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Verzonden: dinsdag 31 oktober 2006 15:52
Aan: GÖKHAN GENÇ; Bünyamin Kutlu; FUAT ŞAHİN; ASKERİ ATAŞELİK; CALISMA MUSAVIRLIGI; DEVENTER BŞK; DIN HİZMETLERİ MUSAVIRLIGI; EGITIM MÜŞAVİRLİĞİ; Ekonomi Müşavirliği; MALİYE MÜŞAVİRLİĞİ; ROTTERDAM BŞK.; TANITMA MUSAVIRLIGI; TICARET MUSAVIRLIGI; YEŞİM KEBAPÇIOĞLU
Onderwerp: 31.10.06
HEADLINES TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER 2006
Ø TURKS ARE RECRUITING FOR D’66 (TR)
ARMENIAN QUESTION IS MAKING FATMA KOSER KAYA INTO AN ALTERNATIVE
By Eildert Mulder
Ø PVDA: GENOCIDE A FREE QUESTION FOR LOCAL POLITICIANS (TR)
WWW.FATMAKOSERKAYA.NL
Ø AH, IT IS SO NICE TO BE A DUTCHMAN OF TURKISH ORIGIN
- CONCERNS ABOUT SALE TURKISH BANKS (TR)
By Erdal Balci
HEADLINES TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER 2006
TROUW 31-10-06 PAGES 1 & 3
TURKS ARE RECRUITING FOR D’66 (TR)
ARMENIAN QUESTION IS MAKING FATMA KOSER KAYA INTO AN ALTERNATIVE
By Eildert Mulder
The campaign of the nationalist Turks against the CDA and the PvdA seems to be gaining momentum.
From within The Hague the Turks Forum [TURKISH FORUM] has been disseminating a poster since yesterday that appeals to people to vote en masse for Fatma KOSER KAYA of D’66.
The anger is mostly directed at the CDA and the PvdA, which took three Turkish candidates off the electoral list because they refused to recognize the Armenian genocide. But the action is also directed against the VVD, the Left Wing Green party, and the SP. In contrast an accompanying e-mail describes D’66 as the champion of free expression.
Koser Kaya stole the hearts of the nationalist Turks by refusing to be held accountable for the Armenian genocide of 1915. She has also voted against the integration bill of VERDONK.
The Turkish Forum writes: “Let us bring this valuable lady in the House of Representatives with a large
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“Let us give them a lesson”
The election poster published by the The Hague umbrella organization the Turkish Forum. The text reads: “22 November 2006, the Netherlands Parliamentary Elections. For whom will be the votes of the Turkish community? Give those who restrict us with regard to our democratic rights a lesson by way of the ballot box.”
Underneath the photos is stated: “Let us, for the sake of our future in the Netherlands make a sensible move and vote for D’66.” Behind the picture of Koser Kaya one can read evet in capitals, which is Turkish for ‘yes’; behind the other names is stated “decidedly not”. With the VVD people have crossed out the party name, but there is no accompanying picture because that party does not have a Turk in an eligible position. |
number of votes and let us bang the ballot box with our democratic fist.”
The Turkish Forum is an umbrella organization of dozens of Turkish organization in The Hague, but the poster has national significance. Earlier on, the Turkish Forum, together with fourteen other Turkish organizations, amongst them the influential TANNET association for young Turkish academicians, already made an appeal for a boycott of the CDA and the PvdA.
It is unclear to what degree the campaign has been successful. What is remarkable, however, is that D’66 is back in the polls again with two seats, this after earlier on the party had been making a beeline for the zero-mark.
The action could have a bigger significance, from an electoral point of view, if the Turks manage to take other Muslims in tow. From the text of the accompanying e-mail it seems as if that is what the Turkish Forum is aiming for.
