GOOD MORNING--TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON APR 8

HURRIYET
-- OBAMA ENDS BUSH PERIOD IN TURKEY
In his visit to Turkey, U.S. President Barack Obama took the first step to heal the wounds caused by the eight-year Bush period. Obama relayed messages that will thaw relations between Muslims and Christians. CNN International said Obama, by saying Turkey and the United States could be a role model for the world, showed the importance the United States attached to Turkey.
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-- OBAMA MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BAGHDAD
U.S. President Obama, who was expected to return to his country from Istanbul, made a surprise trip to Baghdad. The White House said the president would meet with the U.S. commanders and soldiers and that he would talk to Iraqi leaders on the phone because of bad weather conditions.
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MILLIYET
-- NATO MEMBER SHOULD ALSO BE EU MEMBER
U.S. President Barack Obama got together with a group of Turkish university students on the last day of his visit to Turkey. Obama said Turkey's accession into the EU would be the right step. If Turkey is a member of NATO, it should also become a member of the EU, he said. Turkish people should have the freedom to travel and move across Europe, Obama said. Replying to a question on the establishment of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq, Obama said the United States was against anything that threatened Turkey's territorial integrity.
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-- DSP CHAIRMAN TO RESIGN
Zeki Sezer has said that he will resign as Democratic Left Party, or DSP, chairman. Sezer said those who failed should not create an obstruction for the country. Sezer said he would make a formal announcement on his resignation during the weekend.
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SABAH
-- OBAMA TELLS OF ‘KURDISH MINORITY’
U.S. President Barack Obama met with a group of Turkish university students in Istanbul. "We are against anything that would divide Turkey," Obama told the students at a question-and-answer session. What he said next will probably be an issue of controversy: "I believe the problem will be solved if the Kurdish minority in Turkey freely advances with equal opportunities." The U.S. president also visited the Hagia Sophia Museum and the Sultanahmet Mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque) before he departed from Istanbul.
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-- TURKISH-DESCENT CANADIAN STEALS PLANE, LANDS IN US
A Canadian man, who was said to be of Turkish descent, stole a plane in Canada and landed it in the state of Missouri after six hours of flight, just before he ran out of fuel. Adam Leon, a naturalized Canadian citizen who was born in Turkey as Yavuz Berke, stole a Cessna 172 from the Thunder Bay flight school in Ontario and was forced to land by U.S. fighter jets after he entered American airspace, an FBI official said. The bureau said Leon's motive was not terrorism.

VATAN
-- TURKEY TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT
Turkey became the world’s main agenda topic after U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit and Anders Fogh Rasmussen's election as NATO secretary-general with Turkey’s last-minute approval.
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-- ZEKI SEZER'S ‘DEFEAT’ RESIGNATION
Zeki Sezer, chairman of Democratic Left Party, or DSP, decided to resign following his failure in the local elections. Sezer said the decision would become formal after a party meeting this weekend.
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-- MESSAGE TO YOUNGSTERS
U.S. President Barack Obama met 100 young people from 20 universities, and as a departure from former President Bush’s actions, he relayed a message to the world that Turkey was not a moderate Islamic country but a modern Western country.
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-- TURK CAUSES SEPTEMBER 11 PANIC
Yavuz Berke, who flew from Canada with a Cessna 172 type plane, entered U.S. airspace and caused panic. Warplanes forced him to land but the Turk continued to fly. All the buildings in his route were evacuated. Berke flew for six hours and landed as the plane’s was about to run out of fuel. Berke, who became a Canadian citizen and changed his name, was reported to have psychological problems.
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CUMHURIYET
-- U.S. PRESIDENT VISITS SOPHIA MUSEUM, BLUE MOSQUE
The U.S. president visited the Hagia Sophia Museum and the Sultanahmet Mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque) in Istanbul. U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan first visited the Hagia Sophia Museum, and received information from the curator of the museum. "Spectacular," Obama told reporters about the 1,500-year-old Byzantine structure. Later, Obama and Erdogan proceeded to the Blue Mosque.
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-- U.S. CURRENCY UP AGAINST LIRA
U.S. dollar was up against Turkish lira after a new downward trend in global stock markets. The U.S. currency was over 1.6 against lira. It was down as low as 1.55 before U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Turkey.
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RADIKAL
-- BOTH PARTIES PLEASED WITH VISIT
President Abdullah Gul expressed his pleasure over U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Turkey. Gul told Obama that "former president George Bush was the one who created anti-American sentiment in Turkey, but your messages created hope in the world." Turkish and U.S. parties reached a consensus on several matters, including Afghanistan and Iraq.
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-- OBAMA SENDS MESSAGES OF NEW ERA
U.S. President Barack Obama gave several important messages of a new era from Turkey. The September 11 paradigm has changed, peace among civilizations is important, there is hope in Palestine, and no one can escape democracy are among some of these messages.

YENI SAFAK
-- OBAMA GIVES MESSAGES OF 'MODEL PARTNERSHIP'
U.S. President Barack Obama got together with undergraduates from several Turkish universities and replied to their questions. Obama explained the “model partnership” and “new era” to the youths. Obama asked the students to focus on common points of communities, not on the differences among them.
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-- ECONOMY EXPERTS WORK ON 3-YEAR ECONOMIC PROGRAM
Economy experts have been working on a three-year new economic program. New measures will be taken to revive the economy with the new program, which will revise the targets for 2009.