id stringlengths 9 20 | title stringlengths 0 3.57k | text stringlengths 35 6.13k |
|---|---|---|
FBIS4-43367_0 | Comments on European Security, Defense | BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel by Ian Mather; place and date not given] [Text] Q: Would you like to see the Bundeswehr invited by Russia to play an active role in solving security problems in the former Soviet Union? A: A solution to the acute security problems on the territory of the former Soviet U... |
FBIS4-43412_1 | Foreign Ministry Reviews Barzani, Talabani Meeting | of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK], held a meeting in Silopi on 13 June at the initiative of Turkey, and added: It was stated at this meeting that only the terror organization is benefiting from the current atmosphere of instability in the region. Speaking at his weekly news conference, Ataman said Turkey found ... |
FBIS4-43413_0 | Kurds Reportedly Disagree; To Form New Parties | BFN [Report by Sinan Yilmaz] [Text] Ankara -- Moderate Kurds and extremists are on a collision course as preparations to establish new parties reach their final stage. According to political observers close to Kurdish sources, citizens of Kurdish origin who have no sympathies or links with the clandestine PKK (Kurdista... |
FBIS4-43414_0 | PP Leader Claims Poised Hammer Assisting PKK | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Prosperity Party [PP] leader Necmettin Erbakan has said that the Poised Hammer mandate has been extended, despite the fact that a majority of the people are against it. Addressing the PP assembly group, Erbakan said the Poised Hammer forces are extending aid to the PKK [Wor... |
FBIS4-43419_0 | Dailies View Turkish `Violations, Infringements' Domestic Problems Behind `Provocations' | BFN [Editorial: "The Greek Reaction"] [Text] The Greek Government has so far been reacting to the increasing Turkish provocations with most enduring coolness and moderation, which give rise to doubts in a large segment of the public. This is because PASOK [Panhellenic Socialist Movement], when it was an opposition part... |
FBIS4-43420_5 | Commentator Views French, German Roles in EU | shared in Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague. To the extent that, over the last few months of last year, Poland and Hungary requested integration into NATO. They have done so in vain so far, but the future remains open. And these same countries have also officially applied for EU membership. The facts are there, pressing. "F... |
FBIS4-43432_0 | Director Francovich Comments on Lockerbie Film | BFN [Report on interview with U.S. movie director Allan Francovich by Giovanni Porta in London; date not given: "Explosive Scenario"] [Text] The skies over Lockerbie, Scotland, 21 December 1988: A bomb hidden in the baggage compartment of the Pan Am Boeing 747 en route from London to New York explodes, destroying the a... |
FBIS4-43465_0 | Columnist Views U.S. Aid, Poised Hammer | BFN [By Yalcin Dogan from the "Daily" column: "In the Grip of Poised Hammer"] [Text] Poised Hammer officials could not care less. Poised Hammer officials and the Americans say: "In that case we would move to south Cyprus." Turkey, on the other hand, is being presumptuous regarding the Poised Hammer mandate. Using Poise... |
FBIS4-43474_2 | Demirel Reportedly Sends Letter to Greece on PKK | reduced the strength of Turkey's threat to Cyprus and Greece. 6. Members of the PKK office in Athens cooperate with the EYP [Greek secret service organization]. They have infiltrated the Macedonian community in Greece to inform the EYP of its activities. 7. The first plan to hit Turkey's tourism sector, which grows eve... |
FBIS4-43483_2 | Business Leader Views German EU Presidency | putting the programme in place, 95 per cent have now been agreed. However, across the EU, only 87 per cent of the measures have been placed on the statute book so the single market cannot yet said to be fully operational. Moreover, only 50 per cent of the measures have come into effect in all 12 member states. Partners... |
FBIS4-43488_7 | Clarke Outlines Economic Prospects | future, nor where the new jobs will come from, nor what skills will be required to fill them. The most successful economies will be those that respond quickest and most wholeheartedly to new markets and new competition. Within economies, the most competitive companies, and the most successful individuals, will be the m... |
FBIS4-43508_1 | Pasqua Submits Police Programming Law | of files, and exchanges of information. The draft law also establishes their "obligation to share their allocations with each other and to rationalize geographic installations." The customs office sees its role recognized in combatting trafficking, especially of drugs, and fighting clandestine immigration and labor, wi... |