As it happens, Koser Kaya, all of a sudden the champion of those denying the genocide, writes on her site [See below, not in newspaper!] that in 1915 hundreds-of-thousands of Armenians were murdered. She finds it ridiculous that in Turkey people cannot discuss this matter freely. Her standpoint resembles that of the now heavily vilified Nebahat ALBAYRAK of the PvdA. The PvdA is trying to control the damage.
PVDA: GENOCIDE A FREE QUESTION FOR LOCAL POLITICIANS (TR)
This weekend there was a PvdA-meeting with Turkish local politicians in Deventer. Also in Amsterdam and Rotterdam have such meetings been held. In a letter to the party-sections of Rotterdam and The Hague the party chairman Michiel Van HULTEN writes that the party will not be holding local Turkish politicians accountable for the Armenian genocide.
The nationalist Turkish organization FOCUS 1915 is not terribly impressed. FOCUS has even warned its fiercest opponent, the Armenian umbrella organization the FAON, against the PvdA.
FOCUS to the Armenians: “Even though we have a difference of opinion with regard to the Armenian question … I would like to point out the PvdA to you, which is lying to us both. To you they are talking about the ‘Armenian genocide’ and to the Turkish community they are talking of the ‘hundreds-of-thousands of Armenians victims, but whether it exactly matches the definition of genocide under international law is something we prefer to leave to the jurists and the historians [to decide].” The letter goes on with: “I just wished to let you know so that you will be aware of the very dirty little games that are being played within the PvdA.”
WWW.FATMAKOSERKAYA.NL 31-10-06 INTERNET
CURRENT COMMENTS
AH, IT IS SO NICE TO BE A DUTCHMAN OF TURKISH ORIGIN
Ah, it is so nice to be a Dutchman of Turkish origin. People find you exotic; in your permanent holiday country you already know your way around and no matter through which quarter you walk in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, or Deventer: you can understand everybody. That is something Marco PASTORS and Hilbrand NAWIJN cannot repeat after me! I will bet you that the taxi driver in Alanya will even rip them off a little bit extra as he is driving them to their all-inclusive holiday resort at the seaside?
No, it is truly very nice. Every day you get little compliments, because you speak the language so well, because you are so modern, what without the headscarf and all. As it happens, Turkish women dress far better than Dutch women. There are also many festive holidays, what with [belonging to] two cultures at the same time. And yes sir, isn’t it nice, Sinterklaas does indeed come from Turkey! How good of you to notice. Not that there were all that many Turks living in Izmir back then, nut never mind. It would be miserly to nitpick over that kind of historical details.
Although ….
Sometimes, for reasons that cannot be traced, history all of a sudden becomes very topical again. These days there seems to be a word that I should express often and possibly with as great a sense of guilt as possible: genocide. For I happen to be of Turkish origin, you know. And ‘we’ seem to have made ourselves guilty of this.
The Ottoman Empire was big and vast and it comprised many different peoples, cultures and religions. Although the Turks formed the dominant ethnic group, they were not the only people. And in the last days of the Sultanate, when the central power in Istanbul had lost its unifying power, civil wars broke out. Peoples seceded. From Rumania to Lebanon, from Greece to Syria: the Empire kept getting smaller. And there was murder being committed. A lot of murdering. On both sides, as it happens.
Have many hundreds-of-thousands of Armenians been slaughtered back in those days? Certainly. There can be no doubt about that. It is necessary that, also in Turkey itself, an adult and scientific debate gets underway on what exactly happened during the fall of the Ottoman Empire, who is to bear the responsibility for that, and how those events are to be qualified. Surely, it is unacceptable that Turkish intellectuals, who dare to make an appeal for such a debate, are being dragged before a Turkish Judge.
But the point it: is that what it is about right now, here in the Netherlands? Why are Dutch candidate-politicians of Turkish origin all of a sudden pilloried and forced to declare themselves with regard to the genocide-standpoint, under punishment of being removed from the electoral list? Why aren’t Dutch candidates, who, not by accident, have a different colour hair, asked what they think of the post-war events in Indonesia, for instance? Are the relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia perhaps less topical and important?
