Hürriyet
-- Children plunge into icy pond
Two primary school children fell through the ice while sliding on a frozen pond in the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir, daily reported Hürriyet Friday. One of the children died, while the other was rescued and hospitalized. Kader Şahin, 9, and Hakime Topakçıer, 10, fourth grade students at Topaç Village Primary School in the province’s Acıgöl district, saw the pond had frozen over and began to slide and run across the ice. The pond, which has a depth of two meters, is used for animals to drink water. The ice broke as the children played and the two plunged into the icy water. Others witnessed the incident and immediately called 112 emergency teams and the children were pulled out of the water and rushed to Nevşehir İ. Şevki Atasagun State Hospital. Şahin succumbed to the effects of hypothermia, while Hakime was transferred to Kayseri’s Erciyes University Medical Faculty Gevher Nesibe Hospital. A village man, Recep Aydoğdu, said the pond was formed out of rainfall years ago and many children playing on the pond have fallen into the water before. Five years ago another child fell through the ice and died, said Aydoğdu, noting that the neighborhood head continually warns parents to prevent their children from playing on the surface of the pond. “If this pond is not surrounded with a fence or wires, many other children will fall in,” said Aydoğdu, conveying the request of local parents.
Radikal
-- Solo protester hangs self, rescued at last moment
A retired police employee known in the southern coastal province of Mersin for his one-man protests, hung himself in an effort to imitate the imaginary execution of an Ergenekon suspect, but was rescued by passersby, daily Radikal reported Friday. Sixty-year-old Mehmet Emin Kocaaslan hung himself from a tree but was rescued at the last moment by civil police and citizens passing by.
He was wearing a scarf, a beard and a hat in an effort to resemble writer Yalçın Kücük, an Ergenekon case suspect, and started his one-man protest on Mersin’s Atatürk Street. After stepping on a plastic stool, he tied a rope hanging from a tree around his neck and started reading a “Küçük’s execution decision,” prepared by himself.
Kocaaslan pushed the plastic stool after reading the text. He was rescued by shocked passersby and was given water and assistance to breathe easily. The “chronic protester” lay down under the tree for some time, until he collected himself. Saying that he felt well, Kocaaslan declined to go to the hospital.
Vatan
-- Wife loses inheritance due to ‘lack of concern’
Vildan Özbek, who was accused of a “lack of concern” during her husband’s struggle with cancer, lost her rights to her husband’s inherits in Mediterranean city of Antalya, daily Vatan reported Friday.
Mehmet Özberk had filed for divorce before his death, citing his wife’s lack of concern for him when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. When Mehmet Özberk died, the divorce case was closed and under the law Vildan Öztürk was named an inheritor of her late husband. However, Emine Zümrüt E., Özberk’s daughter from his first marriage, argued that Vildan Öztürk did not visit Mehmet Öztürk at the hospital or at home during his treatment. After witnesses corroborated the claim, Vildan Öztürk was accused of disinterest by the Antalya Third Family Court.
The court said Mehmet Öztürk, who had pancreatic cancer, had the right to demand his wife’s support during his difficult experiences. The court said it is a legal, humanitarian and conscientious obligation to support one’s husband, the report said. The court ruled that Vildan Öztürk should lose her rights as an inheritor. Vildan Öztürk had been receiving her late husband’s retirement pension; the pension has been cut as well after the court decision.
From Anatolia News Agency:
HÜRRİYET
-- ALL THE BOSSES HERE
Speaking at a meeting of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, or TÜSİAD, yesterday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: "All the bosses of the Turkish automotive sector are here at the moment. Let us manufacture our own automobile. You can do it either by yourself or by coming together."
Everybody was happy at yesterday's TÜSİAD meeting. It was the first time Erdoğan met TÜSİAD members after the TÜSİAD head's statement expressing her organization's "impartial" stance prior to the referendum and Erdoğan's reply to her stating "whoever is neutral will be eliminated."
-- NUCLEAR SUMMIT IN ISTANBUL
The second round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States plus Germany) regarding Iran's nuclear program will begin in Istanbul on Friday. The summit will last two days.
MİLLİYET
-- ERDOĞAN CALLS ON AUTOMOTIVE GIANTS TO MANUFACTURE LOCAL AUTOMOBILE
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who addressed the general assembly meeting of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, or TÜSİAD, called on the automotive giants of the country to manufacture a Turkish car.
Erdoğan said the time had come to produce a totally Turkish-made car.
Koç Holding's Executive Board President Mustafa Koç responded to Erdogan's call. "This seems impossible in technological terms. We will do our best, but it is not like it seems from outside. There are some spare parts that are not possible to produce in Turkey. Even if it could be produced, it would be very expensive. It will not be economical," he said.
-- TURKEY WITHDRAWS FROM LEBANESE PROCESS
Turkey, which launched initiatives to take part in efforts for the solution of the crisis in Lebanon, has withdrawn from the process. The talks were actually started by Saudi Arabia and Syria but no result could be obtained.
Finally, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu held secret talks with Hezbollah leader Nasrallah.
-- "GRACIAS" TO EVA OF 2000'S
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrived in Turkey on Thursday and was welcomed by a military ceremony. Kirchner met with Turkish President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdoğan made a gesture and heard Kirchner’s reponse of "gracias," meaning "thank you" in Spanish.
Kirchner likens herself to Eva Peron, the legendary former first lady of Argentina.
