Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE, PRESS REVIEW,BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ,RwISTA STAMPA.DENTRO DE LA PRENSA.BASIN ÖZETÏ<br />
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Thursday, July 14,1994<br />
Çiller's fortune $60million<br />
By Sirma Evcan<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
ANKARA-As the Turkish Grand ~ational<br />
Assembly prepares to <strong>de</strong>bate today an investigation<br />
motion concerning the total amount and the sou~ce of<br />
Prime Minister Tansu Çiller's ass<strong>et</strong>s at home and m the<br />
United States, Çiller's bio~raphy published in<br />
Britannica Yearbook 1994 discloses that she had.<br />
"amassed a fortune of some sixty million dollars<br />
through real estate speculations." .<br />
. The yearbook doesn't elaborate as to wh<strong>et</strong>her this is<br />
the prime minister' s total wealth or only the part that<br />
she accumulated in the United States. The author of the<br />
biography, Jerold L. Kellman, mentions that Çiller's<br />
success in real estate speculations was the result. of a<br />
joint effort with her husband, "the owner of a cham of<br />
convenience stores and a former banker."<br />
Prime MiniSter Çiller's fortune as calculated by<br />
. Turkish journalists who researched the subject amounts<br />
to TL 615 billion, whereas the Britannica figures convert<br />
to TL 1.8 trillion.<br />
Journalists Nursun Erei and Ali Bilge, who worked as<br />
consultants to Çiller while she.was economy minister, in<br />
their book "Tansu Çiller'in Siyas<strong>et</strong> Romani" (novel on<br />
Tansu Çiller's political career), give <strong>de</strong>tails of her ass<strong>et</strong>s<br />
and how much they amounted to in February 1994,<br />
before the April 5 austerity package and the rise of the<br />
U.S. dollar.<br />
What actually ups<strong>et</strong>s Turkish soci<strong>et</strong>y is that Çiller and<br />
her husband ad<strong>de</strong>d consi<strong>de</strong>rable sums to their fortune<br />
during the last three years after.herentry to politics. In<br />
that period she entered the Turkish Grand National<br />
Assembly as a True Path Party (DYP) <strong>de</strong>puty, was immediately<br />
appointed a state minister and within a year-and-a-half<br />
became the country's prime minister. .. .<br />
Erel and Bilge say Çiller's husband Ozer Çiller stopped<br />
making speculations in Turkey and speculated in real estate<br />
only in the United States after his wife became prime minister.<br />
The main opposition Motherland Party (ANAP) dis~<br />
closed on Wednesday thatthe prime minister and her husband<br />
had also invested in finance companies in Europe and<br />
Africa.<br />
In a press conference on Tuesday, Çiller stated that she is<br />
confi<strong>de</strong>nt enough to give <strong>de</strong>tailed account of her fortune.<br />
Her party's <strong>de</strong>puties are, however, planning to resist the<br />
motion for the investigation, accusIng the opposition of<br />
mudslinging. It is reported that Republican People's Pall)<br />
(CHP) Chalrman.Deniz B1!Y.kalmay refer to the Britannica<br />
Yearbook information on