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Orphans from Gaza, who could not participate in the International Orphans’ Get Together Program held in İstanbul on Saturday, have sent their regards to Turkey via a picture of them taken in front of a building destroyed in Israeli assaults.
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Taraf: “Leadership crisis at midnight,” read the headline of the daily’s main story yesterday, which reported that a crisis erupted on Tuesday when five Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members who surrendered to Turkish authorities on Monday were sent to court by prosecutors seeking their arrest. While 29 of the 34 PKK members were released immediately, prosecutors demanded the arrest of the other five on the grounds that they said they came upon the orders of their “leader” Abdullah Öcalan [the jailed leader of the PKK who urged the group to surrender]. Those five were also released after pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Türk persuaded them to change their testimony. Bugün: “150 more PKK members to come down from the mountains,” read the headline of a front-page article in the daily yesterday, which reported that Interior Minister Beşir Atalay -- coordinator of the government’s initiative -- said 150 more PKK members are expected to surrender to Turkish authorities soon after the 34 members who were turned over by the PKK on Monday. “‘Return home’ is part of the democratization process, and there will be more good news soon,” Atalay noted. Yeni Şafak: “Kandil is dying down,” said the headline of the daily’s lead story yesterday, which reported that the turning over of 34 PKK members was the first step of the government’s democratic initiative, which aims to bring down 4,000 terrorists from the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq -- a strategic settlement area for PKK terrorists. The daily claimed that those who have never engaged in criminal activity among the 4,000 PKK members will be immediately released.
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22 October 2009, Thursday
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