HURRIYET- Columnist Oktay Eksi writes on the incident in which Turkish Maj. Cengiz Toytunc and Swiss observer Catherine Berruex lost their lives. A summary of his column is as follows:
The police have no registration of the murderer of Maj. Cengiz Toytunc and Swiss observer Catherine Berruex, who were killed in a heinous attack near Hebron in the West Bank on Tuesday. It is very hard to find the culprit of such incidents in places like Palestine and Israel where the streets have turned into bloodbaths. Those fighting in this way try to send the message that death can be in the cards for you at any place and any time. The way they broadcast this message is by perpetrating the most hideous sorts of attacks. Even though we do not know the identity of the culprit in this incident, we know for a fact that the bloody incidents in the region began with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque when he was still opposition leader some 18 months ago. Certainly Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's failure to act to dissolve the Islamic Jihad and Hamas terror organisations operating in Palestine has played an important role in increasing the violence. In fact Arafat is as unreliable as Sharon is insincere. It is not easy for Turkey to teach an effective lesson to Toytunc's murderers by itself alone. In fact, if Turkey doesn't follow up on the issue, the denunciations of the attack by Israeli and Palestinian officials are bound gather dust in history's archives.
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION