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Turkish Daily News SATURDAY. MARCH 15.1991
Turkey to buy IPLA\VK missiles
from France instead of Belgium -
The purchase was determined to have been made
during the Turkish and French Defense Industries
Cooperation Meeting held last month in Paris
METEHAN DEMIR held last mo.nth in Paris. The deci-
Ankara! Turkish Dally News
.
sian came just after. an anno.uncement
from the Belç1Um Defense
• Turkey is to.buy middle-range Ministry to.freeze Its plans to sell
IHA WK missiles fro.m the French the HAWK missiles, kno.wn as
Land Farces in a direct procure- surface-to-air missiles, thro.ugh
ment through the French firm . the co.mmercial defense interme-
Tho.mso.n-CSF. Under the deal, 8 diary Tho.mso.n-CSF to.Turkey,
!HAWK batteries will be deliv- partly due to.increased tensio.n
ered to.Turkey fro.m French' s sur- o.verCyprus. The IHAWKS are
plus arms, the Turkish Daily manufactured by the U.S. firm
News has learned.
Raytheo.n. The defense firm
The purchase was determined Tho.mso.n-CSF has lo.ng been tryto.have
been made during the ing to.pro.vide the missiles fro.m
Turkish and French Defense surplus arms o.fBelgium and the
Industries Cooperatio.n Meeting Netherlands to.sell to.Turkey. The
Belgian and the Dutch Defense
Ministries had no.tbeen in direct
nego.tiatio.nsfar the deal with
Turkey. The Belgium Defense
Ministry earlier co.nfirmed same
media reports that the negotiatio.ns
were co.ntinuing over the sale o.f
the HAWKS to.Turkey but later,
the ministry cancelled its plans .
Earlier, there were repo.rtnhat
Belgium previo.usly saId o.ther
surplus defense equipment
thro.ugh commercial intermediaries.
In 1995, Belgium defense
firm Sabca upgraded and sold to
Chile 20 Mirage jet fighters it
bo.ught fro.mthe air farce.
The talks relating to.Belgium
selling.so.me of its missil~s had
started two.years ago.,under the
previo.us go.vernment.
Turkish Daily News SATURDAY.MARCH 15.1991
'Freedom of expression' on the streets
Istanbul-
Turkish Dally News
1STANBUL- The Istanbul
Branch o.fthe Human Rights
Associatio.n (lHD) has inaugurated
a camfaign to.secure the .
release a 140 political prisoners
who. have been p,ro.secutedfo.r
their "tho.ughts. '
There has been increasing criticism
and irritatio.n among the
Turkish so.ciety against the prosecutio.n
o.fthe writers, intellectuals,
jo.urnalists and students, who.,no.rmally,
would be expected to.be
the driving fo.rce o.fa civilized
society. Writers have been.
dragged fro.m.o.neState Security
Co.urtto. anOther fo.t'decadès'îh
rapidly increasing numbers every
year. The prosecutio.n o.fthe
mtellectuals has reached a level
that the society can no.tto.lerate
anymo.re.
As a protest against the vio.latio.n
of freedo.m o.ftho.ught by
pro.secuting bo.o.ks,writers and
Jo.urnalists, o.ver o.ne tho.usand
intellectuals have signed the boo.k
"Freedo.m to.Tho.ug~t" to.be prosecuted
within the same file in case
o.fprosecutio.n. A graul' fro.m
PEN (Internatio.nal Wnters
.Associatio.ns) from vario.us parts
o.fthe wo.rld have alSo.gathered in
Istanbul early this week to.express
their suppo.rtfar the signers o.fthe
book "Freedo.m fo.rTho.ught."
Writers su.chas Vice Presidents o.f
Sweden's PEN Lars Erik
Blo.mo.vist,USA's PEN Jo.anne
Leedo.m and the President o.f
Russia's PEN Alexander
Tkachenko. and many o.ther writ-
. ers and PEN members fro.m
Sco.tland, England, Germany,
Palestine; Finland, Netherlands,
Israel; "Canatla and Mexico. were
present in Istanbul to file suits
against themselves to.be pro.secuted
alo.ng with their Turkish co.unterparts
who. have signed the
boo.k.
'
The applicatio.n o.fguest writers
. have been rejected by the State
Security Co.urts. The writers
wanted to.attend the panel discussio.ns
o.rganized by the lecturers
and the students o.fthe Istanbul
. University, but they were sto.pped
by the palice and they were reJected
admissio.n by the president o.f
the university, The Israeli writer
Avraham Heffner, co.mmenting o.n
the police existence at the university,
said, "Let them enter the university.
Let them in yo.ur lectures,
. so.they can learn abo.ut the atmo.sphere
o.fkno.wledge, they will defmitely
learn samething." .
As the first activity o.fthe campaign,
lHD Istanbul Branch put
up posters aro.und Taksim Square
an Friday. The group included
vo.lunteer human rights activists
and the board members o.f!HO.
The 'gtoup .put aut posters o.f
writer Ismail Besikci, who.has
been sentenced to. 103 years far
his articles and boo.ks. .
The campaign starled with visiting
Ismail Besikci in Bursa
Priso.n o.nMarch 6. The campaign
also.includes panels, discussio.ns
and a signature campaign to.
be submitted to.the Speaker o.fthe
Parliament Mustafa. Kalemli.
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