Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEV0KA ÇAPÊ-RIVISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
lacks political will to rank<br />
nowhere. "Not one single<br />
projects by or<strong>de</strong>r of priority<br />
and finish them." ..<br />
5) Build-Operate- Transfer<br />
(BOT) projects are going<br />
BOT project has y<strong>et</strong>been<br />
compl<strong>et</strong>ed in Turkey because of legal challenges, the<br />
bureaucracy's hostility to private capItal and inability to<br />
negotiate a<strong>de</strong>quate terms." . . '.<br />
. 6) The Treasury's prominence in the financial sector<br />
is partly responsible forhigh interest rates. "Treasury<br />
operations still remain by far (the Turkish banks')<br />
strongest source of profit. An estimated 65-70. percent of<br />
bank profits came from tra~ing government bonds in<br />
1994 ... The treasury'sap'p<strong>et</strong>tte for cash and the central<br />
bank's sound money policies have driven interest rates<br />
to Latin American levels."<br />
ï) Ceinral stock mark<strong>et</strong> Yaman Törüner says high<br />
. in~erest rates "are simply not his problem; they are <strong>de</strong>termmed<br />
by the supply and <strong>de</strong>mand for money, "and who<br />
is the borrower?' he asks. "It is the Treasury." .<br />
8) Istanb!ll stock mark<strong>et</strong> "is now one of Europe"s larger<br />
second-tIer bourses. Average daily trading bit a record<br />
of $563 million in April... This performance makes<br />
.~stanbul an important mark<strong>et</strong> in its own right to emerg-<br />
109 mark<strong>et</strong> players." "<br />
9) Foreign cash is pouring into the automotive indus-,<br />
try b~cause "Turkey is a low-cost base with duty-free<br />
access to Western Europe. Second, the domestic mark<strong>et</strong><br />
is very immature." The arrival of the Japanese will revolutioniz.e<br />
.the industry. "R~nault and Tofas are already<br />
~omplal~lOg th~t Toyota IS buying mark<strong>et</strong> 'share with<br />
unfaIr pnce cuttmg." . .<br />
Interior Minister Nahit Mente~e on Tuesday received a <strong>de</strong>legation led by Gulam Huseyin Bulandian, Iran's <strong>de</strong>puty interior minister, for security<br />
talks TON Cengiz Uysa!<br />
Iran calls PKK its enemy; <strong>de</strong>nies giving shelter<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA- Gulam Huseyin Bulandian,<br />
the Iranian <strong>de</strong>puty interior minister said on<br />
Tuesday that the outlawed Kurdistan<br />
Workers' Party (PKK) was the eq~my of<br />
Iran and indicated their <strong>de</strong>sire to make the<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r b<strong>et</strong>ween the two countries"a friendship<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r." Bulandian arrived in Ankara<br />
on Monday for security talks against a backdrop<br />
of rumors that the PKK was amassing<br />
forces on Iranian territory for strikes at<br />
Turkey.<br />
Me<strong>et</strong>ing with Turkish Interior Minister<br />
Nahit Mente~e on Tuesday Bulandian said<br />
that as a country that has suffered the most<br />
from' terrorism Iran was prepared to coo~erate<br />
fully with Turkey to eradicate terronsm<br />
by the roots.<br />
For his part Nahit Mente~e said that coop-<br />
.eration b<strong>et</strong>ween the two countries in areas<br />
such as the fight against organized crime and<br />
drug trafficking was ongoing. .<br />
Bulandian told' reporters on Monday on<br />
his arrival in Ankara that Iran's bor<strong>de</strong>rs<br />
were tightly controlled by security forces<br />
against any possible infiltration by the PKK.<br />
"We did not and will not allow any sort of<br />
infiltration of those groups on Irahi an soil.<br />
The PKK and other similar groups .lhave no<br />
place in Iran. There are security agr,cements<br />
b<strong>et</strong>ween Iran and Turkey. According to<br />
'these accords, we do not allow Turkey' s<br />
,enemies to use our soil and Turkeydoes the<br />
, same," the Iranian official noted.<br />
Bulandian also noted that these agreements<br />
have been working very well and<br />
pointed out the presence of a mutual fOlitical<br />
will aimed at improving bilatera .relations<br />
b<strong>et</strong>weenlran and Turkey. . .<br />
A Turkish newspaper reported Saturday<br />
that a Turkish air strike force öf F-16 j<strong>et</strong>s on<br />
their way' to bomb a concentration of separatist<br />
mIlitants near the Turkish bor<strong>de</strong>r in '<br />
Iranhad been recalled'in mid-fIi~l1t late last'<br />
month on the intervention of tlie Foreign<br />
Ministry, which feared a strong protest from<br />
Tehran.<br />
The Iranian official' s Turkish counterpart<br />
Bekir Aksoy noted that this visit would<br />
maintain' the friendlyrelations b<strong>et</strong>ween the<br />
two neighbors. '"<br />
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