Today in Turkish Press

ANKARA (A.A) - 29.04.2011 - These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on April 29, 2011. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

HURRIYET
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UNIVERSITY EXAM RESULTS MADE PUBLIC VERY HASTILY
Prof. Dr. Ali Demir, the chairman of the Student Selection & Replacement Center (OSYM), met deputy chief prosecutor Sedan Sakinan, who was investigating coding allegations in the university entrance exam, just before he made public the results of the first leg of the exam. 
Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday morning that experts had completed their examinations, and OSYM made public exam results immediately after that statement.
Exams of 1,648,240 students were considered valid, and 38,269 of them got zero from the exam. 1,805 students replied all 40 math questions correctly, which were claimed to be coded.

I HOPE AL-ASAD WILL GIVE UP
Hurriyet daily newspaper met Abdelhalim Haddam, the former vice-president of Syria who was considered as the black box of former Syrian leader Hafez al-Asad. Haddam is actually in exile as he had differences of opinion with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad. Haddam said, "I hope al-Asad will give up before situation reaches dangerous dimensions. Opposition groups do not want to see soldiers of another country on Syrian soil."
Haddam gave an interesting information about head terrorist Abdullah Ocalan: "Ocalan was staying in a building in downtown Damascus when PKK crisis erupted between Turkey and Syria. This is the first time I am making this public. Turkey's military attache is also staying in the same building."

DOES NATION WANT NUCLEAR?
A&G survey company's chairman Adil Gur conducted a survey for environmentalist organization Greenpeace, which led to interesting results. 64 percent of Turkish nation says "no to nuclear energy". The survey was conducted in 34 provinces, 137 neighborhoods and villages. 2,469 people joined the survey. 

MILLIYET
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PUZZLING BAN IN INTERNET
Turkey's Telecommunication Communications Directorate (TIB) sent the list of banned words to companies which give hosting services in internet. Besides sexually explicit words, the list also includes words such as "sister-in-law", "confession", "animal" and even the word "ban" itself. TIB said that the list was for warning.

WE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE MAD
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who commented on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "crazy project" Canal Istanbul in twitter, said, "while there are no roads from villages to schools for children, digging Istanbul is an irresponsible manner. It has been obvious that they are crazy, but we did not know they were mad."

SABAH
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FROM TURKEY TO SYRIA CRASH COURSE ON POLITICAL REFORMS
A group of senior bureaucrats from Turkey, including head of the country's central intelligence organization and the top privatization authority, has travelled to Damascus, Syria, to brief the Syrian government over how to make rapid reforms, which are seen by many as the last chance for the Assad regime to survive growing political unrest in the country. The Turkish group of government bureaucrats are conveying Turkey's own experiences in diverse fields such as elections law and privatization as well as press law. The group has arrived in Syria after a telephone conversation between Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar Assad, who is getting prepared to introduce a multi-party system.

TURKISH SECURITY FORCES KILL FIVE MORE PKK TERRORISTS IN CLASH IN SOUTHEAST TURKEY
Turkish security forces killed on Thursday five more PKK terrorists in a clash in southeast Turkey. The clash erupted on Wednesday between security forces and a group of nearly 20 terrorists near the Pulumur town of the southeastern province of Tunceli. Two terrorists were killed in the initial fire fight.
VATAN
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MIT UNDERSECRETARY FIRST IN DAMASCUS AND THEN IN MGK
Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan visited Syria, where domestic violence is continuing, and met Syrian President Bashar al-Asad yesterday. Then, he returned to Turkey and caught the meeting of National Security Council (MGK) in Ankara. Fidan briefed MGK members about his meetings in Syria.

CHAIRMAN IS MISSING
Prosecutor's Office stated that the investigation was completed about the allegations of cypher in Passage to Higher Education Exam (YGS), and the results of the exam were announced. However, Student Selection and Replacement Center (OSYM) Chairman Ali Demir changed a tradition and did not appear before press. The results were announced in the internet. Demir has become the first OSYM chairman who has not appeared before cameras during announcement of exam results.

