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Turkish Press Review, 05-05-17Turkish Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Turkish Directorate General of Press and Information <http://www.byegm.gov.tr><LINK href="http://www.byegm.gov.tr_yayinlarimiz_chr_pics_css/tpr.css" rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css> e-mail : newspot@byegm.gov.tr <caption> <_caption> Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press this morning17.05.2005FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…CONTENTS
[01] ERDOGAN CALLS ON WORLD LEADERS TO COOPERATE AGAINST TERRORISMPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday urged all nations to cooperate in efforts against terrorism. Speaking at the Third Summit of the Council of Europe, which brings together heads of states or government from 46 countries in Warsaw, Poland, Erdogan stated that Turkey was ready to play a special role in efforts to strengthen dialogue between different religions and cultures. “Terrorism has no religion, culture, race or nation. In addition, no religion tolerates terror or killing innocent people,” said Erdogan. On the other hand, also addressing the two-day gathering, reiterating his country’s allegations of genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire, Armenian President Robert Kocharian pledged to work to win international recognition of these claims. In addition, the Turkish premier held a one-hour meeting with Azerbaijani President Haydar Aliyev. The two leaders discussed recent developments concerning Nagorno- Karabakh, an area occupied by Armenian troops over the last decade, and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline as well. After their talks, Erdogan said that Ankara was closely following developments in its friendly neighbor Azerbaijan. /Turkiye/[02] ALPAGON DUE TO VISIT ISRAELNational Security Council (NSC) Secretary General Yigit Alpagon is set to travel to Israel today to pay an official visit at the invitation of his Israeli counterpart Giora Eiland. During three days of contacts, bilateral relations and regional issues, as well as ways to develop cooperation between the security councils of the two countries, will be discussed. /Star/[03] EXTRAORDINARY CONGRESS PRESSURE IN DYP, MHPFollowing the True Path Party’s (DYP) administrative board meeting last weekend, people left off the board’s list of management staff started lobbying for an extraordinary congress. DYP leader Mehmet Agar’s Advisor Aydin Menderes said, “If there was a mistake, the DYP will correct it. If necessary, another congress will be held.” Four deputies who resigned in protest of the congress’ decision accused Agar of not keeping his promise to include certain deputies on the list. Meanwhile, requests for an extraordinary congress rose in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) as well. Former State Ministers Namik Kemal Zeybek and Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, leading nationalist Ramiz Ongun, and a group of former deputies yesterday paid a visit to support former MHP Ankara Provincial Chairman Emin Yazici, who has initiated efforts for an extraordinary MHP meeting. At his office, Yazici said that a movement had been started by Central Executive Board member Ercan Koc and certain congress delegates in Ankara and that an extraordinary congress was the place where the MHP’s problems and early elections can be discussed. /Turkiye/[04] GREEK CYPRUS SENDS REPRESENTATIVE FOR POSSIBLE NEW PEACE TALKSGreek Cypriot envoy Tasos Tzionis started his contacts at the United Nations in New York yesterday, where he went as the representative of Greek Cypriot administration leader Tassos Papadopoulos. Tzionis is working to ensure the UN doesn’t impose an arbitrator or timetable on new peace talks and will express the Greek Cypriot administration’s “concerns.” Stating that he had expressed his belief that certain conditions should be established so a new round of negotiations can begin, Papadopoulos said, “If there are no preliminary conditions, negotiations won’t start.” /Cumhuriyet/[05] FOREIGN MINISTRY TO FIGHT SWISS CHARGES AGAINST TTK HEADThe Foreign Ministry yesterday determined its strategy concerning legal charges brought against Turkish Historical Society (TTK) head Yusuf Halacooglu by a local prosecutor in Zurich, Switzerland. Halacoglu was charged due to remarks he made denying the so-called Armenian genocide allegations. Under this strategy, Halacoglu will make no declaration to the Swiss prosecutor or court. If the court rules against Halacoglu, and thus against Turkey, Halacoglu will reject this decision at a superior court in Switzerland. If the superior court accepts his arguments and overrules the decision of the local court, Turkey will be able to use it as a trump card against other countries which take a similar stance. However, if the Swiss courts convict him, Halacoglu will apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). /Hurriyet/[06] STATE MINISTER TUZMEN COMPLETES VISIT TO MONGOLIAState Minister Kursad Tuzmen yesterday returned to Turkey after completing his contacts in Mongolia. During his visit, Tuzmen, accompanied by a delegation of 80 people including businessmen and bureaucrats, had talks with Mongolian officials to develop trade and economic relations between the two countries. After attending the Turkish-Mongolian Fourth Joint Economic Council (KEK) meeting, he also opened a