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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Özeti Bush courts Turks and presses NATO . . Summit talks tO,focus on Iraqi security Bosh with President Ahmet Nec:detSezer ofThrkey in Ankara o~ Sunday. NATOchiefs meet Monday and Thesday in IstanbuL . Protesters raUying inIstanbul on Friday against the NATOmeeting, which opens. Monday. The Iraq war is widely unpopular in Thrkey, and officials have ordered tight security. By Elisabeth Bumiller and Chr;tine Hauser Just days before the handover of sov. ereignty in Iraq on Wednesday, President George W. Bosh arrived in neighboring Turkey on Sunday fur a NATO summit meeting that is expected to deal with issues in Iraq, including approval by the group's heads of state and government of an agreement to help train Iraqi security forces. Bush said in a meeting in Ankara with Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that he was looking forward to working on regional matters, including Iraq, and on how to strengthen NATO. Bush expressed support for Turkey's bid to join the Europèan Union. "I would remind the people of this good country that I believe you ought to be given a date by the EU for your eventual acceptance into the EU," he saki. "I appreciate so very much the example your country has set on how to be a Muslim country and at the same time, a country which embraces democracy and rule of law and freedom," he said in a photo session with Erdogan, according to a White House transcript. Bush's courtship of Turkey was complicated by terrorist threats to decapitate three Turks held hostage in Iraq unless the country's companies stopped aiding U.S. forces. Turkey has rejected the demands. Bush's trip to Turkey, his first, 'brought out tenS of thousands of demonstrators in Istanbul protesting U.S. policies in the region. "Get lost Bush, get lost NATO," the protesters chanted, according to the Reuters. news agency, and, "Murderer U.S.A.get out of the Middle East." Protesters had also dogged Bush's visit to Ireland, where he said on Saturday that the "bitter differences" between the United States and Europe over the war in Iraq were over, and that NATO had a responsibility to help Iraqis with their own security. As Bush spoke at an outdoor joint news conference in Ireland with Prime Minister Bertie Ahem of Ireland and Romano Prodi, the president of the European Commission, the anti-Iraq war protesters blocked at least one of the main roads leading to Dromoland Castle, a 16th-century fortress turned luxury resort where Bush had stayed. Bush had said he hoped NATO would agree at the talks in Istanbul to help with the training of Iraqi security forces. The training commitment, which is close to alliance agreement, represents a greatly lowered expectation on the part of the White House since it became clear in recent weeks that NATO was not willing to commit any more troops to Iraq. "NATO has the capability and I be- . lieve t~~.respo.nsibility to help the Iraqi people defeat the terrorist threat that is , facing their country," Bush said. .Prime MilÛSter Iyad Allawi of Iraq, 78
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti be noted, had asked NATO (or training help and equipment in a recent letter. "I hope NATO responds in a positive way," Bushsaid. . In Brussels on Saturday, the NATO secretary generaL Jaap de Hoop Scheffel confirmed that the alliance had re~ched a deal to train Iraqi àrmed forces. "NATO heads of state and gO!- emment are expected to approve thIS agreement at their summit meeting in Istanbul on June 28," he said in a statement. Bush has acknowledged that he is not especially well-liked in Europe. . When asked in Ireland by a White House reporter how he could explain his unpopularity in opinion polls here and whether Americans should be concerned about it, Bush replied that he was most concerned about his re-elec- Iran plans to.resume building centrifuges 1be ABsodated Press TEHRAN: ltan will resume building centrifuges for its nuclear progra~ on Thesday despite international obJections but will continue to hold off enrichi~ uz:anium, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The announcement, which marks a major setback in international attempts to resolve the standoffwitl1.Iranover its tion campaign in the United States. "I must confess, the first polls I worry about are those that are going to. take place in early November this year," he said. "Listen, I care about the Image of our country." He added that "as far as my own personal standing goes, my job is to do' my job" and that "I'm going to set a vision, I'm going to lead, and we'll just let the chips fall where ~ey may.~ Bush said Ahem had questioned him . in a meeting on Saturday morning about the Abu Ghtaib prison abuse and the Anlerican treatment of other prisoners held at Guantânamo Bay, as did President Mary McAleese of Ireland in her own meeting with Bush. "I toldthem both I was sick with what. happened inside that prison, ..