FBIS4-43514_0 | Kinkel Addresses Bundesrat on EU Presidency | BFN [Speech by Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel at the Bundesrat session in Bonn on 20 May: "Great Expectations"] [Text] We are going to use the period of Germany's European Unity [EU] presidency from 1 July to further consolidate the European dimension of German foreign policy. In particular we want to do this with Franc... |
FBIS4-43525_10 | EU Relations With East Europe Reviewed | Europe in the hope of obtaining a place within the Western European Union (WEU), the future military wing of West Europe. "No responsible government is ready to accept their total admission to the WEU," is the off-the-record comment at the Quai d'Orsay. Explanation: the WEU provides for automatic intervention in the ev... |
FBIS4-43542_0 | Spying by Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya Increasing | BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- Countries in crisis such as Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya are trying to build up their arms stockpiles with nuclear, biological, and chemical [NBC] weapons by the extensive use of agents. Information from the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution obtained by the Cologne EXPRES... |
FBIS4-43587_1 | Presidential Power Issue Complicates EU Campaign | the articles of the Constitution because these articles are quite broadly formulated, thus permitting some leeway. Prime Minister or President Of course this determination does not answer the question of whether Finland should conduct itself in keeping with the French model (President Mitterrand actively participates i... |
FBIS4-43610_0 | Ankara Opposes Early Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan | BFN [Reports by Kamran Qurrah Daghi in London and AL-HAYAH bureau in Ankara: "Ankara Opposes Kurdish Elections and Urges Kurds To Have a Dialogue With Baghdad"] [Excerpts] Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ferhat Ataman announced yesterday that Ankara told the Kurdish leaders at a meeting held last week that it is opp... |
FBIS4-43612_0 | Demirel Sends Letters to Iran, Greece on PKK | BFN [Text] Ankara, June 19 (A.A.) -- President Suleyman Demirel sent a letter to his Iranian counterpart Hashemi-Rafsanjani and Greek counterpart Konstandinos Karamanlis on prevention of the separatist terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization's activities in their countries, it was reported on Sunday [19... |
FBIS4-43613_0 | Mentese Says PKK `Acting on Behalf' of Greece | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has said that the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terror organization is acting on behalf of Greece. At Istanbul Ataturk Airport Mentese was replying to reporters' question on recent explosions in Istanbul. [Begin recording] [Mentese] They a... |
FBIS4-43614_0 | PKK Reportedly Developing New Command, Strategy | BFN [Text] Ankara -- While clashes continue between the Turkish security forces and the clandestine Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) militants in southeastern Turkey, the militants announced a series of new command strategies. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan reportedly ordered the PKK's so-called regional "states" to be div... |
FBIS4-43615_1 | PKK Commander Discusses Various Issues | realization that the increased cost of war in Kurdistan will further aggravate this bankruptcy and will bring an end to the regime. The war is the main source of all the problems. The Turkish Republic, which insists on waging the war, will not be able to extricate itself from the situation it has fallen into. It will c... |
FBIS4-43615_11 | PKK Commander Discusses Various Issues | is to charm the domestic and international public and thus to hide its role in the clashes. This is truly a demonstration of duplicity. [KURD-A] In contrast to other European countries, Germany is continuing attacks on your party. It has gone beyond all bounds. What are the reasons pushing Germany into such a situation... |
FBIS4-43620_2 | Economic Crisis Blamed on Cost of Fighting Terrorism | of 1993, Prime Minister Tansu Ciller said that the struggle being waged against the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] in the southeast will cost TL400 trillion. During the past one year and a half, the number of village guards grew to 51,450 and their cost doubled to TL10 trillion. The cost of a policeman serving in the... |
FBIS4-43620_5 | Economic Crisis Blamed on Cost of Fighting Terrorism | only means to eliminate the interregional imbalances, to keep the economy alive, and to create jobs. Therefore, it should have been kept out of the 5 April economic package. The most important of all is that nobody is doing anything about the security expenditures in the southeast, even though they play a major role in... |
