http://euobserver.com/9/22853

EU downbeat on chances to salvage Turkey talks

14.11.2006 – 09:28 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – EU foreign ministers have given a downbeat
assessment on the chances of keeping Turkey’s accession talks on track, with
the Finnish EU presidency openly doubting its chances of reaching a deal on
Cyprus and with Austria urging a "breathing pause" in the talks.

Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja after a meeting with EU counterparts
in Brussels on Monday (13 November) said it is uncertain whether his
country’s intense diplomatic efforts to reach a trade deal between Turkey
and Cyprus will be successful, with the scenario of a full or partial
suspension of Ankara’s EU entry negotiations looming.

"We have more than three weeks to find a solution acceptable to everyone. I
cannot guarantee any success in this. It is also quite possible that we do
not reach an agreement within this time," Mr Tuomioja said.

Finland is currently promoting a deal which would see Ankara open its ports
and airports to traffic from EU member state Cyprus – a key requirement
under a customs agreement Ankara signed with Brussels – in return for the EU
ending the economic isolation of Turkish Cypriots in the north of the
island.

If no deal is reached before the end of the year and if Turkey continues its
blockade of shipping from Cyprus, EU leaders are expected at a summit on
14-15 December to partially or even fully suspend Ankara’s EU accession
talks, kicked off just last year.

Helsinki has just over three weeks to break the deadlock, with the European
Commission under pressure from EU capitals to issue a recommendation on the
fate of the Turkey talks already in the first week of December.

According to French EU affairs minister Catherine Colonna, Mr Tuomioja
estimated the chances of a deal at "less than 50 percent," adding that "for
the moment there is no movement" and that the EU has to be "prepared" to
draw conclusions from Ankara’s defiance.

‘Breathing pause’

France is one of the countries set to be tough on Ankara – but the most
vocal position on the Turkey talks was taken on Monday by Austria’s foreign
minister Ursula Plassnik, who suggested that the EU could decide on a
"breathing pause" in the negotiations which have already come to a "de facto
halt" anyway.

Austria – which is against fully-fledged Turkish EU membership – in October
last year staged last-minute opposition against the opening of formal
accession talks with Ankara.

Ms Plassnik appeared to take an even stronger position than her Cypriot
colleague Yiorgos Lillikas, who had said there are "two schools of thought"
in EU on what to do with the Turkey talks if Finland reaches no diplomatic
solution.

He said one school promotes the "complete disruption" of the talks while the
other favours only the suspension of the "so called relevant chapters" – the
negotiating chapters related to customs and trade issues.

"We are not supporting either one of these schools," he added, despite
previous statements from Nicosia suggesting that it would veto the opening
or closing of any chapter in the negotiations.

Varosha

A Cypriot diplomat said Nicosia’s position had become "more flexible" as it
did not want to "prejudge" an EU common position on the matter, but one
senior EU diplomat noted "this [Cyprus' position becoming more flexible] is
not my impression."

Mr Lillikas said Cyprus can generally live with the Finnish proposals, but
added Cyprus will not give in on the issue of Varosha – a ghost town which
has been deserted ever since the Greek Cypriots left it following the
Turkish invasion of North Cyprus in 1974.

Nicosia now demands that former residents of Varosha should be allowed to
return and live in the town. "This is the key element," Mr Lillikas said.

Varosha borders the port of Famagusta, which under the Finnish plan would be
used to facilitate direct EU trade with Turkish Cypriots – who are now
internationally isolated – under UN supervision

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E’ mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane!    F.d.A

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http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20061114&hn=38267

Greenpeace Activists Protest, 21 Detained

By Cihan News Agency

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
zaman.com

Twenty one activists from the international environmental organization
Greenpeace were detained by police after holding a protest in front of the
Turkish Parliament on Tuesday.

Greenpeace activists gathered in front of the parliament building this
morning to protest a draft bill on nuclear power plants, which will be
discussed in the parliament in the upcoming days.

Carrying placards with anti-nuclear energy slogans like "Nuclear power is
fatal" and with faces painted white, the protestors lied down in front of
the parliament pretending to be dead.

After ignoring law enforcement officials’ warning to end the demonstration,
21 activists, 12 of them women, were detained by police.

Turkey, whose energy needs are currently met by coal, oil and natural gas,
will construct three nuclear power plants by 2013.

In April, the northern Turkish province of Sinop on the Black Sea coast was
chosen by the government as the location for one of its planned three
nuclear power plants.

