From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
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Subject: Excerpts from Turkish papers
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:41:55 -0600
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FOREIGN MINISTRY BUDGET ACCEPTED
    12/22/92, CUMHURIYET--Turkish Foreign Ministry's budget
was accepted by members of the Grand National Assembly of
Turkey. Mr. Hikmet Cetin, Foreign Minister of Turkey, said
that because of Government's foreign policy in 1992
"Turkey's special place and role with respect to the World
balance was made clear to the World community".
    Mr. Hikmet Cetin added that while volume of work
increased, number of civil servants who work for the
ministry increased only from 739 to 747.
    He also mentioned that qualified people usually choose
to work for the private sector because private sector pays
higher salaries than the Foreign ministry.

SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL IS TO MEET
    12/22/92, CUMHURIYET--The Supreme Military Council will
meet under the chairmanship of prime minister Suleyman
Demirel. In the meeting which will continue for two days,
members of the council will discuss issues related to the
internal operation of the Turkish Armed Forces.
    Members of the council will visit Ataturk's mausoleum
and pay their respect to him on the second day of the
meeting.

CIVIL SERVANTS HOLD PROTEST RALLY
    12/22/92, HURRIYET--Approximately 5000 government
employees held a rally to protest not having the right to
establish unions and [insufficient] salary increases.
    20 union representatives talked with Deputy Prime
Minister Inonu on behalf of the civil servants.
    Due the protest rally, Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel
was half an hour late to the National Security Council
meeting. While getting into his car, Demirel said "Mr Inonu
invited the Union representative to talk, and they came to
see him. It is against the law to have a [protest]
activity."
    Mr Inonu said that civil servants are just entering the
era to organize. He added: "The unions are established now,
but there are still some problems. The civil servants should
be encouraged to become union members, and seek legal
enactments"

    AWARD TO OUR BUCHAREST AMBASSADOR
    12/22/92, GUNAYDIN--The Romanian newspaper Tineretul
Liberal chose Turkey's ambassador to Bucharest Yaman Baskurt
as one of the successful eight people for 1992.
    The award was given to Ambassador Baskurt "for his
contributions to strengthen and enrich amicable relations
and cooperation between Romania and Turkey".

    SUMERBANK WITH ITS "CARRIERE" IS A COMPETITOR TO LUXURY
DEPARTMENT STORES
    12/22/92, GUNAYDIN--[The oldest government textile
enterprise] Sumerbank opened its first men fashion store,
dubbed "Carriere", that will be able to compete with other
luxury stores. All the merchandise to be sold in "Carriere"
will be produced according to latest fashion designs by
Sumerbank.
    During the opening ceremonies, minister-without-
portfolio Cavit Caglar cut the ribbon with the same pair of
scissors that [founder of the Turkish republic] Ataturk used
to open Sumerbank [in 1930s].

    YOUNG BUSINESSMEN ARE PESSIMISTIC
    12/22/92, HURRIYET--The 1993 economic expectations
report of the Turkish Young Business Association (TYBA)
paints a not-so-bright view. Here are TYBA's forecasts for
1993:
    Inflation:          66 percent
    Growth:             4.1 percent
    Exports:            16 billion dollars
    1 US Dollar:        14,000 Turkish Liras
    1 German Mark:      8,800 Turkish Liras

    WE [TURKS] ARE WARRIORS OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
    12/22/92, GUNAYDIN--Turkey, the only country without a
full membership to EC, will implement the custom union [with
EC], even though the members of the Community themselves are
avoiding to implement it.

    MOST EXPENSIVE "HELLO" IN TURKEY
    12/22/92, GUNAYDIN--According to a research conducted
among the member countries of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) the most expensive
"hello" [telephone costs] is in Turkey.
    Telephone calls [also] cost several times more then they
do in developed countires.

    TURKISH REACTION TO THTORTURE ALLEGATIONS
    12/23/92, HURRIYET--A report by the Commission to
Prevent Torture of the European Council, which alleges that
"torture is practised in Turkey", has been met with surprise
in Ankara.
    The officials of the Interior Ministry said: "We told
the visiting delegation that there is no systematic torture
in Turkey, and that any individual maltreatments are
punished, and we helped them in every way, we tokk them
everywhere. Still, they have done injustice to Turkey."
    On the same subject. the Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin
said that there is no torture in Turkey, that Turkey's doors
are open to all those countries' citizens escaping from
torture, and information to this effect was given to the
delegation.

    BAYKAL TO BE IN SARAYEVO IN NEW YEAR'S EVE
    12/23/92, SABAH--The leader of the Republican People's
Party Deniz Baykal will be arriving in Sarajevo on December
29, to observe the aid given to the Bosnian people and to
see the massacres conducted by the Serbians against the
moslem people of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

    TL 700 BILLION OF FUNDS TO BE TRANSFERRED
    Aid Budget to Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic (TRNC)
    12/23/92, CUMHURIYET--Minister-without-portfolio Orhan
Kilercioglu stated that a TL 700 billion support budget is
being prepared for the TRNC, and that 130 billion of this
will be dedicated to security services.

    SADDAM ALARM IN THE CABINET
    12/24/92, HURRIYET--The Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin
informed the Cabinet that [Iraqi President] Saddam has
amassed 21 divisions to the border of the 36th parallel. "If
the 'poised hammer' forces go away, Baghdad Administration
may start an attack in Northern Iraq. This would spoil the
relations between Turkey and Iraq" Cetin said.

    LESS DETAINMENTS AFTER THE ENACTMENT OF PENAL
PROSECUTION CODE
    12/24/92, CUMHURIYET--After the enactment into law of
the [new] Penal Prosecution Code, there has been more than
500 applications from various courts and police stations for
attorneys.
    [The new code requires that a detainee have immediate
access to an attorney.]

    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS NOT ABOLISHED
    12/24/92, TERCUMAN--while "European System" is brought
to the execution of punishment in the ammendemet to the
Penal Execution Code prepared by the Justice Ministry,
capital puniushment that the European Community countries do
not have is being kept.

    FIRST SIKORKSKIES ARRIVE
    12/24/92, HURRIYET--5 of the 45 Sikorsky helicopters
purchased by the [Turkish] Gendermaire [rural police] has
arrived in Ankara.

    MITTERAND'S ISTANBUL ESCAPADE
    12/24/92, HURRIYET--French President Mittereand quitely
arrived  in Istanbul to spend his Christmas Holiday.
    Arriving in Istanbul like a tourist, but among high
security, Mitterand stayed at the Turkish Touring Club's
"Green House" in the Sultanahmet district.
    Mitterand is expected to go to a church tonight in
Istanbul to participate in mass.

    ARMS EMBARGO TO [GREEK] CYPRUS
    12/24/92, MILLIYET--The US [government] warns exporters,
and notified them that "any applications to sell defense
material or defense services to any armed groups in Cyprus
will be rejected".