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    The following news is collected from various news
    sources. None of them are written by the TRH volunteers
    except those that has "TRH" after the date. Murat Erder
    and Murat Sonmez have translated the news items from
    a daily summary of Turkish papers we get here in
    California. Our radio broadcasts usually include all of
    the articles from Turkish papers and/or some of the
    articles that follow the Turkish papers section.

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    8/27/92, MILLIYET-- Upon the latest violence in Sirnak,
President Ozal announced that the National Security Council
will meet in Diyarbakir, a city in Southeastern Turkey, to
discuss the issue. The sudden involvement of the President
came as a suprise to all sides. The National Security
Council consists of the President, the Prime Minister, the
Joint Chief of Staffs and several Cabinet members and high
ranking military officials.

DISAGREEMENT ON DEMOCRACY PACKAGE
    8/27/92, CUMHURIYET-- The democracy package, which is
being jointly presented by the two coalition parties,
suffered a setback today when representatives of the True
Path Party walked out of the Parliament during the vote on
the changes. Upon this the head of the session, delayed the
voting to a further date. During the discussions several
fights broke out between the members of Parliament.

TURKEY DISAPPOINTED WITH LONDON PEACE TALKS
    8/27/92, MILLIYET-- Turkish officials said that they
were disappointed with the Western nations' reluctance to
use force to solve the crisis in Bosnia. During the London
Peace Conference, though all participants criticized Serbia
for the bloodshed in Bosnia, Turkey was the only country to
advocate the use of force. The Turkish Foreign Minister,
Hikmet Cetin, warned that if no steps were taken to solve
the problem soon, the fighting could spread to other regions
of the former Yugoslav Republic.

UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACCEPTS MEASURE ON CYPRUS
    8/27/92, HURRIYET-- The United Nations Security Council
accepted a resolution regarding the Cyprus conflict. The
resolution was supported by the UN General Secretary, Butros
Gali. The resolution calls for the Turkish side to reduce
it's share of land from 36% to 28%. This resolution is seen
as the most important decision about the Cyprus problem
since Turkish forces invaded the island in 1974. The Turkish
side was disappointed by the vote.

TURKEY BEATS BULGARIA IN SOCCER
    8/27/92, SABAH-- The Turkish national soccer team beat
their Bulgarian opponents 3-2.

VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN SIRNAK
    8/25/92, TERCUMAN-- Violence continued today in the
Southeastern town of Sirnak as 4 soldiers were killed in
skirmishes with Kurdish workers Party (PKK) militants.
Officials announced that 26 PKK members were captured during
the same day, of which 16 were killed during the operations.

UN MEETS UPON TURKEY'S REQUEST
    8/25/92, HURRIYET-- The United Nations General Council
convened in an emergency session to discuss the Bosnian
crisis upon Turkey's request, which called the meeting as
the Chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
(OIC). Since it is held one day before the London
Conference, a binding decision is not expected to come out
of the meeting.

TURKEY LISTED AS RISKY COUNTRY
    8/24/92, MILLIYET-- According to a report published by
the World Economic Forum, among 22 developed nations Turkey
was listed as the economically most risky and politically
second most risky country. Greece was named as the
politically most risky nation. Norway and Switzerland were
respectively ranked as the economically and politically
least risky countries.

CIVILIANS LEAVING SIRNAK
    8/24/92, CUMHURIYET-- Hundreds of civilians started
leaving Sirnak as a result of the violent fighting that
broke out in the town between Turkish forces and Kurdish
Workers Party (PKK) militants. Merchants in the Southeastern
towns of Cizre, Nusaybin, Midyat, Idil and Bismil did not
open their shops upon a boycott supported by the PKK.
Merchants in Kurdish neighborhoods of the major Turkish
city, Adana also followed suit.

