These are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey's press on January 24, 2002. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

HURRIYET (LIBERAL)
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TWO YEARS NINE MONTHS IMPRISONMENT SENTENCE TO FIST
Ankara Heavy Criminal Court No: 9 sentenced Cahit Tekelioglu, a deputy of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to 2 years, 9 months and 10 days of imprisonment in the case filed regarding the death of True Path Party (DYP) deputy Fevzi Sihanlioglu.
Mehmet Kundakci, another MHP parliamentarian who got involved in the incident, was acquitted.
Tekelioglu, who was shocked with the decision, will appeal for the decision of the court.
Sihanlioglu had died after a fight that broke out between the deputies during discussions of Parliament bylaw on February 9, 2001. A legal case was opened against Tekelioglu and Mehmet Kundakci who was also from the MHP.

SAUDI ARABIA SAYS THEY WOULD RE-BUILD FORT ON THE SAME SPOT
Saudi Arabia promised to reconstruct an Ottoman-era fortress in the same spot after razing it on January 1-2 with bulldozers.
Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry officially conveyed this information to Osman Durak, Turkey's Ambassador in Riyadh. However, despite this promise given by Saudi Arabian administration, Ankara finds it appropriate to cover the developments cautiously.
Saudi Arabia decided to re-evaluate the shopping center complex project upon the pressures coming from Turkey and the world.
The Al-Ajyad fortress which was demolished in Saudi Arabia will be re-built in the same place by conforming to its original.

MILLIYET (LIBERAL)
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RIZA TURMEN GIVES FULL GRADE TO NEW ARTICLE 312
The Turkish judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Riza Turmen said the new arrangement regarded with Article 312 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), was positive.
Turmen, who spoke at a program in private CNN channel, said, ''the Turkish judges were giving decisions according to the expressions in articles. In fact, the ECHR was considering whether or not the crime served a target like distoring public order or inciting violence.''

INONU WITHDRAWS BUT HIS PROGRAM IS OKEY
The program, carried out by Ilhan Tekeli, Tarhan Erdem and Yigit Guloksuz, was completed, after Erdal Inonu left politics.
The movement entitled, ''A New Political Formation for Turkey in Changing World'' will be announced to the public within a few days.
Inonu's program gave the message that, ''don't expect for a savior for Turkey.''
The program accused existing political order of being hypocrat, and stressed that the parties distanced from reforms.
The program also said a new party could not be set up with politicians who have important shares in failures.

SABAH (LIBERAL)
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SCHOOL TILL THE AGE OF 18
National Education ministry completed to a great extend the works increasing compulsory education from eight years to 12 years.
Here is the second big reform package in education:
-High schools will be four years, and everybody will be obliged to complete high school.
-Intense education on English will be given in the first class. 20 hours of weekly program will be allocated to English. Thus, every student will be able to speak English ''well'' when he graduates high school.
-Education of science and mathematics in English will end, because there are not necessary number of teachers.
-Vocational schools will be collected under one roof.

KURDISH DIARY OF HADEP CONFISCATED
The Bursa Criminal Court of Peace no:1 decided to confiscate the year 2002 diaries which were published in Kurdish and were distributed during a regional congress of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) in northwestern province of Bursa on charges that those diaries made propaganda of the terrorist PKK organization.
Sources said that the Bursa Security Department had investigated those diaries which had been distributed during HADEP's congress in Bursa on January 20.
In these Kurdish appointment books which were published in Istanbul, February 15, the date when head of terrorist PKK organization Abdullah Ocalan was captured in Kenya by Turkish special forces, was marked in black.

CUMHURIYET (LEFT)
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REACTION TO EU
Turkey said decision of the Spain, the EU Term President, Sweden, and the Netherlands to open embassy in Southern Cyprus administration would not be beneficial due to the process which was initiated to find a solution on the Island.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Huseyin Dirioz on Wednesday reacted to the decision of Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands to open embassy in Greek Cypriot side.
Pointing out that Turkish and Greek Cypriot sides started direct talks against to find a lasting solution on the island, and that both sides were going through a very sensitive period, Dirioz said, ''we don't think that any initiative which will be for the favor of one of the sides will be beneficial and just.''

ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY UNDERSECRETARY GIL SAYS ISRAEL IS FAITFUL TO PEACE
Israeli Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Avi Gil, who currently holds contacts in Ankara, conveyed the conditions of his country.
Gil said they wanted to disclose their position and approach, stressing that they wanted the Palestinian administration to stop violence and to take serious measures to fight against terrorism.
Gil said, ''when they do this, we will be able to act in the direction of Mitchell report and Tenet Plan. We are faithful to peace. However, the Palestinian administration should change its point of view toward terrorism to get rid of today's disaster. They should launch an effective and and serious fight against terrorism.''

RADIKAL (LEFT)
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WHO BELIEVES TO JUSTICE MINISTER TURK?
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk has said that the freedoms would broaden with the Adjustment bill. The commission started on Wednesday to debate the Adjustment draft law which further limits the freedom. Turk defended the bill, of which Motherland Party (ANAP) and also the jurists criticize harshly, as saying, ''a modest step which has been taken towards the democratization''.

FINANCE: REAL ESTATE ISSUE IS DIFFICULT
Finance officials has been experiencing difficulty on making the reductions which Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has demanded in the property tax. Despite Ecevit's direction for decrease in the property tax, the solution for this issue seems to be difficult. Finance Ministry has estimated that the cost of the new arrangement in the tax would be 600 trillion Turkish lira.

TURKIYE (RIGHT)
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FINANCE BUREAUCRATS STARTS TO WORK FOR REDUCTION
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has said, ''we exceeded the proper limit in the property tax, we will decrease it''. After that statement, Finance Ministry bureaucrats started to work on this issue on Wednesday. Incomes General Directorate's high rank officials said that they would reduce the rates to the reasonable levels which Ecevit said. Incomes General Directorate officials convened on Wednesday for the solutions to the problem. Following the meetings which will be held in the coming days, the solution for the tax problem will be determined.

THREE DANGERS
When Turkey has been discussing that ''we will be like Argentina or not'', people are tried of living with natural gas, electric invoices and fuel oil price increases. Bills which are piled up like mountains infuriate people. So-called decrease in the natural gas makes people more angry.

ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)
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ILLEGAL ORGANIZATION NOT TO BE SET UP EVEN AGAINST TERRORISM
Supreme Court of Appeals' Eighth Criminal Chamber has announced the reasoned verdict related with the Susurluk case. The reasoned verdict noted that forming an illegal organization and misusing state authority even in the name of fight with terrorism is against the principle of state of law.