Wednesday, 30 September 2009
These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on September 30, 2009. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
HURRIYET
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LAST FOOTAGE SHOWS THEIR JOY FOR CANDIES
Police in central province of Kayseri have mobilized to find three children who are missing since the Feast of Ramadan in Kayseri's Talas town, which has not seen any child abduction so far. Eight-year-old Ahmet Tekin and his sister six-year-old Dilruba Tekin, and their 11-year-old girl friend Turkan Ay were walking in the streets to collect candies during the feast that began on September 20. The three children have been missing since then. Their families are very miserable. Only one of the 47 surveillance cameras in the vicinity recorded the children, ringing the bells of apartments to collect candies. They are seen entering an apartment building. Dilruba and Ahmet are seen eating their treats with joy, Turkan was calm. This was the last footage in which children were all seen. All people living in the apartment building including a woman with a hood,
who entered the building together with the kids, were interrogated. However, police see no involvement.
FLYING FITS EAGLES
Besiktas soccer team, publicly called the "Black Eagles", will take on CSKA Moscow in their second group game in the Champions League in Russia. The game will kick-off at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow at 7:30 p.m. and will be live on private Star TV channel.
GUL TO ALSO JOIN 2012 ELECTIONS
The Council of Ministers has decided to pass an adjustment law to enable the election of the president for five years and his/her re-election, and election of the president by popular vote with an amendment to articles 101 and 102 of the Constitution. President Abdullah Gul's term in office will end in 2012 under this new arrangement. Thus, Gul can run for president for a second time.
MILLIYET
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SCANDAL MAP
A CD, distributed to schools in Istanbul by the National Education
Provincial Directorate, showed Kirkuk, Mosul, Irbil, Batumi and Nakhchevan inside Turkey's borders.
The map and other information in the CD were prepared by the Directorate during the term of former director.
The new director Muammer Yildiz has launched an investigation into the map.
He said, "the map was overlooked but it has no excuse."
KURDISH MOVE OVERSHADOWED BY "STATEMENT BY POLICE FORCE"
An Ankara court ruled that two deputies from Democratic Society Party (DTP), Emine Ayna and Selahattin Demirtas, who were sued but did not go to court to testify, should be brought to court by police force.
DTP chairman Ahmet Turk criticized the court ruling, saying "Turkey would be the loser, we have nothing to lose."
The ruling also caused a difference of opinion among legists. Some said it did not comply with the political immunity.
CAPTAIN AYSUN SOON TO BE FREED
The operating company of the hijacked Turkish ship, Horizon-1, told families of crew members, including the fourth captain, Aysun Akbay, that they had reached an agreement with pirates.
SABAH
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MOTION AT PARLIAMENT
The Council of Ministers decided to submit a request to the parliament on extension of the motion that authorizes the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) for cross-border military operations for another year. State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek told a press conference after the meeting of Council of Ministers that the government would ask the parliament to debate the request as soon as possible after the parliament enters the new legislative year on October 1. The current one-year mandate expires on October 17.
HUGE BLOW ON ORGAN TRAFFICKERS
The police force in the southern province of Antalya waged operations in five provinces and detained 29 organ traffickers. Police found out that
traffickers paid 25,000-30,000 TL to people living in Kislacik village in the
Aegean province of Afyonkarahisar to take their several organs.
