From: senel@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Hakan)
Subject: Haber/news Part I   (forwarding)
Originator: senel@irlsp
Organization: Takanumi University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:55:47 GMT


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>>>>>>>>>> ANNOUNCEMENTS
                  Rafael Ilyasof in Concert
        Music Director of the Tataristan Radio and TV

                   Old Kazan Turkish Songs

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                   Saturday, September 26
                          2:00 P.M


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                        Tickets: $15
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       Tel: 344-6386 (information for directions only)

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>>>>>>>>>> UNDERWRITERS

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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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DENIZ BAYKAL ELECTED HEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN PEOPLES PARTY
(CHP)
     9/10/92, CUMHURIYET-- Deniz Baykal was elected as the
new leader of the Republican Peoples Party (CHP), in the
first convention the party has had in thirteen years.
     CHP, one of the dominant parties in Turkish politics
since the founding of the republic in 1924, was closed by
the military  government in 1980. Deniz Baykal won the
leadership with a 227 vote lead over his opponent Erol
Tuncer.
    It is expected that some deputies of the Social
Democratic Party (SHP) will join the newly revived CHP, thus
decreasing SHP's numbers in the Parliament and threatening
the coalition government.
    Baykal had run unsuccesfully for the chairmanship of SHP
twice in the last four years.

TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VOICES FRUSTRATION OVER BOSNIA
     9/10/92, HURRIYET-- The Foreign Minister of Turkey,
Hikmet Cetin, said that the Western nations had performed
very badly during the outbreak of the crisis in Bosnia.
    Cetin stated that the reluctance to use of force by the
United Nations and the European Community had encouraged the
Serbs to increase their aggresive actions.
    Cetin also expressed annoyance that some countries were
against Turkish troops being deployed in Bosnia as a part of
an international force due to Turkey's historical and
cultural ties with the region.
    Hikmet Cetin is hosting a meeting of the European
Council Foreign Ministers in Istanbul.

DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER IN TURKEY
     9/10/92, TERCUMAN-- The Foreign Minister of Holland,
Hans Van den Broek, met with Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel
during his official visit to Turkey.  After the meeting it
was stated that relations between Holland and Turkey were
very good and that both countries had similar views on most
major international issues, including the use of force to
ensure peace in Bosnia.

TURKISH MINISTER TO VISIT IRAN
     9/10/92, MILLIYET-- The Turkish Minister of Interior,
Ismet Sezgin, is scheduled to visit Iran on an official
visit during this week. Sezgin is expected to raise the
issue of the Kurdish Workers Party's (PKK) members using the
Iranian border for their raids in Turkey.
    Turkey has lately accused Iran of letting PKK act freely
on the border.

EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN ISTANBUL
     9/09/92, CUMHURIYET-- The Foreign Ministers of the
countries that make up the European Council are meeting in
Istanbul.
    The meeting was called by Turkey, who is the acting
Chairman of the European Council for this year. The crisis
in Bosnia is expected to be one of the major issues
discussed.
    Another important part of this meeting is that 12 former
Soviet Republics will be attending as observers.

DENKTAS FINDS SUPPORT IN ANKARA
     9/08/92, CUMHURIYET-- The President of the Northern
Cyprus Turkish Republic, Rauf Denktas, was reassured of
Turkey's support during his visit to Ankara.
    Denktas has lately been stating his frustration at being
forced to sign an agreement to resolve the two-decade long
Cyprus problem, without receiving any of the concessions
that will protect the Turkish minority against the Greek
side.
    Both Denktas and the Turkish officials have blamed the
United Nations for siding with Greek views during the
negotiations.
    The peace talks are scheduled to continue on October
26th.

TURKEY TO BE 16TH LARGEST NATION IN 2025
     9/07/92, SABAH-- Turkey is expected to reach a
population of 102 million in the year 2025, which will make
it the 16th most populous nation, according to a report
published in Washington DC.
    Other estimates for populations are 1.6 billion for
China, 1.3 billion for India and 333 million for the United
States.
    Pakistan, Nigeria, Zaire and the Phillipines are also
listed among the top 18 countries. The world population is
estimated to be 6 billion.

RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE WARNED AGAINST PKK SUPPORT
     9/07/92, MILLIYET-- The Turkish Prime Minister said
that they had warned the Rapid Deployment Force against
protecting camps of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in
Northern Iraq.
    The Prime Minister added that he did not think that the
protection provided for the Kurds in Northern Iraq against
the Bagdad government would enable the PKK to function more
comfortably.

36 PKK MEMBERS KILLED
     9/06/92, SABAH-- In two different operations in Eastern
Turkey, 36 members of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) were
killed and four were captured.
    Four Turkish soldiers were wounded during the fighting.
In a separate incident, PKK supporters stopped a bus and
executed 7 passengers.

GREEN PEACE SHIP IN ISTANBUL
     9/06/92, CUMHURIYET-- The Green Peace vessel "Sirius"
is in Istanbul as part of a Mediterranian tour.
    Green Peace representatives said that they had two
thousand members in Turkey and would be willing to open an
office if their membership increased.
    They also voiced their support for Turkey to remain a
nuclear free country.

INFLATION INCREASED IN AUGUST
     9/06/92, SABAH-- The State Statistics Institute (DIE),
announced that inflation rate increased to 4.8 % in the
month of August.
    Consumer prices increased 3.8 % during the same period.

20 PKK MILITANTS KILLED
     9/06/92, SABAH-- 20 Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK)
members were killed in a skirmish that broke out in a
village near Diyarbakir in Southeastern Turkey.  Four
Turkish soldiers died during the fighting.
    PKK militants also launched rocket attacks on a town in
the province of Adiyaman. No casualties were reported.

