Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REvzEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RMSTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
healtli, housing. income dIstribution is inequitable.
The foreign trade deficit is $13.5 billion .
. The current account deficit is $5 billion. Its forei~n
debt is $50 billion. The domestic debt is now Tl 245
trillion. The budget deficit is TL 122 trillion, to percent
of the national income. The deficit of the State
Economic Enterprises (KITs) is in excess of TL 81
trillion. The Public Sector Borrowing Requirement-
Gross National Product (PSBRlGNP) ratIO is 16.3
percent. In. addition to all these, southeast Anatolia is
m flames. No country in the world can improve its
economy while there is a war going on. Therefore,
Turkey must give priority to wiping out PKK terrorism."
MHP-origin people in
other parties
In addition to the MHP. former MHP members
now in such political parties of the Turkish right as
the ANAP and DYP have risen to prominence as
well.
The underlying reason for Mesut Yllmaz's victory
at the ANAP convention of 1991. won .Qespite opposition
from the late President Turgut Ozal, was the
backing of former MHP officials that had become
ANAP members.
Agah Oktay Güner, MHP deputy chairman before
the military takeover of 1980, is now a member of the
ANAP central administration. Ya~ar Okuyan, former
MHP dçputy secretary- general and former president
of the "Ulkücü" Journalists' Association, is not only a
member of the ANAP administration now, he is also
the right-hand man of ANAP leader Ylimaz. ANAP
Deputies
Kayalar,
Burhan
Alpaslan
Kara, Mustafa Tas.~r, Lütfullah
Pehlivanli, Halil Ozsoy, Murat
Ba~esgioglu. and Halit Dumankaya are known for the
close relationship they maintain with the MHP. They'
are referred to as members of the "nationalist flank'
in theANAP.
DYP's
Dedelek,
Baki Tug. Vey,sel Atasoy, lbrahim Ya~ar
Ayvaz Gökdemlr, Sadlk Avundukluoglu are
also known for their close relations with the ~MHP.
Dedelek, a former MHP provincial chairman, for
instance, was appointed a deputy chairman responsi:
ble for the party's youth organization.
Speaking
ular remart
of his old friends, Türke~. despite his joc-
that the MHP helps out other parties as
well thanks to its large staff. says they cannot be
looked upon as MHP members any longer.
"Those employed by other pohtical parties are not
MHP members any longer. They are not 'ülkücü.'
either. I do not regard them as such. Neither should
anyone.
They do not maintain any relations with our party
at all. They are people who have opted for the plalform
of the parties that they belong to and have complied
with their particular regulations," he argues.
MHP Deputy Chai.rm~n Rlza Müftiioglu goes one
step further and mamtmns that the parties that former
MHP members join use them for wmdow-dressing for
a while. but that whep they come .to realize t~at they
cannot sway the views ofMHP
draw them to the back benches.
supporters, they with-
Children of the rich and
high society
Those whose nationalist sentiments have been
a~vakene~ by P~K terrorism are not limited to politicians.
HIgh society women and the children of the
Turkish nch, who have traditionally refused to align
Tarkan (L). pop singer cum nationalist, sporting a
moustache the downward ends of which betray his
syrrypathy for the "ülkücü" cause, seen with a high
society female wearing the now ubiquitous crescentand-star
necklace. .
themselves with politicians, have developed an
unprecedented interest in the MHP.
For instance, Bizim Ocak, an association sympathetic
to the "ulkucu" cause, have staged a strikmg
performance for the past year, increasmg its branch
offIces up to over 800 in 73 provinces out of 76.
~hil~ businessmen contribute financially to the orgamzalton,
the children of the rich join up and receIve
training under banners depicting the "wolf and the
crescent .." Pan-Turkic symbols.
Azml Karamahmuto~lu, the president of the
European side of Istanbul s Bizim Ocak Association,
says rich youths meet all expenses now.
".Formerly, we found grassroots support only in
penpheral areas in the city. The districts of the rich
were sort of off-limits to us. But now we're opening
hrandll" in di,tr'ich \\ hl'rl' ril'h pl't)l'k li\,' rccau,è
rich youths themselves come up to us and ask us to
open branches in their districts,' he reveals. Tarkan a
young pop singer, for instance. has grown a mo~stache
witn ends pointed downwards in true Pan-
Turkic fashion. He wears a "crescent-star" necklace
as well. The ::.cr~sce.nt a~d the s~ar" ~as suddenly
beco.me th~ 1ß thlßg In TurkIsh high society.
FashIOn deSigners, eager to exploit the stron~ anti- '
PKK and nationalist sentiment. have talked \\'orld-
~lass top mo~els visiting Turkey ~nto posing with
crescent-star necklaces around theIr necks.
Rachel Hunter, wife of the famous rock sinl1er Rod
Stewart, for instance, wore the crescent and the star
during a photo session. for bikinis made by a Turkish
firm. Asked to offer hIS comments on this new fashion
in Turkish high society, MHP Chairman Alpaslan
Tü.~ke~laul1hs me~Tily and then adds:
. Yes, a!Fthese mdl.cate that a strong public reaction
eXISts agamst separallst acts of terrorism."
To conclude, acts of terrorism l1radually intensitied
by the PKK have finally awakened the dormant
nationalist sent.iment in the Turkish population of the
.country~ a sentlmentthat was always there but which
Turks dl~ not deem necessary to wake up. As a result
of.the fatl.ure ~f the state to stop terrorism. the awake~lßg
natIOnalist sentiment has started sympathizing
With the MHP. In short. the PKK has added to the
strength of the l\mp.
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