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Sunday, June 09, 2013

DTN News: Turkey Top Stories / Headlines News Dated June 9, 2013

DTN News: Turkey Top Stories / Headlines News Dated June 9, 2013
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Patience has limits, Turkish PM warns

The Age - ‎9 minutes ago‎
The government case: Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wait to see him on Sunday in Ankara. Photo: AFP/ADEM ALTAN. Ankara: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan brought his supporters on to the streets as he staged ...

Turkey's PM calls protesters 'a handful of looters'

Fox News - ‎11 minutes ago‎
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's prime minister remained defiant on Sunday after 10 days of anti-government protests, traveling to two cities where unrest has occurred and condemning the demonstrators as "a handful of looters." In the southern city of Adana, ...

Erdogan's warning to Turkish protesters

The Australian - ‎32 minutes ago‎
TURKEY'S defiant Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told supporters his patience "has a limit", as police fired tear gas and jets of water at demonstrators in unrelenting protests against his government's decade-long rule. As tens of thousands held ...

Tens of thousands on streets, Erdogan defiant

Business Recorder (blog) - ‎55 minutes ago‎
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rallied his supporters in a string of defiant speeches on Sunday as tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators massed in Istanbul's central Taksim Square. Speaking in the southern Mediterranean coastal city of ...

Tens of thousands on streets, Turkish PM Erdogan defiant

Toronto Sun - ‎1 hour ago‎
ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told flag-waving supporters on Sunday that his patience with mass anti-government protests had its limits, and moved to seize back the initiative by announcing counter-rallies next weekend.

For a park and a few trees

Indian Express - ‎1 hour ago‎
In J.R.R Tolkien's Middle Earth, Ents are tree-like creatures, known for their patience. However, when their leader Treebeard finds out that the wicked wizard Saruman felled thousands of trees, he leads a horde of his race to destroy the wizard's stronghold in ...

Turkish protesters say they fight PM's strict Islamic views

CBS News - ‎1 hour ago‎
(CBS News) ISTANBUL - Turkey's prime minister said Sunday his country's financial markets are under attack. Tayyip Erdogan blamed speculators reacting to a tenth day of fierce nationwide protests against his government. In the Turkish capital, Ankara, ...

Erdogan says patience has limit as Turkish protests continue

Indian Express - ‎1 hour ago‎
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told a rally of thousands flag-waving supporters on Sunday that his patience with anti-government protests had its limits, while tens of thousands flooded an Istanbul square demanding his resignation. At Ankara airport ...

Turkey's leader lambasts protesters

Philippine Star - ‎1 hour ago‎
ANKARA — In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters yesterday, Turkey's prime minister demanded an end to the 10-day anti-government protests that have spread across the country, saying those who do not respect the ...

Erdogan's Crackdown Could Drive Away Economy's Saviors

Bloomberg - ‎1 hour ago‎
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to Turkey last week little chastened by the protesters occupying the central squares of cities around the country. Judging by his demand that the “vandalism and utter lawlessness” end immediately, he may yet ...

Erdogan 'Losing Patience' With Protests

Voice of America - ‎1 hour ago‎
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told thousands of his supporters that he has limited patience with the anti-government protests, now in their 10th day. Erdogan delivered several speeches Sunday, demanding that the protesters give up.

Turkish PM Erdogan running out of patience with protesters

ABC Online - ‎1 hour ago‎
Turkey's defiant prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told supporters his patience with anti-government protests is running out. Mr Erdogan's comments in front of cheering supporters in Ankara came as police fired tear gas and jets of water at ...

Turkish PM brands protesters vandals and looters

The Daily Star - ‎2 hours ago‎
ANKARA: In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters Sunday, Turkey's prime minister launched a verbal attack on the tens of thousands of anti-government protesters who flooded the streets for a 10th day, accusing them of ...

