GOOD MORNING--TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON JUNE 18

HURRIYET
-- HISTORIC INVESTIGATION IN GENERAL STAFF
Upon the order of General Staff Chief Gen. Ilker Basbug asking to dig deep into allegations, the headquarters is preparing for the most extensive investigation in its history. All members General Staff are convinced that the document was not written within the chain of command because the General Staff records have been examined in detail. There is no document in circulation with that sequence number. However, there is still uncertainty about how and by whom this document was written. No one is releasing any details on this until it is clarified. All possibilities are investigated carefully. The testimonies of the colonel involved in the allegations and his colleagues were taken and all the computers they worked on were checked.

-- WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT
Regarding the criminal complaint filed by the AKP into the claims of the "plan to eradicate AKP and Fethullah Gulen," Prime Minister Erdogan said they could not remain silent in the face of a step against them as the ruling party.
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-- IS IT DAYLIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL OR HEADLIGHTS OF A CAR APPROACHING
While commenting on the current situation in the global economic crisis, Central Bank Governor Durmus Yılmaz called on everyone to continue with caution. "We entered the tunnel. The tunnel was dark. A light is seen from the other end of the tunnel. Is the light indicative of the exit from the tunnel, or it the headlights of a car heading towards us," said Durmus.
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MILLIYET
-- TURKEY LOCKED ON: FAKE OR REAL?
Does the signature under the "Action Plan to Fight Reactionary Movement" belong to Colonel Dursun Cicek or not? The nation waits impatiently for the result of a criminal investigation. Colonel Cicek -- who allegedly prepared the document that was seized at lawyer Serdar Ozturk's office, one of the suspects of the Ergenekon case -- was expected to give his testimony to Ergenekon prosecutors. But a prosecutor said Cicek's testimony would not be taken for now. "Because military prosecutors are working on signature samples taken from Colonel Cicek. They will send those samples to us. His testimony will be taken if necessary," prosecutor Turan Colakkadi said. Colakkadi also said a criminal investigation failed to yield an exact result as the document was a photocopy, not the original. He also said that they were in close collaboration with military prosecutors. "There is no mistrust here," he said.
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-- IS IT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TUNNEL OR A HEADLIGHT?
Governor of the Turkish Central Bank Durmus Yilmaz spoke cautiously about improvements in the economic figures in recent months. "This improvement is not a full recovery, it is the slowdown in the pace of a setback," Yilmaz said. He also warned businessmen to be cautious and said, "We got in the tunnel, it was dark and we saw a light. Is this light a sign of the exit to the other side, or is it a car coming towards us?"
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SABAH
-- TREMENDOUS WEALTH OF TAX DEPARTMENT CHIEF
The 8 million TL wealth of Alanya Tax Department Chief Yıldız Agca was revealed during a court case against her. The possessions of Agca who was at large were sequestrated.
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-- CAPKIN BECOMES NEW POLICE CHIEF OF ISTANBUL
Upon a decision of the Interior Ministry, 37 police chiefs were appointed to new provinces and seven others were recalled to the Security Department in Ankara. Huseyin Capkin, who is actually the police chief of Izmir, was appointed as the new police chief of Istanbul. Ankara's Police Chief Ercument Yilmaz replaced Capkin in Izmir. Kayseri's Police Chief Orhan Ozdemir became the new police chief of Ankara.
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-- THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY INCIDENT
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan defined the conspiracy plan, the document that mention to eradicate AKP that was seized in Ergenekon probe,  as "the clue of initiatives aiming to destroy democracy." Erdogan said, "As the ruling party, naturally we cannot remain silent to a step against us. The reasons of our criminal complaint are obvious because this is not an ordinary incident." Erdogan said that there was an ongoing process to find out whether the document was genuine, and to find the perpetrators.

