ISTANBUL
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Turkish dailies on Monday focused on Israel’s military operation in Gaza plus Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks on the upcoming presidential election.
Almost all Turkish dailies on Monday covered Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip. “Bloody Sunday,” wrote VATAN, adding that 97 people died after the operation yesterday.
HURRIYET ran with the headline, “Firing on the white flag,” alongside a photograph of an older lady in a wheelchair holding a white banner and “trying to escape from death with her children.”
The front page of today’s MILLIYET reads: “Neighborhood was destroyed in the bloodiest day.” The newspaper also claism that Hamas had killed 13 Israeli soldiers.
“Same massacre in every single house,” writes HABERTURK. The newspaper interviewed Metin Yuksel Kaya, an Anadolu Agency reporter at the scene and quoted him saying: “I can’t find the words to explain what happened here.” HABERTURK quoted Yuksel saying that that half of the district was destroyed and streets are full of dead bodies. The AA reporter went to the site of the attack ın Gaza's Shujaya district with the Red Cross after a two-hour ceasefire.
Violence has engulfed the Palestinian territories since July 8 when Israel launched a military offensive into the Gaza Strip with the stated aim of halting rocket fire from the blockaded area.
Same dailies also covered Prime Minister Erdogan’s weekend remarks on Turkey's presidential election. SABAH reported Erdogan as saying that he will not assume prime ministerial authority if he becomes president, referring to the criticisms that he will be an authoritarian leader.
Erdogan was speaking to chief editors from Turkish media organizations on his way to Ankara after a rally in the Black Sea city of Ordu on Saturday.
MILLIYET quoted Erodagan saying: “I will behave according to the constitutiıon, not what has been done to now.”
Turkish citizens will go to the polls on August 10 to vote for the twelfth president of the Republic of Turkey. This marks the first time that Turkey's president will be elected by direct popular vote.
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