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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
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    the articles from Turkish papers and/or some of the
    articles that follow the Turkish papers section.

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TURKISH TROOPS IN KISAN VALLEY

     11/05/92, TURKIYE-- Turkish military sources said that
Turkish troops had advanced to Kisan Valley, the last
unoccupied area in the region of Haftanin in Northern Iraq.
During the fighting 17 members of the Kurdish Workers' Party
(PKK) were killed.
    In separate operations inside Turkey, five PKK
terrorists were killed in Ardahan and Diyarbakir.

TURKISH LEADERS REFLECT ON US ELECTION RESULTS
     11/05/92, HURRIYET-- President Turgut Ozal and Prime
Minister Suleyman Demirel sent congratulatory telegrams to
President-Elect Bill Clinton. Before the election both
Turkish leaders had given public speeches in which they
expressed their support for President Bush.
    Minister of State, Cavit Caglar, is being sent to the
United States to establish contact with the new government.

NO DEVELOPMENTS IN CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS
     11/05/92, CUMHURIYET-- Greek and Turkish Cypriots have
not been able to agree on any of the constitutional issues
discussed during the third round of the Cyprus negotiations
in New York. Both sides agreed to move on to issues dealing
with the executive branch of the federation after they could
not resolve any of the disputes on the judicial and
legislative systems.
    Negotiations on land disputes are expected to be held
towards the end of the week.

VANCE AND OWEN IN ANKARA
     11/05/92, CUMHURIYET-- The co-chairmen of the Geneva
Conference, Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, came to Ankara to
meet with Turkish officials to discuss the crisis in Bosnia.
Both Vance and Owens said that they supported a political
solution over a military one. They emphasized the difficulty
of military action and added that there was little support
for military intervention among major powers.

INFLATION ON THE RISE
     11/05/92, MILLIYET-- In October consumers prices
increased 7.6%, which resulted in a yearly increase of
69.2%. This is a sign that the government has been
unsuccesful in its attempt to curb inflation.

TURKISH SOCCER IN EUROPEAN CUPS
     11/05/92, HURRIYET-- Among the three Turkish teams in
the second round of the European Cup competitions, only one
was able to advance to the third round. Galatasaray beat
Germany's Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 and advanced to the next
round.
    In a humilating defeat Fenerbahce lost to their Czech
opponent, Sigma, 7-1.
    Even though Trabzonspor managed to tie Atletico Madrid
in Spain, they were eliminated since they had lost in
Turkey.

RELIGOUS PARTY'S STRONG SHOWING IN LOCAL ELECTIONS
     11/03/92, MILLIYET-- The strong showing of the right-
wing religous Refah Party in the recent local elections is
being discussed in political circles.
    The party gathered 21.4 % of the total vote cast in a
limited number of districts. While Refah Party members are
jubilant and have asked the government to resign, the
coalition members, the True Path Party (DYP) and Social
Democratic Peoples Party (SHP), emphasize the fact that they
have not lost any votes and the elections were in only a few
local districts.
    The opposition Motherland Party (ANAP) was the party
that saw its voter base erode the most. It is expected that
ANAP will have a convention quite soon to resolve the defeat
in these elections.

TURKISH TANKS IN NORTHERN IRAQ
     11/03/92, CUMHURIYET-- As part of the recent offensive
of the Turkish military against the Kurdish rebels, 50
Turkish tanks have been stationed in the Batufa region.
    It was announced that the tanks will stay in the area
until the operation is over.
    Meanwhile, the commander of the multinational force in
Northern Iraq said that his troops were staying out of the
conflict.

GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN TURKEY
     11/03/92, MILLIYET-- The German Defense Minister's one
day visit to Turkey failed to resolve the disagreement
between the two countries regarding the usage of German arms
in Turkey's fight with the Kurdish rebels.
    During his unplanned visit, Volker Ruhe, met with
President Ozal, Prime Minister Demirel and top level
military officials.
    Even though the two sides could not resolve all issues,
it was announced that they would continue their
communication efforts.

AZERBIEJANI EMBASSY IN ANKARA
     11/03/92, TURKIYE-- The embassy of the Republic of
Azerbeijan was officially opened in a ceremony attended by
the Presidents of Azerbeijan and Turkey. The Republic had
previously been represented in Ankara from 1918 to 1920,
when the Bolshevik forces overtook Azerbeijan.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS
     11/02/92, MILLIYET-- Local elections were held in a
limited number of districts around Turkey. While the
coalition member True Path Party (DYP) and the Social
Democratic Peoples Party (SHP) were successful in the
elections in Anatolia, opposition parties, especially the
right-wing religous Refah Party (RP), won in Istanbul. RP
ended up with four municipalities in Istanbul.