CUMHURIYET
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ERDOGAN'S "CRAZY" PROJECT WOULD KILL ISTANBUL'S MAJOR FRESH WATER BASIN
An article that appeared 21 years ago on a scientific journal in Turkey warned about possible environmental impacts associated with building a new waterway through Istanbul, a plan which Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced as "a crazy project." The article said such a canal would destroy the water collecting network of Istanbul's largest fresh water basin, Terkos, if the canal passed west of Terkos. 

PROSECUTOR ORDERS PROBE INTO ERGENEKON LINK IN DINK CASE
Chief prosecutor investigating the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has ordered detailed analysis of telephone calls between Dink's killer Ogun Samast as well as 20 more people and all the suspects in the Ergenekon case. Dink was killed outside the offices of his paper, Agos, in Istanbul on January 19, 2007.

RADIKAL
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RESULT YESTERDAY, EXAM TOMORROW
The Student Selection & Replacement Center (OSYM) made public the results of first leg of university entrance exam without renewing exams of 130 candidates in prison. A new exam will take place in prisons on Saturday and it will affect the current levels of 1.7 million students. Experts warn, "this is not fair, exam can be cancelled."

FIRST EXCAVATION FOR SEPTEMBER 12
Turkey has been experiencing a new development for the first time in its history. A prosecutor decided that the grave of Ali Ekber Yurek, a teacher who died under detention during the September 12 military intervention, should be opened to investigate torture allegations. The number one suspect is a major general.
Yurek's family filed a lawsuit claiming that Yurek died due to torture although executives told them that he committed suicide in his cell in 1981. A prosecutor who was born after the military intervention launched the investigation. 30-year-old prosecutor Mehmet Kus decided to open Yurek's grave. Major General Yusuf Haznedaroglu, the commander of martial law in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaras, is among the top suspects list of prosecutor Kus. 
TURKIYE
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ALARM BELLS RINGING FOR SYRIA
Turkish government has warned its officials at border gates with Syria against a possible exodus of Syrians, as clashes between the Assad government and rival forces mounted. Turkey is also concerned that political turmoil in Syria could nurture a safe haven for the terrorist PKK organization.

TURKEY'S TOP SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES SYRIA, GENERAL ELECTIONS
Turkey's highest security board, the National Security Council, discussed on Thursday security measures needed to be taken ahead of the upcoming general elections in June and the latest political developments in Syria. The council said in a statement that Turkey was deeply sad and concerned about the rising tensions and casualties in Syria.

ZAMAN
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TURKEY PREPARING FOR MIGRATION WAVE FROM SYRIA
Ankara, which has been exerting efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria, has also initiated preparations for the migration wave in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Sanliurfa and Mardin (neighboring Syria). Officials set places for tent-cities.

CONTRIBUTION FROM ANKARA IN PALESTINIAN CONSENSUS
Turkey played an important role in the consensus which has been reached between Hamas and Palestinian administration. Ankara, which exerted efforts to end the separation between West Bank and Gaza for three years, also paid attention not to jump the mediation role of Egypt too. On the other hand, Israel is uneasy about the consensus. Israeli president defined the consensus as 'a vital mistake'.

YENI SAFAK
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THY SIGNATURE ON LOCAL AIRCRAFT
Turkish Airlines (THY) Technical Corporation's general director Ismail Demir said that producing a local passenger aircraft was among Turkey's target for 2023 (the 100th anniversary of the Republic). Demir said, "we are at the top of companies that will contribute to production of local aircraft. I believe we will succeed."

NO CHEATING, GO ON WITH EXAM PROCESS
After consent of Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office, the Student Selection & Replacement Center (OSYM) made public the results of first leg of university entrance exam. The number of students who answered all 40 math questions correctly was down 336 people to 1,805 when compared with last year. The math questions were claimed to be coded. These statistics disproved allegations that students cheated in the exam through a coding system. 

DAMASCUS SUMMIT IN MGK
The National Security Council (MGK), which convened under the chairmanship of President Abdullah Gul, mainly focused on developments in Syria. Turkey's Ambassador to Syria Omer Onhon briefed MGK on developments, and the council took up National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan's contacts in Syria. 
The MGK released a statement at the end of seven-hour meeting in which it warned al-Asad administration "not to use weapons against its nation", and asked the administration to implement reforms urgently. 
The council also discussed security during the general election process as this was the last MGK meeting before the parliamentary elections to take place on June 12th.