~ush said. "The actions of those troops did not reflect what we think. And it did harm." nuclear program,was met with disap- ..proval from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and from the United States. Moham~ .E1Baradei, the director .of the atomic energy organization, a UN .agency, said, "I hope that this decision is of a tempotary nature. I hope it will be reversed." ElBatadei reacted to the ltanian announcement in Moscow, where he was attending a conference on nuclear power. "Iran needs todo the maximum to build confidence after a period of confidence deficit," he said. "I look at this whole suspension of enrichment as part of this confidence building." The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said Sunday, "Itan needs to come clean and fully cooperate with its international obligations." Iran had suspended the building of centrifuges, along with the enrichment of utanium, amid international pressure and attempts by ElBaradei's Bush said he told both Ahem and McAleese that the United States would •deal with the investigations into the prison abuse scandal "in a transparent way." Ahem said: "These things happen. Of course, we wish they didn't. and it's important then on how they're dealt with." Bush was in Ireland for an annual EU-U.S. summit meeting, and both he arid Ahem emphasized what they .cal~ed the progressthey had made: Sl~lDg joint agreements on counterterronsm, counterprolifetation, HIV andAmS. 1be New York TImes Elisabeth Bumiller reported from Ireland and Christine Haùser reportedfrom New York for this article. agency to determine whether the program was aimed at produ~ing weapons, as the United States contends, or was for peaceful purposes. Iran reversed the suspension after . the agency approved a European-drafted resolution that rebuked Iran for past cover-ups in its nuclear program. A Foreign Ministry .spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, invited the agency to monitor the centrifuge construction. He said, however, that I~n would remain committed to the suspension of . actual uranium enrichment - injecting gas into centrifuges. Utanium in its na~ral form contains too low a concentration of fissionable isotopes to be used as fuel for reactors or weapons material and must be put through an enrichment process. The United States has accused Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons. Ira.n maintains that its nuclear program IS entirely peacefuL geared toward production of nuclear energy. Turkeyandlsrael A strategic .friendship cools ANKARA The two old allies ~ getting on each other's nerves. Why? 't'i THEN Tayyip Erdogan, a former Is- VV lamist, swept to power alone in 2002 to become 1\1rkey'sprime minister, Isz:aelis were worried that relations with their closest friend in the region might cool. 'Ih1e,Mr Erdogan had publicly disavowed his Islamist past and insisted he would still look to America, Europe and Israel for friendship. But the Israelis wanted proof. They are not getting it. On the contrll£Y, a year ago Mr Erdogan snubbed a request by Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, to . visit 1\1rkey.Neither Mr Erdogan nor his foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, have been to Israel. Officials on both sides-.say the "special relationship" is .secure. A pact signed in 1996 still lets Israeli fighter pilots train in 1\1rkishairspace, to the irritation of many Arabs. nade still booms. But the bad blood is still being stirred. This week Silvan Shalom, Israel's foreign minister, said that Israel could not "restrain itself" for much longer in the face of Mr Erdogan's scratchy remarks, which were harming the very fabric of the two countries' relationship. Mr Erdogan has accused Israel of "state terrorism" against the Palestinians in the Gaza strip. Last month he asked an Israeli minister to explain the •difference between "terrorists who kill Is- . raeli civilians and Israel's killing of civil- .ians too". Similar bluntness earlier this month annoyed a group of Jewish Ameri- .cans whom he met in the United States. So why the change? Mr Erdogan's proclaimed distaste for Mr Sharon's policies is .probably genuine. It is certainly shared by .many millions of lUrks who have been .watching television pictures of Israeli tanks demolishing Palestinian houses. Besides, he has to appease conservatives in hilrrulingJustice and Development party. They are disgruntled by his failure, among .other unIslamist things, to lift the ban on the wearing of headscarves by women in government offices and schools . Some, however, say that the most compelling reason for Mr Erdogan's new tone of hostility is his belief that Israel has been encouraging Iraq's Kurds to form their own independent state that would not only become Israel's new ally in the region but might also rekindle separatism among 1\1rkey's own restive Kurds. Such fears have grown since the New Yorker magazine said that Israeli agents now train Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq. Israel denies it. Mr Erdogan knows he must tread warily. If he annoys Israel or the Jewish- American lobby too much, it will be harder for Congress to spike resolutions calling for recognition of the massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman lUrks in the first world war as genocide. _ . 79
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