Taraf: “A full truck of suspicion” was the headline of the daily’s main story yesterday, which reported that a truck stopped by police in Ankara’s Gölbaşı district on Wednesday was carrying ammunition. The General Staff said in a statement that the ammunition belongs to the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). There were claims that the serial numbers of the ammunition were erased. The Ankara Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the case, the daily said.Yeni Şafak: Three gendarmerie officers based in the eastern province of Erzincan took a photo of a nurse to prove that she wears a headscarf and forwarded it to the gendarmerie command, the daily reported in its top story yesterday. The officers’ report, titled “Activity Brief,” said, “The Akyazı healthcare center was visited and photos of a headscarved nurse were taken.” The nurse was identified as Sevim Özer, whose husband works as a teacher in the city. The incident gives an insight into the gendarmerie’s intelligence-gathering methods in the region.
Akşam: “Normalization in economy” was the headline of yesterday’s lead story, which quoted remarks from Economy Minister Mehmet Şimşek, who spoke in the wake of Turkey’s decision not to sign deals with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to Şimşek, countries that sign stand-by deals with the IMF cannot stand on their own two feet through domestically drafted financial programs. In his view, Turkey has reached the economic maturity needed to go on with its own program. In the meantime, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey no longer needs stand-by deals, adding that Turkey will implement its own fiscal program from now on.
