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Turkish dailies cover on Thursday Galatasaray's Champions League victory over Italian giant Juventus, knocking them out of the tournament in a thriller that lasted over a day.
Daily Sabah headlines "Juventus buried under the snow" as the Lions midfielder Wesley Sneijder, assisted by Didier Drogba, scored at 85' to see their team through to the last 16 in the most prestigious European football event, a feat they have now accomplished two years in a row.
"Snow Lion" is daily Yeni Safak's headline, accompanied by a story that explains how the Champions League game in Istanbul had to be postponed at 31' on Tuesday due to heavy snowfall.
The daily says the players had difficulty standing up and controlling the football when they returned on Wednesday to a pitch that was free of snow heaps but resembled tilled land due to the long and deep ice-carved gashes covering it.
- Cussing in parliament
Turkish dailies cover a brawl in the parliament on Wednesday during a session on budgets as two MPs from the ruling AK Party and main opposition CHP were on the brink of exchanging blows after throwing curse words at each other.
Dailies Milliyet and Cumhuriyet say the AK Party's Zeyid Aslan affronted CHP's Muharrem Ince after the latter criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's calling his fellow party members "loutish brutes." Parliamentary proceedings recorded instances of each deputy using the Turkish "f word" once as the Speaker and other MPs intervened.
Aslan, who promptly apologized for his remarks, has previously received parliamentary and in-party warnings for using profanities.
- US and UK suspend aid to Syrian opposition, Turkey closes border gate
Turkish dailies cover the US and UK stopping the transfer of non-lethal aid to Syrian opposition fighters after they lost several bases of strategic importance near the border with Turkey.
Daily Cumhuriyet says the countries assured that the existing flow of humanitarian aid would not be affected.
The decision follows reports that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) surrendered its grip on bases near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. Turkey reacted by closing its corresponding Cilvegozu border gates, Cumhuriyet adds.
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