Press Roundup

Sabah: “This is Baykal’s Cübbeli initiative,” was the headline of the daily’s main story yesterday, in which the daily quoted remarks from Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, who stated that Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal, known for his staunch support of secularism, had spoken with a religious community leader on the phone. Arınç said Baykal called Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, known as Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca, after surgery to wish him well. Baykal had also launched a move to embrace women in headscarves and chadors -- dubbed the chador initiative -- before local elections in 2009.

Radikal: “Now it’s the domestic threat’s turn,” was the headline of the daily’s lead story yesterday, which referred to the cancellation of a covert protocol called the Protocol on Cooperation for Security and Public Order (EMASYA) and called for a revision to another controversial document titled the National Security Policy Document (MGSB). Stating that the 13-year-old EMASYA was eliminated three days after Prime Minister Erdoğan announced that it would be abolished and that the MGSB would be updated, the daily also said the definition of domestic threat would soon be changed as well.