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Durant, Thunder win exhibition opener in Turkey


Istanbul (AP) Kevin Durant scored 24 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 95-82 victory over Fenerbahce Ulker of Turkey on Saturday in the first game of the NBA exhibition season. Durant added eight rebounds in Istanbul, the city where he was MVP of the world basketball championship in 2010 when he led the U.S. to the gold. I N S I D E

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Over 100,000 Syrians in Istanbul
Istanbul (Dunya) The number of Syrian refugees living in Istanbul has reached more than 100,000, the newspaper Zaman reported on Monday. It said the Syrian refugees in the city were generally better off than the nearly 500,000 other Syrians who are living in tent city refugee camps in southern Turkey. Syrian refugees preferred to live in the conservative districts of Fatih, Aksaray, Bagcilar, Kucukcekmece and Basaksehir, Esenyurt and Beylikduzu. Many were getting jobs in Turkish companies. In Fatih, a conservative district favored by Muslim visitors from the Africa and the Middle East, some 30,000 Syrians live, the daily said. Suat Bayar, a realtor in Aksaray, told the newspaper that scores of Syrians seeking to rent flats in the district visit him every day, and rental fees for flats were soaring. Due to the excessive demand, there remain no flats for rent in Aksaray, he said. The Syrians have to go father out of the center of the city to rent flats. But many Syrians had fled their country with little or no money, and were living in public parks by night, the newspaper reported. Many have had loved ones killed in bomb attacks from government forces.

Al-Qaeda in Syria bids to control Iraq, Turkey borders


Al-Qaeda linked groups taking over resources and routes using brutal methods aimed at acquiring and consolidating control of areas on Syrias borders with both Iraq and Turkey.
Beirut (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Syria is fighting to drive rivals out of areas bordering Turkey and Iraq in a bid to control territory stretching from Iraq into northern Syria, various sources say. Across the north and east, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has set up checkpoints on roads to border crossings, and opened fronts to crush other rebel groups fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Residents have told AFP of a strategy that involves ISIL taking over resources and routes using brutal methods aimed at forcing the population into submission. Analysts and activists on the ground have also noted the tactic. ISIL has been acting in such a way as to aggressively assert itself within the complex multi-dimensional insurgent theatres in northern and eastern Syria, said Charles Lister of IHS Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre. Jihadists have even sought to justify the strategy on Internet forums by achave simmered for months, the opposition has sought to keep that antagonism buried. But ISILs takeover of the border town of Azaz in mid-September, at the expense of the areas Northern Storm brigade, brought tensions to a head. This week, six Islamist groups with a nationwide presence, including Liwa al-Tawhid, Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar alSham, urged ISIL to withdraw from Azaz. A fighter with one of these groups said: ISIL has succeeded... in making enemies with all the factions, including the Islamist groups. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said ISIL aimed to take control, but that is not going to happen, because the factions... are aware of what that means, especially after the Iraqi experience. Some Sunnis who opposed the USled invasion of Iraq were supportive of insurgents including those linked to Al-Qaeda, but tribesmen, some militants and civilians later turned against the group over killings and other abuses it carried out. A humanitarian aid worker based on the Turkish border with Syria warned that ISILs strategy threatens the entire population. The ongoing closure of the Bab al-Salameh border area near Azaz by the Turks after ISIL-rebel clashes there has and will affect the movement of people and goods, she said on condition of anonymity. This ISIL takeover of checkpoints near the border will severely effect not just Azaz and the neighbouring towns, but the governorate of Aleppo as a whole. But so far, despite antagonism from an array of rebel and Kurdish groups against ISIL, it is unclear how and when they will act to stop it. A high-level security source in Damascus said the Assad regime hopes the rebels will eventually ask the army for help to fight ISIL. Havidar said many were terrified to speak out against the group. But they will eventually, he said. The problem is Assads regime is still standing, and it is fighting everyone but ISIL, because it is doing exactly what it wants.

Automotive main export to US


Kocaeli (AA) - Turkeys main export sector to the US is the automotive sector, according to the figures of the first nine months of 2013 released by the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM). US is ranked at the 7th place in Turkeys top export destinations. Exports to the US increased by 1% to $4,115 billion comparing to the same period of 2012. Automotive sector exports to the US reached $686,974 million in the same period. Exports to US constituted 3.7% of total exports. Exports to this country from Istanbul was worth $1.320 billion.

