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