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Turkish Press Review, 05-07-05
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
05.07.2005
SPEAKING ON MTV, ERDOGAN TO
SEND MESSAGE TO G-8 SUMMIT
TRNC THANKS GUL FOR HIS
EFFORTS AT OIC SUMMIT
KARAMANLIS TO VISIT TURKEY
GOVT PLEDGES TO PROVIDE
FARMERS WITH INCENTIVES
ARINC VISITS CICEK IN WAKE
OF JUSTICE MINISTRY ATTACK
REHN: “TURKEY SHOULD BE
GIVEN A CHANCE”
AGAR: “THIS GOVERNMENT HAS
COME TO ITS END”
BAYKAL: “WE HAVE TO CHANGE
THE GOVT TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY”
GEN. BUYUKANIT: “THE PKK
POSES A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL INTEGRITY”
TURKMEN STAGE DEMONSTRATE
FOR THEIR RIGHTS IN N.IRAQI CITY
FRENCH AMBASSADOR:
“MURDERERS SHOULD BE PUNISHED”
TOPBAS TELLS WORLD
ARCHITECTS ABOUT NEW PROJECTS IN ISTANBUL
RUSSIA’S ALFA TO INVEST
$3.3 BLN IN TURKCELL
FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE
WITH THE EU
BY ILTER TURKMEN (HURRIYET)
CONTENTS
[01] SPEAKING ON MTV, ERDOGAN TO
SEND MESSAGE TO G-8 SUMMIT
[02] TRNC THANKS GUL FOR HIS EFFORTS
AT OIC SUMMIT
[03] KARAMANLIS TO VISIT TURKEY
[04] GOVT PLEDGES TO PROVIDE FARMERS
WITH INCENTIVES
[05] ARINC VISITS CICEK IN WAKE OF
JUSTICE MINISTRY ATTACK
[06] REHN: “TURKEY SHOULD BE GIVEN A
CHANCE”
[07] AGAR: “THIS GOVERNMENT HAS COME
TO ITS END”
[08] BAYKAL: “WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE
GOVT TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY”
[09] GEN. BUYUKANIT: “THE PKK POSES
A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL INTEGRITY”
[10] TURKMEN STAGE DEMONSTRATE FOR
THEIR RIGHTS IN N.IRAQI CITY
[11] FRENCH AMBASSADOR: “MURDERERS
SHOULD BE PUNISHED”
[12] TOPBAS TELLS WORLD ARCHITECTS
ABOUT NEW PROJECTS IN ISTANBUL
[13] RUSSIA’S ALFA TO INVEST $3.3
BLN IN TURKCELL
[14] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[15] CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE WITH THE EU
BY ILTER TURKMEN (HURRIYET)
[01] SPEAKING ON MTV, ERDOGAN TO
SEND MESSAGE TO G-8 SUMMIT
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will send
a message to the G-8 countries’ summit tomorrow
via global music channel MTV. Erdogan, a
self-proclaimed political conservative, will
address the G-8 countries’ leaders on behalf of
the organizers and supporters of the weekend
Live 8 concerts. Prime Ministry spokesman Arif
Beki said that during the three-day G-8 leaders’
Edinburgh summit, an interview with Erdogan and
his British counterpart Tony Blair will be
broadcast. Erdogan will reportedly point to the
huge sums countries spend on weapons and
armaments, saying that if this money were
instead devoted to alleviating poverty, both
poverty and terrorism would be things of the
past. /Sabah/
[02] TRNC THANKS GUL FOR HIS EFFORTS
AT OIC SUMMIT
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer yesterday
telephoned Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul to
thank him for his efforts to promote the TRNC at
last month’s Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) summit in the Yemeni capital,
Sanaa. “Turkish Cypriots and our government are
grateful to you,” Soyer said. At the OIC summit,
Gul called on the Islamic world to take concrete
steps to end the isolation of the Turkish
Cypriots. He also requested that the OIC
secretary general establish contact with the
Islamic Development Bank to support development
projects in the TRNC. /Turkiye/
[03] KARAMANLIS TO VISIT TURKEY
Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis
accepted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s
invitation during Monday’s foundation-laying
ceremony of the Turkish-Greek natural gas
pipeline. Karamanlis is set to visit Turkey
before the beginning of Turkey’s European Union
membership negotiation talks on Oct. 3, making
him the first Greek prime minister to visit
Turkey in 46 years. /Sabah/
[04] GOVT PLEDGES TO PROVIDE FARMERS
WITH INCENTIVES
Yesterday’s Cabinet meeting discussed
possible ways to provide farmers with government
incentives as well as the problems of public
finance and debt management. After the meeting,
Justice Minister and government spokesman Cemil
Cicek briefed reporters on the gathering, saying
that the Council of Ministers had decided to
provide farmers with a number of incentives to
cut costs. Turkey’s EU chief negotiator Ali
Babacan also spoke about Turkey’s framework
document for EU membership talks, said Cicek.
