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30 AUG 1998

CONTENTS

[01] DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ECEVIT IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

[02] TURKEY IS CELEBRATING THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF GREAT VICTORY - 30 AUGUST VICTORY DAY AND TURKISH ARMED FORCES DAY BEING CELEBRATED WITH CEREMONIES NATIONWIDE, IN TRNC AND REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD

[03] MORE THAN 40 THOUSAND NATIVE AND FOREIGN TOURISTS VISIT GIRESUN ISLAND IN LAST THREE MONTHS

[04] A JAPANESE RESTAURANT IS OPENED IN ANKARA - TOYAMA, THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY: ''I HOPE TURKISH PEOPLE WILL ALSO LIKE THE JAPANESE CUISINE, WHICH IS HEALTHY AND WHICH HAS GOOD TASTE''

[05] SEPARATIST TERRORISTS WHO ATTEMPTED TO RAID A VILLAGE IN EASTERN PROVINCE OF VAN INJURED TWO VILLAGE GUARDS

[06] OZFATURA, MAYOR OF IZMIR: - ''THE IZMIR INTERNATIONAL FAIR IS THE ONLY MULTI-PURPOSE FAIR IN THE WORLD''

[07] VICTORY DAY IS ALSO CELEBRATED IN ZENICA - ECEVIT, THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: ''IT'S MORE IMPORTANT FOR A GOOD ARMY TO WIN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE INSTEAD OF WINNING A WAR, THE TURKISH MISSION FORCE IN ZENICA HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS''

[08] ISLAMIC COUNTRIES' PRIVATE SECTORS MEETING

[09] TTSO SEEKING ENTREPRENEURS FOR NINE INVESTMENT PROJECTS

[10] PRIME MINISTER YILMAZ: ''IF CAKICI HAS CONNECTIONS IN THE MOTHERLAND PARTY (ANAP), THEY WILL NOT BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY FROM THE MEMBERS OF OTHER PARTIES'' - YILMAZ: ''IF OCALAN, THE CHIEF OF PKK IS TAKING A STEP IN ORDER TO SURRENDER, UNDERSTANDING THAT FIGHTING WITH THE TURKISH STATE IS HELPLESS, I REGARD HIS STATEMENTS AS POSITIVE''

[11] 44TH WORLD GRAECO-ROMAN WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP

[12] EXPO-98 FAIR - VICTORY DAY IS CELEBRATED AS TURKISH DAY IN EXPO-98 FAIR - THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE TURKISH STAND IN EXPO FAIR EXCEEDED ONE MILLION

[13] WATER TRANSPORT TO TRNC WITH BALLOONS - BALLOON CARRYING 20 THOUSAND CUBIC METERS OF WATER DEPARTS FROM SOGUKSU

[14] TRUVA COGNAC TO BECOME RIVAL OF FRENCH COGNAC

[01] DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ECEVIT IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Ecevit visited the Turkish Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and got information from Colonel Orhan Akbas, the Chief Commander of Turkish Mission Force in Zenica; Colonel Cemil Yurdakul and Colonel Aytekin Erol, the Military Attaches.

Later, Ecevit received professors from the Turkology Department and Eastern Cultures Department of the Sarajevo University.

When Emine Jezankovic, the manager of the Institute of the Eastern Cultures said that the Serbs, during the war, burned 5,300 volumes of manuscripts, 300 thousands of original documents, 200 thousands of microfilms and nearly 50 thousands of books brought from Turkey, Ecevit said, ''this incident was a genocide of history. However, it is impossible to abolish the realities.''

Deputy Prime Minister Ecevit later proceeded to the Dobrinya region from the Turkish Embassy. Ecevit, there, gave the start for the ''Dobrinja-V'' project about a Turkish company's repairing 850 houses destroyed by the Serbian forces.

Addressing the ceremony to which Eyup Ganic, the Chairman of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Haris Slarzic, the Co-Chairman of the Federation Council of Ministers, also attended, Ecevit said that the Turkish government will finance the 7.5 million US dollars project to be realized by the Turkish Borova Yapi (Borova Construction) firm.

''Thanks God, we gave the start for the reconstruction. Here, the Borova Construction will achieve a new international success of the Turkish contractors.''

Following the ceremony, Ecevit visited the Turkish Ziraat Bank's branch office and the Ghazi Husrev Pasha Mosque.

[02] TURKEY IS CELEBRATING THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF GREAT VICTORY - 30 AUGUST VICTORY DAY AND TURKISH ARMED FORCES DAY BEING CELEBRATED WITH CEREMONIES NATIONWIDE, IN TRNC AND REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD

Following the wreath-laying and minute of silence ceremonies in front of the Ataturk monuments in Ankara, the first ceremony was held at the Mausoleum of Ataturk.

