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Turkish Press Review, 05-09-07
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
07.09.2005
AT OPENING OF JUDICIAL
YEAR, SEZER URGES COMMON SENSE IN FACE OF
PROVOCATIONS
ERDOGAN: “RECENT PKK
PROVOCATIONS AIM TO BLOCK TURKEY’S EU ACCESSION
TALKS”
GUL: “OUR FIGHT AGAINST
TERRORISM IS CONTINUING WITH ALL THE NATION’S
RESOURCES”
PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA VISITS
TURKEY
BRITAIN’S CYPRUS HIGH
COMMISSIONER: “RECOGNITION CAN’T BE A
PRECONDITION”
CHIRAC, SCHROEDER DISCUSS
TURKEY
AKSU CALLS FOR CALM OVER
PKK PROVOCATIONS
ERDOGAN ADDRESSES OPENING
OF CEBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FAIR
BABACAN BOOSTS LIRA,
DOWNPLAYS INFLATION THREAT
FROM THE COLUMNS... FROM
THE COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
SEARCH FOR A COMMON
LANGUAGE
BY SAMI KOHEN (MILLIYET)
CONTENTS
[01] AT OPENING OF JUDICIAL YEAR,
SEZER URGES COMMON SENSE IN FACE OF PROVOCATIONS
[02] ERDOGAN: “RECENT PKK
PROVOCATIONS AIM TO BLOCK TURKEY’S EU ACCESSION
TALKS”
[03] GUL: “OUR FIGHT AGAINST
TERRORISM IS CONTINUING WITH ALL THE NATION’S
RESOURCES”
[04] PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA VISITS
TURKEY
[05] BRITAIN’S CYPRUS HIGH
COMMISSIONER: “RECOGNITION CAN’T BE A
PRECONDITION”
[06] CHIRAC, SCHROEDER DISCUSS
TURKEY
[07] AKSU CALLS FOR CALM OVER PKK
PROVOCATIONS
[08] ERDOGAN ADDRESSES OPENING OF
CEBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FAIR
[09] BABACAN BOOSTS LIRA, DOWNPLAYS
INFLATION THREAT
[10] FROM THE COLUMNS... FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
[11] SEARCH FOR A COMMON LANGUAGE
BY SAMI KOHEN (MILLIYET)
[01] AT OPENING OF JUDICIAL YEAR,
SEZER URGES COMMON SENSE IN FACE OF PROVOCATIONS
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
yesterday attended the opening of the new
judicial year. Addressing the gathering, Court
of Appeals Chief Justice Osman Arslan touched on
recent provocations of the terrorist PKK, saying
that the Turkish Republic would not be divided
and that those who seek to do so would never
reach their goal. “Democratic rights cannot be
used to eliminate freedom,” said Sezer, a former
top jurist. “Exploiting rights in the service of
inappropriate goals is unacceptable.” Speaking
after the opening ceremony, Sezer called on the
nation to act with common sense in the face of
recent provocations of the PKK in Istanbul,
Diyarbakir, Van and Bozuyuk. “Our security
forces have the ability to prevent these
provocations,” he said, adding that the nation
should be on the alert against such incidents.
/Cumhuriyet/
[02] ERDOGAN: “RECENT PKK
PROVOCATIONS AIM TO BLOCK TURKEY’S EU ACCESSION
TALKS”
Speaking yesterday at a meeting of his party’s Central Executive Board
(MYK), Justice and Development Party (AKP)
leader and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said that the recent provocations of the
terrorist group PKK aimed to block Turkey
beginning its European Union accession talks as
scheduled on Oct. 3, and warned that such
provocations could continue. The premier
stressed that though the provocations were made
by various groups, they shared a common
misguided goal. “But these groups will not
succeed,” he said. “Our government is determined
in its fight against terrorism and ready to take
all necessary steps.” /Turkiye/
[03] GUL: “OUR FIGHT AGAINST
TERRORISM IS CONTINUING WITH ALL THE NATION’S
RESOURCES”
Speaking to reporters at a reception hosted by Court of Appeals Chief
Justice Osman Arslan marking the opening of the
new judicial year, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul
said that fight against terrorism was
continuing, adding that all of Turkey’s
resources were being marshaled in this fight.
Touching on the recent provocations of the
terrorist group PKK, Gul said that work was
continuing against these and called on the PKK
not to provoke the nation. /Turkiye/
[04] PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA VISITS
TURKEY
Arnold Ruutel, the president of Estonia, came to Turkey yesterday for a
three-day visit. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer
welcomed his guest with a ceremony at the
Presidential Palace and gave a state banquet in
Ruutel’s honor. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok
and Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz
Baykal also attended the banquet. /Star/
[05] BRITAIN’S CYPRUS HIGH
COMMISSIONER: “RECOGNITION CAN’T BE A
PRECONDITION”
Recognition of Greek Cyprus can’t be a precondition to start Turkey’s
accession talks because it wasn’t stated in last
December’s declaration, said Britain’s High
Commissioner to Cyprus Peter Millett yesterday.
