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FBIS4-19125_2 | Kinkel Comments in Bundestag on Bosnia Situation | of these two countries is of vital importance. Russia must be involved in the efforts to seek a political solution. Without the participation of Russia there will not be a solution in the former Yugoslavia. On the other hand, one is also entitled to expect Russia to continue to support the UN Security Council resolutio... |
FBIS4-19126_1 | SPD's Klose Praises NATO Action | in domestic policy. The most differing statements have been made in connection with Yugoslavia, even from the ranks of the Russian Government. Still Russia's role, which has been positive to date, should be honored. I think it is wise to continue to include the Russians in the political process. [applause] On the other... |
FBIS4-19128_0 | Kinkel Says Turkish Human Rights Unsatisfactory | BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- The German Government insists that human rights must be respected in Turkey. Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, speaking in a government statement in the Bundestag on Wednesday [13 April], said that friendly relations with Turkey remain "of great value" for Germany. It is, however, all the more... |
FBIS4-19129_0 | SPD Criticizes Military Aid | BFN [Excerpt] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- The Social Democratic Party [SPD] has strongly criticized the German Government's military aid for Turkey. It has never been clarified whether these weapons have been used against Kurds, SPD Bundestag group chairman Hans-Ulrich Klose said in the Bundestag today. If the German Foreign Min... |
FBIS4-19134_0 | SPD Official Urges Further European Integration | BFN [Article by Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, European policy spokeswoman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany: "Beyond Maastricht"] [Text] The European Union (EU) is getting bigger. The latest decisions have made it clear that the 12 states that concluded a treaty in Maastricht can be accompanied on their path towar... |
FBIS4-19141_3 | Joffe Deplores Lack of Western Strategy on Bosnia | particular only acted after pursuing a zig-zag course for months. It was the Pentagon that conveyed the impression of a "green light" to the Serbs (as opposition leader Dole pointed out) by making statements that sounded as though the United States was not at all interested in Gorazde. However, it was easy to foresee t... |
FBIS4-19163_0 | Cross-Border Operation Launched Into Northern Iraq | BFN [Excerpt] Turkish ground and Air Force units and Kurdish peshmergas affiliated with Democratic Party of Kurdistan leader Mas'ud Barzani have launched a major operation against the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] militants in northern Iraq. Some 40,000 troops and 3,000 commandos affiliated with the commando brigade... |
FBIS4-19164_0 | PKK Official Reportedly Killed by Own Aides | BFN [Text] Ankara--One of the most senior commanders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey is believed to have been killed by his aides within the organization for failing to adapt to the movement's radical stance, a senior security source said over the weekend. Muslum Durgun, alias Doctor Ba... |
FBIS4-19165_0 | ARGK Gives Casualty Figures for March | BFN [Text] Botan (KURD-HA) -- The ARGK [People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan] headquarters has announced the list of operations for March. According to the ARGK statement, 483 soldiers, 106 village guards, 91 policemen, and 86 guerrillas were killed during operations and clashes in March. ARGK headquarters' Statement ... |
FBIS4-19168_8 | Iranian Ambassador on Ties, Regional Issues | that they were untrue and were only made to disseminate political propaganda against Iran. "It is normal to experience economic problems. Just look at other countries. Although they did not conduct a revolution against a regime connected to the United States, or fight an eight-year-long war or resist U.S. attempts at p... |
FBIS4-19170_0 | Turkey To Continue Supplying Electricity to Iraq | BFN [Text] Ankara, April 13 (A.A.) -- Turkey will continue to supply electricity to Northern Iraq as soon as the lines which were sabotaged by terrorists are repaired. The terrorists had sabotaged the part of the lines running into Northern Iraq and as a result no power has been sent to that region since Sunday [10 Apr... |
FBIS4-19200_0 | Kinkel on Turkish Human Rights Violations | BFN [Text] Bonn -- Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel has criticized the violation of human rights and the treatment of the Kurdish population in Turkey. The situation is not satisfactory and has deteriorated recently, Kinkel stated during the government statement at the German Bundestag today. The chairman of the Free Demo... |
