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Anadolu Agency: News in English, 00-12-18Anadolu Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Anadolu Agency Home Page at <http://www.anadoluajansi.com.tr/>Anadolu AgencyANADOLU AGENCY NEWS 18 DECEMBER 2000 Monday CONTENTS
[01] TURKEY-PRESS SCANThese are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey's press on December 18, 2000. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.HURRIYET (LIBERAL)MANY PEOPLE WANT F TYPE PRISON IN GERMANYThe Director of F type prison in Germany Mr. Rammelt told the paper that ''he didn't understand why Turks oppose the F type prison, because many people want to be in these prisons in Germany.'' He added that there are rooms for only one person or for three or eight persons in Germany, stressing that many prisoners want to stay in the rooms for only one person. AMNESTY CAN BE ADOPTED THIS WEEK MILLIYET (LIBERAL)LAST SORTIA small plane crashed during an air show in Korfez townsip of northwestern Kocaeli province, killing the pilot and a photographer aboard the aircraft. The T-34 Mentor with two seats crashed onto railway tracks, injuring two spectators among 6 thousand people watching a car rally near Korfez towship. The cause of the crash was unclear. SECURITY FORCES RAID IHD'S OFFICE IN ISTANBUL SABAH (LIBERAL)TURK: ''WARD SYSTEM CANNOT CONTINUE''Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that ward system in prisons could not continue in Turkey. When asked by a journalists whether or not a development occurred in efforts to end death fasts in prisons, Turk said, ''we expect common-sense to prevail.'' FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR KOHL IN TURKEY CUMHURIYET (LEFT)60TH DAY IN DEATH FASTNon-governmental organizations (NGOs) met with Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk yesterday, requested him to start the contacts with the inmates again and reiterate his statement saying that the opening of F type prisons has been postponed. Critical days began for those inmates who are on death fast in prisons for 60 days. LAST SHOW OF PLANE:TWO DIE RADIKAL (LEFT)CHAOS IN THE ENDEven if the request of President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to stop the execution of the law on conditional release is accepted by the Constitutional Court, this won't impede the release of prisoners. Besides the content of the law can be broadened and even those officials who tortured prisoners can be forgiven and released from prison. NOBODY OPENS DOOR OF PRISONERS YENI BINYIL (LIBERAL)TENSION IN ISTANBULWhen a group of 300 people wanted to walk to Istiklal street of Istanbul in Taksim district to protest the F type prisons, police officers intervened and the demonstrators broke the windows of the bus of rapid force. SNOW EXPECTED IN ISTANBUL LEADERS GIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPUTIES TURKIYE (RIGHT)IT'S PARLIAMENT'S TURNThe government transferred the law on conditional release from prison which had been vetoed by the President, to the MPs. Discussion on the law by the Parliamentary Constitutional Commission will start today. When the commission submits the law to the Parliament, the law will be put to vote at the Parliamentary General Assembly. However, MPs were quite confused although the leaders of the coalition government are displaying an atmosphere of harmony. The Democratic Left Party (DSP) says the law should be approved before the religious holiday that will start on December 27. MPs from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and Motherland Party (ANAP) unwillingly extend support to the decision taken at the leaders' summit. The True Path Party (DYP) says that amnesty should be removed from the agenda while the Virtue Party (FP) says the law should be re-arranged. REVOLT IN BEYCUMA PRISON UGLY DEMONSTRATION IN TAKSIM ULTIMATUM TO GREEK CYPRIOTS SHOW CLAIMS TWO LIVES ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)DENUNCIATION PROCESS CIVIL SERVANTS STARTSThe government which prepared itself to clean the state personnel from the ''fundamentalists'', rapidly continues its works to determine the faithful civil servants. Within this framework, the National Education Provincial Directorate in Bartin denounced the civil servant parents of students at the Theology High School in Bartin. The National Education Directorate revealed that children of 37 civil servants are studying at this high school, and denounced them to the Bartin Governor's Office, claiming that students and their parents committing an organized crime against the Republic and secularism. 