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| Turkish Press Scan for Today |
| 2003-08-11 |
| A few brief glimpses at Turkish news: ’’NOBODY SHOULD TRY TO BRING THE ARMED FORCES INTO A LINE’’ General Staff Second Chief Gen. Yasar Buyukanit who was appointed as the commander of the First Army hosted a cocktail party for reporters in the garden of the General Staff Headquarters in Ankara. Answers of Gen. Buyukanit to questions of reporters were full of messages to both the government and the United States. These messages can be summarized under four headlines: "1-Nobody should use the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) for his political purposes. 2- Nobody should attempt to bring the TSK into a line. The TSK’s line is quite clear. 3- Today’s conditions are more risky than those on March 1 in terms of dispatch of troops to Iraq. 4- I hope that our concerns which we expressed about the seventh package of adjustment with the EU would not come true." That’s a message to the government PRESIDENT SEZER REFUSES TO ATTEND WEDDING President Ahmet Necdet Sezer attended the inauguration of the Philosophy Congress in Istanbul. However, he did not attend the wedding ceremony of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son Bilal Erdogan. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy and Prime Minister Fatos Nano of Albania were in attendance at the wedding ceremony as witnesses. Earlier, Prime Minister Erdogan sent an invitation to President Sezer and his wife to attend the wedding of his son. More than 10 thousand guests watched the ceremony. And that’s a message to Erdogan, wonder why he didn’t go? Wedding ceremony of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son Bilal Erdogan and Reyyan Uzuner paralyzed daily life and traffic in Istanbul. 5 thousand policemen were deployed for the wedding ceremony in which 14 thousand guests attended. Many roads were closed to the traffic under security measures. Meanwhile, participants of the 21st World Philosophy Congress were utterly bewildered with guests of the wedding wearing black Islamic-style cloths. Oh, that’s why. |
| Posted by:Steve |