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NEWS Edited by Gokce Gokalp

According to the daily Cumhuriyet, in the wake of the European Commission adopting a draft framework on Wednesday for Turkey's European Union accession talks, debates on Turkeys membership bid have grown fiercer, with some European Union officials warning that Ankara will face huge challenges in seeking entry to the bloc. "It is in Europe's interest to have a stable, democratic, prosperous Turkey that adopts and implements all EU values, policies and standards," European Union Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn stated Thursday. Mr. Rehn stressed that Turkeys talks must be "open-ended. Opening the negotiations in October does not mean that they will inevitably lead to membership for Ankara, he added. In related news, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated his call for further European Union expansion to be put on hold indefinitely on Thursday. In addition, Austrian Prime Minister Wolfgang Schussel remarked that a new formula other than full membership should be found for Turkey. However, British officials reiterated their support for Turkeys full membership aspirations. Britain assumes the six-month EU term presidency today.
The Turkish daily Turkiye reports that an editorial in The Financial Times hailed the European Commissions setting a framework for Turkey's accession talks as a welcome development. Calling on the European Union to uphold its commitments to Turkey, the commentary said that it was hard to deny an air of unreality surrounding Ankaras membership. Remarking that the Union might have difficulty taking in Turkeys large population, the editorial noted that current candidate countries, including Turkey and Balkan countries, have a long period before full membership. They will be able to complete the needed reforms in that time, added the piece.
In related news, the daily Cumhuriyet reports that the Truth Path Party leader Mr. Mehmet Agar stated Thursday that the European Union Framework Document had created new obligations for Turkey. Mr. Agar made the remarks after Ankara Chamber of Commerce Chairman Sinan Aygun visited him at Truth Path Party head quarters. "Turkey is worried about falling back to where it started," Mr. said Agar. Addressing the Cyprus problem, he said that the European Union is forcing Turkey to recognize Greek Cyprus. "Turkey was driven into a corner because after signing the additional protocol [to extend its Customs Union to 10 new European Union members], its declaration that is not recognizing Greek Cyprus faces official rebuttal", added Agar.
Foreign ministers and senior officials of the 57 states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference concluded their three-day meeting with a final statement in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday. Turkish Cypriots were represented at the meeting as an observer, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference called on the international community to take concrete steps to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus. In addition, the Organization of the Islamic Conference also approved a bill recognizing that the Turkish Muslim minority living in Western Thrace suffers mistreatment at the hands of the Greek authorities. The bill called on Greece to respect and protect the human rights of this minority, reported the Turkish daily Aksam.
The daily Hurriyet reported that Turkey's main opposition Republican Peoples Party leader Deniz Baykal spoke Thursday at an extraordinary party meeting about changes to parliamentary rules that reduce opportunities for opposition parties to contribute. He decried the situation as a tragedy, and called on concerted action to prevent the change. "At a time in which this Parliament is under others control, obstructing and muzzling deputies is a great threat to democracy", added Mr. Baykal. Citizens should work to head off these efforts and should not leave this countrys future in their [the ruling partys] hands, as they dont know how to administer it. The government will damage Turkeys interests if they continue like this" Mr. Baykal added. Like Mr. Baykal, Parliament Speaker Mr. Bulent Arinc is also against the changes to parliamentary rules.
Turkey's Land Forces Commander Gen. Yasar Buyukanit stated Thursday that the rebel Kurdish Workers party poses a serious threat to the countrys integrity, adding that this group gets support from some European countries. He stated that the PKK is drawing strength from the situation in northern Iraq. Some neighboring and European countries are supporting the Kurdish Workers Party by supplying them with shelter, arms, campsites, training, financing, treatment and transportation, charged General Buyukanit. He also said that The Turkish Armed Forces is closely watching developments and continuing to work to counter terrorism, reported the daily Sabah.
According to the daily Star, a hydroelectric dam constructed on the Coruh River by Turkey's State Waterworks Authority in northeastern city of Artvin was opened Wednesday with a ceremony. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler and other officials were all in attendance in the ceremony. Addressing the gathering, Erdogan said that Turkey would continue to carry out investments to meet Turkeys energy needs. DSI General Director Veysel Eroglu stated that the river was the most suitable one for constructing a hydroelectric dam and that it was the first dam on the river.
According to Employment Outlook 2005 report of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Turkey has the fifth-highest unemployment rate among OECD member states with 10.2%, after the top four, namely Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Greece. The OECD predicts that the Turkish economy will develop at a rate of 6.3% this year and continue developing with a ratio of 6.15% in the coming year but that unemployment will also continue to rise and reach 10.4% this year and 10.5% the next. The report adds that Turkey has the lowest rate of employment compared to its adult population which is able to work. Turkeys employment rate last year was 45.5%, but it has been falling since 1999, when it was 54.5% reported the daily Cumhuriyet.
Extreme nationalist Bulgarian Attack coalition leader Volen Siderov, whose bloc got 8% of the vote and won seats ın the Bulgarian parliament in last weekends elections, said in a radio interview on Monday that he favored changing the names of ethnic Turks living in Bulgaria. Mr. Siderov called for Turkish broadcasts on Bulgarian National Television to cease and said that Turkish people should carry the Bulgarian suffixes ov or ova in their lastnames. These views of Siderov, who seeks to imitate the assimilation campaign carried out by former dictator Todor Jivkov in the 1980s, has led to concern among the countrys democrats as reported by the daily Milliyet, and the daily Sabah.
British daily The Observer praised Turkey as an attractive holiday destination over the weekend. "You get your moneys worth in Turkey more than any other European country," wrote reporter Rebecca Seal. "Before leaving our hotel we also went to a restaurant and played a good knife and fork. In addition to the advisable prices of the hotels, the foods are also sold at a good price," she added.

