From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: NEWS FROM TRH--PART I
Date: 15 Aug 92 18:43:00 GMT
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GOVERNMENT STOPS STRIKE ON UPON HEALTH CONCERNS

     8/13/92, CUMHURIYET-- The Cabinet delayed the strike of
municipal workers in most major cites for two months. The
decision was made upon concerns that uncollected garbage
piles in most cities were becoming hazardous to public
health.

UNIVERSITIES TO START NIGHT CLASSES
     8/13/92, MILLIYET-- The Turkish Minister of Education,
Koksal Toptan, announced that universities will start giving
night classes starting this year. About 50 thousand students
are expect to participate in the program, whose tuition will
range from 7 - 10 million Turkish Liras.

YUGOSLAV PRIME MINISTER IN ANKARA
     8/13/92, HURRIYET, SABAH-- Milan Panic,the American
businessman who recently became the Prime Minister of the
Yugoslav Republic, arrived in Turkey in an effort to deter
the Turkish government's insistence for a military
intervention in Bosnia.
    Panic, who came to Turkey on his own will, received a
cold reception from Turkish officials.  After meeting with
Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, Panic announced
that he had accepted the independence of Bosnia and was
willing to hand over heavy artillery to United Nations
forces.
    Panic also guaranteed the safe delivery of humanitarian
aid to Sarayevo. Turkish officials said that they were
content with Panic's announcements, but were skeptical about
the Prime Minister's influence on the Serbian government.

CYPRIOT LEADERS MEET IN NEW YORK
     8/13/92, MILLIYET-- After weeks of controversial
statements and negotiation the Turkish and Greek Cypriot
leaders go together in New York.
    During the meeting, Denktas and Vasiliu, discussed
immigration and land issues. The leaders are expected to
start negotiating on the Constitution in September.
    It is speculated that the UN General Secretary, Butros
Gali, is planning to have a summit of the Cypriot leaders
together with the Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers in
September.

TURKISH-RUSSIAN ARMS TRADE
     8/13/92, MILLIYET-- In the first agreement in 40 years,
Turkey will buy arms from Russia. In the first stage of the
300 million dollar agreement, Turkey will purchase 20
helicopters and Armed Personnel Carriers (AMC). Turkish
military experts state that the Russian equipment is as good
as Western helicopters, but are priced at one third the
value.

MINISTER WARNS STUDENTS GOING TO THE CIS
     8/12/92, MEYDAN-- The Minister of Education warned
Turkish students who are planning to study in the
Confederation of Independent States (CIS), against possible
fraud and collapse of the education system in the former
Soviet Republics.

US UNEASY ABOUT TURKISH-AZERBEIJANI RELATIONS
     8/12/92, MILLIYET-- The visiting Foreign Minister of
Azerbeijan, Kasimov, said that the United States had
officially warned Azerbaijan against possible military
cooperation with Turkey.
    Kasimow stated that the US was uncomfortable with the
improving relations between the two countries. During his
visit Kasimov and his Turkish counterpart signed agreements
to facilitate the opening of Consulates in both countries.

AUTOMOBILE PRICE INCREASES TWICE AS INFLATION
     8/12/92, TERCUMAN-- While the inflationrate during the
first six months of the year was 28%, car prices went up 50
to 60 %.

TWO NEW PROVINCES IN TURKEY
     8/12/92, CUMHURIYET-- Ardahan and Igdir were declared
as the 75th and 76th provinces of the Turkish Republic in
ceremonies attended by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel and
the President of Nahchevan, Haydar Aliyev. Both of the
provinces are in the Northeast of the country.

JOURNALIST KILLED, HIGH TENSION IN THE SOUTHEAST
     8/11/92, CUMHURIYET-- Huseyin Deniz, the Ceylanpinar
correspondent of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, died in the
hospital after being shot in the head the previous day. This
is sign of increasing violence against journalists in the
troubled area.
    Tension was high in the region as security forces
expected demonstrations in support of the Kurdish Workers
Party (PKK).
    In two separate incidents, 12 soldiers were killed in
PKK ambushes.

INTEREST RATES GOING DOWN
     8/11/92, YENI GUNAYDIN-- The decrease in Treasury bonds
and inflation has prompted commercial banks to reduce the
interest rates they charge. It is expected that interest
rates will go down to 60%.

