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    CHP SUBMITS CENSURE MOTION AGAINST DAVUTOGLU

    Today's Zaman
    Oct 1 2012
    Turkey

    The Republican People's Party (CHP) has formally submitted a censure
    motion against Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu, accusing
    him of conducting a dangerous and risky foreign policy, while, at
    the same time hiding numerous facts from the Turkish public.

    According to the Anatolia news agency, in the preamble of the censure
    motion, it was noted that a delegation of CHP members and deputies,
    after receiving permission on Aug. 25 from the Prime Ministry's
    Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) to visit the
    camp sites where Syrians were temporarily being accommodated in the
    Hatay province, wanted to visit one of the camps but was denied entry.

    Referring to the refusal which the delegation received in their first
    attempt, it was said in the motion that the Turkish authorities had
    defended the ban, saying that defected Syrian army officers were
    staying with their families in the camp which the delegation had
    wanted to visit.

    Attention was also drawn to the fact that some claims which were
    formerly made about Turkish foreign policy turned out to be true. It
    was claimed that the particular camp served as the headquarters of
    the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which aims to overthrow the Syrian regime
    and were carrying out, to this end, massacres from time to time. The
    commanders of the FSA were claimed to have been accommodated in
    this camp.

    "The names of the commanders of the FSA are enumerated in publications
    and some foreign journalists, by infiltrating the camp, managed to
    conduct interviews with the commanders of the FSA. That even deputies
    are denied entry into a camp where former Syrian army officers, who
    are now civilians, were said to be living with their families proves
    that the claims are correct," it was noted in the motion.

    The CHP also maintained that the fact that foreigners in military
    uniform were freely wandering around in Hatay, that stories of these
    people were published in the foreign press and that the border gates
    between Turkey and Syria were left uncontrolled were proof enough that
    Turkey was clearly supporting an armed struggle in Syria. Liberated
    areas formed by armed groups within Syria disrupt the integrity of
    the Syrian territory while at the same time putting Turkey's national
    integrity and security in danger, the motion claimed.

    Turkey's foreign policy towards Armenia was another reason for the
    submission of the censure motion against Davutoglu. Some protocols had
    been signed with Armenia but on account of insufficient preliminary
    work, troubles in Turkey's relations with Azerbaijan erupted and the
    protocols did not go into effect, it was noted in the motion.

    The last item in the censure motion was with regards to the
    disruption of relations with Israel. Following the killing of nine
    Turkish citizens by Israeli soldiers on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla,
    diplomatic and military relations with Israel have come to a standstill
    and Turkey has lost the capacity for communicating with all parties
    in the Arab-Israeli conflict, it was stated.

    The CHP also claimed that Turkey, while laying down, in a loud tone,
    some conditions for the improvement of relations with Israel, has
    given in to other demands, as was in the case of an early warning
    radar which was set up in the province of Malatya, that would put its
    own national security at risk for the sake of Israel's defense needs.

    The risky foreign policy, seeking a sphere of influence in the Middle
    East while moving away from the EU, has finally come to a stage where
    Turkey's national security itself is under threat, it was noted in
    the motion.

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