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Anadolu Agency: News in English, 01-11-19Anadolu Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Anadolu Agency Home Page at <http://www.anadoluajansi.com.tr/>Anadolu AgencyANADOLU AGENCY NEWS 19 NOVEMBER 2001 Monday CONTENTS
[01] TURKEY-PRESS SCANThese are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey's press on November 19, 2001. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.HURRIYET (LIBERAL)PHOENIX MIRACLEOzdemir Ince, a columnist of Hurriyet daily, examined Galatasaray, which has become the fourth best team in the world in the last five-year standings following Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Galataray lost 11 best players after it won UEFA and Super Cup in 2000. Firstly Emperor Fatih Terim then a giant like Hagi left the team. Despite all these, Galatasaray continued to be successful. Lucescu defined Galatasaray as a team which represents not only Turkey but the Islam world, Balkans and the East. Lucescu also defined his team as a team of poor which beats the rich and seniors. TURKISH MODEL TO GREEK ARMY ECEVIT: ''SECULARISM IN ISLAM WILL BE STRENGTHENED'' MILLIYET (LIBERAL)CLOSE FRIEND OF TAYYIP MISSINGMustafa Acikalin, who was the General Secretary of the Istanbul Municipality when Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the mayor, got lost three days before a warrant of arrest was issued for him. Police intensify on the possibility of abduction. Acikalin knew about every step taken in the municipality and every tender that was awarded by the municipality when he was the general secretary. Shortly, he was like the black box of Tayyip Erdogan. Police intensify on two possibilities. They think that Acikalin either got lost by guessing that he could be arrested or he was abducted by powers who do not want him to speak. MUMCU CONVEYED 'RESIGN' MESSAGE SABAH (LIBERAL)THEY HAVE SUNK IT THIS WAYSome people who would resign in a few months were appointed to the general directorates. Installations, the general directors of which changed every three months, collapsed. Sumer Holding General Director Kadir Kanat asked for the closure of the holding. Now, it has been revealed that the holding was turned into a holding of the retired. Some powerful people were appointed to the general directorates under the umbrella of Sumer Holding. Thus, these people got retired by taking great deal of bonuses and compensation. Twenty-four general directors and deputy general directors were appointed to only three factories in Antalya, Bergama and Manisa which were under the auspices of Sumer Holding. Some of these people got retired in 23 days. Thus, all these three factories had a loss of 9 trillion 481 billion Turkish liras (TL) last year. TIBUK MEDIATOR IN CHECHEN CASE CUMHURIYET (LEFT)TURKEY'S PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT ANTIQUATEDWorld Bank said in the Public Expenditures and Institutional Review carried out together by Turkey that Turkish system of public expenditure management is antiquated, fragmented and inflexible and requires a major overhaul. The report said that waste and fraud should be discouraged by the system of internal control and external audits. TAKE MUMCU TO LUNA PARK RADIKAL (LEFT)RETIRED ADMIRAL KIYAT MAKES A CALL TO TSK: ''PROPERTY DECLARATION OFGENERALS SHOULD BE ANNOUNCED'' Retired admiral Atilla Kiyat, who noted that corruption allegations related with Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had increased, requested that the property declarations of the generals should be announced as they were promoted and retired. Kiyat said, ''TSK thinks that confidence in itself will be shaken if those who make corruption is made public. However, the confidence in the army will increase if this is announced.'' INVOICE OF ECONOMIC PROGRAM INCREASES TURKIYE (RIGHT)PRIME MINISTER: ''ECONOMY INSPIRES HOPE''Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that some hope inspiring developments started to be seen although there were still some problems in the economy. Ecevit noted that the conflicts between the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Motherland Party (ANAP) would not affect the coalition. WINTER HAS COME ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)REFERENDUM FATE TO BECOME CLEAR ON WEDNESDAYThe Parliamentary General Assembly will vote for a second round on the bill which will change the article 86 of the Constitution regarding the rights of the deputies on Wednesday. The new bill foresees the arrangement of appropriations, travel allowances and retirement proceedings of the deputies with laws. -AGRICULTURE MINISTER GOKALP LEAVES FOR BRUSSELS Gokalp told reporters that he would attend a meeting of the agriculture ministers of the European Union (EU) member and candidate countries. Initiatives of the EU candidate countries, including Turkey, in agriculture, fishery and food sectors would be evaluated during the meeting, Gokalp said. Gokalp noted that he would meet with agriculture ministers of EU member countries and hold bilateral contacts with his Dutch and Polish counterparts. -AYCELL TO START COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON DECEMBER 15 Sources told A.A correspondent on Monday that Aycell will enter into cell phone market by making a commercial inauguration in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Bursa, Antalya and Mugla provinces on December 15. Aycell plans to reach 800 thousand subscribers at the first stage. This GSM operator will serve in GSM 1800 band with the code number 505. Technical inauguration of Aycell was made on August 22, 2001. -IMKB EXCEEDS 11.800 POINTS The stock exchange which closed last week at 11.307.89 points increased 456.37 percent to 11.827.26 points in the first half of Monday's first session. The shares gained 4.01 percent in value. This positive atmosphere occured as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved additional source of 10 billion U.S. dollars in principle. The index is currently around 11.861.09 points. -COAST GUARD AND SECURITY TEAMS FORMED TO PROTECT STRAITS A statement of Interior Ministry Coastal Security Command said on Monday that SAGET would accompany, guide and protect tankers loaded