22 STUDENTS DISMISSED A VILLAGE BURNS DOWN -EXPORTS FROM GAP REGION TO TURKISH REPUBLICS RISE 1.6 PERCENT The region had exported 36 million 288 thousand U.S. dollars of agricultural goods in the same period of 1999. According to the statistics of the Southeastern Anatolian Exporters' Association, the region exported 8 million 409 thousand U.S. dollars of grain-cereals, 63 thousand U.S. dollars of dried fruits and 28 million 414 thousand U.S. dollars of textiles in the January-November period of 2000. The GAP region exported mostly carpets, plastic sacks, flour, margarine, candies, biscuits, cakes and chocalate to the Turkish Republics, and Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan became the top three export markets of the GAP region. The region exported 13 million 457 thousand U.S. dollars goods to Uzbekistan, 8 million 333 thousand U.S. dollars products to Azerbaijan and 7 million 908 thousand U.S. dollars goods to Kazakhstan. -TRESURY TO HOLD AUCTION ON TUESDAY TO SELL ONE-YEAR DEBENTURE BONDS Tomorrow's auction of Treasury to sell 12-month (357-day) debenture bonds will be the only auction in December. The value date of these bonds is December 20, 2000 and maturity is December
12, 2001. Meanwhile, Treasury will repay 101 trillion 758.9 billion TL in domestic borrowing on December 20. The total domestic repayment by the Treasury in December will be 201 trillion 937.3 billion TL. -TAFFAREL OF GALATASARAY IS AMONG EIGHT BEST GOAL KEEPERS IN 2000 Taffarel became one of the eight candidates for the ''World Goal-Keeper of the Year'' survey presented by the IFFHS in 80 countries. Vote for the survey will continue until the end of 2000, and the top three keepers will be announced early in January of 2001. Those keepers will be awarded with a ceremony in Rotenburg city of Germany on January 8, 2001. The eight candidate goal-keepers are as follows: ''Claudio Andre Taffarel (Brazil), Fabien Barthez (France), Iker Casillas (Spain), Jose Luis Chilavert (Paraguay), Oscar Cordoba (Colombia), Oliver Kahn (Germany), Francesco Toldo (Italy), Edwin van der Sar (Netherlands). -MINIMUM WAGE TO BE 139.95O THOUSAND AS OF JANUARY 1, 2001 The Minimum Wage Determination Commission finalized its works on amount of minimum wage on Monday. It also decided to increase the gross minimum wage by five percent to 146 million 947.5 thousand TL as of July 1, 2001. -TURKISH-GREEK COOPERATION COUNCIL MEETING HELD IN ANTALYA Akżn Alptuna, the Turkish Ambassador headed the Turkish delegation and Greek Foreign Ministry's Secretary General in charge of European Affairs Elias Plaskovitis headed the Greek delegation in the meeting of the Council held in EU issues. Alptuna told the journalists that these meetings are held in every three months either in Turkey and Greece. ''The problems Greece faced in its transition process to the European Union (EU) and the mistakes done are being conveyed to the Turkish side. Officials from the Justice, Customs, Finance, Agriculture, Environment ministries and officials from the banking sector and universities participate in the meetings of the Council upon the wish of Greece. In the meetings, officials make cooperation regarding adjustment to the EU legislation and the things that must be done by Turkey to join the EU are being taken up,'' he said. The meeting was close to the press. -TWO PREFABRICATED HUTS BURNT IN DERINCE The sources said the fire started as the stove in one of the prefabricated huts overturned. The fire later spread to another prefabricated hut. No casualties occured due to the fire, but the sources said financial damage occured in two prefabricated huts due to the fire. The fire was put out by the fire brigade teams of Derince township and by the gendarme forces. The families who were living in these prefabricated huts moved to empty prefabricated huts in the region. -HISTORICAL COINS STOLEN FROM MANISA MUSEUM Muzaffer Ecemis, the Manisa Governor, told A.A correspondent on Monday that they requested the Culture Ministry to send an inspector to Manisa. They do not know how many coins have been stolen, Ecemis noted. Ecemis continued, ''the coins were locked in a cabinet. Whoever stole the coins and when these coins were stolen are not known. When the curator of the museum opened the cabinet to check the coins, he saw that some of the coins were not