IRAQ ASKS FOR TURKISH SUPPORT
    8/23/92, SABAH-- The Iraqi Ambassador in Ankara,
Tikriti, met with Hikmet Cetin, the Turkish Foreign
Minister. It was stated that Tikriti gave Cetin a verbal
message from Saddam Huseyin. The message stated Iraq's
request for help from Turkey to avoid another crisis in the
region.  Cetin said that Turkey honoured the territorial
integrity of Iraq, but Iraq had to comply with UN Security
Council resolutions, regardless of what they thought about
them.

TURKEY WILL NOT SUPPORT NEW BAN ON IRAQI FLIGHTS
    8/22/92, CUMHURIYET-- Turkey announced that it will not
join the Western nations attempt to restrict Iraqi flights
south of the 32nd parallel. It is speculated that Turkey
will not allow Western forces to use the airbases to enforce
the ban.

TURKISH DELEGATION IN ARMENIA
    8/22/92, CUMHURIYET-- A high-level delegation of Turkish
officials went to Armenia to discuss the development of
relations between the two countries. This is seen as an
important visit, especially in light of the latest fighting
between Armenia and Azerbeijan.

DEATHS AND INJURIES REPORTED IN NEW AZERBAIJANI BOMBING OF
STEPANAKERT
    MOSCOW (AUG. 23) - Azerbaijani warplanes Sunday bombed
Stepanakert in the second raid on the capital of the
Armenian enclave of Nagorny Karabakh in two days.
    The local parliament said four 500-kilogram bombs were
dropped on residential areas of the city, killing at least
20 persons and trapping others under the rubble of
demolished buildings.
    On Sunday, 15 persons were killed when an SU-25 warplane
dropped a single 500-kilogram bomb on an area near a refugee
camp.
    The parliament of Nagorny Karabakh said a total of 108
persons were injured in the two raids.
    In Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defence
Ministry said its forces Saturday had recaptured three
strategically important towns from Armenian units in Agdam
district on the border with Nagorny Karabakh.
    Nargony Karabakh's large Armenian majority wants
independence from surrounding Azerbaijan.

    ARMENIA, RUSSIA CLAIMS OVER 40 KILLED IN KARABAKH
BOMBINGS
    MOSCOW (AUG. 23) - Armenian and Russian media said
Sunday that 40 people were killed in weekend bombings by
Azerbaijani planes attacking Stepanakert, capital of the
disputed Nagorno Karabakh enclave.
    There was no way to independently confirm the reports
and there was no immediate direct comment from Azerbaijan.
    Russian television showed a badly damaged building in
Stepanakert, capital of the Armenian enclave inside
Azerbaijan, and said it was a refugee hostel that had been
hit by a 1,100 pound bomb from an Azerbaijani plane Saturday
night.
    The television report showed several bodies and body
parts, with rescuers pulling victims from the rubble, and
said 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
    The Karabakh News Agency, which is controlled by
Armenians, said Azerbaijani planes continued bombing
Stepanakert residential areas Sunday. It said the bombs
caused ''extensive destruction and loss of life'' but gave
no figures.
    Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said in a statement
carried by the Russian news agency Interfax that its forces
recaptured several villages in the Mardakert district of
Nagorno Karabakh, but did not mention attacks on
Stepanakert.
    In the past each side in the conflict has exaggerated
reports of atrocities by the other, but it is generally
believed about 2,000 people have been killed in four years
of fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis for control
of the mountainous Nagorno Karabakh region.

