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PRESS DIGEST - Turkey - Nov 7
07 Nov 2007 07:28:54 GMT
Source: Reuters
ISTANBUL, Nov 7 (Reuters) - These are the leading stories in the Turkish press on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

HURRIYET

- One soldier dies after a PKK attack on a police station 15 kilometres from the city of Tunceli in southeastern Turkey. Special force units have been sent to the province.

- Turkey's Besiktas play like a second league team, losing 8-0 to Liverpool. The score is a record for the Champions League.

REFERANS

- The initial public offering for leading pay-TV company Digiturk is called off because of a lack of demand.

RADIKAL

- Justice Minister Sahin says a draft reform of article 301 of the penal code will be sent to parliament in the coming days after the European Commission called for the article to be changed.

MILLIYET

- Kenan Evren, who lead Turkey after a 1980 coup says his administration's outlawing of the Kurdish language was a mistake and that all state officials in southeast Turkey should know Kurdish.

AKSAM

- An internet site connected to the PKK says U.S. reconnaisance planes have been spotted above a number of PKK camps.
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The wreckage of AtlasJet Airline MD-83 lies on the hills near Cukuroren village in Isparta province in central Turkey, November 30, 2007 as rescue teams and officials work on site. A Turkish airliner crashed near the town of Isparta in central Turkey on Friday, killing all 56 people on board, officials said. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)



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