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Turkish Press Review, 06-06-02
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Summary of the political and economic
news in the Turkish press this morning
02.06.2006
ERDOGAN MEETS WITH VISITING
RUSSIAN FM
ERDOGAN: “6.5% AVERAGE GROWTH
IS TARGETED IN NINTH DEVELOPMENT PLAN”
EU PREPARING TO WARN TURKEY
OVER OPENING ITS HARBORS TO GREEK CYPRIOTS
NETHERLANDS PARLIAMENT FACES
BILL CRIMINALIZING REJECTION OF ARMENIAN
“GENOCIDE”
SHIP WITH PANAMANIAN FLAG SINKS
IN AEGEAN; 1 TURKISH CREWMAN DIES
PARLIAMENT PASSES PENSION
REFORM
SENER: “GOVT IS DETERMINED TO
PASS MORTGAGE BILL”
TELSIM’S TURNOVER TO VODAFONE
COMPLETED
TUZMEN: “IF EXCHANGE RATE RISES
CONTINUE, THIS COULD BRING DOWN TRADE DEFICIT”
FROM THE COLUMNS...FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
AT LAST, A FRENCH
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY OZDEMIR INCE (HURRIYET)
CONTENTS
[01] ERDOGAN MEETS WITH VISITING RUSSIAN
FM
[02] ERDOGAN: “6.5% AVERAGE GROWTH IS
TARGETED IN NINTH DEVELOPMENT PLAN”
[03] EU PREPARING TO WARN TURKEY OVER
OPENING ITS HARBORS TO GREEK CYPRIOTS
[04] NETHERLANDS PARLIAMENT FACES BILL
CRIMINALIZING REJECTION OF ARMENIAN “GENOCIDE”
[05] SHIP WITH PANAMANIAN FLAG SINKS IN
AEGEAN; 1 TURKISH CREWMAN DIES
[06] PARLIAMENT PASSES PENSION REFORM
[07] SENER: “GOVT IS DETERMINED TO PASS
MORTGAGE BILL”
[08] TELSIM’S TURNOVER TO VODAFONE
COMPLETED
[09] TUZMEN: “IF EXCHANGE RATE RISES
CONTINUE, THIS COULD BRING DOWN TRADE DEFICIT”
[10] FROM THE COLUMNS...FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
[11] AT LAST, A FRENCH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
BY OZDEMIR INCE (HURRIYET)
[01] ERDOGAN MEETS WITH VISITING RUSSIAN
FM
Visiting Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday was received by
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and
Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc. During their
meeting, Erdogan sought Russia’s support for
ending the isolation imposed on the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Lavrov
praised the positive Turkish and Turkish Cypriot
position in the Cyprus dispute, especially after
the 2004 referendum held for the Annan plan, and
expressed the willingness of Russian
businesspeople to invest in the TRNC. The
Iranian nuclear dispute and so-called Armenian
genocide claims were also discussed at the
meeting. During the meeting with Erdogan, Lavrov
presented the Turkish premier with a Russian
state medal sent by Russian President Vladimir
Putin. /Star/
[02] ERDOGAN: “6.5% AVERAGE GROWTH IS
TARGETED IN NINTH DEVELOPMENT PLAN”
Addressing yesterday’s Supreme
Planning Council, which convened to discuss a
draft of the Ninth Development Plan, Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that 6.5%
average growth was targeted in the period
covered by the plan, adding that inflation was
expected to fall to 3% by the end of the period.
“We expect that our economy will grow by 6.5%
and create 620,000 jobs every year,” said
Erdogan, adding that gross domestic product
(GDP) is expected to reach $690 billion by 2013.
“Per capita income is expected to reach $8,723,
inflation to fall to 3%, exports to reach $214
billion, and tourism revenues to climb to $36
billion,” added Erdogan. /Aksam/
[03] EU PREPARING TO WARN TURKEY OVER
OPENING ITS HARBORS TO GREEK CYPRIOTS
Harsh warnings on Turkey’s
refusal to open its harbors to Greek Cypriots
appear in a draft summit final declaration of
the European Union heads of state and government
meeting set to begin on June 15. In it, the EU
calls on Turkey to speed up its reform process,
along with the appearance, for the first time,
of certain expressions about Turkey implementing
the supplementary protocol (and thus opening its
ports). The draft document says that the speed
of Turkey’s negotiations will depend on it
fulfilling its obligations and implementing the
supplementary protocol this year, agreeing to
conditions emerging from the Customs Union and
implementation of components appearing in the
last accession partnership document.
/Cumhuriyet/
[04] NETHERLANDS PARLIAMENT FACES BILL
CRIMINALIZING REJECTION OF ARMENIAN “GENOCIDE”
Following France and Belgium,
the Netherlands’ Parliament is also set to
consider a bill which would criminalize
rejection of the so-called Armenian genocide.
