Turkish Daily News: 'LaRouche: Iraq War Is a Cause of Shame for the U.S.'

Turkish Newspaper Hurriyet: 'Playing with Kurds Is a Strategic Mistake'

Taiwan Central News Agency Covers LaRouche Press Conference in Turkey

From Volume 2, Issue Number 25 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published June 24, 2003

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Press Coverage of LaRouche's Historic Trip to Turkey

Turkish Daily News: 'LaRouche: Iraq War Is a Cause of Shame for the U.S.'

Under the headline "LaRouche: Iraq war is a cause for shame for U.S.," the June 18 issue of the Turkish Daily News carried the following article:

"U.S. Democrat member and Presidential hopeful Lyndon LaRouche said that the Iraq war was groundless and a cause for shame for the United States, Anatolia News Agency reported.

"Addressing a conference at the Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO), LaRouche as an American condemned the war, adding that Iraq would continue to toughen since it was groundless.

"Criticizing the Bush Administration strongly, LaRouche claimed that the Iraq war broke out after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and a group forced President George W. Bush [into the war]. He urged that Cheney and many others should be sacked from office through jurisdiction.

"LaRouche also claimed that the September 11 attacks were a result of domestic provocation, adding that the blame for the attacks was put on a group of Muslim amateurs.

"Emphasizing that the IMF and its monetary system collapsed, LaRouche noted that many governments of the world should come together and create a new monetary system.

"According to LaRouche, the technology and engineering in Europe should be merged with the resources in Eurasia and Caucasus. He said that Turkey should be a real bridge leading from India, Iran and the Caucasus to the Balkans and Europe.

"Praising Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, LaRouche stated that he not only appreciated but also understood him since he showed his leadership under very tough conditions. He added that Ataturk created modern Turkey by taking very serious decisions."

In addition, the Turkish daily, Milli Gazete featured a front-page article June 18, reporting on the meeting between former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan and Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, Helga Zepp LaRouche, who also addressed meetings in Turkey. The daily Aksam also covered the meeting.

Turkish Newspaper Hurriyet: 'Playing with Kurds Is a Strategic Mistake'

"Playing with Kurds is a strategic mistake" is how the Turkish daily Hurriyet of June 14 headlined its coverage of Lyndon LaRouche's arrival in Turkey. The article says:

"U.S. Democratic Party Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche arrived in Turkey to give a [press] conference and to meet with [Turkish] party officials.

"LaRouche said that playing a game with Kurds, like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are doing, is a strategic danger for Turkey. Since his entrance into the Democratic Party in 1976, LaRouche, economist by profession, ran six times for Democratic Presidential candidacy from 1980. He is running again for election in 2004. LaRouche, who is a candidate with biggest number of donations in Democratic Party, will today give a speech in Cemal Resit Rey [concert hall in Istanbul] with the title: 'Eurasian Global Development and the New Key for Peace.'

"Mr. LaRouche will, after traveling to Ankara on Sunday and addressing the Trade Chamber of Ankara, leave Turkey on Wednesday."

by Ardic Aytalar/Istanbul

Taiwan Central News Agency Covers LaRouche Press Conference in Turkey

EIW provides here a rough translation from Chinese of a news release from the Republic of China's Central News Agency on June 16, which covers Lyndon LaRouche's address to the Ankara Chamber of Commerce. It identifies LaRouche as former Democratic Party Presidential candidate Lyndon, without his last name. A Chinese activist in the New York City area noted that, given the closeness of the current ruling party, the Democratic People's Party, to the neo-cons in the Bush Administration, it's unusual that they covered LaRouche at all. The article appeared prominently on Yahoo.com's Chinese-language news homepage, so it will certainly not have been missed by virtually anybody who monitors Chinese-language news on the Internet.

Published under the title "Former Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Criticizes Bush as Responsible for War Atrocities," the article says:

"Former American Democratic Party Presidential candidate Lyndon stated today that the United States is involved in wars against third world countries, the next target being Iran; stopping these wars can only be done from within the United States, and if Bush himself doesn't step down, then those of his war cabinet must step down.

"Lyndon is in Ankara at the Chamber of Commerce's seminar, 'Eurasia: Global Development and Prospects for Peace,' where he made the statement. In America, Lyndon is known for his unique views: the latest demonstrations by students in Iran were incited by the American government's intervention, similar to what happened in South Korea.

"Lyndon expressed straightforwardly that the 9/11 terror attack incident must have been planned by a renegade group within the United States. Lyndon said that, within the United States, there are various extremist political power groups trying to seize control of the U.S. government. He said former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former National Security head Brzezinski must have known about the 9/11 incident before it happened."

The article was posted in Chinese at http://tw.news.yahoo.com/2003/06/17/ international/cna/4053126.html.

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