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REVUE' DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ~RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
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Turkish Probe October 5, 1993
.'The Week in Perspective
SEPT
~7 Kurdish-based Democracy
..& Party (DEP) formally announces
that none of its 17 deputies in Parliament would
resign from their seats for the time being.
• Foreign Minister Hikmet Ç~tin arrivés in New
York for the 48th General Assembly meeting of
the United Nations. Çetinis expected to meet with
U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and
deliver a speech in the General Assembly on Sept.
30.
• Turkey rejects a Russian demand to revise the
Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement so
as to allow it to increase its presence in the north
Caucasus, Foreign Ministry sources say.
S E PT 28
Kurdish separatists pledge to
• strike at Western interests,
tourists and economic targets across Turkey in retaliation
for Ankara's crackdown against their struggle
for autonomy.
• PM Halil $Ivgln warns thatthe Turkish military is
sure to offer its "own policy" if Parliament fails to
find a solution to terrorism in eastern and
southeastern Turkey, adding "terrorism in eastern
and southeastern Turkey, coupled with political
deadlock" might mean the imposition of martial law
and postponement of the local elections of March
1994.
• Security forces cross the border into Iraq in an
operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK). Local sources claim that Iraqi Kurdish
pashmargas fight alongside Turkish forces against
the PKK.
• In a speech in Erzurum, Prime Minister Tansu
Çiller s~ys Turkey will never bow to terrorism and that
no one will be able to upset its unity and integrity.
• The Constitutional Court rejects an application
for the annulment of a government decree allowing
for ihe privatization of the state telecom
company PTT on the grounds that the application,
made recently by 92 members of Parliament, is incomplete.
SEPT 29
A military plane crashes
• shortly after take-off into a
house in Antalya, killing eight people. his three siblings.
• Tourism Minister Abdülkadir Ate~ says that holiday
reservation cancellations are between 10 to 15
percent this season due to terrorist attacks on touristic
targets in Turkey.
• Press reports of a True Path Party (DYP)-Social
Democratic People's Party (SHP) alliance for the nationwide
local elections in March 1994 are denied by
SHP Vahit Suiçmez.
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• Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy Party
leader Constantine Mitsotakis reaffirms his firm
belief in continued dialogue with Turkey, with just
over a week toga to early elections in the country.
SEPT 30
23.people, including 10
• Kurdish militants, are killed
in clashes in Southeast Turkey. Meanwhile police
detain 15 people suspected of involvement in the
murder of Mehmet Sincar, a Kurdish member of
parliament.
• Prime Minister Çiller addresses the nation in a
televised speech.
• Bulgarian President Jelu Jelev says that Bulgaria's
good relations with Turkey and Greece are
prerequisite for the establishment of a "security triangle
in the Balkans."
• Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Özdem Sanberk
says the most prominent.effect of the turmoil in
Russia might appear in the form of big migrations to
Turkey.
• The body of a drowned man found in the Bosphorus
last month is identified as that of a missing
Scottish engineer, Roy Dingley, 36.
OCT 1
Turkish Union of Chambers and
• Stock Exchanges (TOBB) Chairman
Yahm Erez says the country will have to live
with inflation for some time and warns that the foreign
trade deficit continues to grow.
• French Defence Minister Francois Leotard arrives
for a one-day visit to Ankara as the guest of
his Turkish counterpart Nevzat Ayaz, for talks on
security and cooperation in the defence industry.
.In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Foreign
Minister Hikmet Çetin says the enlargement of
the Security Council will render the organization
more effective and suggests Turkey as a possible
candidate for a new category of semipermanent
member of the councit
• A surveillance committee on the Ugur Mumcu
murder claims that certain investigators looking into
the case have been sneaking crucial information to
the perpetrators. said.
OCT 2
Prime Minister Tansu Çiller re-
• peats her promises for a perfectly
working economy at a press gathering held in Istanbul.
She says the economy will take off from 1996.
OCT 3 With only a week to go for early
• general elections in Greece, Prime
Minister Constantin Mitsotakis reiterates his commitment
to keeping the channels of dialogue with
Turkeyopen.
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