Wednesday, 8 February 2012ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish dailies covered on their Wednesday editions Turkish premier's remarks over Syria unrest and Turkey's initiative to bring countries around a table to solve the crisis, a prosecutor who reportedly ordered Turkey's top intelligence officer to give testimony in the KCK case, a court ruling to apply statute of limitations to case over a 2004 train derailment, flooding in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne.
"Ya Bashar, men dakka dukka (you reap what you sow)," daily SABAH quoted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying when calling on Syrian President Bashar Assad to stop violence in his country and step down. "Yours is not a promising path. You will be held accountable for what has happened in Homs," Erdogan told his Justice and Development (AK) Party lawmakers in a parliamentary meeting. The daily said Turkey was also planning to bring countries together to seek a settlement to the Syria crisis to form a "Friends of Syria Group."
Daily HURRIYET said an Istanbul prosecutor who reportedly ordered Hakan Fidan, head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, as well as two former top level officers of the organization to summon. The rumor has it that the prosecutor had called the three top spies for their testimony in an ongoing investigation over KCK, an alleged urban network affiliated with the terrorist organization PKK. However, Istanbul's chief prosecutor has said he had no information as an another Istanbul prosecutor denied the story.
Daily VATAN wrote about a court ruling to apply statute of limitations to a case on the July 2004 accident that involved a high speed train which killed 41 people. Two engine drivers were charged in the trial which went without a ruling in seven-and-a-half years. Families of the victims said they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Daily TURKIYE said Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne was hit by a massive flooding when rivers Tunca and Meric overflowed due to damaged dam in Bulgaria. Farm lands, houses on river banks and many bridges were inundated by rising waters. |
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Anadolu Agency
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