AYTEKIN KOTIL IS DEAD

     8/10/92, HURRIYET-- Aytekin Kotil, a prominent
politician in the Turkish left, passed away at the age of 58
in Istanbul. Kotil was the mayor of Istanbul between 1977-
1980 and was member of the Parliament as a representative of
the Social Democratic Party.

EXPLOSION IN FACTORY KILLS 32
     8/09/92, MILLIYET-- An explosion in a textile factory
in Tekirdag, resulted in 32 dead and 84 wounded workers. The
explosion was caused by gas build up below the water tank of
the factory.

PKK ATTACK ON CIZRE
     8/09/92, HURRIYET-- Members of the Kurdish Workers
Party (PKK) launched an attack on government buildings in
Cizre, a major town in Southeastern Turkey. The attack
lasted about three hours.

LIBRARY OF THE PARLIAMENT CONNECTED TO EUROPE
     8/09/92, SABAH-- The Turkish Parliamentary Information
Center, was connected with the British and European
Parliaments via a computer network. The link enables
participants to examine each others records quickly and
efficiently.

1-900 NUMBERS POPULAR IN TURKEY
     8/08/92, HURRIYET-- In the last 8 months callers have
spent close to 1 trillion Turkish Liras ( US $ 143 million )
on 1-900 numbers, which charge users for the services and
information they provide. The sex numbers were recently
cancelled upon protests.

TURKISH TV IS UP TO 10 CHANNELS
     8/08/92, SABAH-- With the addition of the new "Channel
6", the number of channels available on Turkish TV increased
to 10. While 6 of the channels are public, 4 are operated by
private companies.

EXPLOSION AT TURKISH FACTORY KILLS AT LEAST 31 WORKERS,
INJURING 64 OTHERS

ISTANBUL (AUG. 8) - Turkish authorities were investigating
Saturday the cause of an explosion at a textile factory in
the northwestern city of Corlu which killed at least 31
persons and injured 64.

The disaster could have been caused by an exploding pipeline
for natural gas or by exploding methane gas that might have
collected in water caverns beneath the factory canteen,
authorities said. First reports said that canisters of
cooking fuel exploded.

About 100 workers were eating lunch in the canteen when the
explosion struck. Most victims drowned when the floor
collapsed and they fell into the water storage cavern.
Provincial Governor Senmol Engin said an act of sabotage
could be ruled out.

FIGHTING SPREADS TO ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJAN BORDER REGION

MOSCOW (AUG. 9) - Armenia accused the neighboring republic
of Azerbaijan of seizing some of its territory Sunday as
fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave moved to
an unconnected border region.

The spotlight on the fight over Nagorno-Karabakh - a
province inside Azerbaijan where Armenians are battling for
independence - shifted to northwest Azerbaijan where Azeri
units allegedly seized Armenian territory.

Armenian news reports said Azerbaijani units seized control
of about 18 square miles of Armenian territory. Azerbaijani
officials could not be reached to respond, but issued an
unexplained statement saying that following a ''successful
military operation,'' the Azerbaijani border with Armenia
had been ''restored.''

The fighting in that border region of northwestern
Azerbaijan and northeastern Armenia claimed 18 lives,
according to Russian news accounts.

Azerbaijanis supposedly seized the town of Artzavashen on an
island of Armenian land just inside Azerbaijan, the Armenian
reports said.

Armenia President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, accusing Azerbaijan
of occupying the town and surrounding lands, called upon
Armenia's collective security partners for help, according
to Russian television news.

The newscast said Ter-Petrosyan sent telegrams to leaders of
the other former Soviet republics who recently signed a
security pact, asking them to live up to the agreement to
use political or military means to protect a member.

Armenia joined six other members of the 11-nation
Commonwealth of Independent States, including Russia, in the
collective security agreement, which Azerbaijan did not
sign.

But while mostly Christian Armenia sought to focus attention
on what it said was an outright seizure of its land by the
mostly Muslim republic of Azerbaijan, fighting raged in and
around Nagorno-Karabakh.

That enclave located inside Azerbaijan is dominated by
ethnic Armenians, who have declared independence. That
triggered an undeclared war between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-
Karabakh's Armenian residents with backing by the Armenian
republic.

Both sides were reporting losses in battles over Nagorno-
Karabakh, where control of territory has been traded back
and forth.

Azerbaijan accused Armenia of shelling Nakhichevan, an
Azerbaijani province cut off from the rest of the country by
Armenian territory. Shelling also was reported along an
Azerbaijani corridor that links Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.

