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| Turkish Press Scan | |
| 2003-12-03 | |
| These are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey’s press on December 3, 2003. HERE IS MADRASAH People firstly have education in the Shariah Kulliye, (a complex of buildings adjacent to a mosque) in Damascus where 22 people who were captured in Syria and sent to Turkey received religious education, and then go to Al-Azhar University in Egypt. Hilmi Tugluoglu, who is a teacher with his wife Leyla in this madrasah bound to Al-Fatih University, told Hurriyet about this madrasah. This madrasah in Damascus is giving education in a three-storey building. Students are from every region of Turkey. Expenses of Turkish students in the madrasah where Tugluoglu couple give education are met by some foundations and persons. Follow the dinars. Key man Hilmi Tugluoglu told about how he met Azad Ekinci and Gokhan Elaltuntas, who organized attacks in Istanbul. Tugluoglu said, ’’I met Azad Ekinci, with code name Ebu Nidal, in a wedding ceremony in Ankara. Azad told me that he would go to Syria and then to Dubai two months ago. Then, I didn’t talk to him. Azad introduced me to Gokhan Elaltuntas.’’ Lot of these meetings seem to happen at weddings. Just one big happy family, the Corleone family AND ERDOGAN NAMES: RELIGIOUS TERRORISM Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who caused discussions after bomb attacks in Istanbul saying that ’’association of Islam with terrorism makes him uneasy’’, named terrorism for the first time yesterday: ’’Religious terrorism.’’
I think he’s pissed. OZKOK: POLITICS AND RELIGION NOT COVERS EACH OTHER Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok said that when religion was made a tool for political aims, violence appeared and he added that attacks in Istanbul showed the importance of secularism one more time. Attending Romania National Day reception at Ankara Hilton Hotel, Gen. Ozkok replied to questions of reporters regarding terrorist attacks in Istanbul. He said that events in Istanbul had religious motives, adding that religion and politics were two chemical materials and when they combined, all beauties of religion went away and in return violence came. The Turkish military is real big on secularism. PKK ALSO DISCUSSED IN VISITS TO UNITED STATES Justice Minister Cemil Cicek and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ugur Ziyal started to hold meetings in Washington. Cicek, who said, ’’Turkey’s definition of terrorism complies with that of the United States, but it doesn’t comply with that of European Union’’, noted that Turkey had some demands from the United States regarding the terrorist organization PKK. The PKK is a terrorist group and we are working on those demands. It just takes time. | |
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| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-3 3:39:49 PM |