To: Charles A. King who wrote (9507 ) 6/11/1998 8:40:00 AM From: Charles A. King Respond to of 13091
Some general news clips seem to indicate progress for the country of Turkey. PRESS DIGEST - Turkey - June 11 02:49 a.m. Jun 11, 1998 Eastern ISTANBUL, June 11 (Reuters) - These are the leading stories in the Turkish press on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. SABAH - Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli says his party is against forming election coalitions and will not be joining up with the Islamist Virtue Party before next year's early elections. - Credit Suisse First Boston is to provide consultancy services in the sell-off of Turkish Airlines. - Moody's Turkey representative David Larson says the firm is eyeing raising the country's credit rating in light of positive economic developments. HURRIYET - A local magazine uncovers an Islamic militants' camp 40 kilometres (25 miles) outside Istanbul. MILLIYET - The French Senate will not take up a resolution which passed through Parliament earlier, recognising the 1915 Armenian genocide, thereby dropping it from the country's agenda. YENI YUZYIL - Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit says he will not oppose an early election deal reached by Prime Minister Yilmaz and opposition leader Deniz Baykal. RADIKAL - Health Minister Halil Ibrahmim Ozsoy says 21 million 400 thousand people without health insurance will be covered as of January 1999 by a Personal Health Insurance. CUMHURIYET - Major oil companies Shell, Amoco and Mobil prepare for tight competition for a natural gas plant to be established in the Aegean city of Izmir. DUNYA - Turkey asks the United States government ot hand over welathy fugitives Selim Edes, Halil Bezmen and Alaattin Cakici. - Zorlu Holding plans electronic and textile investment in Central Asia. ZAMAN - Police forcibly remove female students with headscarves from exams at the Istanbul University Medical School. ((Istanbul newsroom, +90-212-275 0875, fax +90-212-267 2137, istanbul.newsroom+reuters.com)) Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication and redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. infoseek.com :80/Content?arn=a0272LBY623reulb-19980611&qt=turkey&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 Forcibly removing female students with head scarves is important to the Turkish military. Charles