ISTANBUL
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Monday’s dailies focused on the latest developments on the armed attack against the bus Istanbul team Fenerbahce late Saturday, as it was en route to Trabzon airport from Rize after a game against Caykur Rizespor.
“Miracle’s heroes,” headlined MILLIYET, featuring photographs on the front page of the bus driver who was injured after the attack and the viaduct where the assault happened, on its front page.
The daily reported that two people in the bus - the driver Ufuk Kiran and security chief Serdar Kilic - had prevented a bigger carnage.
Quoted by MILLIYET, Kilic told what happened in the bus after they heard the gunshots: “We shouted ‘put on the brake.’ I tried to enable the break system. Then the driver pulled himself together and took the bus’ control.”
“That rifle,” said VATAN, featuring a picture of a police officer holding the rifle that was used during the attack, found 200 meters away from the spot where the incident happened.
HURRIYET said Fenerbahce’s two upcoming matches had been postponed following the attack.
The daily also quoted Fenerbahce management as saying” “This is not a basic sports fan incident that can be covered; it is an organized and designed assassination attempt.”
Reporting on the same story, HABER TURK said that a special counterterrorism team had been sent to Trabzon to investigate the incident.
In other news Turkish dailies also covered detention of Turkish armed forces members as part of another ongoing “parallel state” investigation. The current investigation is focused on a previous probe into the "Selam-Tevhid" organization.
Officials have claimed that the probe into the so-called "Selam-Tevhid” organization was used by the movement headed by self-exiled Islamic preacher Fetullah Gulen - also known as the alleged "parallel state" – as a pretext to wiretap senior government figures and members of the Turkish intelligence community, including the prime minister.
HURRIYET said, citing Istanbul’s deputy chief public prosecutor, that the alleged “Selam-Tevhid” probe included the stopping of trucks belonging to Turkey’s national security organization (MIT) in the southern provinces of Hatay and Adana.
In January 2014, the trucks were stopped in Turkey's southern Hatay and Adana provinces on the alleged grounds that they were loaded with ammunition, prompting the ire of government and intelligence officials.
The daily said that 24 out of 34 members of the Turkish armed forces, said to be responsible for stopping the MIT trucks, were taken into custody Sunday as part of the ongoing “parallel state” investigation into the “Selam-Tevhid” organization.
Istanbul deputy chief public prosecutor Irfan Fidan was quoted as saying that police were still searching for the other 10 suspects.
The Istanbul prosecutor ordered the detention of the men Sunday on various charges of wiretapping, espionage, violation of privacy, storing personal data in violation of the law, forgery of official documents, forming, managing or joining a terrorist organization, as well as the charge of attempting to overthrow the government or preventing it from doing its duties.
According to the Turkish government, the “parallel state” or “parallel structure” refers to a purported group of Turkish bureaucrats and senior officials embedded in the country's institutions, including the judiciary and police, who are allegedly trying to undermine the elected Turkish government.
The ongoing operation against the “parallel state” has resulted in the detention of dozens of police officers and the reassignment of hundreds of other officers across Turkey.
