Ankara displeased with Oslo over Ku

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Subject: Ankara displeased with Oslo over Kurdish conference

 Sun, 01 Oct 1995 16:47:02 -0800


Ankara displeased with Oslo over Kurdish conference

However no measures against Norway expected

Turkish Daily News
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ANKARA - The Turkish Foreign Ministry declared on Wednesday that it had
expressed its displeasure to Norway over the three-day long Conference on Human
Rights in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria held in that country, mainly dealing
with issues relating to the problems of the Kurds, but said no measures against
Norway were in the offing.

"We have expressed our views and reservations about this conference to Oslo. We
also informed them, in due time, that we would not participate in that
conference," Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Nurettin Nurkan said.

However, he added that Turkey envisaged no measures nor sanctions against
Norway, which is already on the "red-list" that brands a country as an
"unreliable partner" in terms of defense industry cooperation and prevents
exports and imports to and from that country.

"It is clear that such initiatives (that aim to abuse the Kurdish problem on
international platforms) are bound to fail," Nurkan said. "In our view, the
meeting is one that would yield no results."

The conference, arranged by Oslo university and sponsored by the Foreign Office
of Norway, ended earlier this week with a set of suggestions on how to conduct
political reforms in Turkey and an appeal to start an internal peace process.

Many of the participants condemned PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) terrorism.

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