Turkey PM vows to teach protesters a lesson in polls

Times of India - ‎2 hours ago‎
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged supporters of his Islamic-rooted party to use next year's local elections to "teach a lesson" to the anti-government demonstrators whose mass protests have rocked the country. "There are just seven months ...

Beyond the Sycamore Trees: What the Turkey Protests Really Represent

Forbes - ‎2 hours ago‎
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - JUNE 06: Protestors hug at Gezi Park in Taksim Square on June 6, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. The protests began initially over the fate of Taksim Gezi Park, one of the last significant green spaces in the center of the city.

Turkish PM blasts defiant youth

ABC Online - ‎2 hours ago‎
Turkey's prime minister has launched into a series of fiery speeches, attacking protesters who've packed Istanbul's Taksim Square. The demonstration was the largest gathering in more than a week since a small protest against the redevelopment of a park in ...

Erdogan rallies supporters in Turkey

Financial Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, has sought to fight back against the demonstrations that have shaken his country, rallying his supporters in a series of speeches on Sunday ahead of a bigger show of force in days to come. In a sign that the ...

Turkey's Erdogan vows to 'choke' financial speculators

Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
By Jonathon Burch. ANKARA | Sun Jun 9, 2013 4:59pm EDT. ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to "choke" financial market speculators who he said were growing rich off "the sweat of the people", and urged Turks ...

In defence of Erdogan

The Sun Daily - ‎2 hours ago‎
WESTERN politicians and media have been scolding Turkey's prime minister Recep Erdogan over anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara. What began as a local protest over the foolish plan to raze trees in Gezi Park near Istanbul's bustling ...

Turkey PM vows to beat 'looters' and says he will not back down during defiant ...

Daily Mail - ‎2 hours ago‎
Turkey's defiant prime minister gave a speech from the top of a bus today making it clear he has no intention of backing down in the face of 10 days of anti-government protesters. Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again condemned his opponents as 'looters'.

Turkish PM calls for pro-government rallies

Aljazeera.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
Thousands welcome Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he returns to the capital, while police use water cannon against protesters. Last Modified: 09 Jun 2013 21:10. Email Article. Print Article. Share article. Send Feedback. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...

No picnic for Turkey's lady in red

New Zealand Herald - ‎3 hours ago‎
The image of Turkish police tear-gassing Ceyda Sungur in Taksim Square has gone viral. Photo / Reuters. With her red cotton dress, white shoulder bag and flowing black hair, she has become the colour-coded emblem of Turkey's new people-power ...

Turkey's Erdogan to protesters: 'Even patience has an end'

CNN - ‎3 hours ago‎
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed protesters Sunday, the tenth day of demonstrations against his government, warning that "even patience has an end." He gave a series of speeches to supporters in the nation's ...

Tyranny of the Majority in Turkey

Huffington Post - ‎3 hours ago‎
In a country divided between east and west, a park in the center of Istanbul has sparked what activists are calling "Taksim Solidarity," others the "Turkish Spring." The reality is that the events in Turkey are neither. The conquest of Taksim Square on June 1 was ...

Police tear gas thousands of protesters in Ankara

Hindustan Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
Police in the Turkish capital Ankara used tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of demonstrators on the 10th day of nationwide protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted government. At least two people were injured in ...

Turkey PM Erdogan warns protesters of 'limited patience'

BBC News - ‎3 hours ago‎
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned his patience "has a limit" as anti-government protests continued for a 10th day. Mr Erdogan dismissed the protesters as "looters", in a defiant address to supporters in the capital, Ankara. Thousands of...

Turkish Premier Defiant, As Street Protests Persist

Wall Street Journal - ‎3 hours ago‎
ISTANBUL—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied his supporters on Sunday in a string of defiant speeches designed to showcase his popularity and quell two weeks of unrest, as tens of thousands of antigovernment demonstrators massed in ...

Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan defiant as protests enter tenth day

Herald Sun - ‎4 hours ago‎
Turkish PM slams protesters for their attitude. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan slams protesters for their behavior as thousands of people gather in Ankara to show him support. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. TURKEY'S defiant Prime Minister Recep ...