/Turkiye/
[05] ARINC VISITS CICEK IN WAKE OF
JUSTICE MINISTRY ATTACK
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc yesterday
visited Justice Minister Cemil Cicek to discuss
last week’s attempted terrorist attack at the
Justice Ministry building in Ankara. “I told
Cicek that I was sorry what happened last week,”
Arinc stated. “We always denounce such terrorist
attacks which aim to disturb public peace. We
won’t be provoked by such attempts.” /Star/
[06] REHN: “TURKEY SHOULD BE GIVEN A
CHANCE”
Turkey’s membership negotiations will begin
on Oct. 3 as scheduled, European Union
Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn said at a
European Parliament Foreign Affairs Commission
meeting yesterday. “Europe needs a stable,
democratic and developed Turkey,” he added.
“Anti-Turkish circles are inciting
ultra-nationalists with their rhetoric. However,
Turkey should be given a chance.” /Milliyet/
[07] AGAR: “THIS GOVERNMENT HAS COME
TO ITS END”
Truth Path Party (DYP) head Mehmet Agar
yesterday condemned the government’s
“antidemocratic” changes to parliamentary rules
that reduce opportunities for opposition parties
to contribute. He said that the ruling Justice
and Development Party (AKP) had started to edge
towards oppression as their power has come to an
end, and that is why they are trying to obstruct
and muzzle opposition party deputies. “Everybody
has lost all hope in this government,” charged
Agar. “Despite the huge public support it
enjoyed, this government doesn’t deserve it.
Turkey will elect a new Parliament without the
AKP and the Republican People’s Party (CHP).
This government has no right to say that they
don’t want to go to elections when the public
favors it.” Agar also said that the current
Parliament had damaged the agriculture sector
and caused hardships to farmers. Moreover,
tradesmen, retirees, workers and civil servants
are also in trouble, added Agar. /Aksam/
[08] BAYKAL: “WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE
GOVT TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY”
Speaking at a dinner marking the end of the
legislative year, opposition Republican People’s
Party (CHP) head Deniz Baykal yesterday
criticized the government’s administration,
saying that the CHP would do whatever they can
to change this government. “Despite pressing
problems, the ruling party is wasting Turkey’s
time by picking fights with the secular,
democratic regime,” Baykal told his fellow CHP
deputies. “As an opposition party we should
continue our civil, democratic and political
struggle as long as need be so as to defend the
nation’s interests. We have to change the ruling
party and protect Turkish democracy.” He pledged
that the CHP would work harder in the coming
legislative term to change the government, and
hinted about early elections. /Aksam/
[09] GEN. BUYUKANIT: “THE PKK POSES
A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL INTEGRITY”
Land Forces Commander Gen. Yasar Buyukanit
yesterday warned that the PKK terrorist group
poses a grave threat to the country’s national
integrity. “International cooperation is very
important for fighting terrorism,” he said. “The
PKK has already won political support in
northern Iraq, and is also getting assistance
from certain European countries on their
accommodation, weapons, education and medical
treatment.” /Turkiye/
[10] TURKMEN STAGE DEMONSTRATE FOR
THEIR RIGHTS IN N.IRAQI CITY
Some 3,000 Iraqi Turkmen yesterday gathered
in Kirkuk to urge that they be recognized as a
people and their rights be enshrined in the
Iraqi constitution. Before their demonstration,
American soldiers and the Iraqi police took
tight security measures. The Iraqi Turkmen
Front, 10 Turkmen parties, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) and Arab consultation
council members all took part in the
demonstration. Meanwhile, Iraqi Turkmen Front
(ITF) head Saaddettin Ergec said that Kirkuk was
a Turkmen city and that its cultural structure
proved this. /Turkiye/
[11] FRENCH AMBASSADOR: “MURDERERS
SHOULD BE PUNISHED”
French Ambassador to Ankara Paul Poudade
yesterday visited Bingol, a city in Turkey’s
southeast where five security guards were killed
last weekend by PKK terrorists. “This was a
negative incident for the image of Turkey on its
path towards EU membership,” he said. “The
murderers should be punished as soon as
possible.” Poudade urged Ankara to work harder
to achieve its goals on the road to EU
membership. He also visited Greater Diyarbakir
Municipality Mayor Osman Baydemir. /Milliyet/
[12] TOPBAS TELLS WORLD ARCHITECTS
ABOUT NEW PROJECTS IN ISTANBUL
On the second day of the 22nd World
Architecture Congress organized by the Union of
International Architects (UIA), Greater Istanbul
Municipality Mayor Kadir Topbas delivered a
speech telling the participants about a number
of new architectural projects in Istanbul.
