TURKEY-PRESS SCAN (2)

ANKARA (A.A) - 16.04.2011 - These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on April 16, 2011. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

VATAN
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BUNCH OF MONEY ON CAMERA
Main opposition CHP gave a tape to prosecutors. The tape shows the "money exchange" between a mayor and a parliamentarian both from the ruling AK Party. 
CHP's Atilla Kart claimed that the tape, recorded at the office of the mayor of Aybasti town in Ordu province, was an evidence of corruption. Kart asserted that the mayor and the parliamentarian shared a bribe given in a nylon bag by a contractor. Kart said the tape was sent to prosecutors and also Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 
AK Party's parliamentarian Ayhan Yilmaz said it was slander. 
"It was a money from a benevolent citizen and it was used for the good of people," Yilmaz said.

WILL HE UNVEIL HIS "CRAZY PROJECT?"
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will make public his declaration of election today. The declaration includes 25,000 USD per capita income, production of domestic car and plane, exam-free university entrance for people older than 30 and a bridge over Canakkale Strait. However, the burning question is whether or not Erdogan would talk about his "crazy project" which he said would unveil before elections.

CUMHURIYET
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"IN WHICH TIME TURKEY IS LIVING?"
11 European parliamentarians of Turkish origin participated in a meeting that discussed Turkey's EU bid. Huseyin Arac from Danish SDP said, "I cannot defend you against EU if you hold people for trial for years. First, people must be charged with something, it is so even in Guantanamo."
Professor Hakki Keskin touched on Prime Minister Erdogan's likening of the book to a bomb and said, "are we in Middle Age?"

"MAKE YOUR PROPOSAL FOR CONSTITUTION"
Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association TUSIAD's Chairperson Umit Boyner called on political parties and non-governmental organizations to make their proposals for the new constitution before the election. 
Boyner also criticized the current law on political parties and elections, saying, "electoral system and the law on political parties strengthens the connection between the parliamentarian and the party chairman instead of the link between the parliamentarian and the electorate."

RADIKAL
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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TAKE TO STREETS 
High school students gather in several provinces and protest code scandal in the university entrance exam every day. Students took to the streets again on Friday after a letter by Ali Demir, the head of Student Selection and Placement Center (OSYM), and called on Demir to resign. Demir said in his letter that some questions had "inadvertently" been aligned according to a formula.

"I DID NOT SAY THAT THEATRES WILL BE SHUT DOWN"
Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay said that he did not say that Turkish State Theatres would be closed down. "I did not say that they would be shut down, but we are searching new methods to boost performance of State Theatres," Gunay said.