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Turkish Press Review (06 February 2012) |
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Monday, 6 February 2012ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish dailies mostly covered in their Monday's edition Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's remarks regarding Syria, and exclusive stories on terrorist organization PKK's executions, results of a survey on possible votes political parties will gain in case of an election, and bombs claimed to be at Incirlik Base in the southern province of Adana.
Most of the papers referred to Davutoglu's remarks at the Munich Security Conference regarding Syria while Yeni Safak quoted Davutoglu as saying that Turkey had ethical responsibilities about protection of Syrian people and that Turkey could welcome all Syrian people who fled from oppression. Turkiye also referred to Davutoglu's remarks and wrote that a UN sanction on Syria was vetoed by Russia and China. According to the paper, Davutoglu said, "they have made that decision, but Turks and Arabs are paying the price."
In an exclusive story, Zaman daily newspaper wrote that terrorist organization PKK was executing its members and then declaring them as "heroes." The newspaper wrote that a secret witness, with an alias "Kazim", testified to a prosecutor with a special authority and said that Resul Altinok was killed for he criticized head terrorist Abdullah Ocalan but then he was declared a "hero." The witness said, "they hang Altinok on the ceiling of a cave for days, then they hit his genital organs. They made him dig his own grave and they killed him with a single bullet."
Another exclusive story was in Vatan newspaper. The paper published a story on results of an A&G survey on possible votes political parties would gain if an election was held today. According to the survey, the Justice & Development (AK) Party would gain 54 percent of votes, and Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) had lost votes. The Peace & Democracy Party (BDP) could win only 8.2 percent of votes.
Moreover, Milliyet daily newspaper published a story on a letter that a leading U.S. non-governmanal organization "Project on Government Oversight" (POGO) sent to Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, questioning the nuclear bombs at the Incirlik Base in Turkey's south. According to the letter, there are 60-70 B61 bombs at Incirlik base, and 50 of them were designed in a way that the U.S. jets could carry. The problem is that Turkey rejects request of the United States to send such jets to the base. POGO says that the United States has to send jets from another base to get the bomb in case of a crisis, and questions why bombs are still kept at the Incirlik Base under such circumstances. |
Monday, 6 February 2012
Anadolu Agency
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