And besides, if one truly wishes to enter upon a debate on 1915: why then isn’t the same question asked of non-Turkish candidates? Does it matter what one’s origin is where the weighing of historical events is concerned? What if a native Dutch politician were to deny the Armenian genocide? Would he too be scratched off the electoral list?
Making use of a double standard, a selective application of the freedom of expression: these are matters that spontaneously make me want to put on my fez while making loud Turkish war cries and pulling out a firm scimitar in order to go to battle against hypocrisy and unequal treatment. For that is why I am a free, liberal, independently thinking social-liberal.
And fortunately my party, D’66, thinks the same.
TROUW 31-10-2006 PAGE 8
CONCERNS ABOUT SALE TURKISH BANKS (TR)
By Erdal Balci
The rush on Turkish banks does not seem to stop. Between 1997 and 2005, 24 Turkish banks have been sold to foreigners. Last week, 20 percent of the big Akbank was sold to the American Citigroup for three billion dollar.
Nearly thirty percent of the Turkish banking world is meanwhile in foreign hands and the Turks are concerned. The circle is round when the big state banks Halkbank and Vakiflar are privatized.
“The expectation is that these two state banks will soon be sold to foreigners”, says Selim Somcag, economist and financial adviser. “If that happens it means Turkey is a semi-colony of the western world. Banks finance namely all the sectors in a country. If they do not do that the country will collapse.”
Abdullatif Sener, Minister of Economy, said a few years ago that the share of the foreigners should not be more than twenty percent. This limit has meanwhile been surpassed. Turks, who are already skeptical about foreign capital, got a bitter taste in their mouth when half of Finansbank was sold to a Greek investor.
Murat Yulek, economist and columnist with the paper Dunya: “The main reason that Turkish banks find buyers so easily is that there is too little room for growth in Europe. Turkey on the other hand is a growing market. The foreigners are well aware of that. Besides that, Turkish bank owners have gone through much misery in the past. Many have been accused of corruption and have suffered in the times of economic crises. Now that there are customers they think: ‘no lingering: sell’.”
Statistics show that the share of foreign bank owners in rich EU countries is indeed never more than twenty percent. In France, Austria and Greece that percentage has nearly been reached, in Germany it is only five percent. On the other hand, the percentage in EU newcomers is rather high: 65 percent in Hungary and Poland, in the Czech Republic even 95 percent. Are things in Turkey going in the same direction?
Murat Yulek: “Turkey must be careful. It should not get as far as that foreigners will be in total control. If you do not have control over your own banking you cannot play a significant role in the world either. Turkey must be more careful with her banks. Turks do not think of the long term. It is difficult to say ‘no’ to the billions of dollars they can get.”
In the ‘run’ on Turkish banks the Dutch have stayed behind. Rabobank has negotiated for the takeover of Sekerbank for a long time, but that was canceled in the end. This bank went to entrepreneurs from Kazakhstan. Only Fortis took over Disbank last year.
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TURKISH FORUMDAN HOLLANDA TURK SECMEN UYELERIMIZE YONLENDIRME MESAJI
22 KASIM HOLLANDA SECIMLERI
HOLLANDADA OYLARINIZI NASIL KULLANACAKSINIZ
FATMA KOSER KAYA -EVET OY VERINIZ PARTI D66 ***
COSKUN ORUZ HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI CDA
NIHAT ESKI HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI CDA
NEBAHAT ALBAYRAK HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI VAN DE ARBEIT
KEKLIK YUCEL HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI VAN DE ARBEIT
ALI SARAC HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI VAN DE ARBEIT
HURI SAHIN HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI VAN DE ARBEIT
………………… KESIN HAYIR ERMENI DESTEKCISI PARTI VDV
BINGUL DONMEZ HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI GROJEN LINKS
RIZA DIKTAS HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI GROJEN LINKS
SAADET KARABULUT HAYIR ERMENI YANLI PARTI SP
HOLLANDADA GELECEGIMIZ ICIN BILINCLI HAREKET EDELIM VE D66 PARTISINE OY VERELIM
From: Turks Forum [mailto:turksforum.nl@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:06 PM
To: Turks Forum
Subject: Turks Forum = Parlamento secim posteri
Importance: High
Saygideger Hollanda Turk toplumu uyeleri,
Bilindigi gibi Hollanda’da partiler sozde Ermeni soykirimini kendi emellerine alet ederek 22 kasim secimlerinde, burda yasayan Turk insanina ve onun kulturune sahip cikan adaylarimiza gereksiz sepeblerle listelerden cikardilar.