General Huseyin Kivrikoglu, the Chief of the General Staff, and the Chief Commanders of Air, Land and Naval Forces laid wreaths at the tomb of Ataturk and observed a minute of silence.

Gen. Kivrikoglu later proceeded to the National Pact Tower and signed the special book at Ataturk's Mausoleum.

General Kivrikoglu wrote in the special book:

''Unique Commander Ataturk,

We are in front of your spiritual presence at the 76th anniversary of the greatest victory won by our nation and the Turkish Armed Forces with your leadership.

The Turkish Armed Forces, as the guard of the secular Turkish Republic and the guarantor of our independence and democracy, continues its tasks, duties and mission with its high discipline and altruism.

The Turkish Armed Forces, which accepts your principles as the source of vitality, offers condolences to its Great Leader and the people fought for their independence.''

[03] MORE THAN 40 THOUSAND NATIVE AND FOREIGN TOURISTS VISIT GIRESUN ISLAND IN LAST THREE MONTHS

The island, which was opened for tourism in 1994 following the arrangements of the Giresun Tourism and Promotion Association, became the favourite place of the province regarding the tourism potential.

The intense tourism in last three years on the island, which was visited by more than 50 thousand tourists including 17 thousand foreigners in 1995, reached its highest extent in this tourism season.

Yusuf Dinc, a resident of the island, told the A.A correspondent that the island protected its mystery together with its cultural and natural heritage, thus it draws interest for these reasons.

Pointing out that more than 40 thousand tourists including seven thousand foreign tourists visited the island since June, Dinc said, ''the number of tourists will increase over to 70 thousand this season. I keep the records of the island. The number of tourists will increase more in a short time if the island is opened for tourism totally.''

[04] A JAPANESE RESTAURANT IS OPENED IN ANKARA - TOYAMA, THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY: ''I HOPE TURKISH PEOPLE WILL ALSO LIKE THE JAPANESE CUISINE, WHICH IS HEALTHY AND WHICH HAS GOOD TASTE''

Addressing the opening of the restaurant, Atsuko Toyama, the Japanese Ambassador to Turkey, said that ''I hope that Turkish people will also like the Japanese cuisine, which is healthy and which has good taste.''

Noting that the restaurant will have food at reasonable prices, Toyoma expressed pleasure over the improving relations between Turkish and Japanese cultures.

Cafer Tayyar Sadıklar, the Chairman of the Turkish-Japanese Friendship Association said that the Turkish-Japanese Cultural Office, which was opened three months ago have a bank, conference and exhibition halls, cultural and education centers and now a restaurant.

[05] SEPARATIST TERRORISTS WHO ATTEMPTED TO RAID A VILLAGE IN EASTERN PROVINCE OF VAN INJURED TWO VILLAGE GUARDS

A group of separatist terrorists opened fire on Saturday night by rocket- launchers to Kocabası village, which is very close to the Iranian border.

Terrorists ran away to the mountainous area in the darkness when village guards retaliated.

Two village guards were injured and they were taken under medical treatment at Van State Hospital.

Operations are underway to capture the terrorists who ran away.

[06] OZFATURA, MAYOR OF IZMIR: - ''THE IZMIR INTERNATIONAL FAIR IS THE ONLY MULTI-PURPOSE FAIR IN THE WORLD''

Ozfatura told the A.A correspondent that the 67th IEF was very successful and important business negotiations were held. Pointing out that a total of 1,600 companies are participating in the fair this year as a positive result of the activities they started shortly after the 66th IEF, Ozfatura said, ''this success stems from our studies started shortly after the end of the 66th IEF.''

Noting that the IEF gathers different topics like economy, trade, culture, art and entertainment under a single umbrella, Ozfatura said, ''there is no any other fair in the world that gathers these qualities under a single framework. The IEF is a multi-purpose fair and open to public. Despite other international fairs, millions of people are visiting the IEF. Here, every person can find something he or she is interested in. The IEF has the quality to offer everything to every people from different professions and to organizations, institutions and countries. The people, who call the IEF as a market or festival, are the people who are not aware of the IEF's important characteristics.''

Stressing the importance of the IEF for the economy in Izmir, Ozfatura said that the business circles and tradesmen are expected to obtain 40-50 million US dollars of sales this year.

Mentioning that the business contracts reached one billion US dollars in the first two days of the fair, Ozfatura said, ''this amount will increase more during the fair. The 68th IEF will be more successful. To this end, we will give the start for our activities shortly after the end of this fair.''