TURKIC REPUBLICS GET TOGETHER IN ANKARA
     11/01/92, SABAH-- Presidents of Kazakhistan,
Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Turkmenia and Azerbeijan were all in
Ankara attending the celebrations for the founding of the
Turkish Republics.
    Afterwards the leaders stayed on to participate in what
was termed as the Ankara summit. The summit ended with a
joint declaration signed by all participants, that stressed
the importance of relations between the countries and
supported further cooperation in the future. However, the
countries failed to sign an economic treaty.
    Turkish diplomats said that most of the Central Asian
Republics were very cautious before signing any agreements.

TURKEY BEATS SAN MARINO IN SOCCER
     10/29/92, HURRIYET-- The Turkish national soccer team
beat San Marino 4-1 in Turkey. This kept Turkey's hopes
alive for participating in the World Cup in 1994.

TURKEY, IRAN DOWNPLAY RIVALRY FOR INFLUENCE IN EX-SOVIET
REPUBLICS
    TASHKENT (OCT. 30) - Turkey and Iran are downplaying
their rivalry for influence in the ex-Soviet republics of
Central Asia and say they want to help the new nations get
back on their feet.
    When the Central Asian republics became independent a
year ago, the West was wary of what it saw as the threat of
Iran trying to spread radical Islam to the Muslim countries.
    So it promoted the "Turkish model" -- a secular formula
that encouraged foreign investment and economic growth.
    But Turkish and Iranian officials have denied they are
promoting any prototypes in Central Asia, and both say their
interest is to push for closer economic and cultural ties.
    "We share a common history, a common language, a common
religion and a common culture," said Turkish Prime Minister
Suleyman Demirel. "We are cousins cut off from each other
for over 100 years, first by the Russians under the Czars
and then by the Communists."
    As if to underscore their common purpose, Demirel
visited Tehran last week --the first visit to Iran by a
Turkish leader since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.
    Demirel added: "We are not going to run (the Central
Asian republics), they will have to run it themselves... We
are not going to impose on them our model."
    Most of the languages in Central Asia, including Kazakh,
Azeri, Tartari, Turkman, Kirghiz and Uighur have close
linguistic affinity to Turkish. Tajik is related to Persian
and is now even written in Arabic script.
    Iran's role in Central Asia has been more low key
compared to Turkey, and in contrast to earlier times Tehran
has confined its forays to economic and cultural interests
and abstained from even mentioning a political role for
Islam.
    "Iran is first keen to dispel the notion about so-called
Islamic fundamentalism, and the export of Islam, which is
what the West is keen to label us with," one Iranian
ambassador in the region told IPS in an interview.
    "We want to foster our cultural affinity and emphasize
economic ties," he added.
    If there is any contest at all between Iran and Turkey,
it seems to be over the air waves.
    Turkey has started Turkish language television
broadcasts via satellite which run for three hours at prime-
time every evening and can be seen all across Central Asia.
    Iranian radio is beaming broadcasts in Uzbek, Tajik and
Azeri languages, and soon plans to start broadcasting in
Kirghiz.
    On the diplomatic front, Turkey has been quick to set up
embassies in all Central Asian states. In Kazakhstan, the
government gave its spacious former foreign ministry office
to Turkey to set up its embassy -- a measure of the
importance it gives to Ankara.
    Turkey has already provided financial assistance and
credits worth over $350 million to the region, and other
help in tourism and economic management.
    Most countries in the region (except Kazakhstan) are now
full members of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
which was set up by Turkey, Iran and Pakistan.
    Central Asian officials have also made it plain that
after emerging from seven decades of communism, they are in
no mood to accept another economic "model" by another
overlord.
    At a recent conference of Education Ministers of Turkic-
speaking countries in the Kirghiz capital, Bishkek, most
resented the presence of the Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus and did not accept its credentials despite Turkey's
insistence.
    Quietly, Iran is trying to integrate itself into the
emerging region by establishing the Caspian Sea Cooperation
Council which combines Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and
Turkmenistan.
    Iran is keen to lay down 105 miles of railway to
Turkmenistan which would become the shortest rail route from
Europe to China.
    Iran also wants to serve as an outlet to the sea for
Central Asia and its huge oil and mineral wealth. But
Kazakhstan has signed a contract with the U.S.
transnational, Chevron, to develop its Tengiz oil and gas
fields.
    Tengiz has 40 years of reserves, and Chevron wants to
take the oil to Europe via a pipeline under the Caspian Sea
or through Black Sea ports by-passing Iran.
    Tehran has argued that access to its refinery in Tabriz
and ports in the Persian Gulf would make it possible for the
oil to be loaded on super-tankers bound for Japan.
    Tehran has also proposed the construction of a new
highway from Alma Ata to its eastern city of Mashad via
Turkmenistan, the only Central Asian state bordering Iran.