    TURKEY COMES OUT AGAINST SO-CALLED "NO-FLY ZONE" PLAN IN
IRAQ
    ANKARA, TURKEY (AUG. 24) - Turkish Prime Minister
Sulayman Demirel said Monday Turkey would not join U.S.-led
coalition forces in enforcing a ''no-fly zone'' south of
Iraq's 32nd parallel if the objective was to partition the
country.
    Demirel told reporters at a news conference: ''If
measures are taken for the good of the people, then we are
for it. If they are for the partition of Iraq, we are
against it.''
    He was referring to a U.N. plan to set up a ''no-fly
zone'' south of Iraq's 32nd parallel in a bid to stop
attacks by Iraqi warplanes on Shiites in the area. Under the
plan, coalition aircraft would shoot down Iraqi planes
flying in the area.
    Turkey has provided an air base on its soil for
coalition aircraft enforcing a similar ''no-fly zone'' set
up last year north of Iraq's 36th parallel to protect Kurds
living in the area.
    Regional analysts said it was unlikely coalition
aircraft enforcing the ''no-fly zone'' in the south would
have taken off from a base or bases in Turkey, even if
Ankara had not opposed the plan.
    Demirel confirmed he had received a letter from British
Prime Minister John Major on the subject of the proposed
''no-fly zone'' in the south, but declined to disclose the
details.
    The United States, Britain and France have been
spearheading the plan in the U.N. Security Council.
    ''We oppose Iraqi aggression,'' the premier said. But he
added that ''Iraq cannot be wiped off the map. It will one
day become part of the rest of the world.''
    Iraq was a province of the Ottoman Empire till the end
of World War I and emerged in its present shape under a
League of Nations mandate to Britian, which lasted till
1932.
    Reports from the area said several Gulf states now want
to see Iraq partitioned three ways, into Kurdish, Sunni and
Shiite states, to reduce the threat it poses to its
neighbors. The idea was floated after Baghdad recently
renewed it claims on Kuwait.
    Demirel said Turkey went along with the West and abided
by U.N. decisions after Iraqi forces attacked Kuwait in
August 1990.
    ''Turkey suffered during the crisis and the war,'' he
said. Ankara's decision not to go along with the ''no-fly
zone'' plan should not be interpreted to mean Turkey would
not go along with U.N. resolutions on Iraq, he said.
    But ''Turkey is against any objective directed at the
territorial integrity of Iraq,'' the premier said.
    Over the past two years, Ankara has vigorously opposed
the idea of an independent Kurdish state emerging from a
break-up of Iraq. Turkey also has a large Kurdish minority,
and is fighting a rebel group vowing to set up an
independent Kurdish state in the area.
    During the weekend, Iraq's ambassador to Ankara, Rafi
Dahham Mejwel al-Takriti called on Foreign Minister Hikmet
Cetin to discuss the situation in southern Iraq.
    Cetin said after the meeting: ''It is out of the
question that Turkey would support any action directed at
carving up Iraq.''
    But Demirel said: ''Turkey is determined to uphold its
duty in the continuation of humanitarian aid and maintaining
the security'' of the Kurds in northern Iraq.
    He pledged that his government would take all measures
necessary to combat moves by the outlawed Kurdish Workers
Party, or PKK, to hamper the flow of humanitarian aid to the
Kurds of northern Iraq.
    Demirel's remarks followed reports over the past two
weeks that PKK gunmen have been holding up trucks entering
northern Iraq from Turkey with humanitarian aid for the
Iraqi Kurds.
    During the weekend, the PKK reportedly announced that it
would no longer hamper the flow of the aid.

    SEVEN TURKISH SOLDIERS DIE IN KURDISH TERRORIST ATTACK
    ANKARA (AUG. 25) - Guerrillas of the Workers' Party of
Kurdistan (PKK) stopped a bus in southern Turkey and shot
dead seven soldiers in front of the other passengers,
security officials said in Diyarbakir Tuesday.
    Three passengers were injured in Monday night's attack
near Lice between Diyarbakir and Bingol, the officials said.
    The Turkish government meanwhile called on the Kurdish
population fleeing the southeastern Anatolian provincial
capital Sirnak to return to their homes. The city was the
scene of bitter fighting last week, according to reports.
    Government spokesman Akin Gonen said no state of
emergency would be declared over Sirnak or other cities in
the province mainly inhabited by Kurds. A state of emergency
has been declared over ten other provinces in the east and
southeast of the country.

