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Turkish Press Review 96-05-28

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From: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs <http://www.mfa.gov.tr>


CONTENTS

  • [01] GHALI EXPECTED IN ANKARA BY THE WEEKEND
  • [02] SUNGURLU TO VISIT WASHINGTON
  • [03] TURKEY TO HOLD MILITARY EXERCISES IN AEGEAN
  • [04] TRIPARTITE MEETING URGES MORE CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOSNIA
  • [05] CROATIA WANTS MILITARY COOPERATION AGREEMENT
  • [06] TUSIAD TO OPEN OFFICE IN BRUSSELS
  • [07] ATHENS DEBATE ON AEGEAN ISSUE
  • [08] BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE PROJECT STILL ON THE AGENDA

  • TURKISH PRESS REVIEW

    TUESDAY MAY 28, 1996

    Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press this morning

    [01] GHALI EXPECTED IN ANKARA BY THE WEEKEND

    UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is expected to arrive in Ankara sometime before the end of the coming weekend. Omer Akbel, Foreign Ministry Spokesman, said during his weekly press conference that Boutros-Ghali is expected to visit Ankara before he goes on to the Habitat II conference in Istanbul. Akbel said that the secretary- general will visit President Suleyman Demirel and Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz during his stay. /All papers/

    [02] SUNGURLU TO VISIT WASHINGTON

    Defence Minister Oltan Sungurlu and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen.Cevik Bir will visit Washington this week. They are expected to discuss modalities of Provide Comfort, the US-led allied operation based in Turkey for the protection of the northern Iraqi Kurds. Ankara has for some time been complaining about the manner in which Provide Comfort has been operating, especially in terms of the security headaches this has created for Turkey in southeastern Anatolia. It has been seeking a change in the rules of engagement of the operation. Turkey's main concern is that Provide Comfort has been perpetuating an authority vacuum in northern Iraq which the Kurdish groups in the region, fighting among themselves, have been unable to fill. This authority vacuum, Ankara says, has been used by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to stage strikes against Turkey, where it is outlawed because of the bloody separatist campaign it has been waging for 12 years. /All papers/

    [03] TURKEY TO HOLD MILITARY EXERCISES IN AEGEAN

    The Efes-96 maneuvers of the Turkish Armed Forces started today in the Aegean Sea, chief of general staff headquarters said in a written statement yesterday. The air and sea exercises, which will continue until June 14, are part of standard annual operations, the statement said. International observers from several countries have been invited to watch the exercises, which will take place in international air space and waters. /All papers/

    [04] TRIPARTITE MEETING URGES MORE CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOSNIA

    A meeting of Turkish, Bosnian and Croat foreign ministers urged larger international contributions for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Foreign Ministers Emre Gonensay of Turkey, Mate Granic of Croatia and Jadranko Prlic of Bosnia-Herzegovina came together yesterday to hold regular tripartite consultations on regional developments. They came together early in the morning for a meeting among the foreign ministers, then continued on to talks between the delegations of the two countries. Later, the three foreign ministers were received by Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and President Suleyman Demirel. The meeting is also a preparatory step for the presidential meeting between the three countries before the Bosnian elections.

    A joint statement made after their talks said that all participants agreed that the federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina "represented the foundation of lasting peace". They also stressed that Bosnia- Herzegovina should be maintained as a "multicultural and multiethnic state of its constituent nations and as a pluralistic democratic society". The statement urged both sides "to continue vigorously the Federation-building process at all levels" and urged the settlement of remaining problems before the next session of the Federal Parliament.

    It was also decided at the meeting that presidents of the three countries would come together before elections in September, ferry services would be provided between Mersin and Bosnia, there would be flights between Zagreb-Sarajevo-Istanbul, the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA) would open a bureau in Zagreb, a tripartite ambassadors committee would observe local elections to be held in Mostar in June, and Turkey and Croatia would be represented in the Federation Implementation Committee set up in Washington. Gonensay confirmed Turkey's support for Bosnia and Croatia to be involved in Euro-Atlantic integration and the Council of Europe, the statement said. /Hurriyet-Cumhuriyet/

    [05] CROATIA WANTS MILITARY COOPERATION AGREEMENT

    Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic, who came to Ankara yesterday for a meeting between Turkish, Bosnian and Croatian foreign ministers, said that they desired to sign a military cooperation and training agreement with Turkey in the near future. Pointing out that his country had signed a similar agreement with Hungary last week, Granic said that they were ready to sign such agreements with all friendly countries.

    Croatian Foreign Minister Granic said that during the meeting with his Turkish Counterpart, Emre Gonensay, they had discussed the signing of military, cultural, scientific, tourism and technological cooperation agreements, and he added that a planned official visit to Ankara by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman was also taken up during the meeting. /Cumhuriyet/

    [06] TUSIAD TO OPEN OFFICE IN BRUSSELS

    Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association TUSIAD's European Union Representative Bureau will be opened in the Belgian capital of Brussels, which is Europe's capitol in a sense, on 4 June 1996. Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and representatives from the EU as well as from Foreign Ministry and international missions stationed in Brussels will attend the opening ceremony. TUSIAD EU Representative Bureau, which will be active in its own building in the "European District", aims to be a modern "movement base" for the Turkish business world in the heart of Europe. The EU Representative Bureau of TUSIAD will not only be working together with EU organizations but also is prepared in such a way to be an ersatz "Turkish Economy Information Centre" for political, economic and academic circles of Europe and the European press. /All papers/

    [07] ATHENS DEBATE ON AEGEAN ISSUE

    Representatives from Turkey, the US and Greece yesterday debated the question of stability in the Aegean Sea during a meeting on "Foreign Policy and the Media." Although most of the speakers were positive in their assessments of the situation, former Greek deputy foreign minister Yanis Kapsis tried to fan the flames of Greek enmity towards Turkey.

    Turkey was represented by Ilter Turkmen, Hikmet Cetin and Nazmi Akiman. US representative Richard Holbrooke also defended Turkish policies in the region as they were outlined by Hikmet Cetin as he reviewed the historical background to the circumstances now obtaining in the region. /Milliyet/

    [08] BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE PROJECT STILL ON THE AGENDA

    Speaker of the Azeri Parliament Resul Guliyev, has said that the project for an oil pipeline between Baku and Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast would never drop from the agenda. The Anatolia news agency, reporting from Baku, quoted Guliyev as telling reporters in the Azeri capital that it was not possible to use only Russian territory to transport oil from the outfields of Guneshli and Chiraq. Responding to a question, Guliyev said a recent agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan, which forseees Kazakh oil being transported to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, did not adversely effect the prospects for a pipeline between Baku and Ceyhan. Arguing to the contrary, Guliyev said that the Russian-Kazakh accord had made the Baku-Ceyhan project even more important. /All papers/
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