Millett stated that he was hopeful that during
today’s European Union Permanent Representatives
Committee (COREPER) meeting in Brussels, a
consensus would be reached on a
counter-declaration in response to Turkey’s
supplementary declaration to the Ankara
Protocol. In that declaration, Turkey said
including Greek Cyprus in the Customs Union did
not amount to recognition. /Turkiye/
[06] CHIRAC, SCHROEDER DISCUSS
TURKEY
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
yesterday spoke over the telephone about a
number of issues, including Turkey, the upcoming
United Nations General Assembly meeting, and the
European Union. During their conversation,
Chirac reportedly stressed the need for a
counter-declaration emphasizing that Turkey
should fulfill its obligations entailed under
the Ankara Protocol. In related news, Italian
Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, visiting
Athens, said, “Turkey has fulfilled the EU’s
requests and erecting new preconditions would be
wrong.” Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis
also said that they were of the same opinion as
Italy on the EU’s enlargement, Turkey’s EU bid,
and issues about UN reform. /Turkiye/
[07] AKSU CALLS FOR CALM OVER PKK
PROVOCATIONS
Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said yesterday issued a written
statement calling for the nation to remain calm
in the face of recent provocations of the
terrorist group PKK. Saying that in the past the
nation had been hurt by such provocations, he
added that governors in Turkey had the power to
intervene in illegal activities. Aksu further
stressed that Turkey was a state of law and
reiterated his call for calm. /Cumhuriyet/
[08] ERDOGAN ADDRESSES OPENING OF
CEBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FAIR
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday attended the opening of
the CeBIT Eurasia Information Technology Fair
with Communications Minister Binali Yildirim.
Later, addressing the event, Erdogan said that
the information technology and communications
age was seeing rapid progress, adding that
everyone should try to keep up with this.
Erdogan said that Ankara had taken important
steps in order to be an information-based
society, adding that technical parks have been
established at 19 universities and 450 trillion
TL has been allocated for research and
development activities of the Turkish Scientific
and Research Council (TUBITAK). /Turkiye/
[09] BABACAN BOOSTS LIRA, DOWNPLAYS
INFLATION THREAT
Addressing an economic conference at the Central Bank yesterday, State
Minister for the Economy Ali Babacan predicted
that the new Turkish lira would not depreciate
due to inflation, adding that he was pledging
this. Babacan added that the YTL was a currency
of both Europe and the world and that it wasn’t
easy for it to depreciate. He further predicted
that inflation would be less than 8% by
year’s-end. /Milliyet/
[10] FROM THE COLUMNS... FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
[11] SEARCH FOR A COMMON LANGUAGE
BY SAMI KOHEN (MILLIYET)
Columnist Sami Kohen comments on Turkey’s relations with the European
Union. A summary of his column is as follows:
“Ambassadors of 25 European Union member
countries will meet together in Brussels today.
The first issue to be discussed is determining
the content of a counter-declaration on the
Cyprus issue. During their meeting last week,
ambassadors and then foreign ministers couldn’t
reach agreement on the draft. The second issue
to be discussed is about preparing the framework
document which is considered the roadmap of our
upcoming negotiations. So, will the EU
ambassadors and foreign ministers be able to
solve the disputes today or in a few days and
prepare a counter-declaration and framework
document on which consensus can be reached in
both the EU and between the EU and Turkey by
Oct. 3? We’ll see. Of course the main thing is
the framework document, which will determine the
content and direction of our membership talks.
The problem is that some member countries are
trying to add such terms as ‘privileged
partnership’ to this document. If these efforts
succeed, this Turkey will state that it won’t
sit at the negotiating table on Oct. 3 under
such circumstances.
The reason no consensus was reached on the
counter-declaration was the insistence of the
‘counter group,’ mostly consisting of France and
the Greek Cypriot administration, on Turkey’s
recognizing the Cyprus Republic and opening its
borders as soon as possible. British diplomats
have been looking for a ‘proper diplomatic
language’ to satisfy this group and Turkey. I
wonder what the result will be, or if there will
even be one. Support for the EU in Turkey is
falling and the same is true of support for
Turkey within the EU. However, people in most EU
countries consider Turkey’s EU membership
neither negatively nor positively. These
interesting findings come from the Transatlantic
Trends 2005 study of 11,000 people in 10
European countries. According to data on
Turkish-EU relations from the comprehensive
report which was released yesterday, support for
the EU within Turkey was 73% last year but fell
to 63% this year due to increasing opposition to
Turkey’s membership within the EU and Europeans’
campaigns against Turkey. It should be
immediately mentioned that this poll was
conducted this May and June. The rising
opposition within the EU recently could have
pushed this support down more. Although the
number within the EU of those seeing Turkey’s EU
membership negatively (29%) is higher than the
number seeing it positively (23%), 42% of people
in the EU consider Turkey’s membership neither
good nor bad. This situation shows that Turkey
should try to attract this broad neutral, mass
using its official and nonofficial institutions
while avoiding mishaps which might have a
negative impact on European public opinion.”
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