    KURDISH RADICALS ATTACK TURKISH OFFICES IN GERMANY
    HAMBURG (AUG. 25) - Radical Kurdish groups Tuesday
carried out attacks on Turkish offices in Germany, police
said, apparently in protest of recent clashes between
Turkish security forces and Kurds in the Turkish city of
Sirnak.
    Kurds ransacked a Turkish bank in Mannheim, slightly
injuring one bank employee. A small group of Kurds suddenly
appeared before the bank, smashed a plate-glass window and
destroyed the interior. Some 30 people were arrested. Police
assumed they belonged to the radical Kurdish Workers' Party
(PKK).
    Between 20 and 30 people armed with stones and bottles
attacked the Turkish Consulate General in Karslruhe. Two
policeman and one Kurdish attacker were injured.
    Several people forced their way into the building,
police said. When officers arrived on the scene, most of
them left the building people. Police briefly detained eight
people.
    Kurdish extremists lobbed a fire-bomb at the Turkish
Consulate General in the northwestern town of Muenster. The
fire-bomb did not cause much damage, and ten people were
arrested, authorities said.

    AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE DIE IN FIGHTING IN SOVIET KARABAKH
AS PEACE TALKS STALL
    MOSCOW (AUG. 26)- At least nine people were killed and
11 wounded in continued fighting in the dispute enclave of
Nagorny Karabakh, located within Azerbaijan but mainly
populated by Armenians, Nagorny Karabakh officials said.
    Azerbaijani units attacked strategically important
villages in the districts of Mardakert and Martuni with
rockets and artillery, the officials added.
    Mario Raffaelli, the Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe's chief negotiator for Nagorny
Karabakh, said after talks with Azeri President Abulfaz
Elchibey late Tuesday in Baku that the peace efforts were
deadlocked.
    Raffaelli, an Italian, is on a tour of the region to
prepare a CSCE-brokered peace conference on the conflict
planned to be held in the Belarus capital Minsk.
    Baku has insisted on the withdrawal of Armenian troops
from the enclave as a precondition for its participation in
the conference, he said. Armenia denies that it has any
troops in Nagorny Karabakh.
    Raffaelli was due to meet with the Armenian leadership
in Yerevan later Wednesday.

    UKRAINE, UZBEKISTAN TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION IN
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC MATTERS
    KIEV (AUG. 26) - UKRAINE AND UZBEKISTAN WILL STRENGTHEN
THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATE MORE IN POLITICS, ECONOMIC
MATTERS, SCIENCE AND CULTURE.
    THE PROMISE WAS MADE WHEN UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID
KRAVCHUK MET HIS UZBEK COUNTERPART ISLAM AZIM KARIMOV HERE
TODAY.
    AFTER THE TALKS, THE TWO PRESIDENTS SIGNED PRINCIPLES ON
UKRAINIAN-UZBEK RELATIONS, AND A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND
COOPERATION.
    KARIMOV LEFT HERE FOR UZBEKISTAN THIS AFTERNOON.