VATAN
-- SIGNATURE TO ILLUMINATE DOCUMENT
Turkey has been locked on a signature on a military document and whether it was genuine or fake. The military prosecutor's office has launched a criminal investigation. If the signature is genuine, the prosecutors of the Ergenekon case will intervene in this case. Navy colonel Dursun Cicek was supposed to testify to Ergenekon prosecutors in Istanbul on Wednesday. However, Yavuz Senturk, the chief judge of the General Staff Military Court, gave information about their investigation and Ergenekon prosecutors decided not to listen to Cicek at the moment. Istanbul Deputy Chief Prosecutor Turan Colakkadi said, "the military court sent the colonel's testimony and signature samples to criminal investigation. They will send us the testimony and signature samples, and we will testify him if we see it necessary after our investigation." The colonel told the military prosecutor's office that he had not prepared that document and it was not his signature.
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-- HE WOULD HAVE VETOED IF IT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN ITS FORMER SHAPE
The controversial mine clearing law took effect a day after it was ratified by President Abdullah Gul. However, discussions are not over yet. Debate now focuses on President Gul, who the opposition, who failed to prevent the adoption of the law against the majority of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, had placed its hope. The opposition had called on the president not to ratify the law. According to his advisers, Gul asked his jurists to examine the law when it was being discussed in Parliament. He would have vetoed it if it had been sent to the Presidential Palace in its former shape, for example, if it foresaw the build-operate-transfer model. Gul was satisfied when the law gave priority to a tender for mine clearing and when "renting territories" was seen as the final solution.
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CUMHURIYET
-- ERGENEKON PROSECUTORS DECIDE NOT TO TAKE TESTIMONY OF COL. CICEK
A prosecutor from the Ergenkon probe will decide whether or not to take the testimony of Colonel Dursun Cicek, who allegedly signed the document, following the criminal examination of the document. The acting Chief Prosecutor Turan Colakkadi said, "We did not want to interrogate without evidence. We asked for other documents signed by Cicek. There are two separate ongoing criminal examinations."
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-- TURKEY SHOULD MAKE CONCESSIONS IN CYPRUS
Phil Gordon who was appointed as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, said like all parties of the Cyprus issue, Turkey should make concessions and reach agreement. Gordon who assessed the policies of the new administration at the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee said, "Like everyone else, Turkey should also make concessions and reach an agreement."
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RADIKAL
-- ERDOGAN RESOLUTE: "WE WILL FIND THE PERPETRATORS"
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke about the document which is claimed to have been prepared at the General Staff headquarters to oust the government and eradicate the Fethullah Gulen congregation. Erdogan said it was not an ordinary incident. He said, "We are investigating if the document is real or fake." "This paper contains traces of an attempt to destroy democracy," Erdogan said.
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-- SOCIAL LESSON FROM JUDICIARY
The husband who locks his wife in the home and expect her to do only housework and prevents her from studying will pay 30,000 TL. The reason: social violence.
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-- DESTROYING THE IMAGE AFTER GETTING ANGRY AT SARKOZY
Turkey intends to cancel "Turkey Season" that aims to promote Turkish culture in France, as the government is angry at French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But it is Turkey, friends of Turkey in France and Turkey's public image abroad that is being punished.

YENI SAFAK
-- LET'S CHECK OUT THE SIGNATURE
Colonel Dursun Cicek was called to give testimony regarding the document aimed at toppling the government but he did not go to the prosecutor's office. Turan Colakkadi, deputy chief public prosecutor of Istanbul, said Cicek's testimony was postponed after a meeting of the chief military prosecutor and prosecutors of the Ergenekon probe.
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-- HE SHOULD LEVEL THE HOTEL!
Azeri businessman Telman Ismailov was under scrutiny by Russian President Vladimir Putin over a hotel he constructed in Antalya on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Now, he took one more blow from Antalya Mayor Mustafa Akaydin of the main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP. Akaydin, who did not appear at the opening ceremony of the $1.4-billion luxurious hotel, asked for some files from the local municipality to shut down the hotel. Putin seized assets worth $2 billion belonging to Ismailov.