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2007-01-12 13:23:00
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Consulate Adana
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SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 09, 2007
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SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 09, 2007
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 09,
2007. 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
ZAMAN / EVRENSEL: Democratic Peace Initiative will hold a panel
called "Turkey is Searching Peace" on January 13 - 14 in Ankara.
Kurdish issue, peace efforts and suggestions to resolve the
issue will be raised and discussed during the panel. Fifty
speakers from academic, political and media circles will
participate in the event. Opening remarks will be made by two
well-known literary figures of Turkey. President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer and Prime Minister Erdogan are reportedly also invited to
the event.
ZAMAN: DYP Leader Mehmet Agar will pay a visit to the
Osmaniye province on January 13 to open the new DYP party
building there and to hear about the problems of people at a
local level.
BOLGE / EKSPRES: A 60-year-old person showed his reaction to a
group of people, who gathered at Inonu Park in Adana to protest
the alleged isolation policies pursued in Turkish jails against
inmates, by asking them "Why don't you protest against
authorities not hanging terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan who
killed 40,000 innocent people?"
EKSPRES / BOLGE: Ekspres daily points out that two discrepant
announcements have been made by Kazim Barisik, Chairperson of
Adana Chamber of Tradesmen and Artisan's, and, Mustafa
Attaroglu, AKP Chairperson in Adana. While Mr.Barisik gave
grave figures about 2006 and said that nearly 4000 tradesmen had
to close their businesses last year in Adana , Mr. Attaroglu
claimed businesses closed during former administrations, were
being reopened during AKP rule. The dailies separately reported
that farmers in the Adana and Cukurova region are not very
hopeful about the new year, according to the Chairperson of
Yuregir District Chairperson of Chamber of Agriculture.
SECURITY
ZAMAN: A 38-year-old person, Ercan Kaya, who was detained
in Tunceli on November 2006 on allegations that he was a PKK
bomber, has been arraigned and put in prison. According to the
Tunceli Police, a bomb, which went off as that person was
setting it up in Tunceli, wounded him and caused him to be
apprehended back in November in Tunceli. Kaya is also announced
as the perpetrator of three bomb incidents that took place in
the southeastern region in 2006.
ECONOMY
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Beta, a sapling nursery company in
Adana, sent a delegation to Spain to examine the Arbequina clone
I-18 orchards where dwarf olive-oil trees were being cultivated.
The delegation explored chances of cultivating dwarf olive-oil
trees in Adana. The dwarf trees reportedly allow olive growers
easier harvest with machinery.
CRIME / LAW ENFORCEMENT:
CUMHURIYET: Police seized 1300 cigarette packages that were
smuggled to Van's Muradiye district. Two persons in the car
where the cigarettes were found have been detained.
CULTURE / SOCIETY / ENVIRONMENT
ZAMAN: The first surgical operation in the history of
Hakkari's Semdinli district has been conducted at the new
operating room established at the Semdinli State Hospital.
ZAMAN: A 78-million-year-old marine fossil was unearthed in
the eastern city of Malatya. This fact, said a professor from
the Inonu University in Malatya, proves that Malatya was covered
with sea waters around 18 million years ago.
CUMHURIYET: European Union allocated 40,000 euros of fund for a
cultural project of Diyarbakir Municipality about Kurdish
"dengbejs" (wandering minstrels) and "Dengbej tradition".
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Eleven young persons from different
European countries that came to English Language Department of
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the university as exchange students under European Commission's
Erasmus Programme, performed a play in Turkish after attending a
two-and-a-half-month Turkish language course at the university.
CUMHURIYET: A ceremony has been held in Diyarbakir to remember
75 casualties of a January 8, 2003 plane crash in Diyarbakir.
Abdurrahman Kurt, AKP Provincial Chairman of Diyarbakir, who
lost his son and daughter-in-law in that accident, attended the
memorial ceremony.
CUMHURIYET: CYDD (Association for Supporting Contemporary Life)
in Mersin has been actively working in Mersin to win back the
girls of the disadvantaged families ?n the prov?nce to the
educational life.