FBIS4-19201_0 | Kinkel Discusses `Struggle' With Kurd Leader | BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- On Wednesday evening [13 April], Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel received the leader of the Iraqi Kurds, Jalal Talabani, for talks during which the situation of the Kurds in this Arab country and their struggle for autonomy were focused on. Talabani, who is the secretary general of the "Patriotic... |
FBIS4-19202_0 | Iraqi Kurd Leader: No Coexistence With Husayn | BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- On Thursday [14 April] in Bonn, Iraqi Kurd leader Jalal Talabani came out in favor of preserving the unity of Iraq but rejected any coexistence of his people with Saddam Husayn's dictatorship in Baghdad. "We will never again return beneath the yoke of Saddam's brutal dictatorship," the secretar... |
FBIS4-19203_0 | NVA Expert Confirms Use of German Tanks Against Kurds | BFN [Text] Cologne (DPA) -- According to a former GDR officer, the Turkish military is using German tanks against Kurds. They come from the stocks of the former National People's Army [NVA] but, before their delivery to Turkey, they were technically reequipped for the Bundeswehr, the former NVA colonel confirmed to the... |
FBIS4-19232_0 | `Monitor' Identifies German Tanks in Turkey | BFN [Report by Michael Enger, Philip Siegel, and Hans-Peter Weymar] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] In March 1994, Defense Minister Volker Ruehe said: Germany cannot check to see whether weapons delivered by Germany are being used against Kurds in Turkey. This year, the shops remain closed in Diyabakir, Kurdistan's secret ... |
FBIS4-19238_0 | Counterintelligence Office Reports 1993 Extremism | BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- The radical right-wing Republikaner (REP) party is showing signs of efforts toward right-wing extremism. This emerges from the 1993 report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which was submitted today in Bonn by Interior Minister Manfred Kanther. Statements by leading Repu... |
FBIS4-19263_3 | * Trade, Investment Ties to East Europe Expand | amounted to 770 million markkaa. "Since the former socialist countries imposed tariffs and launched economic reforms, Kevsos has become a valuable asset for us. Finnish industrial exporters have notably succeeded in increasing their shares of the market. The tariff advantage has been of considerable benefit to, for exa... |
FBIS4-19278_0 | * Linkage With Trans-European Networks Discussed | CSO [Article by Irini Kakoulidou: "Greece Caught Unprepared"] [Text] Greek Governments Responsible for Greece'sInability To Serve as Link Between East and West The relative advantage that Greece sought to secure by participating in the trans-European networks of transportation, telecommunications, and energy, seems at ... |
FBIS4-19280_0 | Mentese Reports on al-Asad Assurances on PKK | BFN [Text] Ankara, April 14 (A.A.) -- Interior Minister Nahit Mentese on Thursday [14 April] said that Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad assured him that if necessary PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorists near the border would be arrested. He was speaking to reporters in the plane on his way back from Syria where he... |
FBIS4-19281_0 | `At Least' 80 PKK Members Dead in Ongoing Raids | BFN [Text] Ankara, April 14 (A.A.) -- The Turkish Armed Forces struck terrorist bases in northern Iraq's Mezi region and have killed at least 80 PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorists, it was reported on Thursday [14 April]. The Anatolian Agency learned that it was determined that a group of 500 to 600 terrorists ... |
FBIS4-19292_0 | Cites Poland's Importance in EU | BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- Chancellor Helmut Kohl has stressed the importance of Polish accession to the European Union (EU). Following a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak, Kohl told reporters in Bonn today that without Poland, Europe would be a "torso." It is important for Poland to find the path to... |
FBIS4-19302_2 | Brittan on Marrakesh, EU Expansion, Other Issues | were set aside and will be dealt with later; this was the case with financial services, for example. But we convinced the other countries -- developed and less developed alike -- to remove many obstacles to free trade, including tariffs. We were able to preserve those industrial sectors that are experiencing real diffi... |
FBIS4-19302_6 | Brittan on Marrakesh, EU Expansion, Other Issues | union, what are the other issues on which your position diverges from that of the Tory party? [Brittan] You know, there is no single position within the government. There is a range of nuanced opinions, and a number of topics on which no-one has taken a clear stand yet, such as institutional issues. In fact, the debate... |
