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1-TURKEY'S EXPORTS TO NEIGHBORS CONTINUE TO INCREASE Saturday, March 29, 2008 ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency The increase in Turkey's exports to neighboring and regional countries has become an ongoing trend over the past few years. That increase amounted to 35.5 percent last year, as Turkey's exports to those countries reached $40.5 billion. Turkey's exports to its neighbors constitute 37.8 percent of the country's total exports, according to the “January-December Period Export's General and Sectoral Evaluation” report published by the Foreign Trade Undersecretariat. Based on the same report, Turkey's export to its neighbors, consisting of seven countries, increased by 28.5 percent to reach nearly $11.14 billion. Among the neighboring importers of Turkish products, Iraq ranked first with a share of 2.6 percent, Greece came in second with a share of 2.1 percent and Bulgaria ranked third with a share of 1.9 percent. Iran has a share of 1.3 percent. Turkey's exports to Iraq totaled $2.83 billion. Greece imported goods worth $2.29 billion from the country. Turkey's exports to Bulgaria totaled $2.62 billion, while the country's exports to Iran totaled $1.39 billion. Meanwhile, Turkey's exports to the 45 countries of the region increased by 38.4 percent compared to the previous period and reached $29.4 billion. Total export to these countries constitutes 27.4 percent of Turkey's total export. The largest export market among the region's countries is the Russian Federation with a share of 4.5 percent. Romania has a 3.5-percent share in the market, while United Arab Emirates owns 2.7 percent. Israel has a share of 1.6 percent, while Saudi Arabia owns 1.4 percent. The greatest increases in the export rate meanwhile were obtained in Djibouti, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bahrain, Lebanon, Serbia, Tunisia, Croatia and Kosovo. Meanwhile, exports to neighboring countries increased by 39.9 percent in January, compared to the same period last year. All imports of the seven neighboring countries from Turkey totaled $945.7 million in January. |
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2-BOATING ON THE BOSPORUS - OTTOMAN STYLE Saturday, March 29, 2008 Istanbul thrives on the banks of the Bosporus Strait and the Golden Horn inviting natives and tourists alike to enjoy the water; however, until the end of the 20th century there was no bridge across the strait and until the beginning of the 20th century, there were only wooden bridges across the Horn. People used boats and the more important a person one was, the grander one's boat was likely to be. The Turks were not especially inclined toward maritime activities, they preferred their horses but they learned. Why travel through the crowded, muddy smelly streets of Istanbul when you could glide from place to place while someone else struggled with the oars? So it's not surprising that the Ottoman sultans would use their caiques (rowboats or in Turkish kayik and in Eskimo kayak) to go up the Golden Horn to visit family members although they may have feared assassination. That doesn't, however, explain why an about-to-be sultan would travel to Eyüp by boat to be invested with the Sword of Orhan that marked his official investiture with the sultanate and then ride back into the city on horseback. |
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3-WEEK IN REVIEW ( ECONOMY) Saturday, March 29, 2008 Focus on economy; ease tensions, NGOs tell politicians: Turkey should quickly leave behind the existing tense political atmosphere and consider required measures to be protected against the international financial crisis that is close to affecting Turkey, said the representatives of seven leading commercial nongovernmental organizations in a joint press release Wednesday. Rifat Hisarciklioglu, the head of the Union of Chambers and Commodities Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) read the joint declaration called “Call to Good Sense for Turkey” in Istanbul together with heads of other NGOs, which are also members of a platform, working on a new constitutional draft. Together with TOBB, the Turkish Public Workers' Labor Union (KAMU-SEN), the Confederation of Turkish Labor Unions (Türk Is), the Turkish Tradesmen's and Artisans' Confederation (TESK), the Confederation of Turkish Employer Associations (TISK), the Confederation of Labor Unions (Hak-Is), and the Union of Agricultural Chambers (TZOB) signed the joined declaration. The “Call to Good Sense for Turkey” was read in the country's 81 provinces simultaneously. |
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4-GUNS ON SALE AT THE IZMIR ASSEMBLY HALL: Representatives of a Turkish gun manufacturer put the company's wares on sale in front of the Izmir Provincial Assembly Hall as the assembly was called for an emergency session Monday.The company's representative, Ayse Taylan, who is also Konak Sümer neighborhood administrator, said she had done nothing wrong by setting up a stall in front of the assembly hall, and that all assembly members had the right to carry firearms. While some assembly members showed an interest in the guns that had been laid out on a table in front of the hall, others complained, questioning how Taylan could enter the building and climb three floors with all the guns.Izmir Assembly Chairman Ismail Yilmaz said selling guns in the assembly is unacceptable. “I am very upset about it happening in my presence. I wasn't informed... I never purchased a gun. Such people need to be searched before being admitted inside the building. Those who allowed it to happen will be punished,” he said. |
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5-GOVERNMENT AND UNIONS REACH DEAL ON PENSION BILL: The government and Labor Platform reached a partial agreement on the social security reform bill following a five-hour meeting Monday. The draft bill is expected to be introduced to Parliament Thursday. The number of working days required to be eligible to receive a pension has been reduced from 9,000 to 7,200 while the government didn't retreat on the age of retirement, insisting it remain as 65. Speaking to the Anatolia news agency Tuesday, Labor Minister Faruk Çelik said they compromised on very important topics but it wasn't possible to achieve 100 percent reconciliation on the bill. “The bill has very important main parameters and it concerns the future of the entire country. All parties have to contribute to it. We didn't ignore our social parties in this process,” Çelik said, adding, “indeed very crucial amendments were carried out. We did it together [with the social partners],” he said. |
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6-THIRD DIVISION CLUB COACH SHOT DEAD: Gunmen have killed the coach and goalkeeping trainer of a Turkish third division side, the club said on its Web site. Bafra Municipality club, based near Samsun on the Black Sea, 400 kilometers north of Ankara, said two unknown attackers arrived at the club in a white minibus and carried out the shooting Wednesday morning. Goalkeeper trainer Ismail Kurt, 43, died at the scene and coach Sedat Gezer, 53, died later in hospital. The club's manager Engin Özarslan, 62, who was injured in the attack, is in hospital in critical condition.Deputy police chief in Bafra, Ünal Uysal, said the attack “seemed to have targeted the individuals, not the club.” The Dogan news agency claimed that the attack was related to the transfer payments of some players while daily Hürriyet's Web site argued that the killings were the work of a match-fixing mob.Turkish Football Coaches Association (TÜFAD) condemned the attack. “Whatever the reason is, we condemn these murders that put us in deep grief and we state that we will be following the investigation . |