    PRESIDENT BUSH DISPATCHES EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES TO
ARMENIA
    OSHKOSH, WI (NOV. 1) - The United States began air
shipments of emergency food supplies to Armenia Sunday, the
day after President Bush authorized the aid, the White House
said.
    In a statement released Saturday as Bush campaigned in
Wisconsin, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the air shipments
were in response to ''an urgent request'' Oct. 30 from
Armenian President Levon Ter- Petrosian.
    The shipments began Sunday, the White House said.
    Fitzwater said because of critical shortages in the
country wracked by political instability and economic
hardship, the United States would airlift 236 metric tons of
all-purpose flour to the Armenian capital of Yerevan over
the next few days. The deliveries will leave from Kelly Air
Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and would be flown in four
U.S. Air Force C-5 planes.
    ''Today's action by the president demonstrates anew U.S.
commitment to the welfare of the Armenian people and to the
independence of Armenia,'' Fitzwater said. ''It is another
example of the close bilateral relationship between the
United States and the government'' of Armenia.
    The shipments also will include supplies to meet longer-
term winter good needs, including 66,000 metric tons of
wheat grain and 3,000 of ''processed commodities'' from
warehouses in Turkey, the spokesman said.

    TURKISH TROOPS CAPTURE LARGE REBEL BASE 16 MILES INSIDE
IRAQ
    ANKARA, Turkey (NOV. 1) - Turkish troops battling
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq have seized one of the
largest guerrilla bases in the area and killed about 1,000
rebels, Turkish news reports said Sunday.
    The reports added the guerrillas of the Kurdistan
Workers Party, or PKK, panicked as advancing Turkish forces
seized the Haftanin base, about 16 miles south of the
Turkish border.
    The Turkish troops reported hearing radio chatter
indicating that the PKK rebels were in complete disarray as
the attacking troops advanced with tanks and other armored
vehicles.
    The guerrillas ignored orders from their commanders in
their bid to get away, but only an estimated 10 percent of
the rebels in the base managed to escape the Turkish forces,
Ankara's state television TRT reported.
    Some 1,000 PKK guerrillas were killed when the Haftanin
base fell, state television said.
    Haftanin was reportedly one of the most important PKK
bases in northern Iraq, and its defenses included concrete
bunkers, the Istanbul newspaper Hurriyet Hurriyet said.
    Turkey was said to be pouring in more troops and tanks
into northern Iraq, in an apparent bid to finish off the
Turkish Kurds, who launched a rebellion against Ankara eight
years ago.
    Hurriyet quoted Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Dogan Gures
as saying: ''The boys want to finish the job quickly'' and
were eager to press ahead in pursuit of the remaining rebel
forces, ''but we are being careful not to jeopardize the
lives of our soldiers.''
    Last week, Gures said there were 20,000 Turkish troops
inside northern Iraq, but there has been no word since on
how many more have entered the country.
    At that time, he estimated some 400 PKK rebels were
killed in the initial Turkish thrust into northern Iraq. The
latest reported rebel casualties in Haftanin puts the
claimed PKK losses at some 1,400 killed since the offensive
began.
    Earlier, Prime Minister Sulayman Demirel said there were
believed to be some 7,000 PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq,
and another 3,500 inside Turkish territory, mainly in the
mountainous regions of the southeastern provinces.
    Gures told Hurriyet: ''Clean-up operations against the
rebels inside (Turkey) will take place in the winter,''
presumably after the operations in northern Iraq has been
completed.
    There was no word officially that Turkey was considering
a truce to allow the PKK rebels to lay down their arms and
retreat further inside Iraq, under the protection of the
Iraqi Kurds.
    Reports last week said the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,
an Iraqi Kurdish guerrilla group cooperating with the Turks,
offered the PKK a cease-fire, and the Turkish Kurds accepted
their terms, but military officials in Turkey brushed aside
the reported agreement.
    The Turkish offensive took place in three phases. In the
first, commando units supported by tanks and helicopters,
poured into the Hakurk region near the point where the
borders of Iran, Turkey and Iraq meet.
    The second phase was launched across the Hezil River,
near the Iraqi border town of Zakho. In the third phase,
Turkish forces thrust across the border at Cukurca, and
headed for Haftanin, where the PKK had its largest base.
    Turkish warplanes supported the ground troops in the
offensive. The state television showed footage of jets
blasting guerrilla positions, with clouds of smoke going up
as bombs and rockets hit points on the ground.