    GEORGIA'S GOVERNMENT LOOKING FOR AID FROM FRIENDS AND
NEIGHBORS
    TBILISI, (AUG. 26) - Disappointed with Western economic
support, Georgia is looking away from the conventional
sources of aid and investment in the west and turning direct
to more sympathetic nations, including Turkey and Germany.
    "We need help today, not in two or three years. That's a
dream. The international organizations won't help us. They
refuse to take the risk. We have to seek cooperation with
the Black Sea and Mediterranean countries," says Georgian
Deputy Industry Minister Givi Talakvadze.
    "Economic development in the former republics of the
Soviet Union is the same. It will take 5-7 years before we
reach the level of even African countries like Kenya or
Morocco," adds Foreign Minister Alexander Chikvaidze.
    "In the meantime we have to cooperate with former Soviet
republics. Western countries will not enroll us into Europe.
They won't even admit Turkey which is more advanced than us,
to the European Community," he says.
    Elections are yet to be held and renewed warfare is
threatened between the Georgian government and supporters of
deposed Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia and their
allies from the Russia-based Confederation of North
Caucasian Mountain Peoples.
    Abkhazia has vowed to wage a guerrilla war for
independence and the Confederation last week threatened to
turn the Georgian capital of Tbilisi into a "zone of
terror."
    This has made foreign companies as well as international
organizations reluctant to take risks in Georgia. Poor in
natural resources, strapped for hard currency and unable to
print its own rubles or create its own currency, the country
is thus experiencing mounting shortages.
    Neighboring Turkmenistan has raised the price of natural
gas from 1,000 rubles per 10,000 cubic meters to 5,000
rubles. Russian oil prices jumped last week from 11,000
rubles per ton to 33,000 rubles payable in hard currency.
    Scheduled flights from Tbilisi to Moscow were cut from
nine to four a day due to fuel shortages. Flights in recent
days have been sporadic. Talakvadze said they hoped to fly
one or two a day.
    "We have an economic reform program. But we can't
realize it without help from the IMF and the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development."
    He added: "We have a lot of promises and good feelings
but real aid is something else. Everybody is waiting for the
election. But we can't simply turn off the lights in
Georgia."
    Gela Charkviani, a senior aide to Georgian President
Eduard Shevardnadze, predicts that the coming winter will be
tough. "We depend on hydroelectric energy, but water levels
will drop to a degree insufficient to produce energy " he
says.
    "I have lots of friends in Holland, the United States
and even some contacts in Great Britain," says Chikvaidze, a
former Soviet ambassador. "They all say: 'Georgia is a good
market, but the situation isn't stable. Let's see what
happens after the election'" scheduled for October 11.
    While Georgians of all political stripes see the
election as a milestone, cooler heads caution that little is
likely to improve in the immediate wake of the poll.
    "Nothing will change radically in terms of the economy,"
says Charkviani, predicting that it could take up to three
years for security and stability to return to those parts of
Georgia where the local population has been demanding
independence.
    With the exception of Germany and Turkey, Western
countries have restricted their aid to humanitarian support.
A 1,000 bed hospital arrived yesterday in Tbilisi from the
United States. In addition, Washington and Turkey have
donated badly needed grain.
    "Germany sees things more realistically. It's ready to
take more risks than others," says Talakvadze. Mercedes Benz
starts building a mini van factory in Kutaissi, Georgia,
next month.
    Chikvaidze links German interest in Georgia to
Shevardnadze's role as Soviet Foreign Minister under Mikhail
Gorbachev in German reunification. And Turkey has granted
Georgia a $50 million loan on soft terms. "It's interesting
that our historical enemy Turkey is today our best friend,"
said Chikvaidze.
    Georgian efforts to earn hard currency by selling
advanced MiG and SU war planes that continue to be produced
in Georgia to countries in Asia and Latin America have so
far failed, the deputy industry minister said.
    "China has real interests, but it is also talking to the
Russians," he added. Taladvadze said he had sent out feelers
to the Arab Gulf states, but was yet to receive a response.
He hopes to visit the Gulf later this year in search of a
one billion loan.
    "We would use the loan to see if Georgia has oil or not.
It's impossible that Georgia has no oil and all the
surrounding countries do. There must be oil or some other
mineral. Something must be on this land," Taladvadze said.

    KURDISH RALLY IN BONN ENDS IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT AND
CLASHES
    BONN (AUG. 26) - Several people were injured in clashes
with security forces and one man attempted suicide during a
rally Wednesday in Bonn protesting military operations
against Kurds in southern Turkey.
    Some 4,500 supporters of the Kurdish Workers' Party
(PKK) from all over Germany protested peacefully until an
18-year-old Kurdish refugee attempted suicide by jumping
from a 30-metre-high bridge.
    Police reported earlier that the young man was killed.
    Emergency services trying to reach the man were stoned
by the demonstrators and police and special units who came
to their aid were also attacked.
    Reports did not explain why the medics were attacked or
clarify how the man came to receive medical attention, but
said doctors were trying to save his life.
    Demonstrators said that the refugee's public suicide
attempt was intended to draw attention to the plight of
Kurds in southern Anatolia.

