TURKPULSE No: 67-69.................................................... APRIL 2002

TURKPULSE No:67 MILITARY REGIMES IN TURKEY AND ELSEWHERE

A former Indian Ambassador to Ankara, Gajendra Singh, in an article in the Indian press, has drawn a parallel between President Kenan Evren and Pakistan’s present military ruler, General Musharraf. Having been in this country for over 10 years and thoroughly well travelled in Turkey, Ambassador Singh is certainly one of the best-informed foreigners about Turkey and an admirer of Ataturk. Yet his article is a good example of how little we Turks have been able to explain ourselves to other nations. Below is a short summary of the foreign policy of the 12 September (1980-83) interregnum of Turkey with an invitation to the reader’s appreciation and imagination in what regard General Musharraf’s foreign policy resembles it.   

TURKPULSE No:68 REFERENDUM, ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC PAKISTAN !

                                   By : Ambassador Gajendra Singh

TURKPULSE No:69 LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN U.S.-TURKISH TRADE TALKS

Turkish-American economic talks will be held on 25 April to discuss the frame agreement for duty free and quota free Turkish exports to the United States with QIZ (Qualified Industrial Zones) arrangements. The Americans have had these arrangements with Israel and Jordan since 1996 to dodge the economic sanctions to Iraq through indirect ways, while banning other countries, particularly Turkey, from trading with that country in the post-Gulf war period. Pulse has reason to believe that nothing will come out of these talks in the pipeline. For the reasons for this belief and the details of the distrust that reigns in Turkish-American relations please see the following article.            

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