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I am submitting herewith the bulletin of ANKA News Agency from the 8th of June, reporting about the annual report of TAEK (Turkish Atomic Energy Commission) consigned to Turkish Parliament. ANKA is the 26 years old prominent private national news agency of Turkey.
I received this bulletin from ANKA at the 9th of June by fax, as the same day in the serious newspaper Cumhuriyet on the frontpage the article with the title "ATOM BOMB REPORT TO THE PARLIAMENT" and in the daily newspaper Radikal the article with the title " ATOM BOMB DROPPED TO THE PARLIAMENT" quoting as source ANKA were published. Our friend Ms Isil Esendir < esendir@superonline.com> has translated this bulletin word for word.
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Aynur Sungur Tuncer
Antinuclear Platform-Istanbul
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ATOM BOMB REPORT TO THE PARLIAMENT
In the annual report consigned to Turkish National Assembly-Stately Owned Utilities Commission by Turkish Atomic Energy Commission, it is stated that: "Nuclear technology makes our country honorable and strong, because nuclear technology consists of strategic and economic components"
In the report Turkey is compared to Pakhistan and India who test atomic
bombs and it is stated that Turkey is one of the pioneers of nuclear
technology in the world and within 25 years 21 chairmen have changed in
Turkish Atomic Energy Commission but in the Indian and Pakistani atomic
energy agencies the directors remain lifelong.
ANKA (Ankara)-In the annual report consigned to Turkish National
Assembly-Stately Owned Utilities Commission by Turkish Atomic Energy
Commission, it is stated that nuclear technology will make the country
strategically powerful. In the report, prepared during the chairmanship of the
former head Mehmet Ergin, after touching on the importance of nuclear technology
as a solution for the energy crisis and the issue of radiation risk, it is said that:
"Nuclear technology is a progressive technology and it brings about the
advanced and sensitive technology to get into the country. So it increases the competitiveness of local industry both nationally and internationally.It provides
the training of good quality and well-educated manpower in the country. It makes
the country honorable, powerful and it causes the country to be one step further because nuclear technology consists of scientifical, technological, strategical and economical components"
In the report it is stated that Turkey is surrounded by ex-USSR -
constructed nuclear power plants in Armenia, Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria
which lack security systems. For this reason RESA (Radiation Early Alarm
System) is constructed.
In the report it is stated that, the political parties have endangered
Turkish Atomic Energy Commission so much and the chairmen and directors
have been changed so frequently while in India who tested atomic bombs,
the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission was on duty lifelong and the
chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in Pakhistan has been on duty
for more than 20 years.
THEY WILL PRODUCE HYDROGEN BOMBS
In the report it is stated that except some developed countries,
despite Turkey's being one of the first countries to go into action to use
nuclear power, it could not have desired progression.
The report continued:
"India constructed the reprocessing plants by itself.Only a few countries have these plants that reprocess the nuclear fuel the transfer of which is fastidously forbidden.In the last years, India has been in a race with developed countries. In addition to this, on the one hand it is aiming to enhance the power of its reactors two times more and on the other hand continuing to test atomic bombs and endeavoring to develop hydrogen bombs"
AFRICA HAS REACHED US
After indicating that since 1997 Turkey has started research and
development projects on local nuclear power plants, local nuclear fuel
and torium fuel development, the report continued:
"For 41 years Turkey has wasted time with only the application of nuclear technics to different areas. African countries have also been able to do these. The projects that will cause Turkey to go one step further are not the applications of nuclear technics to different areas but the nuclear technology itself which is a sensitive and advanced technology.If the Atomic Energy Commission is not endangered interiorly or exteriorly, there is a personnel having know-how to achieve these projects. But however the salaries of the scientists are lower than that of the Government officials from the Personnel Department."
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