[07] VICTORY DAY IS ALSO CELEBRATED IN ZENICA - ECEVIT, THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: ''IT'S MORE IMPORTANT FOR A GOOD ARMY TO WIN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE INSTEAD OF WINNING A WAR, THE TURKISH MISSION FORCE IN ZENICA HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS''

The Victory Day is celebrated in the Turkish Mission Force in Zenica, Bosnia Herzegovina.

Addressing the ceremony, Bulent Ecevit said that he is happy and proud to be with Turkish soldiers in a friendly country on the 76th anniversary of the Great Victory which represents the success of the Turkish national liberation struggle.

Noting that the Turkish Republic will continue to contribute to the protection of unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecevit said that ''the Turkish soldier has fulfilled the mission he undertook in Bosnia-Herzegovina till today and won the love and respect of everybody by his activities in the field of humanitarian assistance. The Turkish nation is proud of you.''

Conveying a message of Alia Izzetbegovic, the Chairman Collective President of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Federation to the Turkish military unit in Zenica, Ecevit quoted the words of Izzetbegovic as ''we are proud of the Turkish union, which does its best to meet all kinds of humanitarian needs of the regional people.''

Responding to questions of Zenica television, Bulent Ecevit said that ''it's more important for a good army to win the hearts of people instead of winning a war, the Turkish mission force in Zenica has been able to do this.''

Sakip Mahmuljin, the Bosnian Defense Minister, Defense, Interior and Finance Ministers of Zenica Canton, the Chairman of the Bosnian Federation, representatives of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Federation Army and Mehmet Gorkay, the Turkish Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina participated in the ceremonies that were held in the ceremonies held upon the Victory Day - August 30 in Zenica.

[08] ISLAMIC COUNTRIES' PRIVATE SECTORS MEETING

Within the framework of the meeting, the Seventh Islamic Trade Fair will be organized between 13-18 October.

The Export Promotion Center (IGEME) said the aim of the Islamic countries' private sectors meeting was to contribute to the economic development of the Organization for Islamic Conference (OIC) countries by accelerating the trade and investment flow among these countries.

The meetings are aiming to set up a new platform for the cooperation in the fields of industry and trade among the OIC countries. In the previous meeting, the existing 11 percent of trade volume among the OIC member countries was foreseen to be increased to 13 percent in the year 2000.

The goals of the Fifth private sector meeting, which will create an opportunity to provide a further expansion and unity for OIC member countries, are as follows:

''the meetings will provide the opportunity to take up the issues of 'development of trade', 'project supporting' and 'uniting' with financial organizations including especially potential investors, trade corporations and the Islamic Development Bank,''

''besides the importers and exporters, the investors and the people seeking for finance will find the opportunity to develop productive economic and commercial relations during the meetings,''

''the representatives of the multi-natinal companies will also attend the meetings in which the representatives of the national industrial, commercial and private sectors of member countries and many investor- merchants and bankers will participate.''

The Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the only organization representing the private sector which acts within the structure of OIC, was charged with organizing the private sector meetings during the OIC's last ''9th Economic and Commercial Cooperation Execution Committee Meeting'' which took place in Turkey in September 1993.

[09] TTSO SEEKING ENTREPRENEURS FOR NINE INVESTMENT PROJECTS

The projects about the fish-farming (trout and anchovy), spring water storage, cable railway construction, shoe production, construction of hothouses and construction of an International Trade and Business Center in Trabzon, were approved by the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) and prepared by a five-member commission led by Suat Hacisalihoglu, the Acting Chairman of the TTSO Assembly.

Suat Hacisalihoglu told the A.A correspondent, ''when we take into consideration the future of these projects, which were prepared by taking as a basis the economic structure of Trabzon and its commercial relations with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), these are brilliant projects.''

''There is a concrete infrastructure in Trabzon especially in shoe and furniture production. There is an important market for these two sectors in the CIS market. Italians are still effective in the market. However, the implementation of the World Bank backed projects may create a big market share for Turkey. We call our businessmen to invest in these projects of which profitability is very high. We will provide every support,'' he added.

[10] PRIME MINISTER YILMAZ: ''IF CAKICI HAS CONNECTIONS IN THE MOTHERLAND PARTY (ANAP), THEY WILL NOT BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY FROM THE MEMBERS OF OTHER PARTIES'' - YILMAZ: ''IF OCALAN, THE CHIEF OF PKK IS TAKING A STEP IN ORDER TO SURRENDER, UNDERSTANDING THAT FIGHTING WITH THE TURKISH STATE IS HELPLESS, I REGARD HIS STATEMENTS AS POSITIVE''

Responding to questions of journalists about the claims saying that Cakıcı has connections with several ANAP deputies, Prime Minister Yılmaz said that ''as you see, I don't talk about this issue from the beginning, because this issue is being investigated and it has only partially been transferred to the court. Everybody should be at ease because no crime will be concealed and every guilty person will be prosecuted.''