    AZERBAIJANI ARMY REPELLS LARGE-SCALE ARMENIAN ATTACK
    BAKU (NOV. 1) - THE AZERBAIJANI ARMY REPELLED A LARGE-
SCALE ARMENIAN ATTACK SUPPORTED BY AVIATION IN THE LACHINSK
DISTRICT OF AZERBAIJAN ON SUNDAY. TWO BOMBERS WERE SHOT
DOWN, THE AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTRY SAID.
    THE SHELLING OF AZERBAIJANI VILLAGES IN DISTRICTS
BORDERING ON ARMENIA CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED.
    THE MINISTRY DENIED REPORTS ABOUT THE DEATH OF AN
AZERBAIJANI AIR FORCE PILOT WHO WAS SHOT DOWN OVER NORTHERN
DISTRICTS OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH ON SATURDAY. THE MINISTRY SAID
THE PILOT SURVIVED AFTER HE CATAPULTED FROM THE FALLING
PLANE.

    GERMAN DEFENS MINISTER ARRIVES IN TURKEY FOR TALKS ON
MILITARY COOPERATION
    ANKARA (NOV. 2) - German Defence Minister Volker Ruehe
arrived in Ankara Monday for talks with the Turkish
government "on new forms of co-operation".
    Shortly after his arrival Ruehe met Premier Suleyman
Demirel, Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin and Defence Minister
Nevzat Ayaz. He was later due to meet with President Turgut
Ozal for talks on Turkey's development and military
position.
    Before arriving Ruehe said he planned to enter into a
detailed dialogue with Turkey, which would include new forms
of co-operation and discussions on its role as the region's
leading military power.
    He said that Ankara was aware that German-supplied
military equipment could only be used in North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation (NATO) operations and assumed that the
Turkish government was keeping strictly to the relevant
agreements.
    He also believed the controversy over the misuse of
German equipment could be ended.

    RUSSIA SENDS TROOPS TO HALT NORTH CAUCASUS FIGHTING
    MOSCOW (NOV. 2) - Russia sent paratroopers and armored
vehicles to the northern Caucasus Mountains in an attempt to
stop the latest ethnic conflict to flare into violence on
the southern rim of the former Soviet Union.
    Reports Sunday from North Ossetia, one of the small
republics that are part of the Russian Federation, said at
least five and as many as several dozen people were killed
and dozens wounded in a weekend of fighting between
Ossetians and ethnic Ingushes.
    The Russian state news agency Itar-Tass said late Sunday
a cease-fire agreement was reached calling for an end to the
fighting and the release of all hostages, with Russian
troops monitoring the truce.
    Ingush irregulars began fighting local police, seizing
villages, taking hostages and attacking Russian Interior
Ministry installations to seize arms and ammunition Friday
night in an attempt to take control of the Prigorodny
district of North Ossetia.
    The district was traditionally Ingush but included in
North Ossetia by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1944 in one
of many moves to change boundries in the patchwork of small
ethnic groups in the Caucasus. The changes left simmering
unrest that boiled over in violence with the decline of
Soviet power.
    Recent years have seen ongoing bloody disputes
throughout the Caucausus: between Georgians and Ossetians
across the border from Russia in the South Ossetia region of
independent Georgia, between Georgians and Abkhazians in the
former Abkhazian autonomous republic, in the Armenian
distict of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, and in the
Azerbaijani district of Nakichivan which is completely
surrounded by Armenian territory.
    Closer to the most recent conflict, a combative former
Soviet air force officer declared independence from Russia
for Chechenya and claimed most of what was Chechen-
Ingushetia.
    Since the Chechen declaration of independence, there has
been growing sentiment among the ethnic Ingush - who are
Muslim like the Chechens and many other ethnic groups in the
region - to have their own republic including parts of what
is now North Ossetia.
    Russian President Boris Yeltsin convened an urgent
meeting of his Security Council Saturday and sent Vice
Premier Georgi Khizha to North Ossetia in an attempt to
negotiate an end to the fighting. Yeltsin sent in two
additional regiments of paratroopers Sunday to help restore
order.
    Khizha said the Russian Federation was intent on
guaranteeing the rights of the Ingush people, but he warned
that any attempts to change borders by force ''may entail a
large-scale war,'' the Russian state news agency Itar-Tass
said.