with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), and ammonia and giant fuel oil tankers, ensure security of installations of strategi importance, and protect foreign war ships visiting the harbours. SAGET will start to operate by a ceremony which will be held on Tuesday. -JUSTICE MINISTER ASK FOR CAREFUL HEALTH EXAMINATION OF INMATES In the circular, Turk noted that there were some deficiencies in the medical examination of the inmates and said, ''it has been seen that some prison doctors do not make health examination of inmates while some of the doctors do not register the results of their examination.'' Turk stated that inmates should be examined by the doctors as they were sent to prisons under the law on prisons and execution of punishments. ''Health examination of inmates as they are sent to a prison is of special importance for not only human rights, but also for international liabilities of our country. Deficiencies which occur in this examination is reflected to the reports of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture,'' Turk said. Turk noted, ''to this end, all the inmates sent to prisons should be checked by the doctors and the results of the health examinations should be registered and filed.'' -''EAST MEDITERRANEAN 2001 INVITATION MANEUVER'' Seven vessels from four participating countries have nearly 2,500 personnel and they will depart from Antalya on Tuesday. Battleships of Turkey, the United States, Italy and Spain are participating in the maneuver which started from Izmir Port on November 13 and continued in Aegean and Mediterranean. Frigates, assault boats, submarines, logistic support vessels and helicopters from the Turkish Naval Forces and planes from the Turkish Air Forces are also joining the maneuver. The maneuver in which naval meneuver trainings and weapons trainings are being carried out will end on November 22. -TURKISH-MINEX 2001 MANOEUVRE STARTS Totally 18 ships including five foreign ships cast anchor at Izmir port the same day. A General Staff written statement noted that the manoeuvre which was planned by the Fleet Command to improve mutual training and cooperation in mine battle between Turkish and ally naval forces, will be conducted by the Mine Fleet Commander. Minesweepers, mine hunting and mine planter ships of the Turkish Naval Forces, one plane from Air Forces, and NATO Mine Counter Measures Forces of NATO Southern Europe (MCFORSOUTH) ships from Italy, Britain, Germany, Spain and Greece will join the manoeuvre. -WHO EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH COMMITTEE MEETING STARTS IN ISTANBUL Addressing the opening of the meeting, Health Ministry Undersecretary Sefer Aycan said that Turkey prepared ''National Environment Health Programme.'' Noting that the National Environment Health Action Plan was formed within the scope of the programme, Aycan said that Turkey wanted preparation of ''European Tourism, Environment, and Health Action Plan'' and taking onto agenda ''good practices in envirnonment, health and security administration.'' Aycan stressed that concepts like enviroment, environmental health and people's health have to be revised and new arrangements have to be made. The meeting will end on Nov. 21. -INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY MEETING TO BE HELD IN ADANA Prof. Halime Paksoy from Chemistry Department of Cukurova University, who has been chairing the meetings since 1999, told the A.A that Turkey signed an agreement with IEA ECES-IA in 1995 and therefore gained significant experience and knowledge in thermal energy storage. Paksoy said that the goal of this agreement was to make research and development activities more widespread in the world which is facing an energy shortage. ''These systems are becoming more attractive all around the world since they decrease the emission of harmful gasses that are released to the athmosphere,'' he said. ''This system is offering an alternative solution to Turkey which is also trying to solve its energy problems mostly by using fossile fuels.'' Experts from Turkey,Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Norway will attend the meeting. -AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS MINISTER GOKALP ARRIVES IN BRUSSELS Gokalp will attend on Tuesday a conference on ''Future of Joint Agriculture Policy'' organized by European Parliament Agriculture Committee. Gokalp who is scheduled to meet with Agriculture Minister Jan Laurens Brinknort of the Netherlands will return to Ankara on Wednesday after attending some briefings that will be given at the Turkish EU Permanent Representation. -A.A CORRESPONDENT INTERVIEWS TALIBAN'S SOLDIERS AT KABUL PRISON The A.A correspondent interviewed Taliban soldiers who are under arrest at Kabul Central Prison. Gulam Nebii, one of the soldiers of Afghan origin, said ''We're fighting against the United States and the Northern Alliance forces on the way to Allah. Americans are the enemies of Muslims. They brought terrorism not only to Afghanistan but to the whole world. They caused the deaths of thousands of Muslims.'' Nebii said it is every Muslim's duty to fight against the United States. Another soldier Abdullah Mesvali who is 55 years old said he came to Kabul a month ago from Dir city ''to fight for Allah.'' ''America bombed Kabul and killed only civilians....I think very bad things will happen at the end of this war. The war hasn't started yet,'' he said. -SEN SAYS FULL SUPOORT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO EU MEMBERSHIP OF TURKEY WHICH IS Speaking at an experts meeting on ''Joint Islam Policy Within EU'' in Vienna, Austria, Sen cricized that Islam religion representation had been left to Syrians and Egyptians in Austria although 60 percent of Muslim population in this country was composed of Turks. Noting that with their 3.6 million population, Turks formed the biggest group among the Muslims living in Europe, Sen stressed that Turkey was the most important secular and liberal representative of Islam among the 56 Islamic countries. Sen said that the EU should deal intensely with problems of nearly 13 million Muslims living in the EU countries which had a 376 million population.
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