Turkish press June 16

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From: tabe at newsdesk.aps.nl
Subject: Turkish press June 16
Reply-To: kurdeng at aps.nl

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           id VT8568; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:31:34 -0800


      ANKARA, June 16 (Reuter) - These are the leading stories in
the Turkish press on Friday. Reuters has not verified these
reports and in no way vouches for their accuracy.

    SABAH

    -- Dissidents in Prime Minister Tansu Ciller's True Path
Party (DYP) and main opposition Motheland Party obstruct
progress in constitutional amendments. Sponsors withdraw
articles for fear of losing in separate balloting.

    -- Recent syndicated loans and favourable interest rates
secured by Turkish banks conflict with Turkey's international
credit rating of B.

    MILLIYET

    -- Constitutional changes unlikely to pass. A referendum may
be called. An alliance of five parties weakens as support votes
dwindle and votes against increase with each balloting.

    --  Former Prime Minister and Democratic Left Party leader
Bulent Ecevit voices concern that the minority Islamist Welfare
Party (RP), blocking the constititional changes, may defeat the
DYP and Motherland, the big rightwing parties in parliament.

    -- Yasar Kaya, ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party
(DEP) banned for separatism, says a Kurd ``exile parliament is
not an organ in the shadow of the Kurdistan Workers Party but
the PKK itself.''

    HURRIYET

    -- Behold the civilian parliament! Parties of the elected
civilian parliament can't even put together 300 votes to wipe
out traces of a 1980 military coup from the constitution.

    -- Government plans to allot part of 100 extra parliament
seats to be established under planned constitutional amendments,
to expatriate Turks to be elected by votes of workers abroad.

   CUMHURIYET    -- Chairmen of 31 civil servant unions
representing 400,000 members begin sit-in in an Ankara park to
back demands for constitutional right to hold collective
bargaining and strike.

    -- Ministers of coalition partner Republican People's Party
(CHP) warn Ciller they will not be mollified as long as Istanbul
police chief who criticised them remains in office.

    YENI POLITIKA

    -- Kurdish deputies pave the way for a referendum by voting
against constitutional changes debated in parliament. CHP deputy
of Kurdish origin says he voted against with four others and 16
CHP MPs abstained when a ``racist'' text was introduced into the
constitution's preamble.

    -- Police detain 200 demonstrators as Istanbul court begins
to try case of policemen accused of ``executing'' three Dev-Sol
(Revolutionary Left) urban guerrillas in a gunbattle in 1992.

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