SABAH
-- REVISION IN MİT
Hakan Fidan, Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Agency, or MİT, made a restructuring in the agency. According to the new arrangement, people who speak foreign languages as well as their mother tongue, who were born and raised abroad and who don't seem Turkish, will undertake missions in operational units of the agency.
-- ILLEGAL DECISION CRITICISM TO COUNCIL OF STATE
Criticising a decision of the Council of State preventing the wearing of the headscarf in examinations carried out by Student Selection and Placement Center, or ÖSYM, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: "While there is no decision about clothing in the Constitution, this decision of the Council of State is illegal. This is actually politicizing the jurisdiction of the center."
VATAN
-- BARGAINING OF ÖCALAN WITH STATE
For a long time, Abdullah Öcalan has been in talks with a delegation that visited İmrali on behalf of the state. However, it was stated that the talks became locked as Öcalan insisted on being under "house arrest."
Öcalan said: "We may start to talk about a cease-fire and laying down arms only if a period of house arrest starts. Otherwise, I will not attend the talks after March."
Öcalan wants to serve his imprisonment terms in a "safe house that will be determined by the state." Under the law regarding execution sentences, those over the age of 65 and those who were sentenced to imprisonment terms not more than 6 months may make use of house arrest.
Öcalan does not bear the conditions for house arrest as he is 61 years old and sentenced to a life sentence for serious crimes.
-- A TURK IS IN THE TABLE OF GIANTS
Chinese President Hu Jintao was welcomed with a ceremony at the White House. A limited number of high ranking executives were invited to the dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama. The only Turk at the dinner was CEO of Coca Cola Muhtar Kent.
Michelle Obama, Hu Jintao, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Hillary Clinton were at the table with Kent.
CUMHURİYET
-- ARGENTINE GUEST AT PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrived in Turkey on a formal visit. Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that 200,000 Ottomans migrated to Argentina between 1890 and 1913, adding that Turkey and Argentina had relations rooted in history.
-- MONICA BELLUCI IN "HAREM"
Famous actress Monica Belluci will play the role of Turhan Hatice Sultan in the Turkish-Italian joint production "Harem." The movie is expected to screen by the end of the year.
-- LEBANESE OFFICIALS ON THEIR OWN NOW
Following Saudi Arabia, the foreign ministers of Turkey and Qatar also abandoned their roles as mediators in the solution of the government crisis in Lebanon as there are reservations towards their proposals. It was learned that Hezbollah brought new conditions and asked the priorities to be changed.
RADİKAL
-- NO NEED FOR CONCERNS
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who got into an "elimination" conflict with Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, or TÜSİAD, prior to the referendum, addressed the "concerned moderns" at a meeting of the organization. "We will not intervene or we will not let anybody intervene in people's lifestyles," Erdoğan said at the gathering.
"We are conservative, but we will not impose our personal opinions on anybody," Erdoğan said, adding that intervention in people's lifestyles meant oppression, cruelty and injustice.
-- NO CONCESSIONS IN DEMOCRATIC MOVE
Addressing Turkey's 81 governors, Prime Minister Erdoğan gave the message that the democratic move, carried out under the name "The National Unity and Brotherhood Project," would continue. Erdoğan said the governors had the biggest responsibility in carrying the project to success. "The process is going well at the moment. We will not make any concessions in this project," he said.
TÜRKİYE
-- TURKEY-ARGENTINA RELATIONS ROOTED
Turkish President Abdullah Gül hosted Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the Çankaya Presidential Palace on Thursday. Relations between Turkey and Argentina were rooted in history, Gül said, adding that the sincerity between the two countries began with the "mutual recognition agreement" signed during the Ottoman period 100 years ago.
-- WE'LL BUILD HOUSE AND GET OIL
Venezuelan Minister for Energy and Petroleum Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno said they would give oil to Turkey in exchange for houses to be built by the Housing Administration of Turkey, or TOKİ. Tanzania invited TOKİ to make a joint project.
ZAMAN
-- JURISDICTION SHOULD BELONG TO NATION, NOT TO IDEOLOGIES
Speaking at the general assembly of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, or TÜSİAD, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted harshly to a Council of State decision regarding the headscarf issue. Erdoğan said there were no regulations on clothing neither in the constitution nor in the law, and therefore the headscarf ban was "unlawful." The prime minister said arbitrary decisions wounded people's consciences. "This is how jurisdiction is politicized," he said.
-- CHP LEADER SUPPORTS COUNCIL OF STATE'S HEADSCARF BAN
Republican People's Party, or CHP, chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu expressed support for a Council of State headscarf ban concerning the Academic Personnel and Postgraduate Education Exam, or ALES. Replying to questions of reporters in the eastern province of Erzurum, Kılıçdaroğlu said everybody should respect the decision. "We have no chance to object to it," he said.
YENİ ŞAFAK
-- COUNCIL OF STATE HURTS CONSCIENCE
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strongly reacted to a decision from the Council of State to prevent anyone wearing a headscarf from sitting the Academic Personnel and Postgraduate Education Exam, or ALES. "The Council of State hurt the conscience with this decision and violated universal legal norms," Erdoğan said.
-- U.S. AMBASSADOR RICCIARDONE IN ANKARA
The new U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis J. Ricciardone has arrived in the Turkish capital of Ankara. "It is nice to be in Turkey again after 32 years," Ricciardone said.
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