Ecevit: Technocrat government would shake democracy
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit warned on Monday that speculation over whether Turkey needed an interim government would harm the country's democracy as it struggles to overcome a financial crisis.
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* Alternatives to the government debated despite Ecevit's statement
As the resistance of Transportation Minister Enis Oksuz from the National Movement Party (MHP) to the Telekom board proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led to a crisis, dealing yet another blow to the confidence in the government, the debate about a "technocrats' government" has come under discussion.
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* NEWS ANALYSIS-- US further narrows Turkey's room for maneuver in defence industry
Still relying heavily on U.S. systems in the defense industry, Turkey has once again been cornered by Washington over its efforts to develop critical technologies indigenously or in cooperation with third countries.
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* Saddam vows rapprochement; Kurds skeptical
An offer made by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to political leaders in northern Iraq was cautiously taken by Iraqi Kurds.
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* Artificial heart procedure was a 'home run,' surgeon says
Dr. Robert Dowling called his brother the night before he implanted the first self-contained artificial heart in a human being.
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* Dollar demand remains strong despite rate hike
Demand for U.S. dollars remained strong, pushing the Turkish lira to new lows yesterday despite a Central Bank move to raise key short-term interest rates in the overnight market, which analysts tied to an ongoing tension within the coalition and concerns over the future of the economic program.
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* Ecevit: Technocrat government would shake democracy
* Alternatives to the government debated despite Ecevit's statement
* Death of lone mountaineer
o Body of lone climber brought down from Ararat
* Court rejects arrest order against Gulen
o DGM Prosecutor Yuksel: Instructions have not been carried out, stated address in America said in press to be false and so accordingly the court rejects the arrest order for now
* Gokalp defends genetic engineering
o Gokalp: Certain people do not think our genetic engineering is something Turkey deserves
* Justice Minister Turk in Erzurum
o 'Death fasts are meaningless. The government is decisive when it comes to F type jails'
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* Technocrat government costs $30 billion
* Court releases six in White Energy trial
o Permission not granted by ministry to investigate five suspects resulting in their trial being halted
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o No RTUK members apply to replace TRT General Director
* Lenience museum in Izmir
* Law for conditional release
o Constitutional Court working to clarify characteristics of law
* Justice Ministry: Interpol has not announced Aysegul Tecimer's capture
* NEWS ANALYSIS-- US further narrows Turkey's room for maneuver in defence industry
* Saddam vows rapprochement; Kurds skeptical
* Belgian couple stranded in Turkey
o Belgium Foreign Ministry searches for a solution
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o Turks may take part in coalition to be formed by former Bulgarian King
* Energy Minister visits Lebanon
* Strategic alliance in Central Asia creates new Eurasian power center
o New geopolitical realities a result of miscalculations by US policy planners.
o While Americans concentrated on issues of political reform and economic development, Turkey and the United States lost the chance to establish a pro-Western zone of influence.
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* Human rights group calls for justice minister's prosecution over prison deaths
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* Germany urges closure of troubled Czech nuclear plant
* Rich states urged to cut farm aid to help Africa
* Dollar demand remains strong despite rate hike
* High court OK's Turkbank shutdown
* First half primary budget surplus at TL 7.6 qln
* Moody's says Argentina more fragile than Turkey
* A Byzantine situation - Common traits of Makarios and the Greek junta
o The plan developed by Major Ioannides and his friend Nicos Sampson back in 1963 was "to attack the Turkish Cypriots suddenly, all over the island and eliminate them one and all!" Makarios first admitted to the press in New York after the coup that there was indeed a plan, before December 1963, to exterminate the whole Turkish Cypriot population overnight in order to remove the impediment to the "Greek national aspirations." This was in fact nothing but the Akritas Plan
o One should recall that it was Makarios himself who had the Akritas Plan prepared, and the underground political and military organization established to support its execution as of December 1963. Iphestos plans were not ever part of the dispute between Makarios and Ioannides, neither was the "sacred cause" of enosis. The core of the dispute was about who would do it and when
o Sampson was installed as the henchman of the Greek junta, Greek and Greek Cypriot armed forces had already started to surround Turkish Cypriot enclaves and villages. Communications had been severed, roadblocks set up, martial law and a curfew imposed and the airport sealed off. The Iphestos plans had been designed to cut off Turkish Cypriot enclaves and villages from each other, to isolate and besiege them and to deal with each of them individually, but simultaneously
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