    U.N. REPORT SAYS PRESENT DIVIDE OF CYPRUS NOT A VIABLE
OPTION
    NICOSIA, (AUG. 26) - United Nations Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali said today that maintaining the
present divide on the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus is
not a viable option, urging all involved to show the
political will to resolve the situation.
    He was citing a report drafted by a team acting under
his "good offices" and which was presented to the Security
Council today. The Council is expected to convene later this
week to discuss the 18-page document.
    Greek Cypriot government official spokesperson Akis
Fantis said his President George Vassiliou was happy with
the report. "The impartial presentation of facts and
positions of the two sides (Greek and Turkish Cypriot)
satisfies our side," he said.
    Face to face talks between Vassiliou and Turkish Cypriot
leader Rauf Denktash will resume Oct. 26 in New York.
    The report did not blame either side for failure to
reach an agreement so far, 18 years after the 1974 Turkish
invasion divided the nation, displacing some 200,000 Greek
Cypriots.
    Nevertheless, Boutros-Ghali warned the parties that the
15-member Security Council would be called on to intervene
if no agreement was reached then. "The international
community has the right to expect that the talks in October
will result in such an agreement," he said.
    In addition to the report, the Secretary General
attached a "set of ideas" to deal with all aspects of the
problem and a map offering proposals to settle the
territorial issue.
    The draft proposes the return of the towns of Varosha,
an eastern coastal tourist resort; Morphou, a north-western
citrus growing center, and more than 30 villages to their
former Greek Cypriot inhabitants.
    This would reduce the territory presently under Turkish
Cypriot rule from 37 percentt to about 28 percent. Denktash
has countered with a proposed 29 percent including Morphou,
to stay under Turkish Cypriot administration.
    Boutros-Ghali noted that these were the first
substantive discussions on the territorial adjustments. But
he added that the Turkish Cypriot side "needs to show the
necessary willingness to foresee an adjustment more or less
in line with the suggestions embodied in the set of ideas."
    He said the mapped proposals were in line with his
earlier report and would mean that "a substantial number of
Greek Cypriot displaced persons would be able to return to
their homes in the area that would come under Greek Cypriot
administration."
    On the issue of displaced persons, Boutros-Ghali
welcomed Denktash's acceptance of the principle of the right
to return and of the right to property.
    Denktash put forward a number of preconditions for the
return of the Greek Cypriot refugees, and called for a
rotating presidency to be shared between the two
communities, full equality on the executive, sovereign
rights and Turkish guarantees, including the right to
unilateral intervention.
    The 120,000 Turkish Cypriots make up only 18 percent of
the island's population but it is estimated that more than
60,000 settlers from Turkey have arrived since the 1974
invasion.  The Greek Cypriots, who enjoy a higher standard
of living and a flourishing economy, total about half a
million.
    A 180 km heavily fortified line divides the country into
a southern government-controlled area, recognized
internationally as the sole legitimate representative of the
Cyprus republic and a northern breakaway state recognized
only by Turkey.
    The illegal regime unilaterally declared independence in
November 1983. U.N. Security Council resolution 541 branded
it "legally invalid" and called on nations not to recognize
it.
    Several rounds of talks, repeated U.N. resolutions and
two high level agreements signed between Greek and Turkish
Cypriot leaders in 1977 and 1979 failed to bridge the gap
and find a settlement.
    The agreements envisage the establishment of a bi-zonal
bi-communal federation with a single international
representation with the state's territorial integrity and
independence safeguarded.
    Soon after his appointment as Secretary-General,
Boutros-Ghali began the initiative that has brought
Vassiliou and Denktash together. The U.N. head is fully
backed in his effort by the five permanent members of the
Security Council, particularly the United States and
Britain.

