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Turkish Press Review, 06-05-22
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
22.05.2006
ERDOGAN: “WE CAN PROVIDE
DIALOGUE WITH IRAN”
ECEVIT KEPT IN MEDICALLY
INDUCED COMA
PROBE OF ATTACK ON TOP
COURT DEEPENS; NINE SUSPECTS QUESTIONED
GUL: “TURKEY WON’T REVISIT
THE PAST WE LEFT BEHIND"
CHP LEADER BAYKAL: “THE
PUBLIC WILL DEFEND SECULARISM”
DYP LEADER AGAR: “THE GOVT
SHOULD WORK TO WIN PEOPLE'S TRUST”
THOUSANDS OF TURKS MARCH IN
ANNUAL NEW YORK PARADE
PAPADOPOULOS: “NO POLICY
CHANGE IN GREEK CYPRUS AFTER ELECTIONS”
FROM THE COLUMNS...FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
DIVIDED CAPITAL BY FERAI
TINC (HURRIYET)
CONTENTS
[01] ERDOGAN: “WE CAN PROVIDE
DIALOGUE WITH IRAN”
[02] ECEVIT KEPT IN MEDICALLY
INDUCED COMA
[03] PROBE OF ATTACK ON TOP COURT
DEEPENS; NINE SUSPECTS QUESTIONED
[04] GUL: “TURKEY WON’T REVISIT THE
PAST WE LEFT BEHIND"
[05] CHP LEADER BAYKAL: “THE PUBLIC
WILL DEFEND SECULARISM”
[06] DYP LEADER AGAR: “THE GOVT
SHOULD WORK TO WIN PEOPLE'S TRUST”
[07] THOUSANDS OF TURKS MARCH IN
ANNUAL NEW YORK PARADE
[08] PAPADOPOULOS: “NO POLICY CHANGE
IN GREEK CYPRUS AFTER ELECTIONS”
[09] FROM THE COLUMNS...FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
[10] DIVIDED CAPITAL BY FERAI TINC
(HURRIYET)
[01] ERDOGAN: “WE CAN PROVIDE
DIALOGUE WITH IRAN”
Attending the weekend World Economic Forum
(WEF) conference on the Middle East in Egypt’s
Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan took part in a
panel discussion entitled “Strengthening
cooperation and dialogue” together with
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazief and
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora. Erdogan
said that when the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP) came to power Turkey was
experiencing serious dialogue troubles with
neighboring countries, but today Ankara had
forged good dialogue with these countries and
was in a good situation. Asked about Turkey’s
possible role in efforts to find a diplomatic
solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, Erdogan
began by recalling that he had had two meetings
with the Iranian president in just a month.
Referring to public discussion over whether
Iran's nuclear energy program is meant to
develop a nuclear weapon or for peaceful
civilian goals, Erdogan underlined the
importance of political dialogue to avoid
deepening the crisis and to find a diplomatic
solution, and said that Turkey could help in
this process. /Hurriyet/
[02] ECEVIT KEPT IN MEDICALLY
INDUCED COMA
After being hospitalized on Thursday after
attending the funeral of a top judge killed by a
gunman, senior statesman Bulent Ecevit is
continuing to be kept in a medically induced
coma to prevent further swelling around his
brain. Speaking to reporters, Zeki Sezer,
Ecevit's successor as leader of the Democratic
left Party (DSP), said that there was no further
indication of complications in Ecevit’s
condition, adding that how long he would be kept
in the coma was not yet clear. Meanwhile,
members of the DSP coming from all around the
country and ordinary people gathering at DSP
headquarters and GATA military hospital in
Ankara continued to lend support to the ailing
former prime minister. /Aksam/
[03] PROBE OF ATTACK ON TOP COURT
DEEPENS; NINE SUSPECTS QUESTIONED
Nine suspects believed to have been involved
in a an attack last week on the Council of State
that left one senior judge dead and four others
wounded were interrogated by the state
prosecutor in Ankara as an investigation into
the shocking assault deepens. A key suspect in
the attack, a former army captain, was in police
custody at an Istanbul hospital, where he was
brought on Saturday by two unidentified people,
saying he had stabbed himself in a suicide
attempt. The suspect, Muzaffer Tekin, who was
discharged from the military due to disciplinary
problems, is believed to have instructed lawyer
Alparslan Arslan to attack the Council of State.