Turkey: PM Erdogan Hits Back At Protesters

Sky News - ‎4 hours ago‎
Tayyip Erdogan brushes off protests over his rule and tells those rallying against him his patience will eventually run out. 8:35pm UK, Sunday 09 June 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters on arrival in Ankara. Turkey PM ...

Turkey PM rallies supporters in unrest

Sky News Australia - ‎4 hours ago‎
Updated: 06:21, Monday June 10, 2013. Turkey PM rallies supporters in unrest. Turkey's defiant Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rallied supporters after riot police clashed with thousands of angry anti-government protesters in a second week of civil ...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

DTN News - TURKISH DEFENSE NEWS: Turkish PM Focuses On Defense Industry In Poll Campaign

DTN News - TURKISH DEFENSE NEWS: Turkish PM Focuses On Defense Industry In Poll Campaign
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / ANKARA, Turkey - June 11, 2011:
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, is putting an unprecedented emphasis on the defense industry in its campaign for the June 12 elections. The party's promises focus on establishing and developing a domestic industry that comes near to being self-sufficient. PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says the capital city of Ankara will become the headquarters of the sector.
Visions for the defense industry have not played a key role in election campaigns by either a ruling or opposition party ahead of previous Turkish polls. But this year, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been holding up Turkey’s developing national defense industry as one of the pillars of a modern economy in the 2020s.
In the weeks leading up to the nationwide parliamentary election that will be held June 12, Erdoğan had made three major speeches on the national defense industry.
Explaining his ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP’s, election manifesto in late April, Erdoğan pledged that Turkey’s local defense companies would manufacture indigenous “tanks, helicopters, war planes, unmanned aerial vehicles and military satellites in the next 12 years.”
The prime minister has vigorously set out a national strategy to maximize local production in Turkey’s defense programs, aiming at what he calls “near self-sufficiency.” In recent years, Turkey has practically suspended off-the-shelf purchase options, restructuring programs into local development or coproduction.
As it seeks re-election for a third term in power, the incumbent AKP government is also ambitiously planning to make Ankara, the country’s capital, into a “global defense industry base.”
In a televised speech May 25, Erdoğan said new investments would make Ankara a global defense and aerospace center catering to both local and international companies.
“Turkey’s defense industry capital is Ankara,” Erdoğan reiterated in a May 29 speech. He said local companies are targeting $8 billion in sales by 2016, $6 billion of which will come from companies based in Ankara. Two major planned investments will serve the prime minister’s goal, according to defense industry officials.
The first involves the Ankara-based powerhouse Turkish Aerospace Industries, or TAI, which already has pushed the button to build a $100 million Satellite Assembly, Integration and Test Center, or UMET.
TAI’s general manager, Muharrem Dörtkaşlı, said UMET would become operational by the end of 2012. “This will be a place where final assembly of both military and civilian satellites will be carried out with state-of-the-art technology. Also, the planned center will conduct series of tests with full space-simulation capability before satellites are launched,” Dörtkaşlı said.
Making, testing satellites
According to Erdoğan, a total of 120 engineers will be employed at the facility, where two satellites will be able to go through simultaneous production and testing. “First, we will assemble and test the Göktürk [military] satellite at the new plant,” Dörtkaşlı said.
Telespazio, a joint venture between Italy’s defense giant Finmeccanica and France’s Thales, signed a nearly 250 million-euro deal a couple of years ago to lead the effort for the Turkish military satellite. Finmeccanica has a 67 percent stake in Telespazio.
TAI was created in the late 1980s to carry out partial production and assembly of the F-16 fighter aircraft, made by the U.S. firm Lockheed Martin. In its early years, it also assembled the Spanish-made CN-235 light transport aircraft and some utility helicopters.
Now it is the prime contractor in building 60 T-129 attack helicopters developed by the Italian AgustaWestland for the Turkish Army. It also has been selected as prime contractor in Turkey’s coproduction of at least 109 T-70 utility helicopters, Turkish versions of the U.S. firm Sikorsky Aircraft’s S-70i Black Hawk International. TAI also is coproducing the KT-1 basic trainer aircraft with South Korea, developing its own basic trainer aircraft and is building Turkey’s first medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, the Anka.
The second investment plan is for the building of a Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems center in Gölbaşı, near Ankara. The center will be built and operated by Aselsan, Turkey’s biggest defense company and a military electronics specialist.
Aselsan, also based in the capital, last year obtained a 192.5 million Turkish Liras ($130 million) investment incentive from the Treasury for the new center. Industry sources said the total cost for building the new plant would be around $200 million.
They said Aselsan plans to start production at the planned facility in 2013. Principal tasks will be the research, development, design and production of air defense radars, land radars, signal interceptors, jammers, microwave modules and various pieces of electronic warfare equipment.
Aselsan plans to transfer the 700 employees currently active at its Macunköy, Ankara, plant to the new site. There will be additional 400 engineering positions available.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