Syrian refugees in border province Kilis are transferred from public parks to camps built for the people fleeing from the war torn country.

cusing Western-backed groups, including Ahfad al-Rasul and the Northern Storm brigade, of acting like the USfunded Sahwa who fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq. But Lister said ISIL had adopted a perceivable strategy of acquiring and consolidating control of areas on Syrias borders with both Iraq and Turkey, ever since it came on the scene in the late spring. This allows the group easy access to new recruits, sources of funding and

supplies, he told AFP. Its by no means impossible that it intends to put a stranglehold on the ability of moderates (rebels) to secure sustainable levels of supplies from across the borders, Lister added. Havidar, a Kurdish-Syrian activist and citizen journalist who has covered fighting between ISIL and Kurds, said ISILs endgame was to establish an Islamic state. ISIL doesnt have an ideological problem with the Kurds or with anyone

else. It just wants no other group to have any arms or self-sufficiency, to create a state that extends from northern Syria into Iraq, he said. Another activist in Raqa, near the Turkish border, said it was now virtually impossible to leave Syria without crossing through one of their checkpoints. ISIL has a grip on Raqa, the only provincial capital in Syria that is completely out of Assads control. Though tensions between it and other rebel groups even Islamists

Garanti to issue $6 bln bonds


Istanbul (Reuters) - Turkish lender Garanti Bank mandated its general managers office to issue debt instruments of varying maturities worth up to $6 billion in dollars, Turkish lira or other currencies. The bank made the statement to Istanbul stock exchange.

Turkey builds two-metre high wall on Syrian border


Ankara (Reuters) - Turkey is building a two-metre high wall along part of its border with Syria near an area of frequent fighting to try to stop people from illegally bypassing its checkpoints and prevent smuggling, officials said on Monday. Construction workers with excavators began digging foundations in Nusaybin, a border district 10 km (6 miles) north of the Syrian town of Qamishli, where Kurds, rebel units and Arab tribes have regularly clashed. We havent had border security problems in Nusaybin so far but in that area its extremely easy for people to cross illegally. Its almost like there is no border, said a government official in Ankara, asking not to be named. The wall would span just a fraction of the 900-km (560-mile) border, but highlights Ankaras growing concern about the spillover of violence from northern Syria, a battleground for myriad armed groups in a scramble to grab territory. A local official in Nusaybin confirmed construction work had started, but gave no details on how long the wall would be. There had been discussion of a similar wall on another part of the border which would be around 2.5 km in length. Turkey, which is sheltering around a quarter of the 2 million people who have fled Syrias conflict, is one of Syrian President Bashar alAssads fiercest critics and a staunch supporter of the rebels fighting against him. It has vowed to maintain its open door policy to those fleeing the fighting, although it has closed border crossings from time to time following clashes near the frontier. But refugees, smugglers and rebel fighters have been able to cross the border undetected in many remote areas, bypassing the main gates and leaving Turkey with a major security challenge. Turkey, which has NATOs second-largest deployable armed forces, has responded in kind when mortars and shells fired from Syria have hit its soil during the two-and-a-half year conflict. Last month, rebels and al Qaeda-linked fighters clashed with Kurds in the town of Atma on the border with Turkeys Hatay province, several hundred kilometres west of Nusaybin. Turkey has sent additional troops to the border with Syria in recent weeks and over the weekend scrambled several fighter jets after Syrian planes approached the frontier.

Jewellery sales rising to $2.5 bln


Istanbul (Reuters) - Turkeys 2013 jewellery exports are expected to increase by 20% this year to $2.5 billion, due to strong demand from markets including the Middle East, the head of the Jewellery Exporters Association said on Thursday. Jewellery exports in the first nine months have reached $1.7 billion ... we expect another $800 million until the year-end and to finish the year with $2.5 billion, Ayhan Guner told Reuters in an interview. Gold jewellery exports make up about 90 percent of Turkeys total jewellery exports. Guner said he expected jewellery exports to rise a further 10 to 12 percent next year to hit $2.9 billion, as rising demand from the Middle East makes up for slack markets in Europe. The share of the European Union in Turkeys jewellery exports has fallen to around 10 percent from 25 percent over the past three years, Guner said. Right now our biggest export markets are Iraq and Dubai, through where the gold is distributed across the Middle East. Id say around 60 to 70% of the gold sold in Dubai is produced in Turkey, he said. The gold price has fallen by nearly a quarter this year as investors fretted the U.S. Federal Reserve would roll back its $85 billion bond-buying program. High liquidity and low interest rates encourage investors to put money into non-interest-bearing assets such as gold.

