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Turkish Press Review, 04-08-16
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
16.08.2004
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CONTENTS
[01] ERDOGAN MEETS WITH TRNC PREMIER TALAT IN ISTANBUL
[02] IRAQI PRESIDENT TO VISIT TURKEY
[03] CHP DISCIPLINARY COUNCIL EXPELS THREE DEPUTIES
[04] HISARCIKLIOGLU: “FINANCING THE HIGH CURRENT ACCOUNTS DEFICIT WITH SHORT-TERM CAPITAL INCOME WOULD BE RISKY”
[05] TURKISH WEIGHTLIFTERS BREAK OLYMPIC RECORDS
[06] OLYMPIC BOXERS ULUSOY, KARAGOLLU QUALIFY FOR SECOND ROUND
[07] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[08] THE DEEP MYSTERY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
[09] BY SERDAR TURGUT (AKSAM)
[01] ERDOGAN MEETS WITH TRNC PREMIER TALAT IN ISTANBUL
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday met with his Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) counterpart Mehmet Ali Talat in Istanbul to
discuss recent developments on the Cyprus issue. Later, Erdogan met with
Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan and discussed recent economic developments,
and later he received Kucukcekmece Mayor Aziz Yeniay. /Aksam/
[02] IRAQI PRESIDENT TO VISIT TURKEY
Iraqi President Gazi Al Yaver is due to arrive in Turkey today to pay an
official visit. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan are to meet separately with Yaver to discuss a number of
issues, including the safety of Turkish citizens in Iraq and trade ties
between the two countries. During their meeting, Erdogan and Yaver will
likely discuss Turkey’s sensitivity over the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk,
with Erdogan stressing that efforts to change the demographic structure of
the city should not be tolerated. Erdogan is further expected to urge Yaver
not to support the terrorist group PKK_KONGRA-GEL. Yaver will be
accompanied during his visit by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and
two other government ministers. /Turkiye/
[03] CHP DISCIPLINARY COUNCIL EXPELS THREE DEPUTIES
The opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Supreme Disciplinary
Council yesterday decided to expel two Istanbul deputies, Ahmet Guryuz
Ketenci and Hasan Aydin, as well as Ankara Deputy Mehmet Tomanbay. Speaking
afterwards, council Chairman Ismet Canakci said that the decision was firm.
With the decision, the number of CHP deputies in Parliament fell from 171
to 168. In related news, Tomanbay charged that the decision was
unacceptable. /Aksam/
[04] HISARCIKLIOGLU: “FINANCING THE HIGH CURRENT ACCOUNTS DEFICIT WITH
SHORT-TERM CAPITAL INCOME WOULD BE RISKY”
Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges (TOBB) Chairman Rifat
Hisarciklioglu yesterday warned that financing Turkey’s high current
accounts deficit with short-term capital income would be risky, adding that
the deficit wouldn’t pose any threat to the economy if financed with
foreign direct investment (FDI). Hisarciklioglu further stressed that
Ankara signing a new three-year standby with the International Monetary
Fund would be beneficial and urged Turkey to complete its structural
reforms, continue to pursue tight monetary policy, and achieve a high
primary surplus this year. /Hurriyet/
[05] TURKISH WEIGHTLIFTERS BREAK OLYMPIC RECORDS
Turkey’s Nurcan Taylan won the gold medal in the women’s 48 kg category at
the 28th Summer Olympics in Athens this weekend. Lifting more than twice
her own weight, Taylan combined a world record of 97.5 kg in the snatch and
a trembling 112.5 kg lift in the clean and jerk for a new world record
total of 210 kg to take the gold in her weight class. Breaking two world
and three Olympic records, Taylan’s success went down in Turkish sports
history as the nation’s first female weightlifter to score a gold.
Meanwhile, Halil Mutlu, “the Little Dynamo,” won his third consecutive
Olympic weightlifting gold medal. Mutlu lifted 135 kg in the snatch and
hoisted 160 kg in the clean and jerk for a winning total of 295 kg. In
addition, Serdar Artuc lifted 125 kg in the snatch and 155 kg in the clean
and jerk to take home the bronze. /All papers/
[06] OLYMPIC BOXERS ULUSOY, KARAGOLLU QUALIFY FOR SECOND ROUND
Bulent Ulusoy and Mustafa Karagollu of Turkey qualified for the second
round in boxing this weekend at the Olympic Games in Athens. Ulusoy
qualified for the second round in the men’s light middleweight (69 kg
category), and Karagollu qualified in the 64 kg category. /All papers/
[07] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[08] THE DEEP MYSTERY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
[09] BY SERDAR TURGUT (AKSAM)
Columnist Serdar Turgut comments on Turkey and the European Union. A
summary of the columns is as follows:
“Dan Brown’s best-selling novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’ is a fictionalized
account of material explored in ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail,’ a self-described
expose written in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry
Lincoln. According to Brown, there is a secret organization going back to
the Middle Ages called ‘The Priory of Sion’ whose members included Sir
Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci, and which was dedicated to
preserving the ‘truth’ that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife and bore him at
least one child, and that this bloodline has had a long history in Europe
and still exists. In ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail,’ the authors claim that they
took the evidence which their book is based on from a man named ‘Pierre
Plantard,’ who became the ‘Grand Master’ of the secret organization after
Jean Cocteau’s death. Plantard’s and as a matter of fact the priory’s
ultimate aim is suspected to be the reunification of Judaism and
Christinanity and the creation of a monarchic ‘European Union’ that would
become the next hyper-power in a new world order.
Last week the Catholic Church's most senior theologian, the Vatican's
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said that Turkey should not attempt to join the
European Union because it is a majority Muslim country with Muslim roots.
In response to these comments, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated
that the Vatican should not interfere in the EU’s policies. Unfortunately
such statements only exacerbate the complexity of the current situation and
are useful for nothing besides covering up certain facts about the old
continent.
The European Union can be seen as a religious institution, a kind of sect,
established under the control of an organization which is hostile to
Catholicism. Gnostic Christianity aims to create a passive Islamic world so
as to control religious movements in a new world order. The Vatican sees
Gnosticism as an aberration within Christianity due to its links to Jewish
mysticism, but as a matter of fact the Gnostics are about to win a war over
the Vatican as they have already occupied the European Union.
The religious identity of the Union is laid bare in its own flag. Although
the ranks of its member states keep swelling, the number of stars on its
flag remains constant at 12. The flag bearing a design of 12 stars in a
circle derives from the 12 stars that in Catholic tradition are the halo
around the head of the Virgin Mary. The stars stem from the belief that 12
is the symbol of perfection and what is unchangeable. In addition, there
are 12 gates at the Union’s central headquarters in Brussels.
Without considering such details, Turkey will fail to understand the EU’s
true nature. Some of our intellectuals are making a grave mistake by trying
to portray the EU as if it only means freedom and human rights. In the
light of this information, we must ask ourselves why such an EU is still in
contact with us. This is the question that we must focus on.”
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