FBIS4-19303_0 | Kinkel: EU's Eastward Expansion To Top Germany's Agenda | BFN [Text] Budapest (DDP/ADN) -- According to German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, Germany will continue to be the "patron and advocate" of eastward expansion of the European Union (EU). Therefore, this issue will top the agenda of the German EU Presidency, which starts on 1 July, Kinkel said in Budapest today, at a f... |
FBIS4-19320_0 | Reynolds to Provide `Far-Reaching Guarantees' | BFN [Report by Nicholas Watt, Ireland correspondent: "Dublin Tries To Calm Unionists Fear Over Reynolds Plan"] [Text] The Irish government tried yesterday to allay Unionist fears after Albert Reynolds, the Prime Minister, had outlined his vision for a "new and agreed Ireland" with 30 percent of government posts reserve... |
FBIS4-19325_0 | Kinkel Cited on Turkish Weapons Allegations | BFN [Text] Frankfurt/Main -- Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel (Free Democratic Party of Germany) fears consequences for Germany's foreign policy if the assertion is true that the Turkish military is using German weapons against the Kurds. In the Frankfurt talks of Hesse radio, Kinkel stated today that the information and ... |
FBIS4-19333_3 | Lower House Speaker Candidate Pivetti Profiled | at first sight. She was immediately entrusted with the bandwagon's Catholic Consultation Office [Consulta], together with Giuseppe Leoni (who, years later, censored her, saying she "speaks like a Lefebvrian"), immediately stood as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies, and was immediately elected with a forceful slog... |
FBIS4-19340_0 | Group Reports Deported Kurd Tortured in Turkey | BFN ["bho"-signed report: "Deported Kurd Allegedly Tortured"] [Excerpt] Dresden, 14 Apr -- According to the Association of Germans and Foreigners in Chemnitz, a Kurd deported to Turkey from Saxony was arrested by the police immediately after arriving in Istanbul and tortured for three days. They wanted him to supply in... |
FBIS4-19353_2 | Editorial Criticizes West for Bosnia Situation | "ethnic cleansing." It would also have led to the collapse of the ingenious structure of negotiations and compromise opportunities that the United Nations, the United States, and Russia as negotiators, in particular, have been trying to put together for two months. Yet -- and this also makes up the tragedy of the belat... |
FBIS4-19365_0 | Government To Tighten Export Control Laws | CSO [Article by Mikael Holmstrom: "Loopholes in Export Control Eliminated"] [Excerpt] The government will today decide to propose export controls for advanced Swedish civilian technology. For 45 years such state control of Swedish strategic goods was contrary to the neutrality policy, but is now being implemented as an... |
FBIS4-19393_0 | Kanther Urges Measures Against Industrial Spying | BFN ["tl" report: "Kanther Calls On Industry To Take Better Protective Measures Against Espionage"] [Excerpt] Bonn, 14 Apr -- FRG Interior Minister Manfred Kanther (Christian Democratic Union) has called on industry to make more intensive efforts against espionage. It suffers great damage if it does not protect itself ... |
FBIS4-19394_3 | President Soares Reviews International Situation | must never lose sight of the economic and social context in which Islam thrives. This is what fuels religious fundamentalism. [LE FIGARO] Even in Saudi Arabia? [Soares] We should not let Saudi Arabia remain the way it is, we should not let the people of Islam revert to archaic models. [LE FIGARO] And still we do nothin... |
FBIS4-19410_0 | EU Seen `Threatened by Large Ring of Instability' | BFN [Editorial by Charles Lambroschini: "Rwanda -- The New Barbarians"] [Text] Rwanda is now in the clutches of horror. The only reason the Europeans and the Americans have been paying any attention, however, is that white soldiers have gone there to evacuate white expatriates under the gaze of television lights. Once ... |
FBIS4-19450_1 | Stasi Role in Lockerbie Bombing Examined | colleagues from the State Protection Office, investigators from the Wiesbaden Federal Office of Criminal Investigations Office (BKA), and prosecutors from Frankfurt and Berlin are trying to solve the most mysterious crime story of recent years: the story of the timer. The timer, which is not even worth 400 German marks... |
FBIS4-19450_10 | Stasi Role in Lockerbie Bombing Examined | possessed of many talents, fits precisely into this picture. He has been playing a game on at least two sides. While those leveling the charges place him firmly on the Libyan side, he was secretly involved in procurement for the GDR above all: He was a Stasi Unofficial Agent (IM) codenamed "Rubin" and procured highly s... |
FBIS4-19451_0 | Interior Minister: `We Do Not Need Vigilante Groups' | BFN [Interview with Interior Minister Manfred Kanther by unidentified reporter; place and date not given: "Do We Need Vigilante Groups, Mr. Kanther?"] [Text] [BILD] Minister, did you get back the car radio that was stolen from you? [Kanther] No, the thieves have not been identified yet. [BILD] The crime situation is de... |
