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A plan to demolish a building in Çankırı in central Turkey went seriously wrong when the 25-meter-high structure rolled over onto its roof. The building, a flour mill built in 1928 that has been idle since the 1980s, was scheduled for demolition to make way for a shopping center.
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Taraf: “We will be unshackled if Kurdish problem is resolved,” read the headline of a front-page article in the daily yesterday, quoting remarks from Interior Minister Beşir Atalay, who participated in a workshop held over the weekend to discuss solutions to the Kurdish problem. Atalay, who last week announced the government's plans to introduce democratic steps to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem, said he was hopeful about an eventual solution. “Turkey has many opportunities to develop but the Kurdish problem is shackling our feet. If we can resolve this issue with more democracy, Turkey will improve in a way hard to imagine,” said Atalay at “The Solution of the Kurdish Problem: Turkish Model Workshop.” Radikal: In its main story yesterday, the daily reported the impressions of a Radikal writer who went to a village in the southeastern province of Mardin where gunmen killed 44 villagers over a family dispute earlier this year. Writer Özcan Karabulut, who went to Bilge village, wrote that he was surprised to see that the children of this village were so much at peace with death because they spend most of their time in cemeteries. “When I turn my head, I see children running in the graveyard. I feel as if I am in a dream and this is a kindergarten. The children look like they are moving in slow motion. They pass from one grave to another, they touch gravestones as if they are touching their mothers and fathers. I have difficulty in understanding how easily these children can be at peace with death and graveyards,” wrote Karabulut. Akşam: Michael Rubin, a former advisor to the Pentagon on Iran and Iraq, commented on Turkey's Kurdish initiative and said Turkey should not speak to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, because every individual and group that is involved in acts of terror loses their legitimacy. He said Turkey trying to make a deal with the PKK will bring more pain, noting that a solution does not lie in weapons but in ballot boxes, reported the daily.
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