Top Stories In The Turkish Press Fo

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Subject: Top Stories In The Turkish Press For August 3rd

VT12513; Sun, 06 Aug 1995 00:29:50 -0800


      ANKARA, Aug 3 (Reuter) - 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

    -- Row between governor of Hakkari province and head of local commando
unit over fight against Kurdish rebels ends with governor being given a job
in another province.

    HURRIYET

    -- The armed forces are to post the head of the gendarmerie force in the
southeast to northern Cyprus.

    CUMHURIYET

    -- Istanbul police chief Necdet Menzir is to stay in his post depsite a
critical outburst against the leftist Republican People's Party (CHP)
government junior coalition partner.

    YENI POLITIKA

    -- Thirty of the Kurdish hunger strikers in the offices of two political
parties in Diyarbakir are in a bad condition.

    DUNYA

    -- Bank interest rates fluctuate wildly, with some banks giving 34
percentage points more than others for one year accounts.

    -- Government lifts customs duty on imported wheat.

    ZAMAN

    -- Then premier Suleyman Demirel warned the state-run TRT television
channel in 1992 that its broadcasts to Turkic republics in Central Asia were
not suitable. TRT has been showing immoral films.


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