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E’ mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane!    F.d.A

Coins, travels and more: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos
http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html

WHEN A FLY FALLS IN A CUP OF COFFEE….

> > The American: throws away the coffee with the cup

> > The French: takes the fly out & drinks the coffee

> > The Chinese: eats the fly & discards the coffee

> > The Japanese: drinks the fly with the coffee…. as a bonus…

> > The Palestinian: Blames the Israeli for the fly, asks U.N. for help.
> > Takes a loan from the EU to buy a new cup. ..and uses the money
> > to bomb the coffee shop

> > Mokhammet: dunks the fly all the way in the coffee, takes out the fly,
> > beheads it, and then drinks the coffee

And in 50 years the Armenians suddenly will accuse the Turks
of having genocided at least 1 million Armenian flies 50 years ago.
In 60 years the Armenians will accuse the Turks of having
genocided at least 1.5 million Armenian flies 60 years ago.
In 70 years the Armenians will accuse the Turks of having
genocided at least 2 million Armenian flies 70 years ago.
In 80 years the Armenians will accuse the Turks of having
genocided at least 2.5 million Armenian flies 80 years ago.
In 90 years the Armenians will accuse the Turks of having
genocided at least 3 million Armenian flies 90 years ago.
In 100 years the Armenians will accuse the Turks of having
genocided at least 3.5 million Armenian flies 100 years ago.
And so on, and so on…  

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In the last 2 months there’s an explosion of documents, news, publications, forums, web sites etc. about
the Genocide of France in Algeria:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=French+France+Algeria+genocide

How dumb is Chavez to call Bush The Devil. When I think of the devil, I
think Al Pacino in "The Devils Advocate" or Robert De Niro in " Angel Heart"
You know someone cunning and articulate.
I mean seriously, if you are going to be the epitome of "Evil" would you not
have to have at least a bit of intelligence ? Or at least seem coherant.
Shame on you Chavez. If Bush was really the Devil, we would not need Jesus.

John of Aix where are you, have you gone

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20061115&hn=38297

Sons don’t Apologize for Their Fathers’ Mistakes

By Ali Ihsan Aydin
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
zaman.com

 Though first in line when it comes to demanding that Turkey face up to
its dark history, namely claims of a 1915 Armenian genocide, it seems
that Paris is content to take a ‘let’s leave history to the
historians’ approach when faced with its own colonial era trauma in
Algeria.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has been on an official visit
to France’s former colony Algeria. On Monday Sarkozy placed a wreath
at a monument for Algerians killed in their war for independence and on
Tuesday he visited a monastery in Tibhirine where seven French monks
were killed in 1996.

In only eight years, 1.5 million Algerians died during their
country’s fight for independence between 1954 and 1962. Torture was
widespread.

The Algerian government has urged France to apologize for the killings
and suffering during 130 years of colonial rule.

While the Algerian government has called on the French to recognize
"the number of victims and the looting of riches" and "the
deletion of national identity," Sarkozy preferred to talk about the
"dark moments" of the colonial era and suffering on both sides.

Sarkozy, a leading candidate for the French center-right political
world to run for president next year, has strongly supported France’s
recent notorious bill criminalizing the denial of an Armenian genocide
at the hands of the Turks during World War I.

During his trip Sarkozy preferred to focus on an initiative to lift
visa restrictions for Algerians traveling to Europe. Both the French
interior minister and the Algerian leadership avoided talking too much
on the two topics cooling relations between the two countries:
Algeria’s call for an apology and the postponement of a 2005
bilateral friendship treaty.

The treaty was pushed aside after France passed a law last year
requiring textbooks to talk about the "positive side" of French
colonialism. An embarrassed Chirac quashed the law but relations have
suffered.

Instead, both sides preferred to talk about Sarkozy’s trip in terms
of a "necessary" friendship between the two countries
"condemned" to a mutual future, said Algerian President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika.

Jews or Zionists have two roles:

1) Dominating the west by enslaving European and American red nicks
politicians such as stupid and criminals like Bush in America, Blair in
England, Chirac in France, etc. In the west, no politician dares to
speak-out out of fear of being finished in a way or another.

2) Slaughtering more Palestinians sadistically.

World peace today is threatened by Zionists world-wide. They are the
"Hitlers" that no power can defeat for now at least!

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/11/10/6355.shtml