When a journalist asked, ''Do you think that the relation with the underground world is an incident that developed only by the initiative taken by several bureaucrats or is it broader than that,'' Yılmaz said that ''I am also searching for the answer of that question. Several people claim that the state gave tasks to them concerning this issue. I am making inquiries about these people. My sincere belief is the fact that the Turkish state can never enter into illegal activities and it does not cooperate with outlaws. If some people misuse their authority, they will also be added to the list of criminals.''

Prime Minister Yılmaz stressed that Turkey faces with three basic threats coming from separatism, fundamentalism and underground world. ''We are determined to struggle with these three threats at the same time,'' he added.

Responding to questions about the statements of Abdullah Ocalan, the chief of the separatist terrorist organization PKK, Prime Minister Yılmaz said that ''if Ocalan is taking a step in order to surrender by understanding that fighting with the Turkish state is helpless, I regard his statements as positive and we expect him to continue. But if he is playing a game in order to have a place in the political platform in Europe, this is in vain and we will not take him as a counterpart.''

[11] 44TH WORLD GRAECO-ROMAN WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Mecnun Guler, in the morning session of the last day of the four-day championship, beat Belarus's Vitaly in the fifth round with referee's decision but then lost his sixth round match on the mat against Bulgaria's Georgiev 0-10 and ranked fifth in his 69 kg category.

The World and Olympic Champion, Hamza Yerlikaya, who was beaten by his Hungarian component surprisingly on Saturday, lost out his fifth round match to Sweden's Martin Lidberg 0-4 points and so he was eliminated.

Turkey received only two medals in the championship, a silver from Seref Eroglu in 63 kg and a bronze from Nazmi Avluca in 76 kg.

[12] EXPO-98 FAIR - VICTORY DAY IS CELEBRATED AS TURKISH DAY IN EXPO-98 FAIR - THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE TURKISH STAND IN EXPO FAIR EXCEEDED ONE MILLION

Burhan Kara and Refaiddin Sahin, the State Ministers, Cumhur Ersumer, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resounces, several deputies, the Turkish delegation, Fernando Carduso, the Portuguese Minister of Trade and Antonio Ferreira, the General Commissioner of EXPO-98 participated in the official ceremony held in the fair.

Addressing the Turkish delegation and Portuguese officials, Ferreira, the General Commissioner of EXPO-98, expressed his pleasure over the participation of Turkey in EXPO-98 Fair. Stresssing the importance of the Southeastern Project (GAP), Ferreira said that the problems of electricity and water can be solved in Turkey by GAP, adding that the income level of people can be increased and the project will contribute to the regional peace.

Noting that the Savarona yacht of Turkey attracted attention in the fair, Ferreira pointed out to the sensitivity Turkey showed towards protection of environment when launching efforts to develop.

Burhan Kara said in his part that Portugal integrated 156 countries with EXPO-98, adding that EXPO-98 will contribute to the future of oceans. ''Turkey, which is surrounded by seas from three sides, had to contribute to EXPO-98,'' he added.

Recalling that the Turkish Republic celebrates the 75th anniversary of its foundation this year, Kara said that Ataturk, the founder of modern and secular Turkish Republic used Savarano yacht for a very short period of time and Savarona is displayd in the fair.

A reception will be held in Turkish stand the same day within the framework of the Turkish day, a Turkish walk will be held and a show including approximately 400 artists will be performed.

There is great interest in the Turkish stand in EXPO-98 Fair and the number of people who visited the Turkish Stand exceeded one million people.

[13] WATER TRANSPORT TO TRNC WITH BALLOONS - BALLOON CARRYING 20 THOUSAND CUBIC METERS OF WATER DEPARTS FROM SOGUKSU

The balloon carrying 20 thousand cubic meters of potable water will arrive at the TRNC on Monday.

Ilkay Kamil, the TRNC Minister of Interior and Rural Affairs told the A.A correspondent that the aim of the first balloon was to supply the potable water demand in Lefkosa and Gazimagosa.

Kamil added that the goal of the project was to increase the quality and amount of potable water in these provinces.

[14] TRUVA COGNAC TO BECOME RIVAL OF FRENCH COGNAC

Kamil Tarancioglu, the manager of the factory, told the A.A correspondent that they imported 260 wooden barrels from France in 1996. Pointing out that everybody in the country was aware of the reputation of the cognac produced at the factory, Tarancioglu said,''the French companies use these barrels in maturing of their famous cognacs. Now, we will increase the quality of our cognacs by applying the same maturing system. Then, our cognacs will compete with the famous French cognacs in near future and gain a place among the most-demanded drinks in the world. We will introduce our cognac to the world in a short time after our raki.''

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