The proposal was prepared by the Christian Unity
Party represented by three deputies in the
150-seat Parliament. Meanwhile, a bill regarding
pro-Armenia Belgium’s genocide in Congo has been
presented to Britain’s Parliament. The bill,
initiated by the efforts of a joint
British-Turkish platform, calls on the Belgian
government to face its massacre in Congo in
1885-1908 and apologize to the Congolese
people./Turkiye/
[05] SHIP WITH PANAMANIAN FLAG SINKS IN
AEGEAN; 1 TURKISH CREWMAN DIES
A Panama-flagged Turkish cargo
ship en route from Turkey’s Black Sea port of
Bartin to the Moroccan port of Casablanca
yesterday collided with a Greek tanker near the
Greek island of Hydra in the Aegean and sank.
During the accident, one Turkish crewman died,
and five others are missing. Search and rescue
operations are underway to find the missing
sailors. /Turkiye/
[06] PARLIAMENT PASSES PENSION REFORM
Parliament late on Wednesday
passed a social security reform bill that was
previously vetoed by President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer. The law is part of a two-bill package
that aims to reform the loss-making social
security system and is one of the International
Monetary Fund’s prerequisites for continued
cooperation. The first bill was vetoed by Sezer,
who approved it after Parliament made the
amendments he asked for. The president vetoed 15
articles of the second and more controversial
bill, but this time around, Parliament’s
Planning and Budget Commission made no
amendments to it. /Turkish Daily News/
[07] SENER: “GOVT IS DETERMINED TO PASS
MORTGAGE BILL”
Speaking to reporters
yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif
Sener said that the government was determined to
pass the mortgage bill, adding that Parliament’s
busy agenda has so far precluded its debate.
Saying that there was an appropriate basis for
the bill in Turkey, Sener stressed that interest
rate increases wouldn’t have an adverse effect
on the bill. In related news, Capital Markets
Board (SPK) Chairman Dogan Cansizlar said that
high housing credit interests wouldn’t make the
bill risky. /Sabah/
[08] TELSIM’S TURNOVER TO VODAFONE
COMPLETED
The turnover process of Telsim
to Vodafone was officially completed yesterday
with a ceremony held at the Ciragan Palace.
Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim, Savings
Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) Chairman Ahmet
Erturk, and top Vodafone official Sir Julian
Hornsmith were present at the ceremony. Speaking
at the ceremony, Erturk stated that he
appreciated Vodafone’s faith in the Turkish
markets, its interest in Telsim and the money it
paid. For his part, Hornsmith said that Vodafone
would invest $1.2 billion in Telsim over the
next two years. /Milliyet/
[09] TUZMEN: “IF EXCHANGE RATE RISES
CONTINUE, THIS COULD BRING DOWN TRADE DEFICIT”
Speaking to reporters after his
meeting with Oman’s Economy Minister Ahmet Bin
Abdalnabi Macki, State Minister Kursat Tuzmen
commented on recent exchange rate increases,
saying that if these continue, it could bring
down the foreign trade deficit and positively
affect the balance of payments. Saying that the
overvalued lira was reverting to its normal
levels, Tuzmen added that exchange rate would be
balanced at 1.6 YTL. /Aksam/
[10] FROM THE COLUMNS...FROM THE
COLUMNS... FROM THE COLUMNS...
[11] AT LAST, A FRENCH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
BY OZDEMIR INCE (HURRIYET)
Columnist Ozdemir Ince comments
on the so-called Armenian genocide. A summary of
his column is as follows:
“A
May 18 column by Alexander Adler published in
French daily Le Figaro made me say, ‘At last!’
Adler is a French historian who is fair about
the Armenian and Kurdish question. On the day
when the bill to criminalize denial of the
so-called Armenian genocide was debated in the
French Parliament, Alexander went one step
further and reminded the French of their
responsibilities in this tragedy: ‘It is certain
that there won’t be any regret over how, during
the 1915 genocide, France was fighting against
the Ottoman Empire. The same France helped those
Armenians who could survive the genocide to
settle in the south and even fight against the
new republic of Mustafa Kemal in French
uniforms.’ (Le Figaro, ‘Glasnost torque sur la
question armenienne.’)
It
was the first time I’d read a Frenchman
acknowledge that the Armenians were wearing
French military uniforms. I talked about this
hidden fact with my friends at the meeting of
the European Poetry Academy. Members from
France, Belgium and Luxembourg didn’t know this
fact. After asking why there are so many
Armenians in France, I talked about the French
occupation of (Antep) Gaziantep, Cukurova and
Hatay. They didn’t know about it.
So
what should be done? After the bill wasn’t voted
on in the French Parliament, this doesn’t mean
that the problem has disappeared. We’ll face it
again, like in the US House of Representatives
and the Senate. It is possible to explain the
French role on Ottoman soil, the French
occupation and Armenian Legionnaires in French
uniforms. Therefore, the Foreign Ministry and
the Turkish Institution for History should
prepare a booklet in Turkish, French, English
and Armenian. Proof from the French archives
should be given in this booklet, which should be
distributed to universities, Parliament
deputies, political parties and the French
media, including the regional organs. If we
don’t do this, we’ll have to resort to economic
threats.”
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