FBIS4-43633_0 | Government Urged To Reject Conditional U.S. Aid | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Nationalist Action Party [NAP] leader Alpaslan Turkes has said that the condition imposed by the U.S. Senate on aid to Turkey is tantamount to interference in our domestic affairs. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, Turkes recalled that the U.S. Senate put the conditi... |
FBIS4-43634_0 | NOKTA Profiles Islamic Group | BFN [Report by Metin Sever and Baran Dural] [Text] The IBDA-C [The Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front], which not only defended the Sivas massacre of 2 July 1993 -- which caused great grief throughout Turkey -- but also admitted to regretting the fact that it was not present, showed how sincere it is in its views a sh... |
FBIS4-43634_2 | NOKTA Profiles Islamic Group | that he was supported by Necip Fazil Kisakurek at every opportunity. The organization assumed leading roles in the Islamic religious headgear and St. Sophie incidents. It made itself heard by raiding the Press Museum and a class at the Istanbul Technical University, where a professor was manhandled. The IBDA-C consider... |
FBIS4-43665_2 | CBI Chief Views Upcoming EU Meetings | across Europe is very mixed (such as equal opportunities). A radical new social action programme would, of course, be quite inconsistent with the Delors White Paper of last December. Indeed, some of us have been puzzled by the relationship between Jacques Delors's White Paper and the Flynn Green Paper, which seem to di... |
FBIS4-43706_0 | Mitterrand Accused of `Conspiracy' in Rwanda | BFN [Report on interview with Jean Carbonare, spokesman of the International Human Rights Federation, by Patrick de Saint-Exupery; place and date not given: "The French President Knew..."] [Text] The author of an official report published in early 1993 on early indications of genocide in Rwanda, Jean Carbonare, accuses... |
FBIS4-43707_2 | Trade Mission Visit to Iraq Termed `Very Discreet' | the midst of the Iran-Iraq conflict, Baghdad absorbed more than 7 percent of France's non-OECD exports, making Paris Iraq's third largest supplier of non-military goods. Oil Contracts It is the threads of this privileged relationship which the French groups are discreetly trying to retie, pending the eventual lifting o... |
FBIS4-43753_0 | Hosted by Demirel at Dinner | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] President Suleyman Demirel has declared that he believes in the benefit of developing cooperation among the Central Asian republics, which share a common history, culture, and geography. Demirel hosted a dinner in honor of Turkmen President Saparmurad Niyazov at the Cankaya... |
FBIS4-43756_0 | Bomb Explosions, Casualties Reported Twelve Injured at Festival | BFN [Report by Hulya Metin] [Excerpt] This year's 30th Cherry Festival in Tekirdag turned into a bloodbath. A bomb exploded at Tarsal tourist installations where a part of the festival was being held. Twelve persons were injured, one of them seriously. No one was killed. The explosion, which occurred at Tarsal's cockta... |
FBIS4-43760_0 | Mentese: PKK `Desperate'; Leader `Inciting' Men | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has said that the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] is desperate and for this reason they are attempting bombings in cities. On a study tour in Yalova, Mentese discussed the issue of terrorism at a meeting he held with citizens. [Begin Mentese... |
FBIS4-43761_2 | Paper Warns of Threat From Islamic Fundamentalism | arrived in Turkey and asked who our "khomeyni" was at the time. We laughed at them because we were convinced that the "khomeyni" in Turkey commanded only 7 or 9 percent of the votes and that the Turkish people had adopted the secular system as a way of life. However, we were unaware that the United States was trying to... |
FBIS4-43762_0 | Islamic Group Views Secularism, U.S., Issues | BFN [Unattributed report: "Some of the views of the IBDA-C [Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front"]] [Text] Secularism: "We are against the concept of secularism in Turkey. We believe that it has no historical or ideological basis within Turkish culture. No other state is so afraid of its own people. It exerted special e... |
FBIS4-43765_1 | Mentese on `Kurdish Problem,' Southeast Economy | for the state to end unemployment here in the short run. It is impossible for any state to do that, not only the Turkish republican state. According to official figures given at the end of last year, when the dollar was around 15,000 Turkish Lira [TL], it was necessary to invest some TL2 billion to create one job. It i... |
FBIS4-43768_0 | Cyprus Issue `Test' of West's Stand on Turkey | BFN [Article by Erol Manisali: "Cyprus: A Test of the West's Stance Towards Turkey"] [Text] The post cold war period has been marked by problems in the Balkans, the Caucasus and in the Middle East. The European Union's [EU] and the United States' post cold war approach to the region is the main cause of the conflicts. ... |
