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Turkish Press Review, 05-07-13
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
13.07.2005
ERDOGAN TO TRAVEL TO
RUSSIA, THEN RECEIVE KARAMANLIS AND ASSAD
GUL: “THE WORLD SHOULD
UNITE FOR JOINT EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM”
GERMAN FM FISCHER: “WE
CANNOT CLOSE THE EU’S DOORS TO TURKEY”
ITALIAN FM FINI: “MODERN
TURKEY IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE EU”
BRITISH FM STRAW: “TURKEY
CARRIES GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR EUROPE”
BABACAN SPEAKS AT EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
CHIEF OF STAFF OZKOK MEETS
WITH JORDANIAN COUNTERPART
CICEK: “WE SUPPORT FOREIGN
CAPITAL”
TURKEY REQUESTS EXTRADITION
OF TWO TERRORISTS
FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
RACISM IN EUROPE
BY MURAT CELIKKAN (RADIKAL
CONTENTS
[01] ERDOGAN TO TRAVEL TO RUSSIA,
THEN RECEIVE KARAMANLIS AND ASSAD
[02] GUL: “THE WORLD SHOULD UNITE
FOR JOINT EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM”
[03] GERMAN FM FISCHER: “WE CANNOT
CLOSE THE EU’S DOORS TO TURKEY”
[04] ITALIAN FM FINI: “MODERN TURKEY
IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE EU”
[05] BRITISH FM STRAW: “TURKEY
CARRIES GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR EUROPE”
[06] BABACAN SPEAKS AT EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
[07] CHIEF OF STAFF OZKOK MEETS WITH
JORDANIAN COUNTERPART
[08] CICEK: “WE SUPPORT FOREIGN
CAPITAL”
[09] TURKEY REQUESTS EXTRADITION OF
TWO TERRORISTS
[10] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[11] RACISM IN EUROPE
BY MURAT CELIKKAN (RADIKAL
[01] ERDOGAN TO TRAVEL TO RUSSIA,
THEN RECEIVE KARAMANLIS AND ASSAD
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is
scheduled to visit Sochi, Russia and Mongolia
later this month, his spokesperson Mehmet Akif
Beki said yesterday. Beki told a press briefing
that Erdogan would pay an informal visit to
Sochi this Sunday, July 17 as the personal guest
of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and later
proceed to Mongolia to meet with the Mongolian
president, Parliament speaker and prime
minister. He is expected to return to country on
July 21. The premier will also receive two
important guests this month. First, Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad will pay an informal
visit to Ankara with his wife. In August, Greek
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is also
expected to come to Turkey. Beki said that both
leaders would visit Ankara as Erdogan’s personal
guests. /Star/
[02] GUL: “THE WORLD SHOULD UNITE
FOR JOINT EFFORTS AGAINST TERRORISM”
On a visit to London, Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul yesterday told a press conference
that the world should establish a joint platform
to fight terrorism, which, he argued, is a
common responsibility of all countries. “No acts
of terrorism can be justified,” Gul said.
“Terrorism is a crime against humanity, so we
should all condemn and fight against it.” Gul
stressed that Islam and terrorism are
incompatible and called on countries to act with
common sense. He also reiterated that Turkey was
determined to start its European Union
membership talks on Oct. 3, as scheduled.
/Turkiye/
[03] GERMAN FM FISCHER: “WE CANNOT
CLOSE THE EU’S DOORS TO TURKEY”
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
yesterday said that the European Union could not
take the risk of closing its doors to Turkey.
Fischer stressed Turkey's importance for the EU
and warned Germany’s Christian Democratic Party
(CDU) leader Angela Merkel not to make a
strategic mistake by trying to exclude Turkey
from Europe for the sake of domestic political
concerns. “Turkey is key to European security,
and its accession process must go ahead,” he
added. "After more than four decades of
promises, it is very short-sighted to slam the
door in Turkey's face. It would be a very high
price that we would have to pay if that
happened.” Fischer’s words came one day after
Germany's conservative opposition, the Christian
Democrats (CDU_CSU) alliance, expressed serious
reservations about Turkey's EU membership.
/Milliyet/
[04] ITALIAN FM FINI: “MODERN TURKEY
IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE EU”
A democratic, modern Turkey which shares the
values of Europe is in the best interest of the
European Union, Italian Foreign Minister
Gianfranco Fini said yesterday. ''I am aware of
several reservations about Turkey,” he added.
“However, the reasons which pushed Brussels to
decide starting entry talks with Turkey are
still valid. The EU heads of state and
government who convened on June 16-17 said in
their final communiqué that the European Council
is determined to fulfill its commitments towards
candidate countries, including the start of
membership talks with Turkey on Oct. 3.” Fini is
expected to pay an official visit to Turkey
today as the official guest of Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul. /Turkiye/
[05] BRITISH FM STRAW: “TURKEY
CARRIES GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR EUROPE”
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
yesterday rejected calls for a delay in the
planned start of negotiations on Turkey’s
membership in the European Union, reiterating
that Ankara’s membership talks must start in
October as scheduled. "We should open talks with
Turkey in October," Straw told the European
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee
yesterday. Straw, whose nation holds the EU
presidency through year’s-end, stressed the
strategic importance of Turkey's EU membership
and said that the EU should keep its promises.
