GOOD MORNING--TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON SEPT 14

These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in the Turkish press on September 14, 2008. Hurriyet English does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

HURRIYET
--MY RESPONSE TO PRIME MINISTER
"An effort of a prime minister to try to suppress a media group by using all state resources has no ground within democracy," Aydin Dogan, the owner of Turkey's media Dogan Holding said as a response to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

"The prime minister's effort to suppress a media group by showing it as a target at its party meetings is unacceptable in a democratic country. The history is full with the examples revealing the grave results of this. The unmeasured show of strength destroys our democracy and the basis of the state, as it victimizes the individuals, institutions," Dogan said.

--GIZEM WINS GOLD MEDAL
Gizem Girismen of Turkey has won gold medal in archery in the Paralympic Games in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. Girismen became paralyzed after being injured in a traffic accident in 1992. She dedicated her medal to her father who died years ago. Girismen can speak four languages. She was chosen the most beautiful archer during the European Archery Championship in 2007. It was Turkey's second medal in the games. Earlier, Neslihan Kavas of Turkey won bronze medal in table-tennis after beating her Polish opponent Malgorzata Grzelak.

--PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FROM GERMANY
Worldwide famous Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say has been presented with the 2008 award of the Bremen Music Festival, one of the most prestigious music festivals in Germany. The award was earlier given to leading musicians such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Marc Minkowski, Andras Schiff and Anne Sofie von Otter. Say will attend the award ceremony in Germany on September 20.

MILLIYET
--TURKEY IS PROUD OF GIZEM
Turkish national archer has won gold medal in the Paralympic Games in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. Gizen Girismen became paralyzed after a traffic accident she had at the age of 11. She lost her father three years after the accident. She dedicated her medal to her father. Girismen became the first sporstwoman winning a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

--U.S. NAVAL SHIP BACK IN BLACK SEA

U.S. navy ship USS McFaul, which passed through the Turkish Straits on August 22nd to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia, has passed the straits once again. The ship returned to the Aegean Sea on September 1st under the Motreux Convention allowing such vessels to remain in the Black Sea for only 21 days. U.S. destroyer returned to the Black Sea after spending 13 days in the Aegean Sea.

--PAMUK IN GERMAN PRESS

Suddeutsche Zeitung, one of the leading dailies in Germany, has published a special supplement to introduce Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Thomas Steinfeld, one of editors of the daily, said that their readers showed great interest in Pamuk's latest book "the Museum of Innocence".

SABAH
--NO MORE SIPHONING FOR MEDIA HAT
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to media magnate Aydin Dogan's letters that he sent both as a businessman and publisher. "In his letters, Dogan says he has two hats as a publisher and a businessman. He writes his demands and expectations from me as a businessman. I hope he will not ask for any privileges from now on as a publisher," Erdogan said.

"Discomfort has begun because siphoning was over. It was the way of making their life. No more growth with that routine. We would have been friends if I had met their demands. We will fight the media terror under the rule of law no matter where it comes from," he added.

--HE HAD A BANK
Turkish hacker Cagatay Evyapan, who was wanted by the Interpol and apprehended by Turkish police in Istanbul, had established a virtual bank in the internet, it was revealed. Police discovered that Evyapan, or "chaO" with his nickname, ordered several equipments from abroad to make fake credit cards. Chao printed a fake bank name "Banker Trust" on credit cards and made shopping in Turkey and abroad.

VATAN
--GIZEM'S AMBITION BRINGS GOLD MEDAL
Turkish national archer Gizem Girismen has won gold medal in the Paralympic Games in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. Born in 1981, Girismen became paralyzed after a traffic accident she had at the age of 12. She lost her father at the age of 16. She never gave up and graduated from university. Girismen can speak English, French and Italian. She dedicated her medal to her father.

--FBI AGENTS TO COME TO TURKEY FOR CHAO
Turkish hacker Cagatay Evyapan, who has been wanted by the FBI for ten years for making a haul of millions of dollars in ten different countries, has been captured in his luxury villa in Istanbul by the Turkish police. FBI agents will come to Turkey to interrogate Evyapan about his plans to corrupt the Bank of America, the biggest in the USA.

CUMHURIYET
--"NATIONAL CAPITAL SHOULD BE PROTECTED"
Ersin Ozince, Director-General of Turkiye Is Bankasi, said that global capital could control countries and added that national capital should be protected. Ozince said political ideologies that rule the world were built over the capital. "Global capital does not just get its profit and leave. It also has a political stance," he said.

--ONE SOLDIER KILLED IN PKK MINE TRAP
Senior sergeant Yakup Ceylan was killed in a mine blast in the southeastern province of Sirnak.

--DELIGHTED ON THE COURT
Turkish national basketball team maintained their lead in Group C of the European Championship qualifiers after a 86-64 victory over Ukraine.

RADIKAL
--FOUR IN FOUR
Turkish national basketball team has defeated Ukraine 86-64 in Eurobasket 2009 qualifier in Kiev, Ukraine. Turkey, playing in the Group C, also won the first three matches, and are actually the leaders in the group. Turkish national basketball team defeated Ukraine 86-73 in a home match on September 3rd. Later they defeated Belgium 78-63 in an away match on September 6th, and they beat France 77-65 in a home match on September 10th. Turkey will take on Belgium in a home match on September 17th and France in an away match on September 20th. The 36th European Basketball Championship will take place in Poland in September 2009.

--UNDER THE SAME ROOF
The Social Insurances and General Health Insurance will take effect as of October 1st. Accordingly, workers, self-employed people and new civil servants will be subject to the same criteria.

--ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATRE TO PERFORM IN ISTANBUL
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, of the most renowned modern dance companies in the world, will perform in Istanbul under its 50th anniversary tour. The three performances sponsored by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) will take place at the Lutfi Kirdar International Congress and Exhibition Hall on September 17, 18 and 19. Founded in New York in 1958 by choreographer Alvin Ailey and and a group of young African-American modern dancers, the company is currently made up of 30 dancers as well as artistic director Judith Jamison and associate artistic director Masazumi Chaya.

YENI SAFAK
--BARDAKOGLU SUPPORTS EXPERIMENT IN CERN
Professor Ali Bardakoglu, head of the Religious Affairs Directorate, has extended support to the experiment made in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to figure out the beginning of the universe. He said that it was not right to resists against scientific discoveries with prejudices.

--MED STREAM TO BE COMPLETED IN 2011
Hezi Kugler, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure, has said that the Med Stream, a multi-purpose offshore pipeline project to connect Turkey and Israel via the Mediterranean Sea, drew international interest with its great potential. Kugler said that construction of the pipeline would start at the end of 2009, the earliest, or in 2010. He said it would take at least more than a year to finish the construction works.