FBIS4-43775_0 | Nuclear Official Attacks Delays in Waste Disposal | BFN [Report by Tom Wilkie: "Nuclear Firm Chairman Attacks Delay Over Waste"] [Text] One of the leaders of Britain's nuclear industry yesterday launched an outspoken attack on government delay and indecision over nuclear waste disposal. According to James Hann, chairman of Scottish Nuclear, electricity consumers will ha... |
FBIS4-43777_0 | Bonn Refuses To Aid French Mission in Rwanda | BFN [Report by Martin S. Lambeck: "Bonn Hesitates With Aid to Rwanda"] [Excerpt] Bonn/Paris -- In case of a French intervention in the African civil war country of Rwanda, the Federal Government will not provide logistical aid or become otherwise involved for the time being. Despite very early information by the French... |
FBIS4-43788_1 | Greece Calls For `Compromise' on EU Commission President | for the job. But outgoing Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers has said he wants the position on the grounds that the Netherlands is alone among the EU's six founding members never to have held the job for a full term. The nominee must be chosen unanimously. A third official candidate is the EU's British trade commissione... |
FBIS4-43789_1 | EU To Implement Stricter Immigrant Workers Policy | Monday [20 June], the European Union (EU) governments committed themselves to setting strict limits on the entry of immigrant workers into the EU. "The high unemployment rates currently affecting the member states strengthen the need to implement community preference in employment," emphasized the resolution, passed on... |
FBIS4-43790_14 | Belgium's Claes on EU Foreign Policy | about it today does not lead to optimism. I am primarily concerned about Ukraine. It is a large, strategically located country which has nuclear weapons. The EU offered it a partnership as a way of giving it some basis for gaining control of its social and economic shambles and to give a boost to its democratic forces.... |
FBIS4-43801_1 | Official Report Notices Increase in Organized Crime | 1991, the Fiscal Information and Investigation Department calculated that G1 billion were being laundered every nine months, using exchange offices among other methods. According to the CRI, control of unusual money transfers has now been improved. One growing new trend is for criminal groups to attempt to counter the ... |
FBIS4-43811_5 | Waigel Discusses Budget Deficit, Taxation | conditions under which companies operate and thus in the framework conditions for jobs. Waigel includes among these points a reduction in corporate tax, the exemption of the tax on nonrevenue wealth in the new laender beyond 1995, as well as the principle of transferring to the country of origin the levying of value-ad... |
FBIS4-43844_2 | Bildt, Carlsson Hold First Campaign Debate | many delighted giggles from the audience. But Carlsson emphasized the seriousness of the high level of unemployment and promised that the Social Democrats would combat it by every possible means, including the investment program that the party has proposed. The SDP leader also stressed that with a Social Democratic gov... |
FBIS4-43862_0 | Daily Assesses Besharati Visit, Iranian Relations | BFN [Text] Ankara -- Turkey and Iran once again displayed their newly established good relations with the visit by 'Ali Mohammad Besharati, the Iranian interior minister. The Iranian delegation enjoyed a warm welcome during their visit on June 13-15, and the Turkish press reflected the mutual understanding between the ... |
FBIS4-43865_1 | Claes Views French Action in Rwanda; Situation Update | a cease-fire that have failed. Unfortunately, confirmation of serial killings--if I may put it this way--is expected every day. Someone must indeed take the initiative to try and save what can still be saved. France has taken the initiative. There are no other candidates, as far as I know. There are no others, because ... |
FBIS4-43878_0 | Spain Offers Logistic Support | BFN [Text] [Announcer] In statements made to this radio station Javier Solana, Spanish foreign minister, said Spain was willing to contribute to the logistics of the French intervention in Rwanda as soon as the UN Security Council has given the go-ahead for this military operation. Javier Solana. [Begin Solana recordin... |
FBIS4-43886_0 | Belgium To Provide Logistical Aid in Rwanda | BFN [Article signed GGD/RHR: "Claes: Paris Wants To Create a `Safe Area' in Rwanda or Zaire"] [Text] Brussels, 21 Jun (BELGA) -- Foreign Minister Willy Claes reaffirmed Tuesday [21 June] that Belgium would not provide troops for the two-month humanitarian operation Paris would like to launch in Rwanda with the help of ... |
FBIS4-43887_0 | UK To Assist Kurdish Villages in Iraq | BFN [Press release issued by the UK Overseas Development Administration: "Britain To Help Rehabilitate Villages in Northern Iraq"] [Text] Britain is to provide an aid grant of 1.6 million pounds to help rehabilitate villages in Kurdish areas in northern Iraq. This was announced today in Geneva at the United Nations don... |
