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05ADANA11
2005-01-11 07:17:00
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Consulate Adana
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SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 7, 2005

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UNCLAS ADANA 000011 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 7, 2005

This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 7,

2005. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain
errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for
the accuracy of the reports summarized here.

POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS

ZAMAN / HURRIYET / VAKIT / TERCUMAN / CUMHURIYET: 2600
villages are currently not accessible due to the heavy snowfall
in the East Anatolia.

HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM: The ports of Bandirma, Izmir,
Samsun, Derince, Mersin and Iskenderun, which belong to TCDD
(Turkish State Railways),are included in the privatization
program. The TCDD will be managing the ports until the end of
the privatization process, which is going to take about twelve
months.

CUMHURIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM / EVRENSEL: As the Turkish
Parliament starts the talks on handing over the SSK Hospitals to
the Ministry of Health (Note: SSK is an abbreviation for the
Social Security Organization. End Note.),the Labor Platform
held rallies in Ankara, Izmir, Adana and Istanbul to protest the
move of the (Turkish) GoT to transfer the ownership of the SSK
hospitals.

OZGUR GUNDEM: Selahattin Demirtas, Chairperson of the Diyarbakir
Branch of the Human Rights Association, said that a commission
comprised of 50 attorneys has been set up to receive the
applications for the compensation of the damages that the
people, who had been subject to displacement and migration,
incurred.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

UNCLAS ADANA 000011

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 7, 2005

This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 7,

2005. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain
errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for
the accuracy of the reports summarized here.

POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS

ZAMAN / HURRIYET / VAKIT / TERCUMAN / CUMHURIYET: 2600
villages are currently not accessible due to the heavy snowfall
in the East Anatolia.

HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM: The ports of Bandirma, Izmir,
Samsun, Derince, Mersin and Iskenderun, which belong to TCDD
(Turkish State Railways),are included in the privatization
program. The TCDD will be managing the ports until the end of
the privatization process, which is going to take about twelve
months.

CUMHURIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM / EVRENSEL: As the Turkish
Parliament starts the talks on handing over the SSK Hospitals to
the Ministry of Health (Note: SSK is an abbreviation for the
Social Security Organization. End Note.),the Labor Platform
held rallies in Ankara, Izmir, Adana and Istanbul to protest the
move of the (Turkish) GoT to transfer the ownership of the SSK
hospitals.

OZGUR GUNDEM: Selahattin Demirtas, Chairperson of the Diyarbakir
Branch of the Human Rights Association, said that a commission
comprised of 50 attorneys has been set up to receive the
applications for the compensation of the damages that the
people, who had been subject to displacement and migration,
incurred.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS


1. BOLGE / MILLIYET / HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / ZAMAN / EKSPRES:
A stormy debate has been going on in many cities (of Turkey),
especially in Adana and Gaziantep (Note. The two prominent
southeastern cities. End Note.),because the cities were not
included within the GoT's recent contentious Incentive Law list.
The cities that were not included claim that the Law generates
unfair competition. Umit Ozgumus, President of the Adana Chamber
of Industry, said that they will demand from the Chief
Opposition Party to bring the issue to the Constitutional Law
for amendment. The incentive list is comprised of forty-nine
cities this year with the latest addition of thirteen cities.



2. MILLIYET / HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Twenty-five CHP
(Republican People's Party) MPs demanded that Turkish Parliament
conduct an investigation about how to solve the problems of
CUKOBIRLIK (Cooperative for Agricultural Product Sales in
Cukurova). The facilities of CUKOBIRLIK were recently shut down
and some of the machines of the Cooperative were sold.


3. MILLI GAZETE / BOLGE / TURKIYE: According to Cumali
Dogru, the Chairperson of Adana Union of Farmers, "The producers
sell their produce for cheap prices, however, several brokers
settle the prices in-between, and because of that, the prices of
fruits and vegetables multiply by ten when the final consumer
purchase them". Cumali Dogru demands that the
Vagetables-and-Fruits Market Law be revised in order to solve
that price dilemma.


4. HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): The EU has accepted Gaziantep
Chamber of Industry's project for developing the
carpet-manufacturing sector. Courses on carpet manufacturing
will be offered under the EU funded project in order to to train
qualified carpet designers.





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