Ek’te kasim ayinda yapilacak secimlerde Turk toplumu olarak kime oy verip. Kime oy vermiyecegimize dair poster seklinde duyuru bulunmaktadir. Yillardir Turklerin oylarini alarak siyaset yapan ancak cikardiklari kanunlarla hep bizim ve Hollanda ‘da yasayan musluman azinligin aleyhine calisan bu partiler, son olarak sozde Ermeni soykirimini kabul etmeleri icin Turk kokenli adaylara baski yapmislar ve kabul etmeyen adaylar listelerden cikarmislardir.
Listelerine aldiklari adaylar ise, sozde Ermeni soykirimi konusunda kendi cikarlarini ve politik geleceklerini Ermeni meselesi gibi ulusal cikarlara tercih etmislerdir. Zaten halihazirda milletvekili olan Turk kokenli bu adaylar, 2004 yilinda Hollanda meclisinde alinan sozde Ermeni soykiriminin Turkiye’ye sart olarak kabul ettirilmesine de evet diyen milletvekilleridir.
O halde bize dost gorunup, hep aleyhimize calisan, imamlarin yurtdisindan getirilmesinin yasaklanmasi, yabancilar yasasi, uyum kursu mecburiyeti ve son olarakta sozde Ermeni soykirimi dayatmasi yapan basta ana muhalefet partisi PVDA, olmak uzere hukumet partileri olan CDA ve VVD partilerine hic olmazsa bu secimde oy vermiyerek tepkimizi gostermeliyiz..
Unutmayiniz: Birlikten kuvvet dogar!
Oylarimizi simdilik Ermeni meselesinde diger partilerden farkli tutum sergileyen ve bu meseleyi dayatmayla degil tarihi gerceklerle ortaya cikarilmasini ve fikir ozgurlugunu savunan ve bunu savundugu icin de Hollanda kamuoyunda tenkit edilen D66 partisine ve bu partiden aday olan FATMA KOSER KAYA’ya vererek diger partilere gereken dersi verelim.
Su anda Hollanda partilerinin aday listelerinde gecmisini unutmayarak, dogup buyudugu ortama ve kulture “benimdir” diyen ve ayni zamanda Turk toplumunun sorunlariyla ilgilenen sadece ve sadece D66 partisinde 6’ci sira’da bulunan Fatma Koser Kaya’ dir.
Gelin bir olalim, birligimizi ve gucumuzu gosterelim. Bu degerli hanimefendiyi cok yuksek oy oraniyla 22 kasim gunu Hollanda Millet Meclisine yerlestirerek demokratik yumrugumuzu sandiga vuralim!
Bu konuda Hollanda genelinde diger kuruluslardan/ sahislardan ‘da bizi destekleyeceklerine soz vermislerdir. O halde degerli Hollanda Turk toplumu uyeleri posteri fotokopiyle cogaltarak bulundugunuz sehirdeki Turk kuruluslarina, is yerlerine ve Turklerin yogun olarak bulundugu yerlerde dagitarak, Turk toplumunun gelecegine dair bu faaliyete katkida bulunacaginiza inaniyor saygilarimizi sunuyorum.
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