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Subject: TRH News--23 Jan 93
Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:12:57 -0600
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    A service of the TURKISH RADIO HOUR, producer of:

                  TURKISH CULTURAL PROGRAM
                    Saturdays at 5:00 PM
                 KUSF FM 90.3, SAN FRANCISCO
                             and
                       ORIENT EXPRESS
                  3rd Saturdays at 6:00 PM
                  KKUP FM 91.5,  CUPERTINO

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>>>>>>>>>> ANNOUNCEMENTS

*** DONATE TO THE RED CRESCENT (KIZILAY) BOSNIA-HERZOGOVINA FUND

    The Red Crescent is soliciting donations to help the
    victims of the war in Bosnia-Herzogovina. Your donations
    can be made through Ziraat Bank

    Ask Ziraat Bank to deposit your donations to the
    following account:
        60558000433

        Ziraat Bank's New York address
        330 Madison Avenue (32nd Floor)
        New York, NY 10017
        Tel (212) 557 5612

>>>>>>>>>> UNDERWRITERS

***    The Turkish American Association of California, a
       cultural organization. For more information about
       their activities call them at: (415) 923-0562.

>>>>>>>>>> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 ***   UNIQUE DESIGNS FOR YOUR DREAM MANSION.
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       including Canada and Mexico.
       Photographs of works available. G'LUSH AND ASSOCIATES,
       1-408-379-4919. Turkce konusulur. Farsi sohbet me konem.

 *** PROGRAMIN SONUNA DOGRU SU ANONSLARI YAP:

     Tune in next week at 5:00 P.M. to the Turkish Cultural
     Program.
     Also do not forget to listen to the Azerbaijani Program
     at 2:00 P.M.
     Tune to KKUP FM 91.5 for the Orient Express on
     February 20 at 6:00 P.M.

     Tune to KPFA FM 94.1 every third Tuesday at 20:00 for
     Music from Africa-Asia, hosted by Kutay Kugay.

 *** Tuva Concert

     Feb 3           UC Santa Cruz. Call (408) 459-2857
     Feb 6           1-4 pm.  Asian Art Museum, Golden Gate
                     Park, San Francisco. Call
                     (415) 668-8921.
     Feb 9           Monterey Institute for International
                     Studies  Call (408) 647-4154.

     For information on "The Friends of Tuva" send a SASE to
     Friends of Tuva, Box 70021, Pasadena CA, 91117.

 *** THE GLORY OF THE OTTOMON EMPIRE:
     THE AGE OF THE SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

     MARCH 5-6, 1993
     HERBST THEATER, SAN FRANCISCO

     Friday, March 5, 8-11 P.M.
        Esin Atil (The Smithsonian Institution): "Court Arts
        During the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent"

        A performance by Munir Nurettin Beker of music from
        the Ottomon court

     Saturday, March 6, 10 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
        Gulru Necipoglu (Harvard University): "The Ottomon
        Imperial Image in Art and Architecture during the
        Age of Suleyman"

        Talat Halman (New York University): An Empire of
        Poetry: Suleyman as Poet and Poetry in the Age of
        Suleyman"

     Alan Fisher (Michigan State University): "The Personal
        Life of an Ottoman Sultan: Kanuni Sultan Suleyman"

     Walter B. Denny (University of Massachsetts, Amherst):
        "Court Design and the Production of Art under
        Suleyman the Magnificent"

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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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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY INOPERATIVE BECAUSE OF HIGH ABSENTEEISM
    1/18/93, CUMHURIYET-- The National Assembly cannot
convene a session as most of the MPs belonging to the ruling
coalition parties do not attend the sesions.  This has
resulted in a backlog of several hundred draft laws to be
queued up in the agenda.
    Prime minister Demirel is urging his MPs to attend the
sessions.

TURKEY PREPARING FOR A BID FOR 2000 OLYMPICS
    1/19/93, HURRIYET-- Turkish National Olympic Committee
is increasingly cooperating with the foreign ministry to
actively promote Turkey as the location of Olympics in year
2000.

53 DEAD BODIES RECOVERED AFTER AVALANCHE
    1/20/93, HURRIYET-- 53 bodies were recovered following
the deadly avalanche in Bayburt village in northeastern
Turkey.
    3 people were rescued alive, and 22 were wounded.  5
people still remain missing, and authorities have no hope of
reaching them alive.  Severe weather conditions resulted in
a delay of rescue operations causing the number of deaths to
be high.

ACID RAIN IN ISTANBUL
    1/20/93, MILLIYET-- Severe weather pollution in Istanbul
caused acid rain.  Because of the acid rain, the upper
leaves of trees in Belgrad national forest in Istanbul
dried.  Authorities cautioned the possibility of group
deaths that acid rain may cause.

INCREASED QUESTIONING OF THE RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE PRESENCE
OBSERVED
    1/20/93, HURRIYET-- The bombing of Iraq by allied forces
using jets taking off from Incirlik airbase in Turkey caused
opposition parties to severely criticize the presence of the
allied rapid deployment force in Turkey.

TWO FORMER MINISTERS TAKEN TO HIGH COURT
    1/21/93, HURRIYET-- Two former ministers of the once
ruling Motherland Party administration, Mr. Safa Giray and
Mr. Cengiz Altinkaya, are taken to high court for causing
losses of 10.6 trillion Turkish liras for highway projects.

TURKEY INCREASES MILITARY SPENDING
    1/21/93, MILLIYET-- Turkish government has increased the
spending for military projects by increasing the range of F-
16 fighters built in Turkey, and by deciding to purchase
tanker planes to refuel fighters in flight.
    Navy has also started a big modernization program.

DEMIREL MEETS SYRIAN PRESIDENT ESSAD FOR 15 HOURS
    1/21/93, MILLIYET-- Turkish prime minister Demirel and
Syrian president Hafiz Essad met for 15 hours and agreed to
negotiate the water issue on sharing the resources of Tigris
river which originates in Turkey and flows through Syria.
Both countries agreed to resolve the issue within the next
11 months.

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