Turkish Industrial Products Fair in the capital Ulan Bator. /Turkiye/[07] TURKEY RANKS AS FIFTH-CHEAPEST COUNTRY IN OECD REPORTThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) comparative price level classification for March reported that Turkey ranks as the fifth-cheapest country, following the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Mexico. /Sabah/[08] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…[09] IS THE ECHR RIGHT? BY ALI BAYRAMOGLU (YENI SAFAK)Columnist Ali Bayramoglu comments on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recent ruling on the Abdullah Ocalan case. A summary of his column is as follows:“The European Court of Human Rights ruling on the Ocalan case spurred more fierce debate in Turkey. While the ruling party is trying to buy some time to determine its next move, opposition parties want the governing party to come out against the ruling at once. However, the ECHR ruling won’t change; it’s definite. We need to accept the following three facts about the ECHR: 1. The ECHR is Turkey’s own court, not a foreign one, because we accepted its jurisdiction years ago. In addition, as a European Union candidate country, we have to respect its rulings. 2. The ECHR and the Copenhagen criteria are directly related to each other. 3. If Turkey fails to implement the ECHR rulings, it would be excluded from the Council of Europe and then its EU membership negotiations would end. This is a regular procedure which is valid for each Council of Europe member. In other words, it’s high time for Turkey to decide whether it is capable of shouldering the EU burden. We cannot negotiate the ECHR’s jurisdiction. The only way to not implement its rulings is to completely forsake our EU aspirations. As a matter of fact, certain anti-EU circles in Turkey are working to use the Ocalan ruling as a pretext to estrange Ankara from Brussels. However, in such a case, our political and social lives would be like hell… Even our democratic regime would suffer serious harmed… Therefore, Turkey must respect and implement the ECHR ruling for its own welfare and stability. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we must accept all of the high court’s rulings without questioning or discussing them. I believe that the Ocalan ruling is simply a matter of implementation of a regular, technical procedure. Under these circumstances, if Turkey doesn’t want to be isolated, Ankara must implement this ruling and Turkish society must respect the ECHR’s authority. Let’s not forget that the Ocalan case and other cases that we are likely to face in the future spring from Turkey’s own old unresolved problems. No matter what we think or feel about the ECHR rulings, these are not political decisions. They are nothing but the results of an international legal system, which has its own pros and cons.” [10] KOCHARIAN SHOWED YEREVAN’S TRUE INTENTIONS BY SEMIH IDIZ (MILLIYET)Columnist Semih Idiz comments on the recent non-meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Yerevan’s true intentions about Turkey. A summary of his column is as follows:“At the Council of Europe’s Warsaw summit, despite ‘important’ issues on the table such as improving human rights and stepping up the fight against terrorism and human trafficking, attention was focused on a meeting to take place between Erdogan and Kocharian. Foreign media members, knowing well that the atmosphere would warm up if this meeting took place, pressed their Turkish and Armenian counterparts for information throughout the day. However this long-expected meeting did not take place on the first day of the summit. Turkish and Armenian diplomats didn’t speak a word to each other and observers don’t expect the meeting to take place on the second day either. While diplomats are being silent on this situation, the press and other observers at the summit think that there are a few reasons why the meeting hasn’t happened. The first reason is that no progress was made on the Nagorno-Karabagh problem in the meeting held between Kocharian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. If positive results had emerged from this meeting, it was also expected to have a positive effect on the Erdogan- Kocharian meeting, because Turkey did not forget the commitments it made to Azerbaijan within the framework of peace efforts. However there are other factors hindering the Erdogan-Kocharian meeting. The wait and see position: The Turkish side was eager to hear Kocharian’s speech at this important summit. The reason for this ‘wait and see’ position is, some time ago when the Armenian president sent a leter to Erdogan, he didn’t offer anything new to the Turkish side. In the end, Kocharian included the issue of the alleged Armenian genocide in his speech, confirming Turkey’s negative expectations, and did not say much to support Turkey’s peace efforts. However, he also revealed the intentions of Yerevan, saying that Europe must be a continent made up of borders and one where embargoes are not in force. It could be understood that with these words he meant Turkey. The Turkish side expects Armenia to create a different atmosphere on some subjects, but has yet to see any hints of this in Warsaw.” ARCHIVE <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http:/_www.byegm.gov.tr_statistic/countcode.js"> </script> Turkish Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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