FBIS4-43888_1 | Kinkel, Rexrodt Outline German EU Priorities | presidency, beginning 1 July. Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt (both Free Democratic Party of Germany) informed the press on Wednesday [22 June] about relevant talks that were held in the Federal Cabinet. On Thursday, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Klaus Kinkel will go to the Eur... |
FBIS4-43895_1 | Loyalists See `Political Advantage' in Violence | also linked to the growing fear that the Catholics' higher birth rate will soon undermine Protestant numerical dominance of Northern Ireland's six counties. The results of the 1991 census appeared to reinforce such anxieties. Catholics were estimated as forming between 41 and 43 per cent of Northern Ireland. That repre... |
FBIS4-43896_0 | Editorial Views Reynolds Proposals on Ulster | BFN [Editorial: "Articles of Poor Faith"] [Text] The remarks made by Albert Reynolds in yesterday's IRISH TIMES about the constitutional relationship between Ulster and the Republic of Ireland were grimly overshadowed by the funerals of the six Catholics shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries on Saturday [18 June]. The b... |
FBIS4-43954_0 | ANAP's Yilmaz Comments on Washington Talks, Returns | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpts] Motherland Party [ANAP] leader Mesut Yilmaz has declared that linking U.S. defense aid to Turkey to certain conditions does not conform with the Turkish-U.S. alliance, and the Turkish people will react to this. Yilmaz concluded his contacts in the United States and retu... |
FBIS4-43954_1 | ANAP's Yilmaz Comments on Washington Talks, Returns | Yilmaz concluded his contacts in the United States and returned to Turkey. TRT correspondent Yavuz Yorulmaz reports from Washington: [Begin recording] [Yorulmaz] [passage omitted] In a news conference at the end of his contacts, Yilmaz said that public opinion and lobbies have gained importance in the United States in ... |
FBIS4-43956_0 | Ministry Official Leaves for Pipeline Talks in Iraq | BFN [Text] Ankara (AA) -- Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk left Ankara today for Baghdad to conduct contacts on the Karkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline. Tomorrow, Ambassador Sanberk will proceed by land from Amman to Baghdad, where he will meet with Iraqi Foreign Ministry Under Secretary al-Qaysi. [name as rec... |
FBIS4-43957_0 | Official Clarifies Mission of CSCE in Erzurum | BFN [Text] Ankara--The establishment of a base for Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) observers to Nagorno-Karabakh is in no way similar in mandate or structure to Provide Comfort II, an allied force stationed in Turkey to protect Kurds in northern Iraq, a high-level Turkish official said Sunday [1... |
FBIS4-43961_0 | Details of Case Against DEP Deputies | BFN [Text] Ankara/Brussels--Six Turkish Parliamentarians of Kurdish origin announced in Brussels on Friday [17 June] that they would not return to their home country for fear of persecution by Turkish authorities. They said they would continue political activities abroad and could even consider asking [for] political a... |
FBIS4-43962_0 | Regional Governor Urges Citizens To Inform on PKK | BFN [Text] Diyarbakir, June 23 (A.A.) -- Regional Emergency Supra-Governor Unal Erkan said on Wednesday [22 June] that the separatist terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization was abducting children rather than the adults. `The terror organization has massacred 4,000 citizens in 10 years,' Erkan said. `A ... |
FBIS4-43963_0 | PKK's Growing Profile in Northern Iraq Viewed | BFN [Report by Sinan Yilmaz] [Text] Ankara--Although there is a temporary hush over the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, it belies the tension that continues to simmer between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Until the cease-fire between the KDP and PUK was signed earlier... |
FBIS4-43964_1 | Bilateral Relations With Israel Examined | hands as well. One wing of the U.S. Administration posits the green belt project against Tehran, which wants to export the Islamic revolution and which seems to have had relative success as we can see in Lebanon, Egypt, and the occupied territories in Israel. This wing calls for a "moderate Islam" in certain Middle Eas... |
FBIS4-43964_4 | Bilateral Relations With Israel Examined | in its May 1994 issue. In its articles entitled "New Administrations in the Eastern Mediterranean," "Risk Versus Reward," "Turkey: Its Potential and Problems," and "Natural Partner," the magazine studies the current and possible future state of bilateral economic, commercial, and political relations. The introduction t... |