DTN News: U.S. President Barack Obama Sees Turkey Turning Eastward If Snubbed By EU

DTN News: U.S. President Barack Obama Sees Turkey Turning Eastward If Snubbed By EU Source: DTN News / Reuters - Reporting by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Peter Graff
(NSI News Source Info) MILAN, Italy - July 8, 2010: Turkey could end up seeking alliances outside the West if the European Union keeps it dangling over its bid for membership, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a newspaper interview on Thursday.
Obama told Italy's Corriere della Sera the United States believed it would be wise for the European Union to accept Turkey, and saw reluctance to let Turkey in as a factor behind changes seen in its traditionally West-facing foreign policy. "I recognise that this raises strong feelings in Europe and I do not think the slow pace or European reluctance is the only or predominant factor at the root of some changes in the orientation recently observed in the Turkish attitude. "But it is inevitably destined to play a role in how the Turkish people see Europe," Obama said. "If they do not feel themselves part of the European family, it is natural that they should end up looking elsewhere for alliances and affiliations." Turkey's past secularist governments were wary of ties with Islamic neighbours in the East, and were firm Cold War allies of the West, due to a mistrust of communism and traditional rivalry with Russia over the Black Sea and Caucasus region. But under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan relations have warmed up considerably with neighbours like Iran and Syria, the wider Middle East, and post-Soviet countries, while a formerly close alliance with Israel has dwindled. Ties with Israel are at the point of breaking following the killing of nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists during an Israeli military operation to stop a Gaza-bound aid convoy. Critics say the trend in foreign policy reflects the AK party's Islamist roots, though the party sees itself as a Muslim version of Europe's conservative Christian Democrat parties. The government says Turkey's commitment to the West is undiminished and critics are wrongly confusing efforts to build ties and find new markets for its growing economy with a change in orientation. Obama called Turkey's attempt to mediate an accord with Iran on the nuclear issue "unfortunate," but said he understood its interest as an emerging power and neighbour of Iran. Western powers rejected a deal negotiated by Turkey and Brazil for Iran to exchange some nuclear fuel abroad. Turkey and Brazil responded last month by becoming the only two countries to vote against sanctions on Iran in the U.N. Security Council. Turkey's AK Party government entered negotiations to join the 27-member EU in 2005, but the process is at risk of grinding to a halt due to an impasse over the divided island of Cyprus. Cyprus is an EU member and its Greek Cypriot government has stalled Turkey's bid to join because of its support for Turkish Cypriots, though Ankara now backs reunification of the island. Turkey suspects some EU governments of using the Cyprus issue to keep the door shut because of doubts over letting a Muslim country join their "Christian club." Obama spoke of the importance of strong relations with a strategic country at the crossroads between East and West. "It is a NATO ally, its economy is expanding greatly," Obama said. "Furthermore, the fact that it is a democracy and a country that is mostly Islamic makes it a critically important model for other Muslim countries of the region."
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

