[TurkC-L] x0x Turkish news for week ending 25 June 2005

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Date: Mon 27 Jun 2005 - 20:52:28 EEST


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x0x Turkish news for week ending 25 June 2005

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  • Troops sweeping mountainous southeast of Turkey killed a further three insurgents after they refused a call to surrender and opened fire, the Anatolia news agency quoted the governor of Sirnak province as saying. The casualties brought the number of rebels reported killed Friday to eight. The agency said troops found machineguns, grenades, explosives and documents in the region where the Sirnak province clash occurred. Earlier Friday, officials said other fighting in the southeast left five Kurdish terrorists dead and a Turkish soldier wounded. Also, in Tunceli province a taxi driver was seriously injured when his vehicle ran over a mine planted on a rural road by Kurdistan Workers Party rebels, the Anatolia news agency said. Violence in the region has sharply increased over the past few months, after the Kurdistan Workers Party called off a five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004 on grounds that reforms undertaken by Ankara to expand Kurdish freedoms were insufficient. The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed about 37,000 lives, most of them between 1984 and 1999, when the Kurdistan Workers Party waged a campaign for Kurdish self-rule in the region.
  • In related news, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey has held talks with Turkish officials in Ankara over how to drain financial resources of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party in the United States, the CNN-Turk Web site reported Mr. Levey, who heads the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, assured Turkey's Justice Minister Cemil Cicek and Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan that Washington was determined to take necessary steps and that information on the matter provided by the Turkish side would be carefully evaluated, CNN-Turk said. The U.S. official, however, avoided giving any assurances on the Kurdistan Workers Party's financial resources in Iraq, hinting that the matter should be dealt with by the Iraqi administration and Ankara. Turkey has long been demanding eradication of the bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party in the north of Iraq from which the outlawed group has recently stepped up attacks against on Turkey.
  • The culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq to symbolically try Bush and Blair has started in Istanbul on Friday, June 24th. The World Tribunal on Iraq is inspired by the Russell Courthouse hearings in the US during the Vietnam War, reports the Turkish Daily News. The tribunal will consist of three days of hearings investigating various issues related to the war in Iraq, such as the legality of the war, the role of the United Nations, alleged war crimes and the role of the media. In addition, the tribunal will hear evidence on the destruction of cultural sites and the environment that have occurred during the coalition's occupation of Iraq. Turkey experienced the proudest moments of its history when its Parliament rejected a U.S. request to launch the Iraq occupation via Turkish territory, UNESCO peace prize holder Professor Richard Falk said during the tribunal. He added that Turkey had demonstrated its democratic structure with this decision. Hans von Sponeck, a former U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, also praised the Turkish Parliament for rejecting the U.S. troop deployment motion just prior to the Iraq war. The World Tribunal on Iraq does intend to decide whether the United States is guilty or not, prizewinning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy said. Miss Roy, who has become a prominent activist for human rights and environmental causes, was delivering an opening speech on behalf of the Tribunal's Conscience Jury. "This tribunal is here today to document the war, and this tribunal is important, not from the perspective of the war's winners, but from the perspective of those who temporarily lost the war," she said, making clear that the Tribunal did not aim to defend Saddam Hussein. The official web site for World Tribunal on Iraq www.worldtribunal.org will be offering live audio and video streaming of the Tribunal hearings in addition to the daily updates.
  • Turkey's Land Forces Commander General Yasar Buyukanit during his official visit to Greece said that a secular state could not co-exist with political thoughts based on Islam whether moderate or not, reported the Anatolia news agency. General Buyukanit was speaking at the Greek War Academy.
  • The Vietnamese Embassy in Turkey opened on Tuesday with a reception hosted by Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Sy Ung, who served his credentials to the Turkish president Mr. Ahmet Necdet Sezer on April 6. Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Abdullah Gul and Foreign Affairs Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Dy Nien attended the opening ceremony of the embassy. The two ministers underlined the friendly relations between the two countries and reinforced their hopes to develop strong and cohesive relations.
  • The European Union will disclose a draft negotiating roadmap for entry talks with Turkey next week, sources told the Anatolian News Agency on Friday. The draft will be ratified by the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, on June 29th, and then forwarded to the European Union Council for approval. Meanwhile, European Union spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen said that the draft would serve as a basis to conduct the negotiations. "It is going to be technical framework which lays down procedures for the accession negotiations," she said. Krisztina Nagy, another spokeswoman of the European Union, said that the document would have to be agreed to by all 25 member countries before the European Union could go ahead with the talks. The entry talks between Turkey and the European Union will start on October 3rd.
  • The Associated Press reports that construction of the Turkey-Greece natural gas pipeline is scheduled to start at the beginning of July, Greek Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas said. The 186-mile pipeline will run from Bursa in Turkey to Komotini in Greece and is designed to transport Caspian and Central Asian natural gas to Europe. Initially, the pipeline will transport 3.5 billion cubic meters of gas a year, but this will rise to 11.5 billion cubic meters a year at a later stage, Mr. Sioufas said. The European Union as well as the Greek and Italian governments will mainly fund construction of these two pipelines. The pipelines are all part of the Southern Europe Gas Ring project, due to be completed by the end of 2006.
  • The 25th of June is the 13th birthday of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. The Council of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of Black Sea Economic Cooperation at its Special Session held in Istanbul on June 25, 2004 decided to designate the 25th of June as Black Sea Economic Cooperation Day and that it be commemorated each year in Black Sea Economic Cooperation Member States. Black Sea Economic Cooperation came into existence in 1992 as a multilateral political initiative for regional economic cooperation on the basis of a project that had been well designed and launched in a timely fashion by Turkey. That was a period when strong winds of change had been sweeping through all of Europe. The political landscape in most parts of the Black Sea Basin, in the Balkans and the Caucasus had been changed. Following the fall of the communist regimes together with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, newly born independent States had opted for democracy and a free-market economy. The process of European integration was in full swing. The economic and political systems of both Greece and Turkey provided the countries in transition of the region with models to emulate.