FBIS4-43964_7 | Bilateral Relations With Israel Examined | that the two countries can receive a satisfactory share of the Middle East cake only if they act together. The practical cooperation between the two countries is not sufficient to achieve the necessary plan, the magazine remarks, adding that Egypt must constitute the third flank of the alliance. The theory proposed by ... |
FBIS4-43979_0 | Turkish Cypriots Issue Statement on EU Summit | BFN [Text] The TRNC [Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus] Council of Ministers has expressed concern that any move by Greece during the EU [European Union] summit in Corfu to push the issue of the Greek Cypriot side becoming a European Union member may have adverse effects on the negotiation process in Cyprus. The Coun... |
FBIS4-43986_0 | Russia's Yeltsin, Churkin Arrive in Corfu for EU Summit Views Cooperation With EU | BFN [By Graham Brown] [Excerpt] Corfu, Greece, June 24 (AFP) -- Russia takes a major step toward integration with Western Europe here Friday [24 June] when President Boris Yeltsin signs an historic partnership and cooperation agreement with the European Union [EU]. The signing ceremony opens a two-day EU summit at whic... |
FBIS4-43988_2 | Yeltsin Signs EU Parntership, Cooperation Agreement Speaks at Signing Ceremony | Russia has vital interests when it comes to the West and Central and East Europe. We have every reason to support the institutions that deal with these problems. We know the problems in the former Yugoslavia. The EU, indeed every European country, can have faith in Russia regarding this issue. We hope for sharing withi... |
FBIS4-44019_0 | Juppe on Support for Rwanda Operation | BFN [Excerpt] Alain Juppe does not accept that France is isolated in its action in Rwanda. For the foreign minister, the international community fully backs this humanitarian intervention. Alain Juppe: [Begin Juppe recording] The United States has given us its full political support. We have also received full politica... |
FBIS4-44024_0 | Commentator Hails Rwandan Operation | BFN [Commentary by Charles Lambroschini: "Rwanda, the French Example"] [Excerpts] If France does not go to Rwanda, who will? It "invented" human rights, it is the only Western power which is still involved in Africa, it is the only one to have credible military resources. [passage omitted] First, a legal reason was nee... |
FBIS4-44052_0 | Cabinet Discusses Aims of German EU Presidency | BFN [Article by "C.G.": "Bonn Does Not Want To Burden the EU Presidency With Unresolved Personnel Issues"] [Excerpts] Bonn, 22 Jun -- When it assumes the EU presidency on 1 July, Germany wants to make it clear that the "main orientation" of the reunited country's foreign policy will be directed toward European cooperat... |
FBIS4-44068_0 | Major Calls For Antidrug Crusade | BFN [George Jones, Christopher Lockwood report: "Major Proposes EC War on Crime"] [Text] Corfu--A Europe-wide crusade against drugs, international crime and fraud was urged by Mr John Major at yesterday's opening session of the EC summit. He called on fellow European leaders to approve a five-point plan to combat crime... |
FBIS4-44074_1 | Greece's Papandreou `Mostly Happy' | Union summit was actually very significant. Delors has already given us a taste of what we managed to accomplish, what we have managed to agree upon, and what we have managed to do. I believe these are great steps forward. Before going into detail, I would like to say that although some disagree about the general polic... |
FBIS4-44089_0 | Major, Reynolds Discuss Ulster Settlement Issue | BFN [Report by George Jones and Christopher Lockwood: "Hopes Grow for Ulster Political Framework"] [Text] Corfu -- Efforts to achieve a political settlement in Northern Ireland moved into a higher gear last night after Mr John Major and Mr Albert Reynolds, the Irish Premier, signalled they were on course to produce a n... |
FBIS4-44104_5 | Air Force Chief on Priorities, Budget Cuts | in the case of aerial incidents involving the civilian population? [Pillinini] Compensation for damage in the case of aerial incidents involving the civilian population involves extremely delicate and difficult themes. It is true, right now there are people who have suffered damage who have not been compensated, or onl... |
FBIS4-44119_1 | Commentary Views Recent Drop in Value of Dollar | which indicates support points visible to everyone. At these points, whether they are at 1.6250 or 1.60 German marks [DM], the participators in the market enter into dollar positions, because in anticipation of central bank interventions they consider themselves to be on the right side. But if such joint activities fai... |
FBIS4-44134_0 | Sanberk Comments on Baghdad Visit, Pipeline Progress | BFN [Interview with Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk by Tahir Yilmaz in Ankara on 26 June -- recorded] [Text] [Yilmaz] Sir, after your contacts in the United States, you flew to Baghdad. What is the latest situation? [Sanberk] We went there to bring closer together the basis of the UN Security Council res... |
