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People stand at the famous Brandenburg Gate near fallen giant dominos in Berlin on Nov. 9, 2009 during celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
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Zaman: “Council of State shooting aimed to create chaos,” the headline of a front-page story in the daily said yesterday. Osman Yıldırım, one of the main suspects in the 2006 Council of State shooting, which left a senior judge dead, stated that the attack was perpetrated with the purpose of dragging the country into chaos. Yıldırım was testifying at the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court during the 120th hearing of the first of two ongoing trials against Ergenekon, a clandestine network charged with plotting to overthrow the government. The Council of State shooting case was merged with the Ergenekon trial earlier this year. Yıldırım and other suspects in the Council of State shooting are also accused of throwing hand grenades at the headquarters of the Cumhuriyet daily a few days before the Council of State attack. Taraf: “The state is afraid of peace,” the daily said in the headline of its main story yesterday, quoting remarks from historian Cemil Koçak, who spoke in an interview with the daily’s Neşe Düzel. “Our state ideology says we are an undefeated country, but we always lose at the peace table. For this reason, peace is seen as more dangerous than war,” said Koçak, who is a professor at İstanbul’s Sabancı University. Talking about military-political relations, he said Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the nation’s founder, never told the military to stay away from politics because he was a military officer on active duty, even when he was elected president, and he received his salary from the Defense Ministry. Star: A front-page story in the daily yesterday reported that Atatürk was the first political leader in Turkey to talk about the country’s Kurdish problem. Speaking to reporters in January 1923, Atatürk even talked about autonomy for Kurds, adding: “While talking about the people of Turkey, we should mention Kurds as well. These two components [Turks and Kurds] unified their fates.” He also suggested that the social rights of Kurds should be promoted.
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11 November 2009, Wednesday
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