He was also expected to be taken to Ankara to
testify before the state prosecutor. Authorities
discovered that Arslan had spoken to him on the
phone several times before the attack. The
attack on the Council of State judges on
Wednesday, seen largely as an attack on
secularism, sent shockwaves through Turkish
politics, and thousands of people took the
streets to protest the attack as well as the
government, which they said encouraged the
attack with statements criticizing the top court
in the past. /Turkish Daily News/
[04] GUL: “TURKEY WON’T REVISIT THE
PAST WE LEFT BEHIND"
Stressing that the attack last week on
Council of State judges was also against the
state and the government, Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul yesterday said that the Turkish
police, intelligence and the military were
capable of foiling such plots, adding that all
that was needed is solidarity. Speaking at a
gathering organized by his Justice and
Development Party (AKP) in the central Anatolian
province of Amasya yesterday, Gul said that
Turkey would not return to the old days of
violence and tension. Furthermore, in the
eastern province of Van, Education Minister
Huseyin Celik said the bullets fired at Council
of State judges had targeted Turkey’s peace,
unity and the government. He stressed that a
pawn had carried out the attack and had been
captured, but the master of this pawn was still
at large. /Milliyet/
[05] CHP LEADER BAYKAL: “THE PUBLIC
WILL DEFEND SECULARISM”
Main opposition Republican People’s Party
(CHP) leader Deniz Baykal claimed over the
weekend that the ruling Justice and Development
Party (AKP) was trying to use democracy to
deprive Turkey of secularism. Speaking at a
party meeting, Baykal accused a speech made by
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc on National
Sovereignty Day, April 23, in Parliament of
being a memorandum against secularism. He said
that the latest developments and particularly
the deadly shooting at the Council of State last
Wednesday showed that it’s critical for the
public and not only public institutions to
defend republican principles. /Cumhuriyet/
[06] DYP LEADER AGAR: “THE GOVT
SHOULD WORK TO WIN PEOPLE'S TRUST”
The government should also work to win the
confidence of sectors of society which didn’t
vote for the ruling Justice and Development
Party (AKP), said opposition True Path Party
(DYP) leader Mehmet Agar yesterday. Speaking at
a meeting in Karaman over the weekend, Agar said
that the government was responsible for the
health and security of the entire nation, and
that preventing and blocking every kind of armed
attack is also the government’s responsibility.
Agar said that those ruling Turkey should
understand this well and that it's necessary to
prevent actions which could drag society into
tension. /Star/
[07] THOUSANDS OF TURKS MARCH IN
ANNUAL NEW YORK PARADE
Thousands of Turkish-Americans marched along
the main avenues of New York yesterday in the
25th annual Turkish Day parade. The annual event
was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali
Sahin, and a parliamentary group led by Egemen
Bagis, head of the Turkish-US Interparliamentary
Friendship Group. Addressing the crowd, Sahin
expressed his pleasure at seeing the solidarity
of Turks in America, adding that the US is a
melting pot, and Turks are a part of it.
/Turkiye/
[08] PAPADOPOULOS: “NO POLICY CHANGE
IN GREEK CYPRUS AFTER ELECTIONS”
Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos
said yesterday that he sees no reason for a
“dramatic change” in foreign policy following
yesterday’s parliamentary elections in the Greek
Cypriot administration. Asked by Turkish Cypriot
journalists at Deftera Elementary School, where
he voted, if after the elections there might be
major changes to the Greek Cypriot side’s
position, Papadopoulos replied, “I think the
policy of the Greek Cypriot side, as you call
it, is well-known and correct.” I see no reason
for any dramatic changes,” he added. The Greek
Cypriots voted for a new Parliament yesterday
following a campaign dominated by debates over a
future settlement on the divided island. /The
New Anatolian/
[09] FROM THE COLUMNS...FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
[10] DIVIDED CAPITAL BY FERAI TINC
(HURRIYET)
Columnist Ferai Tinc comments on Cyprus. A
summary of her column is as follows: “As
everybody was waiting for the results of the
Eurovision song contest, a Greek Cypriot
spokesman characterized Cyprus as having the
last divided capital in Europe. Nicosia_Lefkosha
is the only problematic capital of Europe. While
the European Union took over efforts for a
solution to the Cyprus problem, it knew this
very well and was saying it would be able to
solve it. However, the problem drags out more
and more every day, because Brussels dealt
separately with the Cyprus problem and the EU
membership of Greek Cyprus. For instance there's
the view that there can be no linkage made
between Europe not keeping its word to the
Turkish Cypriots after the April 2004 referenda
and Turkey not being willing to apply the
additional protocol. In other words, the EU
doesn’t accept the balance that Turkey won’t
open its ports to the Greek Cypriots unless the
political equality of the Turkish Cypriots is
accepted and its isolation lifted. They say: ‘No
such linkage can be made. We do everything we
can to lift the isolation of the Turkish
Cypriots. There are binding rules. But as a
candidate country, Turkey has to accept all of
our members and can’t treat Cyprus separately.
Turkey has to fulfill its obligations towards
Cyprus, as it’s a member of the Customs Union.’
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Mehmet Ali
Talat wants Ankara to stand firm against
Brussels’ initiative to sever this linkage,
because unless the isolation of the Cypriot
Turks is lifted and the EU gathers the will to
act against this unfair situation, Turkey
establishing economic ties with the Greek
Cypriots would make the Cypriot Turks a
minority. The last divided Capital of Europe
would also be history. Not with a solution, but
with a deadlock. This is clear. All public
opinion polls show this. Only a small percentage
wants to live together and favors a solution.
The problem isn't limited to Turkey’s
application of the additional protocol. There
are Greek Cypriot suits about property ownership
in the European Court of Human Rights. In its
last ruling, the court decided that this was a
matter of internal law and that the Greeks
should apply to a commission in the TRNC. A
commission has been established, but there are
some problems in implementing it. The burden of
compensation will mount as the cases are brought
to Strasbourg. The solution of these problems is
only then possible when a solution for the
island is found, but it's getting more difficult
to get the Greek Cypriots to sit at the
negotiating table.”
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