ANKARA - State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ertugrul Yalcinbayir said on Tuesday that the decision of the parliament regarding the prime ministry motion on dispatch of Turkish soldiers abroad and deployment of foreign soldiers in Turkey did not cause any trouble in the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
Replying to questions of reporters before the AK Party group meeting, Yalcinbayir said that attitudes of ministers would not affect the government.
When asked whether new motion would be submitted to the parliament or not, Yalcinbayir said, ''if there are new conditions, new motion can come to the agenda again. It is natural.''
Asked whether he would sign the new motion or not, he said, ''those are not important. I have not a special attitude on that. There is a unity in the party and it will be from now on. There is not any problem in the government.''
Stating that news stories which said that AK Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan would determine deputies who voted against the motion were baseless, he said that Erdogan did not make such a statement.
When asked whether or not they made citizens pay cost of the motion by price increase, Yalcinbayir said that Finance Minister made necessary statement regarding the issue and added that those would not affect the citizens.
(EÖ-AÖ) 04.03.2003