISH LEADERS
[06] TURKEY APPEALS TO UN TO STOP PKK USING ATRUS CAMP
[07] ANKARA RAPS OSLO SEMINAR'S FINAL DECLARATION ON KURDISH ISSUE
[08] CZECH AND TURKISH DEPUTIES TO ESTABLISH CLOSER TIES
[09] TURKISH EXPORT GROWTH FOURTH HIGHEST IN WORLD
[10] ANKARA DENIES NEW CYPRUS PLAN
[11] MEETING HELD ON WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
[12] DAY OF THE SEA MEETING IN ANTALYA
WITH THE COMPLIMENT OF
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION
TURKISH PRESS REVIEW
OCTOBER 5, 1995
Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press
this morning.
[01] TURKEY SHARING IN PETROL PIPE DEAL
The good news is that after all the hopes and disappointments,
Turkey will in fact share in the Azeri early petrol pipeline
project. Turkey will share overland petrol pipeline
transportation with the Russians who will use an alternative
route. Although at one time it looked as though Turkey would be
excluded from the project, the Azeri petrol consortium which met
in London yesterday has decided to involve Turkey in the
pipeline transportation of Azeri early petrol to world markets
through port facilities in Turkey.
Although official announcement will be made in Baku later this
month, details are already being sorted out. Representatives at
the meeting of the international consortium noted yesterday that
last minute initiatives from Ankara and Washington helped to
sway the decision in Turkey's favour. Turkey's pipeline
proposal takes a route through Georgia and ends up at the Ceyhan
Mediterranean port facility. Prime Minister designate Ciller
has also exerted every means possible to ensure that Turkey got
a share of the pipeline pie. /All papers/
[02] DEMIREL: PEACE IS ONLY ALTERNATIVE
Fifty specialists and men of religion from 50 countries have
gathered in Istanbul for the Istanbul Conference of Tolerance
that started yesterday in the Sabanci Center. The conference,
jointly organized by the UNESCO Turkish National Commission and
Galatasaray University, is the last international event in the
series of undertakings held within the framework of the "Year of
Tolerance". In a speech at the opening of the conference,
President Suleyman Demirel said that peace was the only
alternative for mankind and stressed that everybody had to
undertake steps for establishing peace all over the world.
/Cumhuriyet/
[03] FOREIGN AID TO DINAR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS MOUNTS
Foreign countries and international organizations have rushed to
help the Dinar earthquake victims, the Turkish Foreign Ministry
said on Wednesday.
So far, Foreign Ministry spokesman Omer Akbel said, Switzerland
has sent seven search and rescue experts and three specially
trained dogs. They have also indicated that an 80-man and
15-dog team is on call if Turkey asks for more aid. Germany has
sent a fully-equipped team of six rescuers. Greece, whose Prime
Minister Andreas Papandreou was one of the first leaders to send
a condolence message to Ankara, sent a seven-member health team,
an ambulance and a 22-man rescue team. Japan, which experienced
a major earthquake earlier this year, has offered to send 400
tents to the region. The International Federation of Red
Crescent and Red Cross is about to send 400 tents to the region.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has given
1,500 tents and the UN Department for Humanitarian Affairs is
about to transport 177 more tents, the cost of which has been
shouldered by Italy, to the region./All Papers/
[04] ANKARA TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR BOSNIA
Turkey, which has previously expressed a desire to help with the
reconstruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina, will provide 350 houses
for the Bosnians.
Ankara will send food and medicine to Bosnia. Further details
of the aid will be ironed out at a meeting of the Organization
of Islamic Conference (OIC) Assistance Mobilization group, a
group of senior officials that aims to coordinate the OIC
military, economic, legal, and humanitarian aid to Bosnia, and
which will meet in Istanbul tomorrow./All Papers/
[05] IRAN TO BRIEF TURKEY ON MEETINGS WITH N.IRAQI KURDISH
LEADERS
Iran will brief Turkey on its meetings with the leaders of the
Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurds
(PUK) in Tehran through its ambassador in Ankara. The Iranian
Ambassador to Turkey, Ali Riza Bagheri, has asked for a meeting
with the Foreign Ministry, which is expected to take place in
the near future./All Papers/
[06] TURKEY APPEALS TO UN TO STOP PKK USING ATRUS CAMP
Ankara has appealed to the United Nations to prevent its refugee
camp in Atrus, northern Iraq, being used as a base for terrorist
activity. Foreign Ministry spokesman Omer Akbel said in a press
conference Wednesday that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
searched the camp on September 13 and found arms and equipment,
as well as a group of terrorists in the camp, which was first
established by a UN body.