FBIS4-19452_1 | Schoenhuber Reportedly Condones Attack on Refugees | the men who attacked a refugee hostel in Bergheim-Zieverich on 6 October 1991? According to the latest press reports, not only the chief but also leading functionaries of the North Rhine-Westphalian land association were involved "in crimes and the covering up of crimes." The reports are based, among other things, on a... |
FBIS4-19453_5 | Kohl Interviewed on Election Chances | consider it wrong to underestimate Landtag elections. The September Landtag election is very important for Bavaria. At the Bundestag elections, the voter knows that the future of the entire country is at stake. We will fight the Republikaner without compunction, but we will not rebuke those who voted for them, because ... |
FBIS4-19473_0 | Security Forces Capture `Terrorist' Camps in Iraq | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpt] The cross-border operations launched by the security forces south of Hakkari's Cukurca District on 12 April against terrorists trying to infiltrate into Turkey are continuing. The Shivi, Mezi, and Keryaderi camps used by the terrorists as bases in Northern Iraq have been... |
FBIS4-19475_6 | DEP Official Views Imminent Ban of Party | them. Most voters either did not participate in the elections or handed in empty ballot slips. Thus, they behaved in line with our suggestions. By the way, in the Kurdish areas the RP was not able to increase its number of votes to the same extent as in the Turkish areas. It won in some communities only because there i... |
FBIS4-19476_4 | Golhan on Conscription, German Weapons, PKK | Germany on the basis of our defense industry cooperation. He says he will be of assistance. Foreign Minister Kinkel's message is along the same lines. There are many PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] members in Germany. They are friendly with the press, and they have money. It is they who spread the rumor that Turkey is... |
FBIS4-19477_3 | Kurdish, Economic Situation Viewed | "bitter medicine" in the Southeast. According to him, the evacuation of villages, razing them to the ground, forceful depopulation of certain areas and "mystery killings" which are observed every day are part of this bitter medicine. In other words, what has taken place until now is being regarded only as mild medicine... |
FBIS4-19477_8 | Kurdish, Economic Situation Viewed | could have brought forth until now. Whether Turkey is truly aware of the cost of this undeclared war is not quite clear although it is evident that the crisis is serving the interests of at least some regional circles such as the feudal landlords who are following Middle East fashion and are creating their own small-sc... |
FBIS4-19479_0 | Agreement Reached With Iraq on Pipeline Repair | BFN [Excerpts] Ankara, April 18 (A.A.) [Passage omitted] Foreign Ministry under secretary Ozdem Sanberk returning from a trip to Jordan and Iraq, told reporters at Ankara's Esenboga Airport that a memorandum of understanding was reached with Iraq, adding a team of Iraqi officials will come to Ankara in the next months ... |
FBIS4-19490_1 | Industry Stresses Need for Dual-Use Regulations | Council of the [European] Union in defining a regime to be applied to "dual-use" goods and technologies (civilian and military). It is a known fact that the problem concerns exports of such goods towards third countries. Difficulties arise from the need to reconcile the free movement of goods in the market without bord... |
FBIS4-19497_0 | Death of BfV Official in Libya Still Not Clarified | BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- According to a spokesman, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution [BfV] does not yet know any details about the circumstances that led to the death of a BfV official and his wife in Libya. The BfV spokesman affirmed on Tuesday [19 April] that the terrorism expert and his wife ... |
FBIS4-19501_5 | Juppe Cited on Bosnia, PRC, Rwanda | fluent Chinese-speaker, no longer had any contact with the Chinese ministries. We had reached an advanced state of sulking. Can you imagine France having no dialogue with a power such as China? Maybe some people were resigned to that fact, but I was not. As a result, we did everything we could -- and it was a long proc... |
FBIS4-19514_1 | EU Ministerial Focuses on Bosnia, Algeria, Russia Calls For UN-EU-U.S.-Russian Team on Bosnia | Kinkel said. However, the Twelve have not resigned themselves to giving up nor agreed to put up with a further deterioration of the situation. "We do not accept fait accomplis," Alain Juppe said. "The diplomatic initiative must resume." In line with the request put forward by Paris, the Twelve are urging the UN Securit... |
FBIS4-19517_4 | FYROM President Says `No Real Conflicts' With Greece | Vergina on the national flag could also have been a Macedonian lion. Vergina is in Greece, and the sarcophagus of Philip II, which bears the star, is in the archaeological museum in Thessaloniki. [Gligorov] The Balkan cultures, like the people in the area, are mixed. You can also see this star in our churches. We have ... |