FBIS4-44135_0 | Ankara, Tehran To Discuss Turkmenistan Pipeline | BFN [Text] Ankara--Acutely aware of Turkey's growing need for natural gas, President Suleyman Demirel declared on Monday [20 June] that he would personally hold talks with his Iranian counterpart regarding building of a pipeline that would transport Turkmen gas to Europe via Turkey and Iran. Demirel's announcement of T... |
FBIS4-44140_0 | Human Rights Official Comments on Kurdish Refugees | BFN [Text] Ankara -- The chairman of the Human Rights Association (IHD), Akin Birdal, speaking after a visit to the camps which are home to the Turkish Kurds who have migrated to Iraq, stated that the wretched war raging in the Southeast was to blame for the migration which was taking place. "The Southeast is the regio... |
FBIS4-44141_0 | Kurdish Refugees in Iraq Face `Turbulent Times' | BFN [Text] Ankara -- Southeastern Turkey is once again facing turbulent times as migration from the region to neighboring north Iraq continues. Twelve thousand people have fled from villages in Sirnak and Hakkari in the past two months, causing the Iraqis to take tight security measures at the border with Turkey. The r... |
FBIS4-44141_1 | Kurdish Refugees in Iraq Face `Turbulent Times' | by the security forces. Chairman Birdal called for help with the refugee problem which he also discussed with the UN Zakho representative Ayman Garibeh and the governor of Dahuk, 'Abd-al-Aziz al-Tayyib. "The condition of the refugees is not very good, our medical teams visit the camps twice a week and we give them food... |
FBIS4-44142_0 | Daily Views Government Approach to Kurdish Problem | BFN [Article by Gungor Mengi: "Have We Taken Opium?" -- punctuation as published] [Text] Does Turkey stand to gain from obstructing or postponing the demands of the people in southeastern Anatolia? No, it does not. On the contrary, that approach harms its interests. The dissolution of the Democracy Party and the remova... |
FBIS4-44148_1 | Vranitzky on Treaty, `Productive' Summit | summit, in which we participated for the first time -- this time still as observers -- has yielded a most favorable result. It was not just the signing of a treaty between the Republic of Austria and the European Union and all its members, but here, for the first time, a productive meeting has been held between the EU ... |
FBIS4-44158_0 | Turkey's Karayalcin Meets With Tobback, Discusses PKK | BFN [Announcer-read report] [Text] Murat Karayalcin, state minister and deputy prime minister, who is on an official visit to Belgium, has met with Belgian Interior Minister Louis Tobback. Karayalcin said: Minister Tobback stated that it is impossible to impose a ban on the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorist or... |
FBIS4-44166_0 | Major Addresses Commons on Corfu Summit | BFN [By Parliamentary Staff, PRESS ASSOCIATION News] [Text] This is the full text of the Prime Minister's Commons statement on the Corfu EU [European Union] summit: ``I will make a statement about the meeting of the European Council which I attended with the Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Corfu ... |
FBIS4-44181_1 | Official Views Russian `Aggressive Spying' | BND has been able to get an insight into the logistics of those eastern smugglers that want to sell weapons-grade nuclear material on the European market. It is in this sphere that cooperation with the eastern intelligence services is beginning "to work." The BND has repeatedly "uncovered the smuggling of nuclear mater... |
FBIS4-44186_0 | Commentary Sees Fall in Dollar Rate Deliberate | BFN [Commentary by Gerd Brueggemann: "Greenspan in a Fix"] [Text] The U.S. dollar has had problems for weeks. The exchange rate of the U.S. currency is on a constant downward slide, which has brought it to so far unknown low levels compared with the Japanese yen and has made it fall to less than 1.6 German marks on occ... |
FBIS4-44188_1 | `Confidence-Building' Policy Wanted | the dollar rate has dropped in a way that is usually only characteristic of the approach of a heavy storm. Moreover, in the past few weeks U.S. interest rates increased strongly, which generally favors a country's currency. Yet neither this nor a concerted action by the central banks could stop the downward trend of th... |
FBIS4-44208_1 | Daily Raises Question of UK Expulsion From EU | is assured to improve his standing in opinion polls -- an easy enough proposition given his current dismal approval ratings. Not that he himself is hostile toward the Dehaene. By vetoing Mr. Dehaene, a candidate backed both by France and Germany, because of his pro-European views, Mr. Major was only expressing a deep-r... |
FBIS4-44220_0 | Finance Minister Comments on Dollar's Problems | BFN [Text] Spanish Economics and Finance Minister Pedro Solbes has spoken to the relevant committee in the Senate about several topics related to his department such as the dollar's problems and the consequences on financial markets. Over to our reporter Manuel de Ramon. [de Ramon] Financial markets might have just bee... |