Ulker targets 14% sales growth in 2013


Istanbul (Wire services) Turkeys Yildiz Holding said on Friday it had completed the sale of a 20 percent stake in Ulker Biskuvi and said the unit targeted sales of 4.5 billion lira ($2.25 billion) in 2016. Yildiz, which also owns Godiva Chocolatier, said Ulkers free float rate rose to 42% after the sale. The $413 million earned from the sale would be used in existing investments of unit Gozde Girisim and the parent company. Ulker sales will increase by 13% to 14% this year, Cem Karakas, Chief Financial Officer of Ulker parent Yildiz Holding AS, said. Yildiz, controlled by the family of Chairman Murat Ulker, owns 79 percent of Ulker. Yildiz plans to expand Ulkers confectionery business overseas and wants at least 22 percent of annual sales, or 1 billion liras, to come from outside Turkey by 2016. Egypt and Saudi Arabia would make up about 70 percent of overseas sales, Karakas said. Ulker also wants to increase earnings before interest, tax, amortization and depreciation to 15 percent of sales by 2016 from 11.5 percent now, Karakas said. Deleveraging Path Ulker shares have gained 44 percent this year while the main Borsa Istanbul index has declined 3.3 percent. The company is valued at about 4.75 billion liras. About half of the 21 percent of Ulkers shares not held by Yildiz are owned by distributors and other local investors, so the actual free float is about 11 percent, Karakas said. International investors now hold about a third of that slice from a fourth at the beginning of the year, he said. The candy maker had a total debt of 1.3 billion liras at the end of June and a cash position of 1.1 billion liras, Karakas said. Ulker raised $314 million from international lenders in December and doesnt need to raise more debt as its on a deleveraging path, he said. Parent Yildiz and its units also have no plans to raise debt, Karakas said. Yildiz, which targets sales growth of as much as 15 percent this year from 12.5 billion liras in 2012, reduced the number of companies it runs and boosted sales outlet efficiency in 2011 and 2012. The restructuring is now paying off with sales and Ebitda growth at the group as a whole, Karakas said. Yildizs sales rose 19 percent in the first eight months of this year and Ebitda was up 27 percent, he said. Yildiz, which has spent more than 650 million liras this year on three acquisitions, including meat processor Aytac Et and beet sugar producer Adapazari Seker, is now examining opportunities abroad, Karakas said, and doesnt plan to bid for Turkish grocery Migros. Karakas said Yildiz may eventually sell shares in an IPO, even as a sale is at least three years away. Food units Besler Gida and Ak Gida and packaging company Polinas may also hold IPOs in three to four years. Yildiz gets 84 percent of its sales from food businesses while the remainder is from units including private equity arm Gozde Girisim Sermayesi Yatirim Ortakligi AS, Karakas said.

Wild child of yoga visits Istanbul


Internationally famed Yogi Dechen Thurman recalls being son of renowned Tibetan-Buddhist scholar and brother of actress Uma Thurman
By Mina Ercel Istanbul (Dunya) - The son of an American Tibetan-Buddhist scholar and brother of actress Uma Thurman, world-renowned yogi Dechen Thurman was in Istanbul this week. We sat down to talk to him about how he got into yoga, being on the set of of the Hollywood block buster Kill Bill and what attracted him to return to Istanbul. Raised in service to Tibetans, Dechen grew up surrounded by Buddhist Tibetan monks. He is the son of Robert Thurman, the leading international scholar for Tibetan Buddhists and professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies in Columbia University. The Thurman family received several refugee Buddhists to live with them in their house in upstate New York. At a young age, Dechen assumed that every household hosted refugees and offered a service to a community in need. Thus being a yoga teacher and helping other people uplift their lives suited his bohemian background. Basically I got into yoga as a form of public service that could take advantage of my performance skills, he says. When asked about if his famous Hollywood star sister, Uma, practices yoga, he comments, She is very physically active and enjoys Pilates, gym workouts as well as yoga and massages. Yet her main focus is her children. And her career has reached a stage based on quality rather quantity.