GREEN
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PINS PGOV PHUM TU
SUBJECT: SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 09, 2007
This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 09,
2007. 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
ZAMAN / EVRENSEL: Democratic Peace Initiative will hold a panel
called "Turkey is Searching Peace" on January 13 - 14 in Ankara.
Kurdish issue, peace efforts and suggestions to resolve the
issue will be raised and discussed during the panel. Fifty
speakers from academic, political and media circles will
participate in the event. Opening remarks will be made by two
well-known literary figures of Turkey. President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer and Prime Minister Erdogan are reportedly also invited to
the event.
ZAMAN: DYP Leader Mehmet Agar will pay a visit to the
Osmaniye province on January 13 to open the new DYP party
building there and to hear about the problems of people at a
local level.
BOLGE / EKSPRES: A 60-year-old person showed his reaction to a
group of people, who gathered at Inonu Park in Adana to protest
the alleged isolation policies pursued in Turkish jails against
inmates, by asking them "Why don't you protest against
authorities not hanging terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan who
killed 40,000 innocent people?"
EKSPRES / BOLGE: Ekspres daily points out that two discrepant
announcements have been made by Kazim Barisik, Chairperson of
Adana Chamber of Tradesmen and Artisan's, and, Mustafa
Attaroglu, AKP Chairperson in Adana. While Mr.Barisik gave
grave figures about 2006 and said that nearly 4000 tradesmen had
to close their businesses last year in Adana , Mr. Attaroglu
claimed businesses closed during former administrations, were
being reopened during AKP rule. The dailies separately reported
that farmers in the Adana and Cukurova region are not very
hopeful about the new year, according to the Chairperson of
Yuregir District Chairperson of Chamber of Agriculture.
SECURITY
ZAMAN: A 38-year-old person, Ercan Kaya, who was detained
in Tunceli on November 2006 on allegations that he was a PKK
bomber, has been arraigned and put in prison. According to the
Tunceli Police, a bomb, which went off as that person was
setting it up in Tunceli, wounded him and caused him to be
apprehended back in November in Tunceli. Kaya is also announced
as the perpetrator of three bomb incidents that took place in
the southeastern region in 2006.
ECONOMY
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Beta, a sapling nursery company in
Adana, sent a delegation to Spain to examine the Arbequina clone
I-18 orchards where dwarf olive-oil trees were being cultivated.
The delegation explored chances of cultivating dwarf olive-oil
trees in Adana. The dwarf trees reportedly allow olive growers
easier harvest with machinery.
CRIME / LAW ENFORCEMENT:
CUMHURIYET: Police seized 1300 cigarette packages that were
smuggled to Van's Muradiye district. Two persons in the car
where the cigarettes were found have been detained.
CULTURE / SOCIETY / ENVIRONMENT
ZAMAN: The first surgical operation in the history of
Hakkari's Semdinli district has been conducted at the new
operating room established at the Semdinli State Hospital.
ZAMAN: A 78-million-year-old marine fossil was unearthed in
the eastern city of Malatya. This fact, said a professor from
the Inonu University in Malatya, proves that Malatya was covered
with sea waters around 18 million years ago.
CUMHURIYET: European Union allocated 40,000 euros of fund for a
cultural project of Diyarbakir Municipality about Kurdish
"dengbejs" (wandering minstrels) and "Dengbej tradition".
HURRIYET (CUKUROVA): Eleven young persons from different
European countries that came to English Language Department of
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the university as exchange students under European Commission's
Erasmus Programme, performed a play in Turkish after attending a
two-and-a-half-month Turkish language course at the university.
CUMHURIYET: A ceremony has been held in Diyarbakir to remember
75 casualties of a January 8, 2003 plane crash in Diyarbakir.
Abdurrahman Kurt, AKP Provincial Chairman of Diyarbakir, who
lost his son and daughter-in-law in that accident, attended the
memorial ceremony.
CUMHURIYET: CYDD (Association for Supporting Contemporary Life)
in Mersin has been actively working in Mersin to win back the
girls of the disadvantaged families ?n the prov?nce to the
educational life.
GREEN