FBIS4-44227_1 | Bildt Views Corfu Summit, European Process | greater hesitation. The gulf that arose in West European cooperation in the fifties -- between the EEC with its close economic and political cooperation and EFTA [European Free Trade Association], which was only a free trade organization -- is now finally being bridged. This gulf is now being overcome because everyone ... |
FBIS4-44241_2 | _O_ Implications of Euroelection Results | transparency." Minister of Industry Kostas Simitis was also cited as attributing lower PASOK vote shares to the government's slow pace and lack of decisiveness. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yiorgos Papandreou openly said that the electoral results showed popular "dissatisfaction" with the government. Netas commen... |
FBIS4-44247_0 | Spokesman Criticizes PKK Rally in Germany | BFN [Text] Ankara, June 27 (AA) -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Ferhat Ataman said on Monday [27 June] that a demonstration of the separatist terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization held in Frankfurt has turned to a terrorist activity. Ataman said the demonstration was a kind of terrorist activity in spit... |
FBIS4-44250_0 | Situation of Kurdish Refugees in Iraq Detailed | BFN [Report by Galip Ridvanoglu] [Text] Diyarbakir-The two, Khaki colored, convertible Land Rovers sped past our bus heading towards Mardin. Four villagers were seated on top of one of the vehicles among heavily armed gendarmerie soldiers. As we watched them go by we noticed their hands were tied behind their backs. Bu... |
FBIS4-44252_0 | Investigation of HADAP Congress Launched | BFN [Announcer-read report] [Text] The Ankara State Security Court has launched an investigation in connection with the first congress of the People's Democracy Party [Halkin Demokrasi Partisi--HADEP]. According to information received by a TRT correspondent from Nusret Demiral, chief prosecutor of the Ankara State Sec... |
FBIS4-44256_1 | Dollar Crisis Could Upset World Currency Markets | passing under Y100 and 8 pfennigs. Many investors believe Friday's efforts to buy dollars led by the U.S. Federal Reserve will have to be repeated early this week, perhaps today, in a further show of strength to prop the ailing currency. But in both the United States and Europe, currency analysts said negative sentimen... |
FBIS4-44256_3 | Dollar Crisis Could Upset World Currency Markets | the large Japanese current account surplus with the United States and lack of progress in trade talks between the two countries. Mr John Lipsky, chief economist at Salomon Brothers, the U.S. investment bank, said last Friday's intervention had at least succeeded in dispelling doubts about the intention of U.S. authorit... |
FBIS4-44257_1 | Editorial Supports Western Aid to Russian Economy | of the International Monetary Fund, was persuaded in March to advance the $1.5bn second tranche of the systemic transformation facility. Negligible in itself, this sum was an important sign of confidence in the Russian Government. Nor has that confidence appeared misplaced. Monetary policy has been tight, while inflati... |
FBIS4-44271_0 | Pope Urges Aid Organizations To Break Cuba Embargo | BFN [Unattributed article: "Vatican/Cuba: Pope Urges Aid Organization To Break Embargo"] [Text] (ANSA) Vatican City, June 25 -- Pope John Paul II today called on religious and international aid organisations to exercise their "inalienable right to assist" Cuba despite the 23-year U.S. embargo against the island. In a f... |
FBIS4-44273_0 | Foreign Ministry Warns Germany on Observing PKK Ban | BFN [Text] Ankara (DPA) -- In connection with the large Kurdish demonstration in Frankfurt on 25 June, Turkey warned the German authorities against "watering down" the ban on the illegal separatist Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK). A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in Ankara on 27 June that "Turkey is d... |
FBIS4-44277_0 | Schengen Accord Identity Checks To Start in October | BFN [Text] Berlin (DPA) -- The common search data system of the Schengen states will probably be ready to go into operation in October, Bernd Schmidbauer, state minister in the chancellor's office, said in Berlin on Monday [27 June] before a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Schengen states Germany, France, Ben... |
FBIS4-44278_3 | Dutch Official Claims France Obstructing Schengen | Schengen Information System function. Nor has there been such a spirit at the level of the Interior Ministries, neither under the past government, nor under the current government. Indeed, it was up to the French Foreign Ministry. This is related to the creation of Schengen as part of the European process. However, the... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.