Topbas lamented that Istanbul still lacks a main
city plan and stressed that the government is
still working on the issue. Some 10,000
architects are attending the congress from 120
countries. /Cumhuriyet/
[13] RUSSIA’S ALFA TO INVEST $3.3
BLN IN TURKCELL
State Minister Kursad Tuzmen yesterday
announced that Russia’s Alfa Group will make a
$3.3 billion investment in Turkcell, the largest
injection of foreign capital that Turkey has
ever seen. Speaking after visiting Alfa Chairman
Mikhail Fridman, Tuzmen said that this
investment is important to both Turkey and
Russia and is the result of Turkey’s economic
stability. Speaking after the same meeting,
Fridman said that the Russian government also
supports this investment, adding that both
countries will gain importance in their regions.
He explained that the entire investment will
come out of Alfa’s own resources, with $1.7
billion in credit and the remainder in
convertible bills. /Milliyet/
[14] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[15] CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE WITH THE EU
BY ILTER TURKMEN (HURRIYET)
Columnist Ilter Turkmen comments on the
European Union’s civil society dialogue project.
A summary of his column is as follows:
“The European Union Commission attaches great
importance to the project of developing dialogue
between the civil societies of member and
candidate countries. What they mean by candidate
countries is Croatia, etc. However, actually
they place more importance on Turkey on this
issue, because the major criticism against the
EU’s enlargement policy comes from the concern
and prejudice created by Turkey’s EU bid. The
commission will finance its dialogue project
from a fund of 40 million euros beginning next
year. The dialogue aims to address not only
Western, but also Turkish public opinion.
Indeed, after the French and Dutch rejection of
the referendum on the EU constitution, doubts on
our EU membership are on the rise. The civil
dialogue’s long-term aim is to prepare the
citizens of Europe and Turkey for Turkey’s EU
membership. The broad participation of economic
and social institutions and the education,
culture and media sectors are expected in the
dialogue. In some of the fields envisaged by the
EU Commission, productive programs are already
being implemented. For example, ‘Socrates’ is
the economic action program of the EU, and
‘Erasmus’ covers communication and cooperation
in higher education. Our universities have been
implementing student exchange programs for two
years. For example, Galatasaray University,
which is the only university in Turkey to offer
education in French, has agreements with 39
French, two Belgian, one Italian, one Polish and
one Greek university. Thirty students from
Galatasaray were educated in French and Belgian
universities, and nearly 20 French students
received education at Galatasaray in 2004-2005.
These numbers will rise to 90 and 50
respectively in the next academic year.
Such relations will also be beneficial in
order to create a greater rapprochement between
the two countries. Of course the work should be
carried in youth and family associations, unions
and churches. Politicians and the media play the
most important role in terms of directing public
opinion. There are constant contacts between
European and Turkish politicians, but it’s hard
to believe that there’s a real dialogue between
them. As for the media, it should be kept in
mind that following exciting headlines and
supporting false views tends to mislead public
opinion. Informing Turkish public opinion on the
EU and winning over EU public opinion will be
important. The Turkish public is a bit impatient
and is quickly influenced by bad news. It has
understandable historic doubts and is generally
suspicious. Public institutions and
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) of both the
EU and Turkey should keep these characteristics
in mind at all times.”
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