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Demonstrators hold signs during a silent protest against the regime in Iran in Vienna on Wednesday. One of the signs reads "Stop Ahmadinejad! No support for the Iranian regime.” Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday
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Taraf: “They refuse to relinquish their weapons,” read the headline of the daily's main story yesterday, which reported that village guards are opposed to the Interior Ministry's plans to abolish the village guard system and take away their weapons. The ministry's bill, which foresees the collection of weapons used by 80,000 village guards across 22 provinces, will come to the floor of Parliament in October. Speaking to Taraf, Bedran Akdağ, a village guard in Mardin's Derikli village, said the village guards have been fighting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for the past 22 years, noting that the village guards' lives will be put at risk if their weapons are taken away from them. Another village guard in Çınarlı village, Beşir Çınar, said it would be wrong for the state to take away the weapons of the village guards when the PKK is still active, reported the daily. Zaman: In a front-page story yesterday, the daily quoted remarks from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who delivered a speech at the Levin Institute at the State University of New York on Wednesday. In his speech, Erdoğan focused on the importance of seeing difference as a source of richness as he noted that prejudices, insults and divisions in society lay the groundwork for the emergence of radical movements. He gave the deaths of 30,000 people due to terrorism in Turkey over the past 25 years as an example of this, said the daily. Vatan: “Reaction to Başbuğ from the opposition,” read the headline of the daily's lead story yesterday, which reported that recent statements by Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ were interpreted as an “intervention in politics” by the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Başbuğ, who went to Mardin over the weekend, made statements about the government's democratization initiative to solve the Kurdish problem. The CHP's Hakkı Süha Okay said he does not think it is right for the military to take part in daily politics so much, while the MHP's Oktay Vural said his party expected the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) to do its business as stipulated in the Constitution and not to interfere in politics.
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25 September 2009, Friday
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