GOOD MORNING--TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON NOV 28

HURRIYET
-- BEING A TURK SAVED US
Armed terrorists came to ten separate locations including luxurious Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels in Mumbai, the financial hub of India, by boats around 10 p.m. the previous night. The other places the terrorists raided were a cafe, hospital, Jewish center and train station.

Terrorists took up position with their hostages and clashed with Indian forces from time to time. Turkish couple Seyfi-Meltem Muezzinoglu had been staying at the Oberoi hotel and good news about the couple came on Thursday morning. While, 28-year-old Turkish lawyer Yasemin Erden was rescued in the evening. Erden hid herself in the bathroom of her room for hours. Turks who survived the horrifying attacks of the al Qaeda in India said, "They looked at our passports and told us that they did not have any problems with Turks. They separated us from the people with U.S. and British passports."
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-- PKK ON HIGHWAYS: TWO POLICE OFFICERS DEAD
PKK terrorists who got to downtown in the southern Hatay province from Amanos Mountains opened fire on a police team making routine controls on Adana-Iskenderun highway. Police officer Ibrahim Darici, 37, died when terrorists opened fire from their car after police had ordered them to stop. Four people, including a baby, were wounded. A special forces team was sent to the scene of the attack and clashed with terrorists during the chase. Halil Aksak, 38, was killed in that clash.
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MILLIYET
-- PKK ATTACKS POLICE: 2 DEAD
PKK Terrorists who attacked traffic police at the highway turnpike at Iskenderun town of Hatay, killed police officer Ibrahim Darici. In the skirmish that erupted as the terrorists tried to flee the scene, another police officer was killed, while another was wounded.
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-- ERDOGAN WIDENS MEDIA BAN
Prime Ministry spokesman Akif Beki who did not renew the accreditation of seven reporters who followed Premier Tayyip Erdogan, prevented Milliyet's correspondent Abdullah Karakus and Vatan's correspondent Veli Toprak from covering an event organized by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Women's Branches in Ankara.
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SABAH
-- SUPPORT TO CONSUMERS
After preparing a package of measures against the global economic crisis, the government has launched other initiatives to revive the markets. One of the initiatives by the government is that the Treasury Undersecretariat would pay 30 up to 50 percent of consumer credit interest rates for a year.
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-- TWO POLICE OFFICERS MARTYRED IN HATAY
Two police officers were killed by terrorists on the TEM highway in Iskenderun town of the southern province of Hatay. Ibrahim Darici and Halil Aksak died when terrorists opened fire on a police car.

VATAN
-- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke at the party’s Women's Congress on Thursday. "Oppressive and conservative attitudes based on gender discrimination that imprisons a woman in an isolated life, excludes her from public areas cannot be considered a civil stance," he said. Erdogan also said, "No customs, no traditions and no understanding can justify violence by one person against the other. Especially women being subjected to violence is the gravest."
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-- FEAST OF SACRIFICE HOLIDAY TO BE NINE DAYS
Premier Tayyip Erdogan said that Dec. 12, a day following the four-day Feast of Sacrifice, would probably be declared an official holiday. Thus, the Feast of Sacrifice holiday will begin on Dec. 6 and end on Dec. 14.       Â

CUMHURIYET
-- ELECTIONS ALREADY FLAWED
Republican People's Party (CHP) group chairman claimed that voters from provinces of Kutahya, Konya and Afyon were registered in Izmir, while voters from other districts in Ankara were registered to Cankaya and said a shadow was already cast on the credibility of the elections. Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said Higher Board of Elections (YSK) failed to account for the abnormal rise in number of registered voters. Erol Tuncer, chairman of Social Economic and Political Researches Foundation, said such a rise in number of voters was impossible. "If these figures are correct then the figures in 2007 were wrong," said Tuncer. Researcher Erhan Erdem said it was wrong for YSK to directly use data obtained from the address based registry system.
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-- LAWSUIT AGAINST ERGENEKON PROSECUTORS BEGINS
The lawsuit filed by the Chief Editor and concessionaire of our newspaper Ilhan Selcuk on the grounds that his personal rights were violated, has started. The objections of Ergenekon prosecutors were rejected. The petition for the lawsuit says: the Ergenekon prosecutors included irrelevant information and assessments about Selcuk in the indictment and therefore they violated the law.
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RADIKAL
-- METALIST DEFEATS GALATASARAY
Ukraine's Metalist Kharkiv soccer team defeated Galatasaray soccer team of Turkey 1-0 in the second round Group B match in UEFA Cup in Istanbul. Galatasaray will face Hertha Berlin of Germany in an away match on Dec. 3.

-- TALKS WITH IMF
State Minister Mehmet Simsek said that technical talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continue, and that it was not clear when talks would be completed. The Turkish authorities and the IMF had been working on a new program, Simsek said.

YENI SAFAK
-- LIONS FAILED TO BEND METAL
Metalist Kharkiv of Ukraine, who had knocked off Besiktas soccer club in the first round, set Galarasaray on fire. Lions, who lost the match out to Ukrainian team by one goal, jeopardized their chances of advancing to the next round. Galatasaray, who won their first two matches in the group were overrun by M. Kharkiv on the field. M. Kharkiv's goal came from Edmar who took advantage of Servet's defensive mistake.
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-- BILLION DOLLAR TENDER TO BE HELD TODAY
The bidding for the 3G GSM operating licenses, the biggest tender of the recent years, will be held today. GSM operators, Turkcell, Avea and Vodaphone, will partake in the billion dollar tender.