ISTANBUL, Nov 8 (Reuters) - These are the leading stories in the Turkish press on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

SABAH

- Fenerbahce beats PSV Eindhoven 2-0 to put themselves in position to qualify for the knockout stage of the competition. The team aims on being first in their group.

RADIKAL

- Prime Minister Erdogan says Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps will be hit during his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi in Rome. "We will be trying to break up the camps on the other side of the border. That is our one aim," he says.

REFERANS

- A rash of rumours that various Turkish businesses have been sold to former pro-Kurdish parliamentarian Leyla Zana account for a drop in these businesses' sales of up to 40 percent.

MILIYET

- Prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government Nechirvan Barzani says that if the PKK does not immediately put down its weapons and declare a cease fire, they will be hurt.

- President Abdullah Gul while in Azerbaijan says that if Armenia continues to make claims to other countries about the events of 1915 they should not expect relations with Turkey to normalise. Armenia says the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was a genocide, which Ankara firmly rejects.

ZAMAN

- Former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller gives signals that she will run for the leadership of the right-wing Democrat Party.

VATAN

- The punishment for starting forest fires is raised to 20 years in prison, one of 170 changes being made to the Turkish legal code.

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