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Turkish dailies on Friday covered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's evaluations of Gezi Park protests on the way back from his 4-day North Africa visit, the effects of the protests on the Turkish markets and reactions of business world to the effects, approval of the bill of indictment for the case related to February 28 military memorandum and the reveal of US National Security Agency's phone data program monitoring the phone records of Americans.
-Erdogan's evaluations of Gezi Park protests-
DAILY STAR headlined "Here I am for mending hearts", and titled "Great love crowd", referring Erdogan's adressing to the large crowds welcomed him at Istanbul Ataturk airport as he returned from Tunisia. DAILY VATAN headlined "Not giving up", while DAILY RADIKAL titled "Stubbornness for military barracks", and quoated Erdogan as saying, "We are rebuilding a magnificent monument," referring to Erdogan's firm step in building protested-barracks at Taksim Square. DAILY TURKIYE headlined "Erdogan's comments on 'Gezi' Protests: 'We give our all to democratic demands'". DAILY MILLIYET headlined "Erdogan's resistance", referring to Erdogan's defining the protests as "attempts to intimidate" him. YENI SAFAK headlined "Nation nestled (Erdogan)", "Hard message to interest lobby", and quoted Erdogan as saying, "Interest lobby threatens us by speculating in stock market." DAILY HURRIYET DAILY NEWS headlined "Erdogan 'sorry' for gas but firm on end to Taksim park". DAILY CUMHURIYET headlined "(Erdogan) back with anger", while DAILY AKIT headlined "Moderate messages".
-Reactions of business circles-
DAILY MILLIYET titled "Hard reaction from the markets", and published that following Erdogan's remarks in Tunisia that Topcu barracks would be built and Ataturk Culture Center (AKM) would be destroyed, the Borsa Istanbul index was down by 8 percent, while USD reached 1.9 Turkish Lira. DAILY SABAH titled "Call for peace from 6 NGOs", publishing that non-governmental organizations headed by The Union of Turkish Chambers & Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) released a common statement calling for re-establishing peace and stability destroyed by the provocators. DAILY HABERTURK titled "Foreigner sold, the boss purchased", and published that the markets waiting for a moderate message about "Gezi" since May 31, found Erdogan's remarks in Tunisia hard, as well, and interest rate reached the levels of 7 percent, and "Call for prudence to all", referring to the NGO's statement.
-Feb 28 case began-
DAILY VATAN titled "Automatic Case", publishing that Ankara 13th High Criminal Court, to which the indictment was submitted, did not return it for review in the 15 day evaluation period stipulated by Turkish Penal Code, which meant the bill was automatically approved. DAILY STAR titled "Feb 28 armed struggle", publishing that the court accepted 1300 pages-indictment and the case related to February 28 military memorandum calling for aggravated life sentence for 103 suspects on charges of "participating in forcibly toppling the government of Turkish Republic" has begun. DAILY AKSAM published that the indictment envisages punishment of the then President of Turkey's Higher Education Board's (YOK) Kemal Guruz and 103 other suspects composed mostly of retired generals. DAILY MILLIYET published that former Chief of Turkish General Staff Gen. Ismail Hakki Karadayi was the leading suspect and former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller as the leading victim.
-US National Security Agency's monitoring Verizon customers' phone records-
DAILY STAR puslished the Guardian's reveal of the US National Security Agency's collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest mobile phone operators, under a top secret court order issued in April. DAILY AKSAM titled "Big Brother monitored 99 millions of mobile phones", and published the Obama administration defended the verdict on the grounds that it was a measure to protect the national security. DAILY SABAH published that Obama was criticized previously of wiretapping the calls of journalists, referring to the news broke that Justice Department had been secretly obtaining phone records of Associated Press (AP) reporters in May.
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