    TURKISH MILITARY REPORTEDLY KEEPS UP ATTACKS ON TURKISH
KURDS IN IRAQ
    ANKARA (NOV. 2) - The Turkish military continued their
offensive against Turkish Kurds in Iraq Monday, the Turkish
news agency Anadolu reported.
    Turkish fighter jets attacked Kurdish Workers' Party
(PKK) positions in the Meluni and Kambini mountain regions,
the news agency said. Gunship helicopters and mortars were
also used against PKK guerrillas.
    Five PKK guerrillas were killed in attacks south of
Cukurca and a Turkish soldier was killed, the agency said.
    Press reports Sunday said about 1,000 of the 2,500
rebels defending the PKK camp at Haftanin had been killed,
with only ten per cent managing to escape.
    PKK camps in the Hakurk region and the Shivi camp
located between Hakurk and Haftanin had been ''almost
totally destroyed'', the reports said.
    The Turkish military have been attacking PKK Kurds for
11 days. Iraqi Kurds had also been attacking the Turkish
Kurds in an effort to drive them out of their northern Iraqi
territory but at the weekend their leaders appealed to
Turkey to allow the PKK Kurds to retreat.
    In Turkey itself, security forces clashed with PKK
rebels in the Diyarbakir province. Three Kurds and one
soldier was killed in the fighting, according to official
sources.

    TURKEY WARNED AGAINST "MISUSING" GERMAN ARMS BY DEFENSE
MINISTER RUEHE
    ANKARA (NOV. 3) - German-Turkish relations would suffer
"heavily" if Turkey again "misuses" German-delivered arms,
Bonn Defence Minister Volker Ruehe said Tuesday at the end
of a two-day visit.
    The Turkish side promised that tanks and other equipment
delivered by Germany under the framework of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation will not be used for attacks
against militant Kurds in southeastern Turkey but only for
NATO purposes, Ruehe said.
    Ruehe said he made an agreement with his Turkish
counterpart, Nevzat Ayaz, to form a joint working group to
ensure that German military aid delivered to Turkey does not
lead to irritations.
    Ayaz confirmed that German aid would only be used
"according to NATO principles" and Turkey would see to this
with great care.
    He said any "disagreeable incidents" must be avoided and
German-Turkish friendship should not be tainted by reports
about the use of German arms against the Kurdish Workers'
Party (PKK).
    The German minister said new paths for future
cooperation should be found and expressed hope that the
democratization process in Turkey would continue. More
respect should be paid to human rights.
    He said Turkey played a major role as a leading power in
its region. He ackowledged that Turkey had the right to act
against terrorism using legitimate methods.

    IRAQI OPPOSITION GROUP DENOUNCES TURKISH ATTACK ON KURDS
    BEIRUT (NOV. 3) - A Teheran-based Iraqi opposition group
denounced Tuesday Turkish attacks against Kurdish rebels in
northern Iraq.
    The Islamic al Dawaa party said in a statement
distributed in Beirut that the attacks on the Kurdish
Workers Party (PKK) were ''a provocation and dangerous
violation''.
    The statement accused the Turkish government of having
''illegal ambitions'' in the districts of Mousel and
Karkouk.
    ''We denounce and condemn such actions,'' the statement
said, adding that the Turkish government was trying to take
advantage of the situation in iraq.
    ''Iraqi soil should never become a battlefield for
settling accounts,'' the statement said.
    The statement called on the Turkish government to ''deal
with the situation wisely and withdraw immediately and
unconditionally.''
    Last month, thousands of Turkish commandos crossed the
Iraqi border in a large-scale military campaign to uproot
PKK guerrillas who have been launching attacks from northern
Iraq against Turkey.

