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TODAY'S ZAMAN :: Press Review
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TODAY'S ZAMAN
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Turkish press review
On Thursday Turkish dailies mostly covered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan's visit to Kazakhstan, a civil servants strike across Turkey and Interior Minister Ä°dris Naim Åžahin's statements regarding the death of 34 civilians on the Turkish-Iraqi border last year.
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Press Roundup
 Heavy construction equipment on a building in ErciÅŸ, a district of the southeastern province of Van, began work on the demolition of the top floor of a building, prompting fears that it would fall down along with the building.
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The race to justify violence
We are unfortunately surrounded by violence. It is everywhere, including in football, in traffic, on TV, at home and at work. And we all complain about it. But what is sadder is that we tend to blame others for violence instead of questioning ourselves.
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The bullet has been fired
Now that we have seen clashes in Lebanon recently, it seems that debates over whether the conflict in Syria would spill over into Lebanon have come to an end. It is as if all of Lebanon was waiting for the first bullet to be fired, and it has finally been fired.
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Civilian constitution, not constitution without identity
The parliamentary Constitutional Reconciliation Commission is working hard on the issue of drafting a new constitution. However, some seem to be confusing the concepts of “civilian constitution” and “constitution without an identity.”
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The schizophrenic stance on the PKK
Amid mounting controversy over which state authority gave the strike order that led to the killing of 34 smugglers by military jets last year in Şırnak’s Uludere district after mistaking them for Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists, Interior Minister Ä°dris Naim Åžahin stoked the fires of the controversy on Wednesday when he criticized the local people of Uludere, saying the civilians who were killed in the airstrike were smuggling goods from neighboring Iraq when they were attacked.
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Turkish press review
On Wednesday Turkish dailies mostly covered an indictment regarding an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Turkish President Abdullah Gül's remarks regarding France's stance on Turkey's European Union membership as well as his remarks regarding Turkish-Israeli relations and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to Pakistan.
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Press Roundup
 To make connections with local children, police officers in the southeastern province of Van distributed kites to 1,050 children and flew the kites with them on the coast of Van’s ErciÅŸ district.
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Key concept: change
At the NATO summit held in May in Chicago, President Abdullah Gül told Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu, “So many faces have changed in such a short amount of time.”
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Power of cities
Speaking to the Hürriyet daily, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said: “The decisions that cities like Chicago and New York make affect the future. The rivalry in the future won’t be between countries like the US and Turkey, but it will be between cities, like Chicago and Ä°stanbul.”
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