TURKPULSE No: 77-78.................................................. AUGUST 2002

TURKPULSE No:77SILENT REVOLUTION IN TURKEY FOR EU ACCESSION

The mass resignations from the DSP with the possibility of putting an end to the |tripartite Ecevit coalition may paradoxically eliminate the bottleneck, the MHP hurdle, for the EU accession. The developments brought Ecevit and Bahceli closer, but Mesut Yilmaz’s pro-EU accession is gaining momentum. The possible way out of the current political crisis is an early election government under, it does not matter whom, with a single item on its agenda – the bills to conform to the Copenhagen criteria. Meantime Turkey has already covered a long way in conforming to the EU rules in all fields. The secretary general of the EU affairs, Ambassador Volkan Vural says a silent revolution has been achieved on the way to EU accession in the past 15 months and Turkey has already passed the point of no return.

TURKPULSE No:78 ELECTIONS APPROACH UNDER HEAVY DISINFORMATION BOMBARDMENT

If and when Saddam Hussein receives an American missile bombardment is still a question and preoccupation of the world, but a heavy disinformation bombardment has been going on in Turkey for months apparently with the end in view of getting rid of PM Ecevit and the MHP which seems to be very much an important part of Bush’s plans for the Gulf. This interrelation between Washington’s vitally important “Saddam plan” for the recovery of the ailing American economy and the question of who will rule in Turkey makes the forthcoming Turkish general election an interesting world affair far exceeding the bounds of the domestic affairs of a country. Below is the intriguing story of this unique event of world history.

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