Sabah: In its main story yesterday, the daily reported on a group of men in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa who were caught by police on their way to commit an honor killing. The police stopped a car they thought was suspicious and discovered that the driver, who disguised himself as a woman by wearing a chador, was armed. After questioning the man, the police found two other men who were also wearing chadors and who had guns in a nearby street. The suspects, reportedly Tuncay K. and his two cousins, were going to Gaziantep to kill the wife of Tuncay K. who had taken off with another man.
Yeni Şafak: The government plans to carry out a census at the Makhmour refugee camp, located in northern Iraq and where most of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) members are located, after the Eid al-Adha holiday, as part of its plans to enable those in the camp to return to Turkey. A team of six Turkish officials, accompanied by Iraqi and US officials, will determine who wants to return to Turkey. Those in the camp who do not have an identity card will be given one by the officials, the daily reported.
Akşam: A survey conducted by the A&G polling company for the Akşam daily has shown that all political parties have been negatively affected by the government’s democratic initiative to settle the Kurdish issue. According to poll results both those parties supporting the initiative and those opposing it have lost public support when compared to the March 29 local elections held this year. When respondents were asked which party they would vote for if general elections were held today, 33.7 percent said they would vote for the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), a figure lower than the 38.3 percent the party received in the March 29 local elections. Furthermore, 21.7 percent said they would vote for the Republican People’s Party (CHP), which is also lower than the 23.1 the party received in March, the daily said.