He also added that Turkey should remain within
the framework of the EU, adding that this would
be in the best interests of both Turkey and the
bloc. “Turkey is of great importance to Europe,”
he stressed. “Europe ends at the eastern border
of Turkey.” /Sabah, Milliyet/
[06] BABACAN SPEAKS AT EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT
State Minister Ali Babacan yesterday spoke at
the European Parliament for the first time with
the title of chief negotiator, saying that
Turkey had no alternative besides full European
Union membership. Speaking to the European
Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee,
Babacan thus had his first test before an EU
body, and faced a host of questions from MEPs on
subjects such as religious freedom for
non-Muslims and the southeast, Cyprus and
Armenian issues. Babacan called the reforms
which have been implemented in Turkey over the
last three years a “silent revolution.” Babacan
said that steps had been taken on education and
broadcasting in certain dialects and languages
and that criticisms of certain elements of the
new Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which came into
force on June 1, could be removed in practice.
/Hurriyet/
[07] CHIEF OF STAFF OZKOK MEETS WITH
JORDANIAN COUNTERPART
Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok
yesterday met with his Jordanian counterpart
Gen. Khaled J. al-Sarayhed in Ankara. Gen. Ozkok
welcomed Gen. Al-Sarayhed with a military
ceremony at the General Staff headquarters.
Their meeting was closed to the press. /Star/
[08] CICEK: “WE SUPPORT FOREIGN
CAPITAL”
There is no disagreement within the
government about foreign capital, said
government spokesmen and Justice Minister Cemil
Cicek yesterday, in an attempt to clarify State
Minister Abdullatif Sener’s warnings this week
that foreign capital could create a medium-term
crisis in Turkey. The Cabinet yesterday
discussed Sener’s statements and the fight
against both international and domestic
terrorism. Cicek added that the unstable
situation in Iraq is the source of terrorism in
Turkey. /Cumhuriyet/
[09] TURKEY REQUESTS EXTRADITION OF
TWO TERRORISTS
The Justice Ministry has officially requested
the extradition from Iraq of two terrorists
suspected of involvement in the November 2003
bomb attacks in Istanbul, which killed 61 people
and injured 600 others. After the attacks,
members of al-Qaeda living in Turkey fled to
Iraq. Then three months ago a lawyer told a
Turkish court that a relative of one of the
terrorists had said that the duo, Abdulkadir
Karakus and Burhan Kus, were in Iraq’s Abu
Ghraib prison. In response to an inquiry, the US
Embassy in Ankara stated that the two terrorists
had been captured during an operation in Baghdad
and were indeed at Abu Ghraib. The extradition
request followed, but so far there has not yet
been a reply. /Aksam/
[10] FROM THE COLUMNS… FROM THE
COLUMNS… FROM THE COLUMNS…
[11] RACISM IN EUROPE
BY MURAT CELIKKAN (RADIKAL
Columnist Murat Celikkan comments on racism
in Europe. A summary of his column is as
follows:
“Although certain newspapers wrote that
al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden organized last
week’s terrorist attacks in London, the
perpetrators of the attacks and their
organizational links are still being
investigated. Of course the result might be
al-Qaeda and bin Laden, but let’s not forget
that Iraq was invaded on allegations of weapons
of mass destruction, which later turned out not
to exist, and Saddam Hussein’s links with
al-Qaeda, which weren’t proven. At that time,
certain newspapers emphasized the threat of WMDs
and Saddam’s links with international terrorist
groups. On Sunday, discussing last week’s London
attack, British daily the Observer published
photographs of people holding the Koran in their
hands. The Sunday Times daily said that 1.6
million Muslims were living in Britain and that
16,000 of them might be terrorists. Then four
mosques were set on fire. Verbal assaults
against Muslims increased, and offices, cars and
houses started to be attacked. Italy detained
142 people in operations around Milan following
the London attacks. Over 80 of those who were
detained were immigrants who had had to leave
their countries due to similar pressures.
Anti-racism group SOS Racism recently announced
that in a recent study, in 40% of places in
Paris and more than half of 80 Parisian discos,
they found racism and discrimination. Insecurity
and fear due to the London attacks has inflamed
racism in Europe. The US administration shapes
its occupation policies based on the violations
and fear it inspires in the US people. This
situation holds in certain European countries as
well. They think that potential terrorists are
from the Middle East or Muslim. This is the
state policies’ reflected in the public eye.
In Turkey today, there will be the Culture
and Art Festival in Antakya’s district of
Samandag, and the Munzur Festival will start in
Tunceli at the end of this month. Tunceli seems
to have returned to its old days of tension.
There is a state of emergency there. At a
Women’s Mayors Meeting about a month ago, 10
women mayors wanted to have a picnic, but they
were prevented by the gendarmerie. Their ID
cards were checked and confiscated. There are
efforts to put Turkey into a hostile atmosphere,
in spite of the public’s longing for peace.
These conflicts are related with the policies of
occupation and brutality nearby. Those who want
to establish links are actors in a play. We have
seen this play before. If we don’t want to see
it again, efforts for peace should be
redoubled.”
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