South Australian Premier Mike Rann who was the man lack of sympathy towards Turkey has blundered in the end..

.( Turkiye sempatizani olmayan, surekli Turkiye'e dusmanlik yapan Rum-Yunan sempatizani basbakan Mike Ran sonunda kendisi rezil oldu.!!! Parlementoda garsonluk yapan kadin ile iliskisini garson kadin sonunda itiraf etti... Mike Rann sayesinde Avustralya palrmentosu Yunanlilarla uzun suredir Turkiye alehinde isbirligi yapiyordu, Gecen sene 19 Mart' da sozde Ermeni soykirimini parlementoda onaylatmisti. )

Waitress goes public with Rann sex claims

South Australian Premier Mike Rann has described as "wildly sensational" claims he had a sexual relationship with former Parliament House waitress, Michelle Chantelois.
A lawyer acting for Ms Chantelois has confirmed she has provided interviews for television and a women's magazine in which she claims she had sex with Mr Rann in his office on several occasions while parliament was sitting.

Ms Chantelois is the estranged wife of Richard Phillips, who was charged with assaulting Mr Rann with a rolled-up magazine at a public function on October 1.
He faces court in December.
Ms Chantelois reportedly said she wants the truth to come out.
"It's not something that I like to discuss on a public level but in my case I'm at the point where I feel like I have to come clean. I'm tired of the lies and I'm not holding it in any more," she said.
"I'm taking responsibility for my own bad behaviour and Mike Rann should take responsibility for his own behaviour."
Lawyers for Ms Chantelois had previously issued a statement saying she would not be making a public statement about any matters concerning the case.
But on Saturday lawyer David McLeod says Ms Chantelois is under enormous pressure and has considered it best for her family to deal with the issue by way of exclusive interviews.
'Not true'
The premier, however, has rejected the affair claims, but says he will wait until he sees the program before commenting further.
"What I have been told is wildly sensational and there is a court case pending on December 7," Mr Rann said.
"I intend to make a statement, a brief statement on Monday after we've found out what these allegations are, but I will not be admitting to things that are not true.
"Just over four weeks ago Ms Chantelois's lawyers came out and said she wanted to be left alone by the media. I understand that she's been paid a fortune to say the things that she's said publicly."
Last month, Mr Rann said he had been stalked, attacked and received death threats.
He said he was frustrated that he was unable to "clear the air" because matters were before the police.
Mr Rann faces a state election in March.


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Turkey sticks to nuclear power plan
Sunday November 22, 2009, 12:47 am

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted as saying Saturday.
"The fact that the tender was scrapped does not mean that the process is scrapped. Our determination on nuclear power plants is persisting," Yildiz said in Kizilcahamam town, near Ankara, Anatolia news agency reported.
Energy authorities Friday cancelled a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant after a top administrative court suspended parts of the regulation governing the process.
Yildiz said officials were working on a new model of realising the project through shorter procedures, adding that the involvement of the public sector might be also considered.
A consortium led by Atomstroyexport, Russia's state nuclear giant, was the only bidder in the scrapped tender to build four nuclear reactors with a total capacity of 4,800-megawatts at the Mediterranean town of Akkuyu.
The tender had been under fire since it emerged that the consortium was the sole bidder and offered above-market prices for supplying electricity to the Turkish grid.
The auction was held in September 2008, amid global financial turbulence, with Ankara rejecting requests by interested companies for a postponement.
Turkey plans to build three nuclear power plants in hopes of preventing a possible energy shortage and reducing dependence on foreign supplies but the project is fiercely opposed by environmentalists.
Ankara abandoned an earlier plan to build a nuclear plant at Akkuyu in 2000 amid a severe financial crisis and protests from environmentalists in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.
Critics say Akkuyu is close to a seismic fault line, pointing at a powerful earthquake that killed more than 140 people in the neighbouring province of Adana in 1998.

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Turkey and the Kurds Peace in sight?

Nov 12th 2009 ERBIL AND ISTANBUL

From The Economist print edition

The government doggedly pursues a settlement of its Kurdish problem

STUFFING its ears to opposition cries of treason, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party is going ahead with bold moves to end the country’s long-running Kurdish problem.

The odd bout of turbulence notwithstanding, peace between Turkey and its rebellious Kurds now seems closer than ever.

This week the ruling party proposed a measure to reduce or commute sentences for thousands of stone-throwing young Kurds charged with acting for the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). If it is passed, they would no longer be tried in adult courts. That should help blunt the radicalisation of a new generation of jobless Kurds, natural recruits for the PKK.This plan came a few days after Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, became the first Turkish minister to set foot in the Iraqi Kurds’ semi-independent state. Flanked by the Iraqi Kurdish president, Masoud Barzani, and the Kurdish tricolour, Mr Davutoglu announced that Turkey would open a consulate in Erbil.

Such a turnaround is dramatic: not so long ago Turkey’s generals were threatening to invade the Kurdish enclave and Mr Barzani was vowing to fight back.Friendship with the Iraqi Kurds is crucial to finding a formula to disband the 3,000-5,000 PKK rebels based in areas under their control. Last month a first batch of PKK fighters untainted by violence crossed the border to give themselves up to the Turkish authorities and were freed soon after.

More would have followed but for the public fury at their rapturous welcome, after which the whole process was put on hold. Mothers of Turkish soldiers who died in 25 years of bitter fighting have taken to the streets. War veterans have cast off medals and prosthetic limbs in anger. A football team in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir threatened to pull out of the national league after crowds took to chanting “Get lost, PKK.” “There is a real risk that the growing emotional divide between Turks and Kurds could lead to a geographic divide,” argues Sezgin Tanrikulu, a human-rights lawyer in Diyarbakir. Indeed, the government’s Kurdish policy is replete with risks, not least that the PKK could revert to urban terrorism. That, in turn, could provide the generals with a handy excuse to reassert their waning influence.

Yet the chief of the general staff, General Ilker Basbug, broadly supports the government’s softer Kurdish policy. A spate of scandals exposing the army’s secret plans to overthrow the AK government has put him on the defensive. Several generals are being tried in the so-called Ergenekon case against would-be plotters of a military coup.

For all his grandstanding about seeking a better deal for the Kurds, Abdullah Ocalan, the captive PKK leader, also seems on board. Quiet co-operation with the Turkish authorities is said to have enabled Mr Ocalan to remain in command of the PKK from his island prison near Istanbul. If he tells them to disarm, most will. The Iraqi Kurds are talking of amnesty for PKK fighters born on their side of the border, Syria may do too. The question of where to park the top PKK cadres is being weighed: Norway and Australia are among the options.

Yet even if the PKK is disbanded, the government still has to fix the grievances that spurred its campaign (there have been some 28 other rebellions), or more armed groups will surely follow. Some recent reforms, notably the introduction of a state-run Kurdish-language television channel, have been revolutionary. But others have been slapdash.

For instance, the changes proposed this week do not actually scrap laws that allow prosecutors to press for jail terms against anyone, including children, whom they deem to be acting on behalf of the PKK; they just lighten the punishment.
The government is talking of letting Turkified villages reclaim their Kurdish names and allowing Kurdish inhabitants to converse freely in their mother tongue.
Private television channels may soon be allowed to broadcast in Kurdish, and universities permitted to establish Kurdish-language departments. Formal ties with Iraqi Kurdistan are certain to boost already flourishing cross-border trade, creating jobs for Turkish and Iraqi Kurds alike.
The harder task for the government may be to show that these initiatives are crafted not for Kurds alone but for Turkish citizens of all ethnic stripes and creeds. http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14859377