9.23 bln lira deficit cash balance


Istanbul (Reuters) - Turkey posted a cash deficit of TL9.23 billion ($4.64 billion) in September and a primary cash deficit of TL4.2 billion, Treasury data showed on Monday. In August, the cash surplus was TL13.38 billion and the primary cash surplus was TL19.67 billion. The cash budget measures the money the Treasury actually receives and pays out in the month. The primary balance excludes interest payments.

Finmin urges fiscal discipline


Dechen had the opportunity to visit the preproduction set of the movie Kill Bill in Los Angeles where Uma worked out 12-15 hours a day with Chinese Kung-fu masters. At the end of the day, they allowed her to do a little yoga to calm down. Dechen is an expert in explaining basic scientific yoga knowledge while guiding students through physical posture sequences. Some teachers can explain in a lecture how magnetism and gravity affects our biology and physiology, yet Dechen is capable of explaining these concepts while students have a practical experience of them through the exercises. Sometimes he uses planetary mythology to evoke an irrational state that causes students to move beyond their ordinary range of motion. Other times he is an exuberant artist jamming with the Beethoven and Jimi Hendrix. Yoga teachers have to ask students to take poses which are initially uncomfortable so that they can have a glimpse of their potential beyond the attraction to habitual pleasure and aversion pain, he said. Thurman is glad to be back in Istanbul again and has been keeping up with current events in Turkey. Istanbul was attractive to him because of peoples movement towards freedom and diversity. One of the most symbolic images in Buddhism is the Buddha becoming enlightened under a tree. Thats why the trees at Gezi Park are so important and symbolic. We generally feel safe and calm under and around trees, places where there are more trees are less likely to be violent too. One of Dechens favorite yoga poses is the tree pose where a person stands on one leg and plants the other foot on the inner tight; the leg symbolizes root of a tree and the arms are stretched towards the sun and sky. When I saw the diverse communities of Turkish people gathering and unifying around the trees of Gezi Park, I wanted to be there and to let the Turkish people know that saving the park was as a part of a wider, global movement to put people and nature above unsustainable profiteering and property rights. Thus Thurman is truly happy to be in Istanbul and giving a yoga workshop in Sislis Yogatime. The Istanbul yoga community is so robust and active. Itll take all of my talents and concentration to provide an experience of realistic transcendence, he commented.
Istanbul (Reuters) - Turkeys finance minister advocated cutting current expenditures and warned against the populist trap of pre-election spending on Monday, after the IMF criticised the country for not tightening policies enough. Our attitude will be to continue increasing public spending in reasonable levels and cutting down on current expenditure. There are points the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is right about. We are working on those issues, Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on CNN Turk. Current expenditure includes spending on salaries and consumable goods that ensure the daily running of the government. With three sets of elections due over the next two years, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogans government is keen to keep up the economic transformation upon which it has built its reputation over the past decade. But Simsek warned against excessive spending ahead of the elections. Local elections are coming, and the biggest mistake would be to fall into the populism trap. Seven elections were held during the AK Party government, and we never took the populist approach, Simsek said. Last month, Simsek said Turkeys budget deficit will come in below the 34 billion lira ($17.1 billion) forecast by the government, supported by privatisation receipts and a pick-up in domestic demand. But growth this year is widely expected to fall short of a 4 percent government target, with the global situation offering little support. Months of speculation about when the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut its bond buying programme, pulling the plug on cheap funding for emerging markets, has led to large capital outflows and exposed the countrys gaping current account deficit. Turkeys current account deficit, running at 7 percent of economic output, leaves it vulnerable to any Fed tapering as the country relies on external financing to pay for its huge trade shortfall. The central bank has repeatedly refused to hike interest rates to tighten policy, instead choosing to support the lira through a combination of daily foreign exchange auctions and withholding one-week repos. But the IMF also said Turkey should avoid selling its foreign exchange reserves as a substitute for monetary policy, and use the reserves only to address excessive volatility.

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