FBIS4-19518_0 | PKK European Representative on Kurdish Issues | BFN [Report on interview with Kani Yilmaz, "spokesman of the political wing of the Kurdish Workers Party," by Klaus Tehar in Vienna; date not given --recorded] [Excerpt] [Tehar] The war between the Turkish Government and the marxist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] has acquired a European angle through the banning of K... |
FBIS4-19520_1 | Right-wing Extremism Reviewed | A succession of generations is taking place. "In the executive committees of associations that cultivate the traditions and in moderately large organizations, revisionists and right-wing extremists are increasingly replacing the war generation," the report stresses. Of the 425 political parties that are registered with... |
FBIS4-19528_0 | Kinkel Warns Turkey Over Treatment of Kurds | BFN [Unattributed report: "State Protection Confirms: PKK Blackmails Asylum-Seekers"] [Text] Berlin -- FRG Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel has warned against consequences for the German-Turkish relations if the Turks are indeed using German weapons in their fight against Kurds. Kinkel said the reports and documents prese... |
FBIS4-19534_1 | Protection Office Head Views Extremists | the premise that the so-called militant antifascist struggle of the 1970's and 1980's has an ideological foundation in the fact that "fascism" is inseparably linked with "capitalism" and that neo-Nazis and right-wing extremist parties that are not neo-Nazi parties are "henchmen" and "watchdogs" of the capitalist-imperi... |
FBIS4-19534_6 | Protection Office Head Views Extremists | This does not mean that the state let the "rightists" do what they want and those who oppose right-wing extremism are pushed away by the police. The available instruments are used very consistently against right-wing extremism. [Lillig] Why does the state then permit organizations that are hostile to the constitution t... |
FBIS4-19538_2 | Commentary Views Marrakesh GATT Talks | eight years ago at the inspiration of U.S. President Reagan, the world was still quite different from today. In the old Western industrialized countries, including Japan, technological progress has eliminated more and more jobs since then. The high chronic unemployment is making West European social security systems vi... |
FBIS4-19543_2 | Future Transport Plane Favored Over U.S. Version | examined the possibility of buying existing or proposed planes from abroad. Some, like the Boeing 747 cargo or the A-340 Airbus are not in their present form suited to the transportation in their holds of heavy or light armored vehicles and helicopters, even if they are partly dismantled. Others, like the American C-17... |
FBIS4-19557_3 | Paper Terms U.S. Foreign Policy `Immobile' | case of Roosevelt's pledge to intervene against Nazism and fascism). It is based on an awareness of the fact that every tragic and uncontrolled event in world politics entails a cost. And that this cost is bound to increase with the passage of time, the increase of the tragedy, and the growth in the number of victims. ... |
FBIS4-19562_8 | * Border Guard Chief on Mission, Control Measures | countries of Central Europe to obtain, among other things, the hassle-free departure to Finland of the millons of illegal residents in these countries by opening its internal borders? [Autio] The Germans have said straight out that they cannot carry this burden alone. The greatest pressure would scarcely be concentrate... |
FBIS4-19565_0 | ABB Forms Joint Venture in Vietnam | BFN [Agneta Engqvist report: "ABB Buys Leading Electrical Engineering Company in Vietnam"] [Text] ABB [Asea Brown Boveri] has gained a real head start through a strategic investment in Vietnam. The company is taking over one of the country's leading electrical engineering plants. This will be the first of at least five... |
FBIS4-19566_0 | Daily Reports on Incident | BFN [Report by Kh. Kharalambidhis] [Text] Since Sunday night [17 April], the Republic's security authorities have been dealing with a case of spying against the National Guard by a British colonel and an American first lieutenant. Due to the involvement of foreign military personnel serving in Cyprus, this case is cons... |
FBIS4-19574_0 | Impact of Balkan Crisis on National Issues Viewed | BFN [Editorial: "In the Shadow of the Bosnian Issue"] [Text] The new escalation in the Bosnian conflict, which includes NATO's first air attacks against land targets in its history, increases the uncertainty in the Balkans and multiplies the likelihood of an uncontrolled escalation of the conflict that has been develop... |
FBIS4-19578_0 | Cross-Border Military Operation in Iraq Continues | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] The bodies of another 20 terrorists were found in searches in the Shiva region today, within the framework of the operations being conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces in northern Iraq. This brings to 77 the number of bodies found since 12 April, the day the cross-border o... |