DTN News: China ~ Xinjiang Unrest Continues And Raises Death Toll To 184

DTN News: China ~ Xinjiang Unrest Continues And Raises Death Toll To 184
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(NSI News Source Info) URUMQI, China - July 11, 2009: China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in its far west to 184 and detailed for the first time the ethnicity of those killed, while tension lingered over the city at the center of the strife. Chinese paramilitary police patrol on a street in the Uighur district of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region on July 11, 2009. Deadly unrest in China's Muslim-populated far northwest has highlighted deep tensions felt by dozens of ethnic groups across the vast nation that pose a growing problem for the government, analysts said. The official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday that 137 of those killed in the mayhem on July 5 in Urumqi, regional capital of Xinjiang, were Han Chinese, who form the majority of China's 1.3 billion population, including 111 men and 26 women. Forty-six were Uighurs, the largely Muslim people of Xinjiang who share cultural bonds with Central Asian peoples. All but one of them were men. Uighurs make up 46 percent of Xinjiang's 21.3 million people, according to government statistics. Xinhua said the other person killed in the attacks that erupted last weekend was a member of the Hui ethnic group, which is Muslim but culturally akin to Han Chinese. The brief report did not say whether the death toll included rioters who may have been killed by security forces. The reaction on Urumqi streets to the official death toll reflected the deepening ethnic divide in Xinjiang, with Uighurs expressing disbelief in the number. "That's the Han people's number. We have our own number," said Akumjia, a Uighur resident, as he eyed security forces who had cordoned off a street where there was an outburst of protest near a mosque and then arrests on Friday. A security forces helicopter buzzed overhead. "Maybe many, many more Uighurs died. The police were scared and lost control." Close to where he stood, what appeared to be a spray of bullet holes could be seen on the glass front of a Bank of China office. There were no bullets among the shards. The government has not said what kind of forces was used to suppress the bloody rioting. Many Uighur residents say they heard or saw gunfire. Chinese authorities had delayed releasing the ethnic breakdown of the dead, possibly out of concern it would further inflame the situation. Several Han Chinese residents said distrust toward Uighurs was likely to stay. "This [new number] at least shows that the victims weren't only Han people," said Zhao Hong, a Han resident who said she saw some of the bloodshed from her home window before hiding. "Uighurs also died ... But then they blame Han for being so angry about the killing and looting." "A TOUGH BATTLE TO PROTECT STABILITY" Beijing cannot afford to lose its grip on the vast territory that borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region. Chinese security forces patrol the streets in Urumqi, China, Saturday, July 11, 2009. Thousands of Chinese troops have flooded into Urumqi to separate the feuding ethnic groups. China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving the first ethnic breakdown of the dead nearly a week after communal violence broke out in this far western city. Zhou Yongkang, the top domestic security official in China's ruling Communist Party, said the country now had to "vigorously prosecute this tough battle to protect stability in Xinjiang," the Xinjiang Daily reported on Saturday. Human Rights Watch said that the government had deployed some 20,000 troops in Urumqi since the riots of July 5, which broke out after security forces broke up a protest over the deaths of Uighur workers in far southern China. "The government has promised a thorough investigation into the violence but has so far presented a skewed and incomplete picture of the unrest," said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "This raises serious doubts about its commitment to investigating all aspects of the violence rather than presenting a pre-determined version of the events." Urumqi is still tense, with thousands of troops and police deployed throughout the city. A brief demonstration broke out on Friday, the main Muslim day of prayer, after some mosques were opened briefly. On Saturday, anti-riot troops continued to keep a close watch on Uighur residents, and loudspeakers on vehicles blasted warnings that they should stay at home and accept the government's line on the unrest. The Uighur language is related to Turkish, and some Uighurs refer to their desert and forest homeland as "East Turkestan." On Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called the killings in Xinjiang a "genocide." In Washington, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning the "violent repression" of the Uighur people by China. It was unclear how soon it would come to a vote in the House.
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