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Date: 10 Jan 1993 23:10:07 -0600
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Headlines:

 TURKEY ASKS IRAQ SHOW RESTRAINT IN NO-FLY ZONE
 TURKISH OIL IMPORTS UP 8.8 PCT IN JANUARY-OCTOBER
 MOSLEMS CAN USE OIL WEAPON FOR BOSNIA, TURKEY SAYS

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 TURKEY ASKS IRAQ SHOW RESTRAINT IN NO-FLY ZONE

    ANKARA, Jan 7, Reuter - Turkey cautioned Baghdad on
Thursday against acting to heighten tension in the no-fly
zone over southern Iraq.
    "Developments that will deepen regional instability and
increase tension will not help Iraq to regain its place
among the international community," a foreign ministry
statement said.
    Iraq on Thursday rejected a Western ultimatum to remove
anti-aircraft missiles it has deployed south of the zone,
set up by the Gulf War allies to protect dissident Shi'ites
from attack by Iraqi forces.
    The United States, Britain and France on Wednesday gave
Iraq 48 hours to comply.
    The statement said "Turkey follows with concern the
escalating crisis created by the violation of the no-fly
zone."
    Turkey hosts a strike force of about 70 allied planes
and helicopters poised at a southern Turkish base to protect
northern Iraqi Kurds from Baghdad's attacks.


 TURKISH OIL IMPORTS UP 8.8 PCT IN JANUARY-OCTOBER

    ANKARA, Jan 7, Reuter - Turkey's crude oil imports rose
by 8.8 per cent in the first 10 months of 1992 to 15.84
million tonnes from 14.56 million in the same 1991 period,
the Treasury said on Thursday.
    Turkey paid $2.17 billion for the oil imports in the
period, up 7.2 per cent from the bill in January-October
1991, it said.
    Saudi Arabia was the top oil supplier to Turkey with
8.96 million tonnes worth $1.18 billion, followed by Libya
with 2.49 million tonnes worth $359.9 million.
    Turkey paid an average $18.70 per barrel for its oil in
the period, down from $19 a year earlier.
    Turkey's state run petroleum company TPAO said earlier
that the country's oil output would fall in 1993, and
therefore imports would rise to meet increasing domestic
demand.
    TPAO General Manager Okan Ozdemir said Turkey planned to
buy about 19.65 million tonnes of crude oil in 1993, up from
an expected 18.46 million tonnes in 1992.
    Turkey has targeted 4.2 million tonnes of overall oil
output this year, down from 1992's expected 4.4 million
tonnes but above the 4.45 million produced in 1991.
    Turkey plans to pay $2.5 billion for its oil bill in
1992, Ozdemir said.

 MOSLEMS CAN USE OIL WEAPON FOR BOSNIA, TURKEY SAYS

    ANKARA, Jan 6, Reuter -  Turkey believes Moslem
producers can use the oil weapon to force international
military action against Serbs in Bosnia, Foreign Minister
Hikmet Cetin was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
    "Oil is the greatest weapon at the hands of Islamic
countries. They are the oil stores of the world.  They can
use this," Cetin said in an interview with the mass-
circulation Hurriyet newspaper.
    "The Islamic countries can exert direct pressure on the
U.N. Security Council. They can display a joint position,"
he said.
    U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has said
any military moves should be held back to give peace talks a
chance.
    Bosnia's Moslem, Croat and Serbian leaders meeting in
Geneva, have postponed the talks until Sunday.
    Ankara has been urging international intervention in
Bosnia since September to break a Serbian siege of Moslems.
Cetin said last week that "the only language the Serbs will
understand is force."
    The minister said Bosnia would top the agenda at an
Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit planned
for January 11 in the Senegalese capital of Dakar.
    "A very serious resolution must be produced at the OIC
summit," he said.
    OIC states meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last month
demanded the use of force against Serbs and gave the United
Nations until January 15 to find an effective solution to
the war in Bosnia.
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