Russia's efforts last week to stop the fighting south of its
border failed just as numerous concerted past cease-fire
attempts by other countries, notably Iran to the south, also
have been unable to end the hostilities.

The protracted Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has claimed
more than 2,000 lives and has escalated since the collapse
of Soviet central power. The enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh


ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH
DURING LATEST OFFENSIVE

YEREVAN (AUG. 9) - ANOTHER AZERI AIRCRAFT WAS SHOT DOWN OVER
NAGORNO-KARABAKH ON FRIDAY EVENING DURING THE ATTEMPTED
AZERI OFFENSIVE ON MAGAVUZ AND MOKHRATAG SETTLEMENTS OF THE
MARDAKERT DISTRICT, THE HEADQUARTER OF THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH
SELF-DEFENCE FORCES INFORMED ARMENPRESS.

IN ADDITION TO THE AIR FORCE, OVER THIRTY TANKS AND OTHER
MODERN ARMOURED VEHICLES TOOK PART IN THE CAPTURE OF THESE
SETTLEMENTS. ARMENIAN UNITS SUCCESSFULLY BEAT BACK THE
ENEMY'S ATTACK, INFLICTING HEAVY LOSSES IN MEN AND MATERIAL.

SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE AZERI SIDE FROM THE AGDAM AREA SUBJECTED
TO MASSIVE ARTILLERY FIRE MARTUNI DISTRICT CENTRE AND
BERDASHEN AND NORSHEN SETTLEMENTS WHICH ARE LOCATED IN THE
SOUTH-EAST OF NAGORNMO-KARABAKH.


AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER TOFIK GASYMOVE IN TURKEY FOR
THREE-DAY VISIT

ANKARA (AUG. 10) - The foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Tofik
Gasymov, arrived in Ankara Monday on a three-day visit to
Turkey during which he will discuss bilateral relations and
the conflict in Nagorny Karabakh, reports said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin said his country would
provide ''all possible aid'' to Azerbaidjan during its
period of transition.

Cetin said the two sides would discuss the conflict in
Nagorny Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaidjan.

Gasymov will also prepare the September visit by Azeri
President Abulfaz Elchibei, during which the two countries
will sign a protocol on economic cooperation and banking and
the opening of an Azeri embassy in Turkey, the ITAR-TASS
news agency reported from Baku.


KURDISH REBEL ATTACKS LEAVE NINE DEAD, INCLUDING JOURNALIST,
IN TURKEY

ANKARA, TURKEY (AUG. 10) - Nine people were killed when
Kurdish separatist guerrillas attacked a police checkpoint
and a village in southeastern Turkey, reports from the area
said Monday.

In Ceylanpinar, near the Iraqi border, an unidentified
gunman shot and killed a reporter as he was leaving his
home, making him the ninth journalist murdered under
mysterious circumstances in the area this year.

The semi-official Anatolian News Agency said gunmen from the
outlawed Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, late Sunday shot and
killed six paramilitary rural police, at a checkpoint in
Eruh, some 540 miles southeast of Ankara.

Three civilians died in Pervari, a village near Siirt, when
PKK gunmen set fire to their home while they were still
inside, the news agency said. The PKK is seeking to set up
an independent state for Turkey's estimated 10-million
Kurdish minority.

Huseyin Deniz, 41, a reporter for the newspaper Ozgur-
Gundem, was shot in the head with a pistol as he left his
home in Ceylanpinar, 450 miles southeast of Ankara. He died
later in hospital.

Deniz was the ninth Turkish journalist assassinated in
southeastern Turkey this year. The murders began in
February, when Halit Gurgen, a reporter for the weekly
''2000s Dogru'' was shot and killed in his office in
Diyarbakir.

No group has claimed responsibility for the killings, but
Hezbollah, a shadowy Islamic fundamentalist group, has come
under suspicion in the Turkish press.

There was speculation that the security forces may be
cooperating with Hezbollah, or turning a blind eye to the
killings, because the journalists shot were sympathetic to
the Kurdish separatists.

But Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin strongly denied any state
involvement in the killings. There was also no direct
evidence that Hezbollah was responsible for any of the nine
murders.

Turkish analysts said Hezbollah was strongly opposed to PKK,
a Marxist-Leninist group, and there was evidence of
bloodletting between the two groups.