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  • Turkey's Council of State has rejected a demand to open Hagia Sofia, a former church that was converted to a mosque in the 15th century, for worship, reported the Anatolia news agency yesterday. Hagia Sofia, which is universally acknowledged as one of the world's great architectural achievements, was transformed into a museum by Cabinet decision on Nov. 24, 1934. Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527-65) built the Hagia Sofia as a church, part of his effort to restore the grandeur of the Roman Empire. It was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman Turks, led by Sultan Mehmet II, conquered Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453. In 1934, under President and founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Hagia Sofia was secularized and turned into the Aya Sofya Museum.
  • Saturday night, as part of the 33rd International Istanbul Music Festival, a unique musical experience, involving mostly Russian chamber music, welcomes audiences looking for a different cultural flare. Mr. Cem Mansur, a renown conductor who has been invited to take the baton for performances at prominent musical centers and events around the world will lead the Akbank Chamber Orchestra, alongside one of the most talented young Russian pianists, Mr. Nikolai Demidenko, for tonight's concert at the Hagia Eirene Museum.
  • A photograph exhibition titled "Cityrama" will open on June 29 at the Istanbul Modern Art Gallery in conjunction with the UIA 2005 Istanbul XXII World Congress of Architecture, which will be held July 3-10 in Istanbul. The exhibition, sponsored by Fujifilm and featuring the works of Cengiz Akduman, Arif Asci, Ibrahim Aysil, Cemal Emden, Sinan Kocaslan, Selim Seval and Cem Turgay, is curated by Engin Ozendes. "Cityrama" displays the city from a perspective that incorporates the esthetics of photography instead of simply a straight view. Architectural texture is the key aspect in introducing a city where the structures provide information about the people. The most successful way to introduce a city, on a one-to-one basis, is by photography. The photographers rediscover its buildings, monuments, streets, historical, cultural and social traces, and the living spirit they knead with their own interpretations. The exhibition will remain open until Aug. 28.
  • The Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Contest's jury has put on display 228 caricatures of 200 cartoonists from 44 countries at the IC Airport Green Palace Hotel in Antalya. A cocktail was held where selection board members, artists and guests all attended, reported the Dogan News Agency. The exhibition will remain open until June 29 and entrance is free.

SPORTS

  • The President of the Turkkish soccer federation Levent Bicakci chose renowned coach Fatih Terim to lead the Turkish national team. Mr. Terim is taking over the position nine years after his first successful leadership of the team. Mr. Terim himself is a former soccer player who says he was part of Turkey's national team in 70 matches. In 35 of these matches he says he was the team captain.

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