ARTS AND CULTURE

As this year's prolific International Istanbul Music Festival draws to a close, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has one more treat in store for us. World-acclaimed director and choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot heads the Monte Carlo Ballet, who will stage the magical tale of "Cinderella" at Istanbul's Atatürk Culture Center Saturday.
Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has selected 20 pieces of literature, within the scope of the Turkish Cultural, Artistic and Literary Works in Foreign Languages Translation Support Project, that have been found to be of particular significance and relevance to Turkish culture for translation into foreign languages and publication abroad. According to a written statement released by the ministry, as part of the initiative coordinated by the Library and Publishing General Directorate, has been working on the details of the Translation Support Project for more than a year. The idea behind this program is to make Turkish literary works deemed of particular interest by the ministry available to foreign readers, that they might gain a better understanding of Turks, Turkish culture and Turkey.
As a result of excavations led jointly by American and German archeologists, evidence of the lost Christian sect of Montanism, believed to have been based in the ancient city of Pepuza, has been discovered. Research will commence on Aug. 15, reported the Anatolia news agency. Pepuza is situated in what is now the modern-day village of Karayakuplu in Uşak province's Karahallı district in Turkey. According to the Uşak Culture and Tourism Directorate, a team led by Professor William Tabberne of the United States and Professor Peter Lampe of Germany will conduct excavations in and around the ancient city of Pepuza. This year, a team of 30 people led by Lampe will conduct digs until Sept. 15 that will reach as far as the Ulubey canyon. Results of the research and excavation carried out by the group will be turned over to the Culture and Tourism Provincial Directorate.
The ongoing 44th International Bursa Culture and Arts Festival, organized by the Bursa Culture, Art and Tourism Foundation, featured the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet's modern-dance show "Güldestan" on Monday. Güldestan is a production portraying migration and its spiritual concept. Beyhan Murphy is the chorographer and director, Arkın Ilıcalı, also known as "Mercan Dede," is the music director, İsmail Dede the costume designer and Michael Odam is the light designer for the show, which is set to go on tour this summer. The Mercan Dede Ensemble accompanied the dance show performance with their music and added a separate mini-concert. Mercan Dede held a press conference with Beyhan Murphy before the show and said that the mModern dance show to promote Turkey abroad.

