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ZAMAN

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JUNTA'S AGENDA: TAKING CONTROL OF POLITICS

A junta structuring recently revealed under a plan named as "the Cage" reportedly aimed at overthrowing the Justice and Development (AK) Party in general elections in 2011. The plan sought to besmirch the AK Party and prevent a popular election of the president in 2012.

"ROMPUY IS NOT SARKOZY," SAYS TURKISH-BELGIAN LAWMAKER

As Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy's election as the EU's first permanent president caused concerns in Turkey, a Belgian-Turkish lawmaker sought to ease these concerns. "It would be unfair to brand Rompuy in a class of politicians like Sarkozy or Merkel," said Hilal Yalçın, Belgian's first Turkish lawmaker from the Christian Democrats.

TÜRKİYE

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PLAN TO RAID AKTÜTÜN BELONGS TO ERGENEKON

Halil Ataç, a member of the terrorist organization PKK who was responsible for intelligence, made striking claims. Ataç said, "some members of the Ergenekon met people in the organization. They offered several connections and plans to PKK, and then Aktütün military outpost was raided. They wanted to divert the incident, however this is totally linked with Ergenekon."

Ataç said, "Ergenekon will continue to exist as long as the PKK exists. Any action of the organization is strengthening their hands. If PKK ends, they will also end."

BARZANI TO JOIN IN PROCESS OF LIQUIDATING PKK

A representative of the regional administration in north of Iraq will participate in a trilateral summit to be held among Turkey, the United States and Iraq in mid-December. The summit will focus on liquidation of PKK and closure of Makhmour camp.

FUTURE CANNOT BE BUILT ON FEAR

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke in his party meeting in Ankara's Kizilcahamam town and said, "a country or future cannot be built on fear. We have not yielded to any fear and we will go on our path without any fear."

YENİ ŞAFAK

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SCREAM

Eighteen university students, who were stranded in Rize's Ovit Mountain, cried as, "we are freezing." A van taking 18 university students to their homelands for Feast of Sacrifice was stranded at 2,600 meters. Funda Fener, one of the students in the van, called her father and said, "we are very frightened. The van is lacking diesel oil, and we cannot warm ourselves. We are about to freeze, save us." Rescue teams reached the students in two days.

MOBILE BUG IN CHARGE

Retired general Levent Ersöz, the former head of the Intelligence Department of the Gendarmery Command who was the "wire tapping person" of the Ergenekon organization, also tapped cell phones of any person he wanted. Ersöz helped a military intelligence officer start working in a cell phone company, and gave him a "special duty". Thus, Ersöz easily tapped his commercial rivals.

It is claimed that Ersöz and the Russians learned about the commercial secrets of the rival companies in MI-26 cargo helicopter tender, thanks to colonel H.A. who was working for Ersöz in a cell phone company.

HÜRRİYET

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NIGHT OF THE EAGLES

Turkey's Beşiktaş soccer team toppled their league leader rivals Fenerbahce 3-0 at a derby game on Saturday in Istanbul's Inonu Stadium. Fink, Bobo and Ugur Inceman were the Beşiktaş' scorers to give the Eagles their first win against Fenerbahce in four years.

TOP TURKISH DIPLOMAT WARNS TEHRAN OVER URANIUM DEAL

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Iran against possible sanctions after his meetings with U.S., British and French officials. "If you rejected right away a proposal to store your uranium outside Iran, the West may take tough measures and begin implementing sanctions," Davutoglu reportedly told the Iranian president and the foreign minister during a recent visit to Tehran.

MİLLİYET

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I FEEL SO BAD

Hasan Gerceker, the president of the Supreme Court of Appeals, commented on telephone tapping developments, and told about how he felt when he saw the tapping records in files. Gerceker said, "I feel so bad while listening to the conversations of citizens with their children and spouses."

Replying questions of reporters about wire tapping, Gerceker made striking remarks and said the Supreme Court of Appeals was periodically searching for "bugs".

Asked if he ever thought he was being tapped, Gerceker said, "this is an obvious fact. It is obvious with concrete documents and data that some illegal tapping is being made."

30-HOUR MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

Eighteen people were stranded in a van due to an avalanche when they were heading from the eastern province of Erzurum to the northeastern province of Rize. They were rescued with a breathtaking operation.

The van, carrying 16 students of the Ataturk University, was stranded when it used a road closed to traffic. The van was on 2,640 meters of altitude when this happened. Teams, who could hardly continue their search and rescue efforts due to heavy snowfall and fog, reached the van at 00:30 a.m.

SABAH

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LIFE AND DEATH MATTER UNDER AVALANCHE

Eighteen young people who were stranded at 2,600 meters on Ovit Mountain due to heavy snowfall and avalanche, resisted to "white death" for 31 hours. The driver of the van carrying university students who were going from Erzurum to Rize to see their families during the Feast of Sacrifice drew into a closed road and was stranded due to an avalanche. The driver called for help, and civilian and military rescue teams prevented a disaster thanks to their extraordinary endeavor. Three mountaineers from Kackar Mountaineering reached 18 people after midnight despite bad weather and geographical conditions.

"THEIR DUTY IS MIXING"

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strongly criticized the opposition during Justice & Development (AK) Party meeting in Kizilcahamam, Ankara. Erdoğan said, "they are frightening others with division, and they are in an effort to create a fear society with virtual fears and imaginary threats. However, fear is the murderer of wisdom. A country cannot build democracy and future on fear. What they are doing is to mix Turkey, they are mixers. This is their mission."

VATAN

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PREMIER DENY ANY INVOLVEMENT IN WIRE-TAPPING JUDICIARY

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strongly rejected allegations that the government had ordered the country's telecommunications watchdog to wire-tap a number of senior members of the judiciary. "Those who want to implicate the government in the wire-tapping are evil-minded. I am talking as a prime minister who had been wire-tapped," Erdoğan said.

EIGHTEEN TRAPPED UNDER HEAVY SNOW FALL

Eighteen people, including six university students, were trapped under heavy snow fall while they were travelling on a closed road in a midibus headed for Rize on the Mount Ovit on a closed passage in the northeastern part of Turkey. The passengers of the midibus were rescued after a 30-hour effort by civil and military rescue teams.

RADİKAL

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THIS IS A KIND OF REVOLUTION

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is clearly voicing some issues which have never been mentioned by any central right leader so far. Mothers cried in Maras, Corum, Sivas and Gazi. Erdoğan continues his democratic initiative by talking about issues which have been considered as a taboo by central right politicians so far.

Erdoğan told about how 20 children were shot to death during the Dersim rebellion and said, "there were people who saw that the River Murat was flowing in red. They say 'do not exaggerate the tears of mothers' because their children have not been killed this way."

Erdoğan said, "mothers did not cry during the War of Independence, but mothers cried in Dersim, Kahramanmaras, Corum, Sivas, Basbaglar and Gazi neighborhood. There are mothers crying in my 81 provinces for 30 years. They are being frightened with division. This nation is big enough not to be affected by fear. We will go on our path with courage."

HOUSE BECOMES THEIR GRAVE

A landslide occurred in the northern province of Trabzon, and a couple died under the rubble of their new house. Also, two people died in a landslide in Giresun.