FBIS4-19580_0 | Kurdish Spokesman Renews Dialogue Offer | BFN [Gerhard Bitzan report: "PKK Offers Dialogue"] [Text] Vienna -- "Unnoticed by the world public, Turkey deployed 50,000 soldiers at the border with Iraq to be able to fight against the Kurds on the other side of the border, too. Everything suggests that they will stay there permanently." This has been claimed by the... |
FBIS4-19581_0 | Human Rights Report Reveals Increasing Violations | BFN [Text] Ankara--At least 24 people were reported "missing" in Turkey in March 1994, while 40 others allegedly died under police torture or in extrajudicial killings, the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) claimed in its monthly report. In the report, summarizing Turkey's human rights record in March, the IHD sai... |
FBIS4-19584_0 | UN Stand on Bosnia Criticized, Turkish Action Urged | BFN [Column by Gungor Mengi: "Let's Go to Bosnia"] [Text] Europe is experiencing an era similar to medieval times, when people were brutally tortured to death for their religious beliefs. Due to their helplessness and dependence on foreign countries, the Muslims have been merely watching the Serbian genocidal spectacle... |
FBIS4-19584_2 | UN Stand on Bosnia Criticized, Turkish Action Urged | and freedoms, including President Clinton. Struggle Against Butrus-Ghali Innocent and oppressed peoples have begun to regard UN Secretary General Butrus Butrus-Ghali, who has failed to heed Gorazde's call for urgent aid, as a scorpion. As far as world peace is concerned, he is an unfortunate factor. Butrus-Ghali may ow... |
FBIS4-19629_0 | Kinkel Addresses Bundestag on Turkish Relations | BFN [Address by Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel to the Bundestag in Bonn on 13 April] Madam President, Ladies and Gentlemen. In his eulogy for the victims of the terrible act of arson in Solingen on 3 June 1993, President von Weizsaecker correctly described German-Turkish relations as friendship between peoples. This fri... |
FBIS4-19631_0 | PKK Actions Despite Ban Reported | BFN [Joerg Bischof article: "Like a Fish in Water"] [Text] In mid-February this year it happened again: Five noncommissioned officer cadets died and 26 soldiers of the Turkish Army were injured, some of them seriously, when a bomb exploded at the railroad station of the Istanbul suburb of Tuzla. It was hidden in a tras... |
FBIS4-19632_1 | Turkish Intelligence Activity Noted | Here, in large cities like Berlin and Cologne, the Turkish surveillance apparatus sees the invisible frontline in the war against militant separatists. MIT agents are spying on the supporters of the terrorist Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK). However, they also intimidate other opposition members and, for instance, thr... |
FBIS4-19642_2 | PDS's Reich Sees Candidacy Sparking Debate | thesis of the end of indifference with politics or at least suggest a clear differentiation between the parties and indifference with politics. [Reich] I believe that, if anything, the situation has improved for such debates. There is a willingness to sacrifice freedom for public discourse. There is political movement.... |
FBIS4-19647_0 | Tax Expert on Effects of SPD Tax Policies | CSO [Interview with Dieter Teichmann, DIW Tax Expert, by W. Jakobs; place and date not given] [Text] [Jakobs] Herr Teichmann, according to your professional colleague Ruediger Pohl of the Haller Institute for Economic Research, the supplementary tax being demanded by the SPD [Social Democratic Party of Germany] will ha... |
FBIS4-19648_2 | Dailies Criticize Failures Against Serbs in Bosnia Failure of UN, Superpowers | power, who are risking their relations with the West for the benefit of a wild rabble of soldiers and their masterminds in Belgrade. Let us hear what excessively smooth mediator Vitaliy Churkin meanwhile has to say about the Serbian friends: "It is high time for Russia to break off the talks with the Bosnian Serbs. Mos... |
FBIS4-19664_0 | * Policy on Arms Exports to Baltics Seen Easing | CSO [Article by Olli Ainola: "Baltic Policy: Arms Sale Restrictions Being Rescinded"] [Text] Finland has changed the principles of its arms sale policy. Prevention of exports has been converted to promotion of exports. As its domestic sales are drying up, the defense industry is attempting to assure its survival throug... |
FBIS4-19685_0 | Column Urges Revision of Greek Balkan Policy | BFN [From the "Views" column: "Revision"] [Text] Greece has become involved in the Balkan crisis. The issue of Skopje [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia--FYROM] and the aggravation of our relations with Albania have dragged Greece into the European and international arbitration of the litigious Balkan countries... |
