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Demetrios G. Kafkas, second vice president of the Hellenic American Society, said the protesters wanted to expose the "ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Turkey" and to stop the Turkish economic blockade of Armenia. But Ozal, when confronted with the Armenian issue, said, "We are not going to stop humanitarian aid to Armenia...
Turkish President Turgut Ozal, who was giving a speech on his country's role in the "new world order," was met with a crowd condemning Turkish presence in the Balkans and Cyprus...
...half-hour speech before a capacity crowd of over 200, Ozal outlined Turkey's plan for a democratic government and discussed prospects for increased cooperation with Bosnia, neighboring central Asian republics, and other Black Sea countries...
Turkish President TURGUT OZAL is a close ally of President Bush, but some think he's taking on too grand a role. Ozal staunchly supported Bush during the gulf war, and has volunteered Turkey's help in forging closer U.S. ties with the fledgling Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Diplomatic sources say the White House passed the word in Washington that Turkey will be the conduit for assistance to those five republics. But the republics are unhappy with the arrangement. Tulegen Zhukeyev, a respected top Kazakhstan official, maintains that his fellow Central Asians welcome U.S. ties...
When Germany unilaterally last month halted all weapons shipments to Turkey, a NATO ally, because some of them had been used against Kurdish rebels, the Turkish reaction was furious. An Istanbul newspaper caricatured Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher wearing a swastika, and Turkish President Turgut Ozal darkly warned that "Germany changed a lot after unification. It is as if it is trying to intervene in everything, interfere with everyone, trying to prove it is a great power. In the past, Hitler's Germany did the same thing." The attack was intemperate and unfair -- it was Turkey that had been behaving...