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and "external" affairs.
Speaking at a Welfare Party (RP) parliame~tary group .
meeting, Erbakan declared Tuesday that relatIOns between his
government and the military wer~ "extre~ely ~o~" and .
charged that it was the media whIch was fabncatmg stones
of a riff' between the two.
Erbakan said the government and the partner parties were
in harmony with both the p~esi~en!,and the arm~d f~rces but
the Turkish press was "fabncahng tales of tenslO1110 the top
echelons of the state apparatus. .
Stating that the armed forces ~ere part o~the n~h.onand.
that his Refah represented the nahon, the pnme numster saId
there could be no rift between his party and the military.
Branding efforts by the opposition parties and some members
of the junior coalition partner True Path Party (D~~) to forge
alternative government models to replace the coahtlOn government
as a "nonsense occupation," Erbakan said a multiparty
coalition would be much like "Hormuz with nine husbands"
(a famous Turkish play in which Hormuz is simultaneously
married to nine husband~,.all of which are unaware ~f
the others). He said the OpposItIOncould not mount a credIble
alternative to his coalition government.
"Neither arithmetically nor in actuality is there an alternative,"
Erbakan said.
Democratic Left Party (DSP) leader Bülent Ecevit launched
a series of meetings with other opposition leaders Tuesday in
a bid to form an alternative, "Refah-free" government. The
Islamist prime ~nister, refe1!Ïng t~ the eight-year c~mpulsory
primary educatIOn debate, SaIdthe Issue was something to be
decided by the education experts. He said the government was
for launching education. refprQ1.in the country, which would
raise well-educated future generations.
Prime Minister Erbakan said that much like they were providing
the separatist Kurdish Workers' Party gangs with arms
and ~rsonnel, foreign powers who were opposing the development
of Turkey had now found collaborators in the country
against his government. He charged that when the "negative
efforts" of some media establishments were taken into consideration,
the identity of "those collaborators'> would become
more clear. He said "some media establishments" had been
working for months until midnight in search of banner headlines
which could harm Turkey's stability.
He claimed that the efforts of those media establishments
were the direct -result of the government' s move to cut lucrative
state subsidies and credits to the press. saying that before
his government came to power, media groups had received up
to TL 6.2 trillion from the state. "They are angry that we have
cut those funds. But, I warn them, we are all in the same boat.
They work 'til midnight trying to make a hole in the belly of
the ship. If this ship sinks, they should know they will sink
with it. They are cutting the branch of the tree upon which
they are sitting," Erbakan said.
Karaday. visits Erbakan
Meanwhile, Chief of General Staff Gen. Ismail Hakla
KaradaYI visited Prime Minister Erbakan Tuesday. KaradaYI
said he would brief the prime minister about his contacts
~ade in Brussels during the NATO Military Committee meetlOgS.
Reiterating that there was rift between the government and
the military, Erbakan said, "Headed by President Demirel, our
government and the armed forces Jare al! in harmony."
.Army: Fighting radicalism,
PKK a matter 2t!~~c
Military discloses that
Turkey' s national
defense concept has
undergone changepriority
is now given to
national and territorial
integrity, domestic threat
~d~~!~
separatist terronsm were ut
Turkish Daily News Wednesday. April30. 1997
~~~~~:i,,~%:~~~~t~i~m and
• The Office (jf the Chief of "life or death" importance for
General Staff declared Tuesday the military.
that the Turkish military con- The Office of the Chief of
HAYRÎ BtRLER sidered tolerance to the rise of General Staff held a special
Ankara-TDN fundamentalism and separatist
terrorism as tantamount to the
briefing for journalists
Tuesday. The briefing focused
state committing suicide.
Disclosing that Turkey's
mostly on the current situation
in the army's fight against the
national defense concept had separatist Kurdish Workers'
under~on~ a rearrangert,lent and Party (PKK) and Turkishthat
pnonty was.no~ g~vent?
national and teITIt?nal mtegnty
Greek problems.
Disclosing that the annual
and to the domestIc threat t.o revenue of the separatist group
fundamentals of ~herepubhc, amounted to nearly $2 billion,
Gen. Kf'nan Demz, he~d of the the military commanders said
general staffs DomestIc that close to $5 million worth
of arms and ammunition
belonging to the militants had
been seized by the army over
the past year. The daily cost of
the fight against the separatist
rebels, on the other hand, was
placed by the generals at $4 .
million. The commanders saId
that, headed by Iran and
Greece, the countries supporting
the terrorists were lending
support to Islamic radicals as
wel1.The commanders said
although radical Islam in
Turkey did not yet have a military
capability equal to that of
the PKK, this threat should be
accorded the utmost attention.
Army: Giving free rein to religious extremism and
PKK would be tantamount to.state committing suicide
Military discloses that Turkey's
national defense concept has
undergone change - priority
is no~ given to national and
territorial integrity, domestic
threat to republic fundamentals
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