*Dam construction in Turkey's Southeast has attracted
several archaeological rescue projects in an effort to protect the rich historical heritage of the area, part of what was once known as Mesopotamia.
  The Tilbes Salvage Project in Şanlıurfa's Birecik Dam area is one such undertaking. Salvage operations are being conducted at a location in the vicinity of the Seleucia-Zeugma archaeological site by an international team led by the Spanish Archaeological Mission in Turkey.
  The Tilbes tumulus is the main focus of the project, which aims to recover the remains of five adjoining sites on the Şanlıurfa bank of the Euphrates River north of Birecik. Three of these sites -- Tilbes, Tilmusa and Tilbour -- were flooded in 2000. The other two -- outside of the resulting lake but in peril of being lost --- are the Tilbes tumulus and Sürtepe.   A burned building, thought to be a shrine, from the mid Early Bronze Age (2600 B.C.) was uncovered at the Tilbes tumulus. Fuensanta emphasizes that this is the most unusual finding in the Tilbes and Euphrates region. The burned building had two remaining rooms connected by a narrow passageway. The main room was surrounded by various niches. A few clay horns and some animal horns were found. A clay pillar and a very small door separated the two rooms. This building shares similarities with EB III "temples" at Denizli's Beycesultan.
  The oldest existing inscription in the Birecik area also appeared at the Tilbes tumulus. It was written on a cylindrical seal made of hematite, larger than usual finds from the Middle Bronze period (early second millennium B.C.) and contains a double cuneiform inscription in the Semitic Old Babylonian language.   Remains of the Achaemenid Empire (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.), prior to Alexander the Great's conquest and the glorious days of Hellenistic Zeugma-Seleucia/Apamea, have been found at the Tilbes tumulus and Sürtepe. * Associate Professor Mustafa Bayram from Gaziantep University's department of food engineering has discovered an alternative to Wadell's Sphericity Factor equation that he calls the MBayram-1 Equation and which is used to determine the roundness of objects.
  Bayram told the Anatolia news agency it was very important for scientists and engineers to be able to accurately determine the roundness of an object in certain critical situations. "The Wadell equation, discovered in 1932, is used to calculate how close an object is to being round. However, this equation, mentioned in science textbooks, is not the same as equations for objects with specific shapes like cubes or cylinders. In other words, it is extremely difficult to use the Wadell equation, which sometimes does not yield accurate results, said Bayram. * Scientists have determined that a pool in western Turkish region of Pamukkale's ancient city of Hierapolis has beneficial effects on various physical ailments, attracting nearly 2,000 health-seeking tourists daily, reported the Anatolia news agency.
  Pamukkale is included on UNESCO's World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. The pool, which was built by King Eumenes II in 200 B.C. and severely damaged in an earthquake in A.D. 60, is situated where water sources feed the area's famous travertine and has been used as a heath spa for thousands of years.

The first International Galata Festival (Galata-Fest) will be held from July 1-10, sponsored by the Shehristanbul Association. The organizing committee of the festival released a statement, in which it said that Istanbul's Galata Quarter, which boasts one of the more unique architectural styles in the city, is a historic place that many different cultures, including Ottoman, Genoese, Greek, Levantine, Armenian and Hebrew, played a part in influencing. The statement also noted that the Şehristanbul Association is planning to hold the festival to promote the Galata Quarter and foster knowledge of this region of the city, in the hopes of preserving and protecting the rich cultural heritage of Galata.

SPORTS Edited by Mark Nowak

Fatih Terim became coach of Turkish national soccer team after resignation of Ersun Yanal. Terim said that Mufit Erkasap would be his assistant. Terim stated that Oguz Cetin and Mehmet Ozdilek would serve as the other coaches of the Turkish national soccer team.
French champions Lyon signed Norwegian international striker John Carew from Turkish first division side Besiktas on a four-year contract worth 7.65 million euros.
Mediterranean Games: Turkey won 7 gold, 7 silver and 3 bronze weightlifting medals to finish first in the team standings.

EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATE for the U.S. dollar in New Turkish Liras: 1.33

WEATHER High and Low Temperatures in Degrees F, Weather

Ankara	63...84 Partly Cloudy		
Antalya	73...97 Partly Cloudy		
Istanbul	72...88 Partly Cloudy		
Izmir	62...82 Fair		
Sivas	47...62 Partly Cloudy				
Trabzon	57...61 Fair

Seawater temperatures

  Black Sea measured at Trabzon         70
  Marmara Sea measured at Tekirdag      76
  Aegean Sea measured at Marmaris         76

Mediterranean Sea measured at Alanya 78

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