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Turkish Press Review (22 February 2012) |
22 February 2012ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish dailies mostly covered in their Wednesday's edition Chinese vice president's visit to Turkey, and Greece's giving up its sovereignty rights in return for financial assistance.
Almost all the papers published stories on Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to Turkey on occasion of 40th anniversary of Turkish-Chinese relations. Sabah daily newspaper wrote that Xi Jinping was welcomed as a 40-year friend and quoted the Chinese vice president as saying that the number of Chinese tourists visiting Turkey would increase after his visit.
Yeni Safak had a different perspective on the same topic, and headlined the story as "Syria reproach to China". The paper wrote that Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Erdogan expressed his reproach to China due to Chinese veto in a vote on Syria at the UN Security Council meeting.
Turkiye daily handled the same topic in a different way and used the headline "Uyghur rage in Ankara". It wrote that a group of Uyghur Turks protested Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visit due to massacre of Turks in East Turkistan and set a Chinese flag ablaze.
Moreover, Zaman newspaper wrote that Turkey and China signed seven agreements on economic and social cooperation during Xi Jinping's visit. Zaman said the Chinese vice president gave messages of friendship.
The second main topic in Turkish dailies was a financial assistance package for Greece. Sabah daily wrote that Greece would give up its sovereignty rights for getting 130 billion Euro aid and erasing of 107 billion Euro debt. Hurriyet wrote that Euro zone finance ministers ratified the second aid package of 237 billion Euro for Greece at the end of 14 hours of debate. |
22 February 2012
Anadolu Agency
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