there.'' ''We requested the Ministry to send an inspector. The inspectors will arrive in Mugla tomorrow. The police found out that there were not any whole or damages on the walls. Efforts are underway to take fingerprints from the museum,'' Ecemis added. There were almost 20,000 gold, silver and valuable coins belonging to different areas and civilizations in the Manisa Archeology and Etnography Museum. -PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES BUDGETS OF ENERGY AND FOREIGN MINISTRIES Yasar, who spoke in the Parliamentary General Assembly as budget of the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry was under discussion, said Turkey was face to face with energy shortage today as the investements were not made in time. Ali Gebes, the MHP Konya Deputy, said 204 dams, and 339 ponds were under operation in Turkey, adding that those provided potable water of the 12 cities. Gebes asked the Konya Plateau Irrigation Project to be implemented soon. Kursat Eser, the MHP Aksaray Deputy, said Turkey should review its foreign policy and should take required measures to lift the pressures on it. Eser called on the Foreign Ministry to make self criticism, noting that the Ministry should take lessons from the past experiences, and determine its future perspective basing on these experiences. Pointing out that the European Union (EU) assumed an insincere attitute, Eser said, ''In Nice summit, an impression that Turkey's membership to the EU has been postponed for 10 years, appeared.'' Eser said Turkey was not included in the defense and security structure either, adding that ''Turkey wants to be the member of the EU in a way that will suit to it. Nobody can expect Turkey to make concessions on Cyprus for the EU full membership.'' Birol Buyukozturk, the MHP Deputy to Osmaniye, proposed regional deputyships to be established to benefit from Turkish people living abroad to promote Turkey's causes. Buyukozturk said Turkey could not be forced to submission for full membership. Ahmet Guzel, the Democratic Left Party (DSP) Istanbul Deputy, said Turkey entered to the 21st century with energy shortage, adding that Turkey's energy system is about to collapse if measures are not taken. Guzel said web pages and the factories which were equipped with the recent technology would have no use if there was not electricity. Abdulsamet Turgut, the DSP Diyarbakir Deputy, said Turkey imported 60 percent of its energy need, adding that energy investments should be continued in a planned and stable way. Tayyibe Gulek, the DSP Deputy to Adana, said the policy, carried out by Armenia together with diaspora Armenians regarding so-called genocide on Armenians, was supported by the parliaments of some friendly countries. Gulek said this policy was based on unjust and baseless allegations, and failed to reflect historical facts. Pointing out that the Armenian government should put an end to the enmity policy soon, Gulek said, ''we can never allow distortion of the history.'' Gulek said Accession Partnership Accord was adopted after being cleared off the expressions which made Turkey uneasy. She said this would open a new period in Turkish-EU relations. Gulek said the EU should fulfil its financial commitments during adjustment process. Stressing that unrealistic solutions could not be accepted on Cyprus question, Gulek said, ''we will defend our Cyprus cause carefully.'' -ISTANBUL FAIR COMPANY HAS A TURNOVER OF 14 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS IN ISTANBUL- Istanbul Fair Company, a Turkish British joint venture, had a turnover of 14 million U.S. dollars in 2000. Releasing a written statement, Keith Pitman, the General Manager of Istanbul Fair Company (ITF), said that their turnover had increased 11 percent on U.S. dollars basis when compared to 1999. Pitman noted they organized 25 fairs in 1999, and 26 fairs in 2000. Pitman added they were aiming at increasing their turnover to 18.5 million U.S. dollars in 2001. Istanbul Fair Company was established with 50-50 percent shares of ITE and CNR Fair Company. -FINAL STATEMENT OF EIGHTH NGOs SYMPOSIUM SAYS PARTICIPATION OF NGOs IN PREPARATION OF NATIONAL PROGRAM IS NECESSARY ISTANBUL- The final statement of the eighth Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Symposium emphasized on Monday that the participation of the NGOs in the preparation of the national program is necessary. The role of NGOs in European Union (EU)-Turkey integration was discussed in