"There is clear evidence that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) is using the Atrus camp," Akbel said. He added:
"What we want is to make sure that the PKK is unable to use this
camp as a base. Whether they move the base or impose tighter
controls is left up to discretion of the United Nations, which
is the relevant authority there," Akbel said./All Papers/
[07] ANKARA RAPS OSLO SEMINAR'S FINAL DECLARATION ON KURDISH
ISSUE
Ankara, which has previously expressed its displeasure over a
seminar on the Kurdish issue in Oslo, declared that the final
document produced at that meeting was "contradictory to law and
practices on human rights."
Diplomatic sources said they had serious doubts about the aims
in organizing such a conference, particularly after a message
from Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK), was read out during the seminar. Ankara
spoke a week ago of Turkish displeasure over the seminar,
organized jointly by the Norwegian Human Rights Institute and
the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, but said it was not considering
any sanctions or measures against Oslo.
Although the seminar criticized PKK terrorism during its
sittings, Ankara felt uneasy over the fact that the PKK is a
terrorist organization with no right of self-defence was omitted
in the final declaration.
Diplomatic circles said that Turkey was faced with "indirect
aggression" from some of its neighbours who, for their own
national interests, were supporting the PKK, but this was not
metioned at all during the Oslo conference./All Papers/
[08] CZECH AND TURKISH DEPUTIES TO ESTABLISH CLOSER TIES
A delegation of six Czech deputies completed a visit to Turkey
on Wednesday having reached an agreement with their Turkish
counterparts on the establishment of a joint parliamentarian
group between the Czech Republic and Turkey. The deputies
visited Turkey as guests of the Turkish Parliament Foreign
Relations Commission. Issues raised during discussions between
the Czech deputies and their Turkish counterparts included the
Czech Republic'c membership in NATO, relations with Russian in
the post Cold war period, Mediterranean and Middle East matters
as well as Turkey joining the Central European Free Trade
Agreement (CEFTA). The Czech parliamentarians asked Turkey to
support their country's bid to join NATO, and this was welcomed
by the Turkish side.
The Czech delegation was also received by Foreign Minister Erdal
Inonu during its four-day visit to Turkey. Bilateral relations
between the two countries are expected to develop at the
parliamentarian level while both countries agree that trade
relations should be the primary field for closer cooperation
since there are no political problems between Turkey and the
Czech Republic.
A delegation of Turkish deputies will be visiting Prague for
further talks between the two countries' deputies./All Papers/
[09] TURKISH EXPORT GROWTH FOURTH HIGHEST IN WORLD
Turkey posted the world's fourth highest export growth rate this
year, following South Korea, Mexico and Spain, the state-run
Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (Kotra) said Wednesday. A
Kotra survey of the 54 largest exporting countries showed that
Turkey recorded 29.5% export growth in the first six months of
the year, following South Korea with 33.4%, Mexico with 32.8%
and Spain with 30.9%./All Papers/
[10] ANKARA DENIES NEW CYPRUS PLAN
The Foreign Ministry denied Wednesday having any information
about a U.S. plan for a settlement in Cyprus. Foreign Ministry
spokesman Omer Akbel said that although it was known that the
United States was trying to find "common ground" for resumption
of dialogue between the parties, no plan nor proposal had come
to Ankara./All Papers/
[11] MEETING HELD ON WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
"Women in Agriculture in the Near East: A Regional Operation
Plan (1996-2000) Information Meeting," organized by Ankara
University and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), has started in Ankara, the Anatolian news agency reported
on Wednesday./All Papers/
[12] DAY OF THE SEA MEETING IN ANTALYA
NATO and the Western European Union (WEU) will hold a "Day of
the Sea" meeting on October 13, in Antalya. In a press
conference yesterday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Omer Akbel said
that during the meeting, the characteristics of NATO and WEU
naval forces would be discussed. /Cumhuriyet/
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