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28 March 2002 - 18:12 AMT

TURKISH AUTHORITIES SUPPORT PANTURKISM IDEOLOGY

The official Ankara encourage the idea of Panturkism. As «Arminfo» agency reports this was the conclusion of the Russian analytic intenrnet-portal «Strana.ru» when it became familiar with the content of the new internet-newspaper «Aijildiz» financed by Turkish authorities. The newspaper is in Turkish language and is for Turkic speaking Muslims residing in contiguous countries. As «Strana. Ru» notes, the tasks set for the internet-newspaper leave no doubts that Turkish authorities intend to use new ideological structures as means of strenghthening of their strategic and economic positions in the region that is, in Ankara’s opinion, pliable for aquiring of religious postulates of the Middle Ages. The idea of unifying of Turkic peoples into a united and powerful state on the basis of common language, religion and culute is boosted. «The map Turkic world» is published and demonstrated at all the religious meetings and mass demonstrations. The map includes Turkey, Northenr Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh. Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekista, turkemnistan as well as many regions of Russia, Iraq, China, Mongolia, Afghanistan and other world areas.