CIS LEADERS WARN AGAINST REBELLIOUS ELEMENTS IN CENTRAL
ASIAN REPUBLICS
    MOSCOW, (SEPT. 5) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin
friday joined three leaders of the Central Asian republics
in warning that they would not allow civil war in the former
Soviet Union's southern republics to destabilize the region.
    The statement by Yeltsin and the presidents of
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kirgizstan -- Nursultan
Nazarbayev, Islam Karimov and Askar Akayev -- came as
opponents of the president of Tajikistan, Rahman Nabiyev
attempted to unseat him after occupying his presidential
palace Aug. 31.
    It also came a day after Yeltsin met in Moscow with
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and Abkhaz rebel
leader Vladislav Ardzinba in a bid to end the three-week old
war in Abkhazia, an autonomous republic in northwest
Georgia.
    The statement by the four presidents coincided with a
meeting of the Tajik parliament aimed at deposing Nabiyev
who has not been seen since Aug. 31 but is believed to have
taken refuge on a Russian military base. It called on the
Tajik government to act "with full awareness and
responsibility to control the situation."
    Referring to the porous border between Tajikistan and
Afghanistan, the four presidents noted that "the southern
borders of Tajikistan and the Commonwealth of Independent
States are being continuously violated. Arms and ammunition
are being smuggled across it in large amounts." This, the
statement said, "is upsetting the security of our nations."
    The four presidents warned that "nobody should doubt
that we shall take all necessary measures to stabilize the
situation, strengthen Tajikistan and safeguard the southern
borders." Sources in Moscow said Russia was reinforcing its
troops guarding the Russian-Tajik border.
    Political analysts in Moscow believe that the latest
political crisis in Tajikistan constitutes a bid to topple
Nabiyev before formal agreement with Russia has been
achieved on the stationing of Russian peacekeeping troops in
the Central Asian republic.
    Monday's attack on the presidential palace in Dushanbe
forced nabiyev to cancel a visit to Moscow scheduled for
earlier this week during which he had planned to sign an
agreement involving Russian peacekeepers.
    Demonstrators in Dushanbe said their protests were
prompted by an alleged massacre of Islamic opponents of the
government in Kurgan-Chube in the south near Tajikistan's
border with Afghanistan. Armed by their Islamic brethren in
Afghanistan, Tajikistan's Islamic movement has been able to
bring the country to the brink of civil war.
    But analysts argue that the real reason for turmoil in
Tajikistan is Nabiyev's way of running the government. A
native of the northern region of Leninabad which has
supplied the country's leaders for decades, Nabiyev is a
former Tajik Communist Party leader who supported last
year's failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
    Viewed from Moscow, the analysts say the best Russia can
hope for at this point is a reduction of tension in both
Central Asia and the Caucasus rather than an attempt to
resolve the region's mounting problems.
    "Ultimately, we Russians want homegrown regimes which
are not totalitarian be they communist or Islamic. But
morally and physically we are unable to do anything at this
point," says Konstantin Eggert, a foreign affairs specialist
with Izvestia newspaper.
    Eggert says Russia prefers for the time being to see the
former Soviet Union's southern republics ruled by ex-
communists who will be able to stem the rise of
fundamentalist Islamic movements.
    "Former communists are O.K. for now because if the
communists are removed now, Islamic fanatics will come to
power and than we'll have real problems with the Russian
minorities in those countries. Strategic instability is the
name of the game for the time being," he says.
    Once Russia has held elections in 1995 and in the
meantime been able to institutionalize its infant democracy
and transition to a free enterprise economy, Moscow would
take a less benign view of regimes led by former communists.
    "There'll be less and less common ground with the
governments in Central Asia. The more we develop our state,
our economy and our regional outlook, the more we will need
a secure environment," Eggert says.
    "Russia has a big stake in what happens around her. But
too many people in Moscow want to use military force. They
point to the American invasions of Grenada and Panama and
call for a Russian 'Monroe Doctrine' -- a U.S. policy used
to justify intervention in neighboring countries in defence
of its own strategic interests.
    "But the United States did not establish itself in
Central America by military force alone. A Russian Monroe
Doctrine would be using a big stick without playing big
brother. We first have to again become big brother," he
says.
    Russian policy towards the conflict in Abkhazia may be
an indication of how Russia attends to play its cards in
Central Asia and the Caucasus in the coming years. Russian
sources say Georgia's Aug. 14 invasion of the autonomous
republic had been planned far in advance in consultation
with Moscow.
    "The taking of hostages by opposition forces on Aug. 11
was simply a pretext. Given the state of Georgian military
communications, there is no way the Georgian armed forces
could have staged such an operation within days. Military
equipment, including four helicopter gunships, was given by
Russia to Georgia two days before the invasion," one source
said.
    The sources said the supply of military equipment was
arranged two months ago in exchange for Georgian
acquiescence in a ceasefire in the war in South Ossetia and
agreement to the stationing of a Russian-led peacekeeping
force there.
    Yeltsin in his meeting yesterday with Georgian leader
Shevardnadze and Abkhaz rebel chieftain Ardzinba secured
agreement on a ceasefire in Abkhazia scheduled to take
effect tomorrow at 9:00 A.M.
    The Russian sources predicted that the cease fire would
hold because Georgian military hardliners, including Defense
Minister Tengis Kitavani, had achieved their goal of
securing the one track railway linking Georgia with Russia
and Armenia.
    They said Kitavani, a painter who has had several
successful exhibitions, and his hardline rival Vice
President Djaba Yosolani were likely to temporarily focus
their attention once again on South Ossetia which like
Abkhazia wishes to secede from Georgia.
    Said one source, referring to the main street of the
Georgian capital of Tbilisi devastated by fighting last
December during which Kitavani's forces deposed then
President Zviad Gamsakhurdia: "he won't give up on Abkhazia.
Georgia will be back. There is no doubt about that. Perhaps
it will be another artistic exhibition like the ruins on
Tbilisi's Rustevali Avenue."

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