Turkish Press Review

ANKARA

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Turkish dailies widely cover on Tuesday Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit in Pakistan, tugboat accident in western Turkey and releasing of two Pussy Riot members from jail on Monday.

Almost all daily newspapers uses "Erdogan was welcomed with roses" as their headline about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's arrival in Pakistan within the scope of two days official visit. 

Daily YENI SAFAK says on its front page that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Grand Cultural Show, a traditional cap and a horse was presented as a gift to him in Lahore, Pakistan. 

Daily MILLIYET uses the headline "We should invest in other countries" to report the Erdogan's call to the Pakistani businessmen to invest in third countries together.

ZAMAN, AKSAM and TARAF say on their frontpages that tugboat accident at Turkey's western port city of Izmir was a disaster. The tugboat capsized on Monday while being launched following maintenance, killed 10 people. TCG Degirmendere, had keeled over for an unknown reason while being launched to the sea after its maintenance service at the Alaybey military shipyard.

HURRIYET uses the headline "bodacious girls" to report the releasing of Russian punk band Pussy Riot's  two members from jail. It also uses a photograph of one of the members doing a victory sign when she was leaving the prison. Mariha Alohina and Nadeja Tolokonnikova were freed on Monday under an amnesty allowing their early release from two-year sentence. 

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