Is it right, to give rumours? Transparency could be the cure. As long as there is no transparency, there will be rumours: ”...the same officer of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) who had an involvement in a bombing case two years ago in the Eastern town of Güroymak, in which 11 people, six of whom were civilians, were killed, was later appointed to the town of Reyhanlı by the Syrian border and was on duty when two car bombs went off last month killing 53. Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay, when asked by reporters, said that it was the duty of the “institution involved” to answer that question but there was no comment from the MİT officially, nor from the Prime Ministry which the intelligence is directly under, as the HDN went to press. ...” and about Arınc (”you are afraid, arınç you?)”: ”....He made the statement after Taraf newspaper – without giving any reference – ran the story; which has been widely rumored in the political circles of Ankara and business circles of Istanbul for the last few days. According to rumors, some of which were written in the Taraf story, Erdoğan had asked Arınç to calm down the protesters and bring the whole thing under control before he returned from his pre-planned trip to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. But when he heard, or watched live on a tablet in Tunisia, that Arınç admitted that it was the excessive use of force by the police in the first days of the Taksim protests which caused things to go “crazy,” Erdoğan became upset. Upon his return, which turned into a challenge of protesters with an airport welcoming and demonstrations afterwards, Erdoğan told Arınç in the first cabinet meeting that he was wrong to admit the overdoing of the police, since it was a fact that the “interest rate lobbies” and “foreign powers” were behind the protest. That was the point where Arınç walked out of the room and could only be convinced to return after a telephone call from Erdoğan following an in-cabinet diplomacy orchestrated by President Gül and contributed to by a number of ministers, including Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Education Minister Nabi Avcı. It is this story that was categorically denied by Arınç yesterday and denounced as a “strife” between himself and the prime minister as long time fellows...“ (both quotes Hürriyet)
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:04:59 +0000
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