FBIS4-19687_0 | Cross-Border Operation Into Iraq Continues | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpt] The cross-border operation, which was launched by the Turkish Armed Forces in northern Iraq on 12 April, is continuing. During searches conducted in a total of 200 shelters belonging to the terrorist organization in the Mezi, (Kergaderi), and Shiva camps, security forces... |
FBIS4-19694_0 | Mentese, Syria's Harbah Discuss PKK | BFN [Report by Saygi Ozturk: "Syria: Abdullah Ocalan Is in Greece"--punctuation as published] [Text] In view of Internal Affairs Minister Nahit Mentese's visit to Damascus, Syria is preparing to deal a new blow to the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK]. Syrian Internal Affairs Minister Muhammad Harbah has said: "We shall... |
FBIS4-19695_3 | Golhan Interviewed on `Defense Concept' | The problem is as follows: We have acquired arms and military equipment from Russia. They are very similar to those we have acquired from Germany. That has confused the foreign journalists who visited that region. They created an uproar by saying that the arms and military equipment they saw were supplied to Turkey by ... |
FBIS4-19697_2 | Review of IMF Credits, Ciller U.S. Visit | difficult to get, or it will conclude a stand-by agreement with the IMF and the World Bank. That will enable Turkey to get a credit that can be repaid without difficulty. There is no alternative." It has been reported that Prime Minister Ciller will try to secure a credit of $5 billion in New York and Washington. Howev... |
FBIS4-19701_0 | Editorial Warns Erbakan About `Bloodshed' Threat | BFN [Editorial by Ilnur Cevik: "What Did Erbakan Really Try to Say?"] [Text] On Wednesday [20 April] pro-Islamic Welfare Party (RP) Chairman Professor Necmettin Erbakan made some "historical" statements which could well be quoted by future generations as a pretext for a military intervention in Turkey. Even his own par... |
FBIS4-19739_7 | More on Kinkel Bundestag Speech on Turkey | 10 November 1993 I appealed from this rostrum to all the Kurds living in Germany: "Do not spread your conflict to Germany. Do not think that violence is the way to achieve legitimate goals, such as the protection of human rights in your country!" For the sake of the Federal Republic, I repeat this appeal here and now w... |
FBIS4-19740_0 | Economics Minister Welcomes New GATT Accord | BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- The Bundestag today began to debate the new world trade agreement which promises Germany higher standards of living in the medium term. A week ago in Marrakesh, the member states of the GATT signed the agreement, which took seven and a half years to negotiate. The agreement stipulates a 37-... |
FBIS4-19741_3 | Committee Urges More Funds for Pacific Trade | is geared more closely to this region. A data bank on existing educational possibilities, a list of criteria for Asia specialists, and a job placement service for this region are also desirable. To increase German involvement in Asia, APA wants to see additional "German Centers" erected in countries of key significance... |
FBIS4-19744_2 | BfV Reports on Political Extremism in 1993 | violence has not waned. They are responsible for the majority of acts of violence that have a left-wing background. "Antifascism/antiracism" has remained the main field of activity and it has taken the form of militant action against right-wing extremists or suspected right-wing extremists and their structures as well ... |
FBIS4-19744_7 | BfV Reports on Political Extremism in 1993 | the end of 1993, 38,950 (39,800 in 1992) people belonged to "foreigners' associations that were actively extremist or considerably influenced by extremism," including 6,800 supporters of organizations from the "Kurdish and Turkish areas of observation" that are banned in Germany. Turkish and Kurdish extremism is the mo... |
FBIS4-19765_0 | Islamic Influence in Police Force Viewed | BFN [Article by Hayri Birler: "He Who Sows the Seeds..."] [Text] As the impact of the Welfare Party (RP) victory in the local elections shake the country, Sunday's protest rallies that turned into violent shows of strength for anti-secularist views, served as an eye opener for the country's leaders, showing them the st... |
FBIS4-19768_1 | * Ciller Pledges `No Stability Shock Package' | of the problems that are being experienced today is the budget deficits that assumed high proportions in recent years. The swelling in public spending between 1984 and 1987 was increasingly financed through domestic and foreign borrowing. That kept inflation from accelerating but led to very high interest rates on dome... |
FBIS4-19770_0 | Paper Calls For Turkish Defense of World Muslims | BFN [From the "Foreign Policy" column by Mustafa Necati Ozfatura: "To Defend Anatolia, First the Danube and the Sava Must Be Protected"] [Excerpt] The defense of Anatolia and particularly of the straits in northeastern Turkey depends on the defense of the Danube and of the Sava and Drau Rivers. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Koso... |