the symposium to which 90 NGOs had attended. The final statement said that one of the basic factors of European integration which is the final target of the EU, is democratic participation. The statement noted that Turkey should scrutinize this factor, adding that it should increase the efforts for the inclusion of the NGOs and the civilian initiatives in the EU harmonization process. The obstacles in front of the cooperation with the NGOs in the member and candidate EU countries should be lifted, the statement said. The statement added, ''the efforts to implement the better government concept in our country should be materialized by the participation of the NGOs in the implementation, follow-up and evaluation of the process. In this context, decision-makers should take into consideration that the participation of the NGOs in the preparation of the national program is necessary.'' -PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION COMMISSION SAYS The draft law foresees giving authority to the government to make some arrangements in the administrative, financial and social rights of the civil servants and some other public officials. Some deputies of the opposition parties said that the draft law should be postponed and claimed that the draft law was against the Constitution. Noting that the scope of the draft law was not clear, the deputies of the opposition parties requested that the personnel rights and economic situation of the civil servants be bettered by the law. Some deputies of the coalition parties said that the draft law complies with the Constitution. Following the discussions, the proposal of the deputies of the opposition parties for the postponement of the discussions was rejected. The draft law was found to be in compliance with the Constitution with 14 votes in favour and nine against votes. Thus, the draft law was submitted to the Parliamentary Planning and Budget Commission. The Parliamentary Planning and Budget Commission will discuss the draft law on Monday evening. -BRITISH COMPANY LAURA ASHLEY TO OPEN SHOP IN IZMIR The Laura Ashley company will open its new shop in Izmir Carrefoursa. Women's and girl's clothes, home textile, accessories, and furniture will be sold in the shop. The Laura Ashley had earlier opened two shops in Istanbul and one in southern Adana province. -PRESIDENT SEZER APPOINTS KANADOGLU AS THE Presidential Press Center told a statement that, ''President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer appointed Sabih Kanadoglu, the Chairman of the 11th Criminal
Department, among the other candidates nominated by the Supreme Court of
Appeals General Council. The decision will be valid starting as of January
21, 2001.'' A vote took place in which Savas ranked the first 153 votes. Sabih Kanadoglu got 104 votes, Atilla Bengu 83, Koparan Basal 76, and Yilmaz Alasu got 63 votes. -KANADOGLU'S CURRICULUM VITAE Kanadoglu graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1959. Kanadoglu was elected as the member of the Supreme Court of Appeals in July 19, 1984. Supreme Court of Appeals General Council elected as the Chairman of the 11th Criminal Department in December 26, 1994. Kanadoglu is married with three children. Kanadoglu will start his new post on January 21, 2001. -COEPA TO DISCUSS A REPORT ON TURKEY Uluc Gurkan, a deputy of the Democratic Left Party (DSP), will attend the meeting that will be held in Paris on behalf of Turkey. If the report is approved by the committee, it is expected to be brought to the agenda of the first part of the 2001 COEPA Ordinary Session which will be held in Strasbourg between January 22 and 26, 2001. The report is about the democracy and human rights in Turkey. -KADIKOY HEAVY CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES Agca had been extradited from Italy to Turkey. Agca attended the hearing together with his lawyers Sevki Lulecioglu and Sevket Can Ozbay. The Court Delegation decided to sentence Agca to 18 years in prison on charges of robbing a taxi and a soda factory. The delegation reduced this sentence to seven years two months, considering the sentence he served and his good conduct. The delegation also decided for the abatement of the cases, which had been opened against Agca earlier, saying that the statute of limitations in that cases had expired. The cases were about robbery of a jewellery store in Kiziltoprak and his opposition to Weapons Law no:6136.
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