Top brass convene to discuss terror

The meeting, which started late in the afternoon, was chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and attended by Chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner, State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Çiçek, Interior Minister Beşir Atalay, Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül, Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin and National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan. Prime Ministry sources said the surprise meeting aimed to evaluate Turkey’s efforts in the fight against terror. No official statement was available by the time Today’s Zaman went to print.