This apparently fed speculation that the Islamic group was
responsible for killing journalists sympathetic to the
separatists.

In one recent attack, PKK gunmen entered a village in
southeastern Turkey, went straight to the local mosque,
ordered out people praying there, and shot them dead. Later
reports said the mosque was suspected of being a Hezbollah
center.

Other murders, in which people were ordered out of buses and
other vehiclesand shot dead on the highways, also have been
attributed to the PKK-Hezbollah feud.


ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN CONFLICT WORSENS AFTER ATTACK ON VILLAGE
BY AZERI FORCES

MOSCOW (AUG. 10) - Azerbaijan justified its weekend attack
on Armenian territory as the conflict between the two
neighbors worsened Monday.

Azerbaijan acknowledged Armenian charges that its Azeri
militia seized an Armenian village and the surrounding land
but reports from Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, said the
attack was warranted to stop Armenia from using the town as
a base for shelling Azerbaijani villages.

While Armenia pressed the Commonwealth of Independent States
for help, refugees from predominantly Russian villages in
Azerbaijan who have become innocent victims of the conflict
appealed to the United States to help stop the fighting in
the southern Caucasus Mountain region south of Russia.

The cross-border battles between Azerbaijan and Armenia
shifted attention away from their long-running fight over
Nagorno-Karabakh, the province of Azerbaijan where the
Armenian majority has declared independence in a conflict
that has killed more than 2,000.

Fighting continued in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in central
Azerbaijan, but the spotlight suddenly moved to northwest
Azerbaijan with the Baku government capturing an island of
Armenian land just inside Azerbaijani territory.

Armenia said Azerbaijan seized 18 square miles of its
territory, including the town of Artsvashen.

Azerbaijani presidential spokesman Niyazi Ibragimov said,
''The Azerbaijani army, guided by a constitutional duty to
defend the population, drove Armenian militants from the
village which they had turned into a military base.''

Ibragimov alleged that Armenians in the village had been
shelling Azerbaijani towns. He charged that Armenian forces
were carving a land corridor from the Armenian republic
across Azerbaijan to this enclave of Armenian territory
inside Azerbaijan. He said Azerbaijan moved to stop the
Armenian actions, according to the Russian Itar-Tass news
agency.

Armenia reported 32 killed, including civilians, in the
attack, and said 2,000 Armenian refugees fled their
Artsvashen homes. Thousands of others fled five
predominantly Russian villages caught in the crossfire. Some
of these Russian refugees demonstrated at the U.S. Embassy
in Baku seeking American help to stop the fighting.

Armenia appealed for help to six other C.I.S. states that
recently signed a collective security agreement - which
includes Armenia but not Azerbaijan -and implyied that
unless it gets the help, it may reconsider its place in the
alliance.

''If the C.I.S. member-countries ignore these messages,
Armenia's attitude toward the Commonwealth will change for
the worse,'' Armenian presidential spokesman Ruben Shugaryan
told a briefing Monday, one day after Armenia urged C.I.S.
members to live up to their security pact.

Armenia President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said the Azerbaijani
''attack must be qualified as the beginning of an undeclared
war.''

Ibragimov replied, ''The Azerbaijani leadership had
repeatedly warned against turning Bashkent (the Azerbaijani
name for the captured town of Artsvashen) into a nest of
terrorism and aggression. Therefore, the statement by the
Armenian president only deceives the world community.''

Armenia accused Azerbaijan of annexing Armenian territory
and said in a statement, ''Armenia reserves the right to
take the necessary measures to defend the integrity of its
territory and ensure the safety of its people.''

''An act of aggression has been committed against a state, a
member of the C.I.S. and of the collective security
system,'' Ter-Petrosyan said, urging C.I.S. members to
''fulfill their obligations as regards the republic of
Armenia, making use of political, military and other methods
to prevent war.''

Lt. Gen. Valery Manilov, a C.I.S. military spokesman, told
the Izvestia newspaper, ''Armenia, as a C.I.S. member who
signed the treaty on collective security, has the right to
turn for help and to expect to get it.'' But he also said,
''As far as I know, the treaty has not taken effect.''

He also noted that political methods had to be exhausted
first.

Attempts by Russia, Iran, and Europe to negotiate a
political solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have
failed with fighting between predominantly Christian Armenia
and mostly Moslem Azerbaijan now spreading to border regions
far removed from Nagorno-Karabakh.


