GOOD MORNING--TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON DEC 3

HURRIYET
-- TUSIAD CALLS FOR REDUCTION IN VAT RATE TO INCREASE CONSUMPTION
Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) chairperson Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag said that it was of great importance to keep consumer expenditures and domestic consumption alive during the current period. Yalcindag also said a reduction in VAT rates would improve consumption and this would have a positive reflection in the markets.
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-- DRAW WILL BE ENOUGH FOR GALATASARAY
Turkey's Galatasaray soccer team will guarantee to proceed from Group B even if it draws with Hertha Berlin in the match to be played at Berlin's Olympic Stadium at 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday. The match will be broadcast live on TRT-1 Channel.
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MILLIYET
-- YALCINDAG: PRECAUTIONARY PACKAGE IS LATE
Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, chairperson of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD), said that precautions against the crisis should be implemented as a whole. Referring to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's statement that the crisis was in a downtrend, Yalcindag said, "I would agree if it is a wish, but I would hesitate if it is a prediction."
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-- CONTROVERSY OF 6 MLN ELECTORS
The Higher Board of Elections renewed the electoral roll according to an address-based census, after which six million more voters appeared causing controversy. Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Deniz Baykal said it was a shady and concerning case.
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SABAH
-- THEY CANNOT REACH ANYTHING THROUGH TERRORISM
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who visited the Justice and Development Party (AKP) building in Istanbul after a bomb attack, said that two people who were injured in the attack were in a serious condition. Erdogan said that those who claimed that they were struggling for democracy could not achieve anything through terrorism.
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-- EXPULSION TO 24 TSK PERSONNEL
In yesterday's meeting, the Supreme Military Board decided to expel 19 personnel of the Turkish Armed Forces for drug addiction and immoral relations, and five personnel over fundamentalist activities.

VATAN
-- I WILL ADMIT WOMEN WEARING CHADOR
Deniz Baykal, the chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), harshly reacted to criticisms that he was allowing women wearing chadors to join his party. Baykal said, "I will admit them." During the meeting of his party at the parliament, Baykal said, "Are we supposed to declare a clothing regulation? We cannot implement one-party mentality in 2000s. We reject the views that women wearing headscarves and chadors are all anti-secular and against the state. There is a law and every one can wear whatever s/he wants under this law."
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-- EXPLOSIVES AND WEAPONS WERE TROPHIES OF SOUTHEAST
During the 23rd hearing of the Ergenekon case, retired major Fikret Emek defended himself against the weapons and explosives found in his house. An AK-47 (kalashnikov) rifle, an assassination gun (Kanas), TNT, and C3 and C4 explosives were seized in Emek's house in Eskisehir, which was also defined as "the second ammunition depot of the Ergenekon terrorist organization", in addition to an apartment in Umraniye. Emek said, "The kalashnikov and kanas were the weapons we seized when we were on duty in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. I got the explosives as a trophy when I retired in 2004."
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CUMHURIYET
-- TSK EXPELS 24 PERSONNEL
The Supreme Military Council held its winter meeting and discussed threats and measures to be taken against them. The council decided to expel 24 personnel from the Turkish Armed Forces. Five of them will be expelled for fundamentalist activities.
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-- ERGENEKON CASE: EMEK FORGOT WEAPONS
Eleven kilograms of C4 explosives and weapons were seized in a house that belonged to retired major, Fikret Emek. During a hearing of the Ergenekon case, Emek said that he got the ammunition and weapons from operations in the east of Turkey and north of Iraq. Emek said that he forgot that those weapons were in his house.
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RADIKAL
-- NOTES FROM THE CRISIS "IN DECLINE"
Turkey's prime minister said that the crisis was "in decline;" however, the U.S. is going through a period of recession. While Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said that export figures would drop, Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) chairperson Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag said the measures against the economic crisis were delayed. International rating agency Moody's also said that Turkey might face recession in a couple of years if it did not implement an IMF program.
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-- DRESSING STYLE CANNOT BE PERCEIVED AS CHALLENGE AGAINST STATE, BAYKAL
Republican People's Party (CHP) chairperson Deniz Baykal said that style of dress alone could not be criteria for secularism. "One-party regime cannot be implemented in the 21st century," Baykal said. Baykal also said that perceiving a dress as a challenge against the state was an obsessive approach.

YENI SAFAK
-- "APPAREL IMPOSITION IS THE MENTALITY OF ONE-PARTY REGIME"
Main opposition CHP leader Deniz Baykal made a historical self-criticism. "Understanding people's clothing as a 'challenge to the state' is the result of an obsession," Baykal said. "It is a mentality of one-party regime. Everybody has to pull away from that obsession." He said, "The understanding of 'you are not one of us if you wear a headscarf' is unacceptable. Are we going to be the ones to divide a part of people who love Turkey?"
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-- MOODY'S WARNING LIKE BLACKMAIL
International credit rating agency Moody's said Turkey should cut a deal with the International Monetary Fund. Company executive Kristin Lindaw said Turkey needs $120 billion and warned that recession is just around the corner if an IMF program is not implemented.