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DATE: SUNDAY, June 13, 1993                   TAG: 9306140131
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ANKARA, TURKEY                                LENGTH: Short

TURKS OK HUMAN-RIGHTS PROGRAM

Turkish officials agreed to a U.S.-designed program to refurbish the country's tarnished human rights reputation Saturday, a step that Secretary of State Warren Christopher said would clear the way for increased economic and political cooperation between the longtime military allies.

Christopher said the United States and Turkey "will work very intensively . . . to end human rights abuses" here - although he conceded that the United States' own record is not spotless, singling out the Rodney King beating case in Los Angeles as an example of American abuses.

Christopher also made it clear that the United States will not try to override a decision by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that effectively bars Turkish troops from the international force being assembled to defend Muslim safe areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Turkey's Parliament has already voted to contribute troops if asked to do so.

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