FBIS4-19784_0 | Duesseldorf Police Ban Kurdish Demonstration | BFN [Text] Duesseldorf (DPA) -- The Duesseldorf police president has banned a "demonstration with subsequent children's festival" that was planned by Kurds in the North Rhine-Westphalian capital for Saturday [23 April]. To justify this ban, it was said on Thursday that this event could be organized by the banned Worker... |
FBIS4-19821_0 | Duesseldorf Police Ban Kurdish Demonstration | BFN [Text] Duesseldorf (DPA) -- The Duesseldorf police president has banned a "demonstration with subsequent children's festival" that was planned by Kurds in the North Rhine-Westphalian capital for Saturday [23 April]. To justify this ban, it was said on Thursday that this event could be organized by the banned Worker... |
FBIS4-19837_0 | Poll: High Percentage of Undecided Voters | BFN [Unattributed article: "More Undecided Voters Than Ever"] [Text] There are now more voters who are undecided about which party to vote for than ever before. As many as 26 percent of voters do not know which party they will vote for on 3 May. Even more voters (29 percent) have recently changed their minds on how the... |
FBIS4-19850_2 | Kinkel Views Plan, Balkan Mission | election campaign? [Kinkel] On no account do I want the Bundeswehr to become a topic in the election campaign, because the Bundeswehr has to be kept out of party quarrels. It must have safe plans for itself, the soldiers, and their families. We have to put an end to the continuous disorder. In the first place, one thin... |
FBIS4-19851_0 | `Marked Increase' Noted in Nuclear Smuggling | BFN [Report by Peter Scherer: "Illegal Dealing in Nuclear Material Soaring"] [Text] Wiesbaden -- The Hesse Office of Criminal Investigations (LKA) has reported a "marked increase" in illegal trafficking of radioactive material. The office said yesterday that three incidents of nuclear crimes were registered in 1991, wh... |
FBIS4-19853_6 | Articles Examine Right-Wing, Left-Wing Parties Extreme Left-Wing Parties | a trend toward "alternative" fundamentalistically oppositionist subcultures that was visible long before 1989. The usually loosely structured groups that are concentrated in a few large German cities, including university cities (for example Berlin), are joined together by a hatred of imperialism, capitalism, and state... |
FBIS4-19854_2 | Articles Examine Right-Wing, Left-Wing Parties Right Extremist Groups in East | to the Germans and as ruining the ecological substance. The state should be "national." Mystical Teutomania, racism, and Social Darwinism are further ideological elements that may develop into distinct, local mixtures. Foreigners constitute a central "potential of threat" for the "purity of the race and German culture,... |
FBIS4-19855_0 | Articles Examine Right-Wing, Left-Wing Parties Republikaner Strasbourg Activities | BFN [Article by Gisbert Kuhn: "There Are Worlds Separating Political Demands and Reality"] [Text] The political rightists who were dispatched to the European Parliament by German voters on 18 June 1989 feel that their performance is being undervalued and are even talking of a "massive campaign" directed against them by... |
FBIS4-19855_1 | Articles Examine Right-Wing, Left-Wing Parties Republikaner Strasbourg Activities | the right-wingers' anti-European program. Entitled "German Interests Have Priority," the Dinkelsbuehl declaration on the European elections contained the following points: "No unilateral Western integration," "no to placing Germany at a disadvantage," "no to the right to vote for foreigners," "no to surrendering sovere... |
FBIS4-19893_1 | Columnist Warns Against `Radical' Islamic Tactics | to Bosnia as well. Expressing other intentions under the guise of showing "reaction" on the basis of "humanitarian" reasons, however, is a deception that goes beyond defending Bosnia. [passage omitted] The anti-imperialist winds created using the excuse of Bosnia and raids against embassies inevitably bring the Iranian... |
FBIS4-19895_0 | Press Center Denies Cyprus Discussed With Clinton | BFN [Announcer-read report over still of Prime Minister Tansu Ciller] [Text] It was reported that Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and U.S. President Bill Clinton have definitely not discussed the Cyprus issue at a tete-a-tete meeting they had in Washington last week. According to a statement issued by the Press Center of t... |
FBIS4-19901_0 | Joint Security Meeting With Iran Viewed | BFN [Text] Ankara--The eighth Turkey-Iran joint security committee meeting is set to begin today in Tehran. Interior Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Muharrem Goktayoglu is to chair the Turkish delegation attending the meeting. Decisions reached in previous security meetings and activities of the subcommittees will be am... |
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