    BONN PLEDGES TO PROVIDE 135 MILLION MARKS IN FOREIGN AID
TO TURKEY
    BONN (NOV. 5) - The German government has pledged to
provide Turkey with a total of 135 million marks (85 million
dollars) in aid this year, Bonn said Thursday.
    The Economic Cooperation Ministry said the aid would
include 120 million marks in low-interest credit and 15
million marks' worth of technical assistance.
    The focal point of the aid will be to promote
environmental protection efforts in Turkey, the ministry
said.

    TURKISH ARMY CLAIMS AT LEAST 4,500 PKK GUERRILLAS KILLED
OR DRIVEN OFF
    ANKARA (NOV. 5) - At least 4,500 Kurdish Workers Party
(PKK) guerrillas have been killed, wounded or driven off
since Turkish troops launched an offensive in northern Iraq
on October 12, the Turkish army general staff said Thursday.
    Some 2,500 PKK guerrillas currently remained in Iraq, a
few of whom were still fighting, the general staff said.
    A total of 23 Turkish soldiers have been killed and 96
wounded in the offensive. More than 3,000 Kalashnikov
rifles, 160 machine-guns, 49 anti-aircraft missiles, 26
mortars and 400 rocket-launchers were confiscated, the
general staff said.
    Meanwhile, two Turkish foreign ministry representatives
traveled to northern Iraq for talks with Iraqi Kurdish
representatives, a government spokesman said.
    The representatives were to meet with Jalal Talabani,
head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Massoud
Barzani, leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK).
Talks would be held in an undisclosed location for security
reasons, the spokesman said.
    The state office for religious affairs in Ankara called
on religious officials to make the military offensive the
main topic of Friday prayers at Turkey's mosques.
    One PKK guerrilla and one Turkish soldier were killed
and two soliders were injured in a clash near Karaagac
Thursday, Anadolu news agency reported. Two other people
were killed and two were abducted when guerrillas attacked
forestry workers near Haskoy.

    ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING IN IRAN
NOV. 10-11
    JEDDAH (NOV. 6) - Islamic Finance and Economy Ministers
will meet in Tehran Nov. 10-11 within the 17th annual
meeting of the board of governors of the Jeddah based
Islamic Development Bank.
    They will consider the 17th annual report of the bank,
review its past activities and formulate its future plans.
    The bank, which was established by 23 Islamic countries
in 1975, now has 45 members who are also members of the
Organization of Islamic Conference who has 47 members. Only
Nigeria and Turkmenstan among OIC members have not joined
the IDB.
    The bank started operations in 1976 and has since then
spent more than $11 billion on the economic and social
development of member countries and Muslim communities
living in non-Islamic states. The IDB carries out all its
operations according to Islamic Sharia. It gives interest-
free loans to its members.
    Each member state is represented in the board of
governors by a governor,. who is usually minister of
finance, economy or planning and an alternate governor who
is usually governor of the central bank.
    The subscribed capital of the bank was raised from 2
billion Islamic Dinars to 4 billion Islamic Dinars (app. $6
billion) while its authorized capital was raised from 2
billion Islamic Dinars to 6 billion ID (app. $8 billion)
during a special meeting of the board of governors held in
Jeddah early last July.
    An Islamic Dinar is the account of the bank which is
equivalent to a Special Drawing Right of the International
Mortetary Fund. It is also equal to $1.33.
    The special meeting also restored Afghanistan's
membership and accepted Azerbaijan as its 45th member.
    The increase of the bank's capital was decided by the
sixth Islamic summit held in Dakar (Senegal) in December
1991 on a proposal by Saudi Arabia to enable the bank to
carry on its noble mission in favor of islamic countries and
Muslim communitics living in non-member countries.
    Representatives of the Muslim states in the former
Soviet Union and East Europe will attend the two-day meeting
as well as representatives of the international and regional
financial organizations with whom the bank has close links
of cooperation.
    Iranian Finance Minister Dr. Mohsen Noorbakhsh will
chair the meeting. He was elected to the post during the
16th annual meeting of the board of governors held in Libya
last March.
    Iran joined the bank in 1989 and became one of the six
largest contributors to the capital of the bank along with
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Libya and
Turkey. The 18th meeting of the board of governors will be
held next year in Gambia.
    Meanwhile. the Islamic Development Bank has been urged
to play a greater role in promoting trade between the Muslim
countries.
    As an arm of the Organization of Islamic Conference,
which has a membership of 47 countries, it is very well
placed to play a significant role in their development. Dr
Arifin M. Siregat. Indonesia's minister of trade. told a
press conference at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and
Industry today. Regar, who met Dr Ahmed Muhammad Ali.
president of the IDB in the morning, said that with the
bank's foreign assistance program, many countries hampered
by lack of finance, could also come forward.
    One of the main reasons for selecting Jeddah as the site
of Indonesia's first eve huge land, sea and air exhibition,
is because it is the seat of the OIC.
    ''We want to show our potential 10 Saud Arabia and other
Muslim Countries. The main reason we are holding the
Indonesian Solo Exhibition '92 is to show we are in a
position to produce and manufacture a wide range of products
and provide services which could be useful in Saudi Arabia
as well as other Gulf countries.''
    Siregar said: ''we do not expect orders right away but
do hope to make a good impression, which will lead to
cooperation in business and investment.''
    He said that the bilateral relations are age-old and the
''potential for development is great,'' because the gap
between development and realization has been natrowed and
the exhibition will narrow it further.
    Asked about the Kingdom's progress, he said that it is
achieving all round development. It is succeeding in its
diversification program as is evident from the development
of chemical and agricultural industry. ''For a person who
saw Saudi Arabia in 1973,it would be difficult to recognize
it today.''

