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- REVUE DE PRESSE~PRESS REVIEW~BERHEVOKAÇAPÊ~RNISTA PagcA2/Thursday. January 13. 1994 turkish daily news STAMPA~DENTRO DE LA PRENSA~BASIN ÖZETi Big-selling dailies cover NATO summit with sensational banners Sabah: NATO sumnùt revealed Britaùz and France agreed to clwnge bor<strong>de</strong>rs in Mi<strong>de</strong>ast to s<strong>et</strong> up Kurdish state . Milliy<strong>et</strong>: Papandreau blackmailed Turkey on Cyprus issue, Turkish Anny put on alert along bor<strong>de</strong>r with Greece Hürriy<strong>et</strong>: Çiller asked Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Bill Clinton to <strong>de</strong>al with PKK, FM ç<strong>et</strong>in frustrated by PM'Çiller's conduct By Ruhican Tul Turkish Daily News , AN KARA- Although NATO lea<strong>de</strong>rs hailed their summit that en<strong>de</strong>d Tuesday a resounding. success, ma~nstrea~ Tur~lsh dailies, which sent armies of Journahsts to Brussels to rer.0rt on the summit, do not share a similar opinion -- staying faithful to the motto that good, readable news must necessarily be sensational even if it is lacking in substance. Sabah unearths <strong>de</strong>signs for Kurdish state "Kurdish-state trap s<strong>et</strong> for Turkey," raged Sabah's banner on Wednesday. "The NATO summit revealed that Britam and Francehad national bor<strong>de</strong>rs agreed to change inter- in the Middle East and pressured U.S. Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Bill Clinton to agree that an in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt Kurdish state should be established in northern Iraq," the mass circulation daily claimed. Sabah also reported a 2ü-minute me<strong>et</strong>ing b<strong>et</strong>ween Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Clinton, quoting Çiller as saying that although she could not reveal the contents, the me<strong>et</strong>ing was of "vital im~rtance Y<strong>et</strong>," for Turkey." Sabah ad<strong>de</strong>d, "it has been learned that she cautioned Clinton that if bor<strong>de</strong>rs were tampered with in the Mid- ,dIe East, the West would lose Turkey's support and that radical Islam would threaten Europe. , "The West has united ' against terrorism. The same thing should happen in ~he Middle East. You should exert your m- fluence over Syria in this regard," Sabah said Çiller had told Clinton. "When I pierced the foggy Brussels air, I came across a horrify,mg trap," wrote.Sabah's Fatih Çekirge, 'The West is playing with a map of the Middle East. One marks northern Iraq, the other doodles on lebanon. It is as If oil-producing areas are bein& assigned new bor<strong>de</strong>rs." 'This Euro-Christian Club, acting in collusion with Russia, ain's Prime Minister and led by Brit- John Major and French Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Francois Mitterrand; are biting at the bor<strong>de</strong>rs in the Middle East. This frightening trap was unearthed at the NATO summit," he claimed. "To cope with this, one needs do some diplomatic maneuvering. And that was what Çiller did, holding a me<strong>et</strong>ing unprece<strong>de</strong>nted during NATO summits. ,Up in a room in Val Duchesse Çastle, she talked to Clinton for 20 minutes. They were alone," he said. "This move is to be applau<strong>de</strong>d. For the me<strong>et</strong>ing such a critical time." was held at Then Cekirge revealed that although Ciller had refused to say anything else on the contents of the me<strong>et</strong>ing except that it was of vital significance for Turkey, he had, through indirect sources, estabhshed that Çiller had warned against the tampering of Mi<strong>de</strong>ast bor<strong>de</strong>rs and had asked for U.S. support terrorism. in Turkey's fight against On the other hand, Güneri Civaoglu, another Sabah columnist, maintained that, following her me<strong>et</strong>ing with Clinton, Çiller had m<strong>et</strong> Cekirge and Milliy<strong>et</strong> columnist Yalçm Dogan and told them of the contents of her conversation "on condition that they would or broadcast, though," not be published he wrote. "Y<strong>et</strong> I sense that Çiller is trying to change scenarios suffused by ominous <strong>de</strong>signs on Turkey, authored by friend and foe alike," Civaoglu ad<strong>de</strong>d~ In a rare piece of self-criticism, however, Sabah's Cengiz Çandar, known forhis dislike of poliCies pursued by the Çiller government, opted for a stance diam<strong>et</strong>rically opposed to his fellow columnists, referring to press "Çiller Impact on headlines such NATO summit" as as "mere propaganda ma<strong>de</strong> by Turks for Turks. "As has been the case always, we've been acting tog<strong>et</strong>her to form a false ~ublic opinion (as to the <strong>de</strong>velopments), , he complained. "To me, the article concerning the Final Communique on cooperation against terrorism -- attached especial importance by Çiller -- is not as important as it has been ma<strong>de</strong> out to be," he ad<strong>de</strong>d. "For it was mentioned in previous communiques and there already exists a consensus in the international community on cooperation against international terrorism. It remains to be seen wh<strong>et</strong>her the PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party) will be affected by it," Çandar wrote. ish troops had been put on alert along the bor<strong>de</strong>r. MiIliy<strong>et</strong>'s continuation of its report on page 16, said Foreign Minister Hikm<strong>et</strong> ç<strong>et</strong>in had warned Papandreau against provocative action against Turkey. But then it quoted Ç<strong>et</strong>in as saymg there would surely arise no problems b<strong>et</strong>ween Greece and Turkey regarding Greece's oil exploration in the Aegean since it was conducting such research within its own territorial waters. The paper ad<strong>de</strong>d that Papandreau had told ç<strong>et</strong>in that relations b<strong>et</strong>ween the two countries wouldsurely improve with a solution to the Cyprus Issue. . It further quoted ç<strong>et</strong>in as saying he believed agreements on econonuc cooperation b<strong>et</strong>ween the two countries were ready to be signed. Further down in the story, the paper said Prime Minister Çiller had disclosed that Greece had reframed from bringing up the Cyprus issue during the NATO summit and that she had invited Papandreau to Turkey. The dichotomy b<strong>et</strong>ween MiIliy<strong>et</strong>'s headline and the rest of its story, too obvious to miss, goes to show that mainstream Turkish newspapers tend to publish sensational front-page items whose main bodies lack hard facts to back the claims mentioned in them. Milliy<strong>et</strong>'s claim that the Turkish Army units stationed along the bor<strong>de</strong>r with Greece had been put on alert has not been substantiated by military officials either. The daily itself admitted, further down in the report. that military officials had merely said that, liThe Turkish Armed. Forces were at all timesready for anything." MiIliy<strong>et</strong> claims Greek PM tried to blackmail Turkey On Wednesday, MiIliy<strong>et</strong>'s headline said "Blackmail on Cyprus." The spot ad<strong>de</strong>d that Greek Prime Minister Papandreau had "put the island on the agenda in r<strong>et</strong>urn for the Aegean" and that Turk- Hürriy<strong>et</strong>: Ciller asked Clinton to <strong>de</strong>al with PKK A front page headline in Hürriy<strong>et</strong> said Çiller had m<strong>et</strong> with Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Clmton to ' ask him to use his influence over Syrian authorities at an upcoming me<strong>et</strong>ing with Syrian Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Hafiz al-Assad. This with the aim of cutting off Syrian support to the PKK, fighting for an in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt state in the Turkish Southeast. It ad<strong>de</strong>d that the prime minister had also asked Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Clinton to keep Syria on the United States' list of countries terrorism. that back Hürriy~t also claimed that Çiller had 64