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2006-05-30 11:31:00
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Consulate Adana
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SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FORMAY 25, 2006
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TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FORMAY 25, 2006
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for May 25, 2006.
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
NTVMSNBC ONLINE: Jandarma Command, which searched a car in Mus,
caught 35 trafficked people who were from Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Bangladesh. Two people caught at the site, and a third
person in Istanbul in connection with the human trafficking,
have all been arrested.
BOLGE: Cukurova University's faculty, Adana Bar Association
members and some organizations will hold a march today in the
university to protest the gun attack at the Council of State in
Ankara last week.
BOLGE / SABAH (GUNEY) / ZAMAN: Former provincial
chairperson of AKP Adana party organization Abdullah Dogru paid
a courtesy visit to the newly elected chairperson Mustafa
Attaroglu 18 days after the chairmanship elections in Adana.
SABAH (GUNEY) / BOLGE / EKSPRES: The first petroleum to
travel through Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has reached a
point 40 kilometers away from the final destination. The
petroleum will reach to Ceyhan in Adana on May 27.
BOLGE / EKSPRES / ZAMAN: Seyhan Mayor Azim Ozturk,
responding to questions on why the women's and men's hours for
using the new swimming pool in the newly opened Dream Park in
Adana were separated, said that facilities in the park were
arranged as tailored to feedback obtained from people in Adana.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / EVRENSEL: Four hundred out of 977
cleaning services workers of the Seyhan Municipality's cleaning
services subcontractor company went on a strike on May 8. The
company recently decided to lay off 200 of the 400 workers who
did not come to work for 15 days. Evrensel daily however claims
that 670 of the workers were laid off despite the company's
promise to rehire them if they signed a document indicating
their repentance and requesting acceptance of their apologies
from the Seyhan Mayor.
CUMHURIYET: 120 cleaning services workers of Siirt Municipality
also went on a strike five days ago when the subcontractor
company laid off 32 of the workers allegedly without presenting
grounds for their dismissal. Meanwhile, allegations of
corruption have surfaced against the Siirt Mayor Mervan Gul who
had withdrawn his candidacy during 2003 by-elections to clear
the path for Erdogan for premiership.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Malatya police seized twenty-nine
kilograms of heroin hidden in a car in the city upon receiving a
tip-off that drugs would be trafficked from Van to Istanbul.
Police detained one person in connection with the event and is
searching for five other accomplices.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Diyarbakir's Sur Municipality Mayor Abdullah
Demirbas has been acquitted by Diyarbakir 6th Court of First
Instance of the charges brought against him because of a
monument the municipality built in Mardin's Kiziltepe district
in memory of a father and a 12-year-old child who were killed by
the security officers in November 2004 in Kiziltepe.
HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM: A (Turkish national) reporter from
the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations working on the
issue of violence against women will go to Batman to investigate
causes of suicide cases that has been reported as an increasing
trend in the province. Separately, Human Rights Commission of
the Turkish Parliament, which arrived at Diyarbakir, will
conduct studies in Sirnak and Batman.
CUMHURIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM: The Washington Times published an
article on the problems of Alawis in Turkey. According to the
paper, Alawis are being discriminated against in Turkey.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Houses and fields have been flooded with water
in Hakkari's Yuksekova district because of the recent rainfall.
Separately, authorities have been conducting damage assessment
studies in Bitlis's Hizan district which was hit by a
4.8-magnitude earthquake three days ago.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Attorneys of Abdullah Ocalan appealed the
decision of Ankara 11th Heavy Penalty Court which overturned the
May 5-dated file of attorneys requesting retrial for Ocalan.
HURRIYET: A total of 15 students from two universities, who
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were caught in Agri's Dogubeyazit district with questionnaire
forms which read, "In regard to Abdullah Ocalan as representing
my political will," have been found guilty and sentenced to 10
months in prison and payment of a 500 YTL (approx. 350 USD)
fine.