    TURKEY, RUSSIA TO COOPERATE IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY
    ISTANBUL (AUG. 27) - TURKEY AND RUSSIA WILL COOPERATE IN
DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND THE TWO SIDES HAVE  DISCUSSED THE
POSSIBILITY OF TURKEY  BUYING WEAPONS FROM RUSSIA, THE
"DAILY NEWS" REPORTED TODAY.
    THE PAPER QUOTED TURKISH OFFICIAL SOURCES AS SAYING THAT
THE DISCUSSIONS, HELD DURING THE  CURRENT VISIT OF RUSSIAN
STATE SECRETARY GENNADI BURBULIS TO ANKARA,  CONCENTRATED ON
PLANS TO PURCHASE RUSSIAN MADE INFANTRY GUNS, AIRCRAFT AND
HELICOPTERS.
    BURBULIS, A KEY ADVISOR TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS
YELTSIN, ARRIVED IN  ANKARA TUESDAY FOR A THREE-DAY OFFICIAL
VISIT.
    THE ISSUE  OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS IN THE ARMAMENTS
INDUSTRY FROM RUSSIA TO TURKEY WAS ALSO DISCUSSED IN THE
TALKS, SAID THE SOURCES.
    VECHISLAV MIRONOV, A MEMBER OF BURBULIS' DELEGATION,
SAID WEDNESDAY THAT "THIS TRANSACTION CAN BEGIN WITH THE
PURCHASE OF WEAPONS REQUIRED BY TURKISH GENDARMERIE FORCES.
WE CAN TAKE THIS AS A BEGINNING."
    OFFICIALS FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTRY CONFIRMED WEDNESDAY
THAT TURKEY  WAS SEEKING TO BUY WEAPONS FROM RUSSIA, SAID
THE PAPER.

    ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN SIGN MEMORANDUM ON ENDING KARABAKH
FIGHTING BY SEPT. 1
    MOSCOW (AUG. 27) - The foreign ministers of Armenia and
Azerbaidjan signed a memorandum Thursday on ending all
fighting in the disputed enclave of Nagorny Karabakh by
September 1.
    Foreign Minister Rafi Ovanisyan of Armenia and his Azeri
counterpart, Tofik Gacymov, had met Thursday in Alma Ata in
talks mediated by President Nursultan Nazarbayev of
Kazakhstan.
    The meeting was temporarily attended by Nazarbayev, who
told delegates that the conflict ''must be settled on the
basis of universally accepted principles and norms of the
United Nations, on the basis of the Human Rights
Declaration''.
    Earlier, Azeri air strikes against Nagorny Karabakh
reportedly claimed six lives.
    The ITAR-TASS news agency said 20 other people were
wounded in the strikes, on the outskirts of the capital
Stepanakert.
    In response, authorities began evacuating people from
major residential neighbourhoods to outlying villages to
increase safety from continuing bombing raids.
    The U.N. Security Council also called for a ceasefire in
Nagorny Karabakh. A statement issued Wednesday said all
parties to the conflict should support the Nagorny Karabakh
peace talks that the Conference on Security and Cooperation
in Europe is planning to sponsor in the Belarussian capital
Minsk.

    AT LEAST 14 PEOPLE DIE AS AZERBAIJANI AIR FORCE BOMBS
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    YEREVAN (AUG. 28) - Azerbaijani air force planes Friday
bombed a column of refugees in the embattled enclave of
Nagorny Karabakh, killing at least 14 and wounding 43,
Nagorny Karabakh officials said.
    Two more people were killed and three wounded in
Azerbaijani artillery attacks on villages in the district of
Mardakert, Nagorny Karabakh parliamentary officials said.
    The refugees were attacked as they were walking on the
road between the enclave's capital Stepanakert and Shusha.
    The mainly Christian Armenian population in Nagorny
Karabakh, which belongs to Azerbaijan, wants to break away
and join the republic of Armenia.
    The defence ministry in the Azerbajani capital Baku said
the border districts of Agdam and Sangelan came under rocket
fire from Armenian Nargorny Karabakh units overnight. It
said Armenian units also used helicopters in the attack.
There was no initial report of casualties.
    Late Thursday Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed on a
ceasefire in the fighting due to take effect on September 3.
    The truce agreement, brokered by Kazakhstan, was signed
in the Kazakh capital Alma Ata by the foreign ministers of
both republics.
    Presidents Leon Ter-Petrosyan of Armenia, Abulfaz
Elchibey of Azerbaijan and Nursultan Nazarbayev of
Kazakhstan will meet soon to decide on the provisions of the
truce.

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