RUSSIAN OIL RE-EXPORTED TO TURKEY FOR $120 PER TON

TBILISI (AUG. 11) - TWO TANKERS WITH RUSSIAN OIL WHICH WAS
PURCHASED FOR THE OIL-PROCESSING PLANT IN BATUMI /GEORGIA/
DELIVERED THE FUEL TO TURKEY, TASS LEARNED FROM SEVERAL
RELIABLE SOURCES ON TUESDAY. THE OIL WHICH WAS PURCHASED IN
RUSSIA FOR SIX THOUSAND ROUBLES A TONNE WAS RE-EXPORTED FOR
120 U.S. DOLLARS A TONNE, THE SOURCES  SAID. OFFICIAL
GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES DENY THE DEAL.

HOWEVER, MANY GEORGIAN COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES PROFIT BY RE-
EXPORTING RUSSIAN RAW MATERIALS. THUS THE "ALU-SAKARTVELO"
JOINT GEORGIAN-GERMAN COMPANY SPECIALISED IN RESELLING
RUSSIAN-MADE ALUMINIUM FOR HARD CURRENCY.

THE SARPI BORDER CHECKPOINT NEAR BATUMI, THE CAPITAL OF
ADZHARIA, IS THE MAIN OUTLET FOR RUSSIAN RAW MATERIALS AND
GOODS TO TURKEY AND THE BALKANS. TIMBER, NON-FERROUS METALS,
HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES ARE EXPORTED THROUGH THE CHECKPOINT AND
SOLD FOR PRICES CONSIDERABLY LOWER THAN THE WORLD ONES.


TURKEY, AZERBAIJAN SIGN COOPERATION PROTOCOL TO CEMENT
RELATIONS

ANKARA (AUG. 11) - Turkey and Azerbaijan Tuesday signed a
protocol on cooperation between the two foreign ministries
and an agreement on consular relations.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin said Turkey was
helping Azerbaijan to set up its foreign service.

Citizens of both countries were no longer required to go to
the Russian Embassy in Ankara to settle formalities,
Azerbeijani Foreign Minister Tevfik Kasimov said.

An Azerbaijani consulate-general would be opened in Istanbul
and a Turkish consulate-general in the autonomous Azeri
republic of Nakhichevan, he said. The two countries were
also expected to sign agreements on Turkish assistance in
training Azerbaijani economic experts.

Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elchibey is planning to visit
Turkey to sign another 16 agreements on political, economic
and cultural relations between the two countries, the two
ministers said.


EIGHT KURDS, ONE TURK KILLED IN FIGHTING IN SOUTHEASTERN
TURKEY

DIYARBAKIR (AUG. 11) - Eight Kurdish separatists and one
soldier were killed in fighting in the southeastern
provinces Sirnak and Siirt, a spokesman for Turkish security
forces said Tuesday.

In addition to those killed Monday, 35 people were arrested
on suspicion of spreading separatist propaganda and taking
part in illegal demonstrations.

Meanwhile there was no new information from security forces
about the army's latest offensive against the Marxist
guerrillas of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) in the east
Anatolian provinces Bitlis and Van.

Turkish press reports said that both the army and the air
force were involved in the fighting and were inflicting
heavy casualties on the PKK.

Top security measures in the provincial capital Diyarbakir
remain after it was sealed off completely for nine hours
Monday. Journalists in the city report that all people
leaving or entering are being subjected to strict security
controls at road blocks.

The PKK launched its guerrilla war for a separate Kurdish
state in Turkey on August 15, 1984.

Meanwhile in Ankara, a representative of the Iraqi
Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK) said PKK guerrillas were
interrupting the flow of supplies from Turkey to Kurdish
areas in Iraq.

Since July 22, trucks en route to Kurds in Iraq via the
border control point at Habur were being stopped and their
drivers threatened, Safin Dizai said for the DPK.

This blockade was harming the Kurdish people and turning the
PKK into little more than a stooge of Baghdad leader Saddam
Hussein, Dizai said.

Dizai appealed to the Turkish government to do all it could
to secure the safety of trucks travelling to northern Iraq
where the blockade was causing a shortage of food, medicine
and consumer goods that had triggered enormous price
increases.

The PKK blockade would not alter Iraqi Kurds' rejection of
its "separatist terror", Dizai said.

Some 500 trucks crossed the Habur check-point daily before
the blockade.
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