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A demonstration was held in Mersin yesterday on the occasion of Nov. 20 Universal Children’s Day. Youngsters carried banners that read “Don’t buy things from children working on the streets.”
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Bugün: In its lead story yesterday the daily reported on a newly discovered military plan named the Cage Operation Action Plan, which details plans for the assassination of non-Muslim figures in the country in order to damage the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). According to the plan, the houses of non-Muslims would be targeted and bombs would be detonated, while the defenders of minority rights would be killed and all the blame would be put on religious people and the government. The plan is the junta’s second coup plan, the daily said. The plan was found on a CD seized from the office of retired Maj. Levent Bektaş, who was arrested in April for suspected links to a large cache of munitions unearthed during excavations on land owned by the İstek Foundation in İstanbul’s Poyrazköy district. That discovery came as part of the investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine gang whose suspected members are currently standing trial on charges of having plotted to overthrow the government. Sabah: In a front-page story yesterday the daily reported that an İstanbul court accepted an indictment in the case of the murder of Münevver Karabulut, who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend Cem Garipoğlu in March. The indictment says Cem’s father, Nida Garipoğlu, helped his son kill Karabulut and demanded 24 years’ imprisonment for Cem and a life sentence for his father. Since Cem was a minor at the time of the crime, prosecutors cannot seek a life sentence for him. Nida Garipoğlu’s lawyer, Aytekin Kaya, said the father learned of the charges directed against him in the indictment while watching TV in jail and that the charges came as a “great shock” to him. Vatan: “His only skill is hostility toward Turkey,” the daily said in the headline of its main story yesterday, reporting that the most striking traits of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who was elected the first European Union president, are that he loves poetry and is opposed to Turkey’s entry into the EU. The daily said Van Rompuy made it to power in Belgian by saying Turkey is not a part of Europe and it will never be so. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who are both opponents of Turkey’s accession to the EU, played a key role in Rompuy’s election as the first EU president, added the daily.
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21 November 2009, Saturday
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