REID
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FORMAY 25, 2006
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for May 25, 2006.
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
NTVMSNBC ONLINE: Jandarma Command, which searched a car in Mus,
caught 35 trafficked people who were from Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Bangladesh. Two people caught at the site, and a third
person in Istanbul in connection with the human trafficking,
have all been arrested.
BOLGE: Cukurova University's faculty, Adana Bar Association
members and some organizations will hold a march today in the
university to protest the gun attack at the Council of State in
Ankara last week.
BOLGE / SABAH (GUNEY) / ZAMAN: Former provincial
chairperson of AKP Adana party organization Abdullah Dogru paid
a courtesy visit to the newly elected chairperson Mustafa
Attaroglu 18 days after the chairmanship elections in Adana.
SABAH (GUNEY) / BOLGE / EKSPRES: The first petroleum to
travel through Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline has reached a
point 40 kilometers away from the final destination. The
petroleum will reach to Ceyhan in Adana on May 27.
BOLGE / EKSPRES / ZAMAN: Seyhan Mayor Azim Ozturk,
responding to questions on why the women's and men's hours for
using the new swimming pool in the newly opened Dream Park in
Adana were separated, said that facilities in the park were
arranged as tailored to feedback obtained from people in Adana.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA) / EVRENSEL: Four hundred out of 977
cleaning services workers of the Seyhan Municipality's cleaning
services subcontractor company went on a strike on May 8. The
company recently decided to lay off 200 of the 400 workers who
did not come to work for 15 days. Evrensel daily however claims
that 670 of the workers were laid off despite the company's
promise to rehire them if they signed a document indicating
their repentance and requesting acceptance of their apologies
from the Seyhan Mayor.
CUMHURIYET: 120 cleaning services workers of Siirt Municipality
also went on a strike five days ago when the subcontractor
company laid off 32 of the workers allegedly without presenting
grounds for their dismissal. Meanwhile, allegations of
corruption have surfaced against the Siirt Mayor Mervan Gul who
had withdrawn his candidacy during 2003 by-elections to clear
the path for Erdogan for premiership.
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Malatya police seized twenty-nine
kilograms of heroin hidden in a car in the city upon receiving a
tip-off that drugs would be trafficked from Van to Istanbul.
Police detained one person in connection with the event and is
searching for five other accomplices.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Diyarbakir's Sur Municipality Mayor Abdullah
Demirbas has been acquitted by Diyarbakir 6th Court of First
Instance of the charges brought against him because of a
monument the municipality built in Mardin's Kiziltepe district
in memory of a father and a 12-year-old child who were killed by
the security officers in November 2004 in Kiziltepe.
HURRIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM: A (Turkish national) reporter from
the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations working on the
issue of violence against women will go to Batman to investigate
causes of suicide cases that has been reported as an increasing
trend in the province. Separately, Human Rights Commission of
the Turkish Parliament, which arrived at Diyarbakir, will
conduct studies in Sirnak and Batman.
CUMHURIYET / OZGUR GUNDEM: The Washington Times published an
article on the problems of Alawis in Turkey. According to the
paper, Alawis are being discriminated against in Turkey.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Houses and fields have been flooded with water
in Hakkari's Yuksekova district because of the recent rainfall.
Separately, authorities have been conducting damage assessment
studies in Bitlis's Hizan district which was hit by a
4.8-magnitude earthquake three days ago.
OZGUR GUNDEM: Attorneys of Abdullah Ocalan appealed the
decision of Ankara 11th Heavy Penalty Court which overturned the
May 5-dated file of attorneys requesting retrial for Ocalan.
HURRIYET: A total of 15 students from two universities, who
ADANA 00000125 002 OF 002
were caught in Agri's Dogubeyazit district with questionnaire
forms which read, "In regard to Abdullah Ocalan as representing
my political will," have been found guilty and sentenced to 10
months in prison and payment of a 500 YTL (approx. 350 USD)
fine.
REID