    UN SPONSORS FIRST CULTURAL CONFERENCE ON CENTRAL ASIA,
TEHERAN TO HOST
    PARIS (NOV. 6) - Nine former Soviet republics and 11
other Asian and European countries will meet in Teheran
November 14-18 for an international congress on cultural and
scientific cooperation in Central Asia, it was announced
Friday.
    The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization said the congress was the first of its kind,
and an attempt would be made to set up an International
Institute for Central Asian Studies.
    The conference would focus on the situation and needs of
the former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan with regard to job
training, scientific research and development of the media,
UNESCO said.
    Among the European countries sending delegates are
France, Italy, Spain and Britain. Japan, India and South
Korea will also participate.

    TURKEY'S TRANSACTIONS DEFICIT INCREASES TO $953 MILLION
IN FIRST EIGHT MONTHS
    ISTANBUL, (NOV. 6) XINHUA - TURKEY'S TRANSACTIONS
DEFICIT REACHED 953 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS IN THE FIRST EIGHT
MONTHS OF 1992, UP FROM 424 MILLION IN THE SAME PERIOD OF
1991.
    ACCORDING TO A CENTRAL BANK STATEMENT PUBLISHED IN
TODAY'S LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, THE DEFICIT INCREASE WAS IN PART
ATTRIBUTED TO AN IMBALANCE OF TRADE IN FAVOR OF IMPORT.
    MEANWHILE, PAYMENT OF FOREIGN LOANS INCREASED BY 3
PERCENT, REACHING 5.155 BILLION DOLLARS, COMPARED WITH 4.982
BILLION, SAID THE STATEMENT.
    IT SAID NET FOREIGN CAPITAL TRANSFER TO TURKEY ROSE FROM
438 MILLION TO 521 MILLION DOLLARS, A 18.9 PERCENT INCREASE.
    TURKEY'S TOURISM REVENUES INCREASED BY 50 PERCENT, FROM
1.63 BILLION TO 2.428 BILLION DOLLARS, WHILE OVERSEAS
REMITTANCES BY TURKISH WORKERS DROPPED BY 3.5 PERCENT, FROM
1.886 BILLION TO 1.819 BILLION DOLLARS, THE STATEMENT SAID.

    TURKISH FORCES TAKE KEY KURDISH WORKERS PARTY BASE IN
NORTHERN IRAQ
    ANKARA (NOV. 6) - Turkish army forces seized a key
Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla base at Shivi in
northern Iraq Friday as operations against the PKK
continued, the Anadolu news agency reported.
    The bodies of 62 PKK guerrillas had been found at the
camp, the agency said.
    Turkish ground troops had advanced 10 kilometres into
Iraq south of Cukurca and then travelled west 30 kilometres
to take the camp, the agency said, quoting an army
spokesman.
    Meanwhile, the Turkish cabinet Friday proposed that a
state of emergency in effect in 10 provinces in east and
southeast Anatolia largely inhabited by Kurds be renewed for
four months from November 19. Parliament is vote on the
matter next Wednesday.

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