From: armagan@sassafras (Armagan Ozdinc)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Turkey Warns Yugoslavian Prime Minister
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:10:40 GMT
Reply-To: armagan@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems

From: mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Moghtada S Taghavi)

        ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Turkey warned Wednesday that it would seek
``other ways'' to stop attacks on Muslims by Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina
if Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic is unable to end the conflict.
        Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin told reporters Ankara ``will
request that the aggression (by the Serbs) end,'' otherwise ``there are
other ways to stop it.''
        Cetin's remarks were seen as a veiled reference to military
intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina to end what Ankara calls the massacre
of Muslims in the former Yugoslav republic.
        Turkey earlier submitted a plan to the U.N. Security Council calling
for military intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina. NATO's military
committee was discussing the plan in Brussels, officials said.
        In Tehran, a senior Iranian cleric called for a joint military force
to be set up as quickly as possible to assist the Muslims of Bosnia-
Hercegovina, the Iranian state radio said.
        Ayatollah Ahmed Jannati, who headed an emergency relief team to
Bosnia-Hercegovina, visited the republic as a representative of Iranian
spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He said the Muslims in Bosnia
were urgently in need of arms to defend themselves.
        Panic told reporters on his arrival at Ankara's Esenboga airport that
``Turkey is a leader in the region pursuing peace. Thats why I am here.
        He said the clashes between Serbs and Bosnians should be ended
through peaceful dialogue. ``Nothing can be solved by the use of arms,''
the Yugoslav prime minister said.
        Panic's trip to Ankara came two days after he held talks in Athens
with Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, who told him Greece
opposed military intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        Cetin told reporters: ``Everything leads to military intervention...
Bloodshed brings bloodshed and conflicts bring conflicts.
        Panic later met Turkish Prime Minister Sulayman Demirel and Cetin at
a working lunch.
        Turkey reportedly offered to set up a ``safe haven'' for Muslims in
Bosnia, similar to that set up last year in northern Iraq by U.S.-led
coalition forces to protect Kurds from troops loyal to Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein.
        The Turkish leaders also suggested that detention camps in Bosnia-
Herzegovina should be taken over by the United Nations.
        Earlier, reports in the Turkish media said NATO was studying three
different plans submitted by Turkey, one of which was for a permanent
NATO naval force in the Mediterranean under the command of a Turkish
captain.
        The force was intended to intervene in the former Yugoslav republic
to stop the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs.
        The reports, in the Istanbul newspapers Cumhuriyet and Milliyet,
quoted NATO sources in Brussels as saying one plan called for the use of
military units of the alliance to carry relief aid to the people of
Bosnia.
        The second plan calls for the use of a NATO naval force to strengthen
the arms embargo imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, which make up the
rump Yugoslavia, the reports said.
        The third plan calls for a lasting cease-fire to be established, and
for a NATO peace-keeping force to take control of the heavy weapons now
in the hands of Serb, Croat and Muslim militias in Bosnia-Hercegovina,
Cumhuriyet and Milliyet said.

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