ANKARA - These are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey's press on October 22, 2002. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

HURRIYET (LIBERAL)
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FROM FUNDAMENTALIST SHELTER INTO EDUCATION CENTER
Fetih Kulliye (complex of buildings adjacent to a mosque), the construction of which was started by Cuppeli Ahmet Hodja and confiscated by police after February 28 process, will be turned into a Camp for Physically Disabled. The construction of the kulliye was initiated in 1993 by Cuppeli Ahmet Hodja, accepted as the heir of Mahmut Hodja sect. The state confiscated the kulliye in 2000. State Minister Erdogan Toprak for Youth and Sports registered this building among the assets of his ministry after he was appointed to this post. Toprak will lay the foundation today in order to make this place a center for physically disabled and thus, the place which was started to be constructed as a fundamentalist shelter will be turned into an education center.

FOUR BANKS SHARE TOPRAKBANK
Twenty-seven branches of Toprakbank, which was transferred to Bayindirbank since it could not be sold and a great deal of the branches of which was put to sale, were bought by four banks. Disbank bought nine branches, Turk Ekonomi Bankasi (TEB) bought two branches while Sekerbank and Tekstilbank each bought eight branches.

MILLIYET (LIBERAL)
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FROM ECEVIT TO BUSH: ''DECIDE!''
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that Iraq policy of the United States was contradictory and added, ''this uncertainty should end.'' Milliyet reporters met with Ecevit following the visit of U.S. General Franks to the General Staff. Ecevit called on U.S. President George Bush to ''make a decision'' and said, ''Bush and the U.S. administration have not made a decision yet. On one hand, they are assuming an attitude as if a military operation is approaching; on the other hand, they are saying that an intervention may not occur and they have not decided yet. This contradictory attitude has negative effect especially on Turkey. We are in the middle and we are being pressed.'' Ecevit noted, ''President Bush and the U.S. administration should from now on make their decision and end this uncertainty. The United States has to decide what it will do and what it wants to do.''

DO NOT ARM KURDS
The General Staff expressed Turkey's uneasiness over developments in Northern Iraq to U.S. General Franks and said, ''do not arm the Kurds. Don't use peshmerges in the war.'' Gen. Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), and Joseph W. Ralston, Commander in Chief of U.S. European Command, explained details of a possible operation to be launched in order to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during their visit to the General Staff Headquarters. The General Staff expressed Turkey's sensitivities about the rights of Turkmens and Kerkuk issue. When departing from Ankara, Franks insisted that they did not have any demands from Turkey while Ralston said that they would continue consultation and discussion process.

SABAH (LIBERAL)
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FOUR DAY HOLIDAY FOR REPUBLICAN DAY
Public personnel will be on leave on Monday upon the October 29 Republican Day. Thus, they will have a four-day holiday.

''WE WILL SET SAIL''
Partnership negotiations between Koc Finansal Hizmetler (financial services) and one of the biggest banks in Europe Unicredito Italiano SPA were concluded. Fifty percent of shares of Koc Finansal Hizmetler were transferred to Unicredito Italiano. Koc Holding President Rahmi Koc held a press conference that Turkey would overcome the economic crisis and added, ''we will set sail when the storm is over.''

BLUE MIRACLE
The biggest environmental project of Turkey has reached the final stage. Izmir Gulf, which used to be full of solid waste, was cleaned. Today, wastes are reprocessed and there is not any leakage of waste to the Gulf. The project, the last stage of which will cost 600 million U.S. dollars, has cost 100 million U.S. dollars. No foreign debt was used. Sewage is turned into clean water with biological purification and mud is turned into fertilizers.

CUMHURIYET (LEFT)
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U.S SHOULD ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL RULES
U.S. Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks and NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General Joseph Ralston had a meeting with General Staff Chief General Hilmi Ozkok and high-level commanders. The generals discussed mostly military dimension of the Iraq issue and decided to continue the Turkey-U.S. consultation cooperation. Franks said that they did not take a war decision yet, noting that they had no military demand from Turkey. General Staff said that the United States should act in accordance with the international rules and added that the plans concerning the future of Iraq should be based on the 'unitary' solutions.

ALMOST 2,000 FOUNDATIONS NOT BEEN INSPECTED FOR THREE YEARS
Foundations Deputy Director General Umit Coban said that almost 2,000 foundations including 315 public foundations have not been inspected for three years. Coban stated that they launched a comprehensive inspection work related to the foundations, noting that the public foundations had most corruption according to the first results of the search.

RADIKAL (LEFT)
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YILMAZ: ''EU IS NOT LIKELY TO GIVE DATE TO TURKEY''
Motherland Party (ANAP) leader and Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz, who had a lunch with the ambassadors of the European Union (EU) member countries to Turkey, said, ''I got the impression that a negotiation date will not be given to Turkey. I told them that we will not accept any other alternative.''

FIVE HOURS OF INTERROGATION ON KURDISH TO FIRAT
Candidate independent deputy Abdulmelik Firat was detained on charges that he addressed people in southeastern Diyarbakir province in Kurdish. Firat was released by the prosecutor's office after a five hours of interrogation.

POLICE EXAGGERATE A LITTLE BIT
When university students who opposed to war wanted to protest Gen. Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), in Kizilay Square of Ankara, an interesting view occurred. The security forces did not intervene the protestors who made a press statement while 2,000 policemen were on duty in the square. There were 40 policemen per one demonstrator in the square since the group was comprised of only 50 students.

TURKIYE (RIGHT)
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REJECTION TO DISGRUNTLED DEPUTIES
Constitutional Court decided that the lawsuit filed for cancellation of decision on parliament's recess and stopping of its enforcement was not within the scope of authority of the Constitutional Court. Constitutional Court Deputy Chairman Hasim Kilic told reporters that the court took the decision unanimously. Kilic said that they examined the application of 110 deputies requesting the cancellation of the decision on parliament's recess. In the petition, the deputies said that ''absolute majority was required'' for the decision of the parliament under 96th article of the Constitution and that ''this majority was not sought when the parliament took that decision.'' The Parliamentary General Assembly decided on October 1 to convene again five days after announcement of the definite results of the November 3 polls.

KOC AND ITALIAN SPA MERGES
Koc Finansal Hizmetler Inc. (Financial Services) signed a partnership agreement with Unicredito Italiano SPA. Koc Holding Executive Board President Rahmi Koc said at a press conference that they transferred 50 percent of shares of Koc Finansal Hizmetler Inc. to Unicredito Italiano SPA, which is one of the leading banks of Europe. Koc said that they knew Turkey's power and potential and added that they were sure that Turkey would overcome the economic crisis like the other crises.

ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)
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U.S. TRIES TO CONVINCE TURKEY WITH USD 6 BILLION
U.S. Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks and NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General Joseph Ralston said that they did not have any demand from Turkey regarding Iraq during their contacts with the Turkish military officials. Financial Times newspaper which evaluated the U.S. generals' visit to Ankara said that Turkey's support on a possible U.S. operation against Iraq was discussed at the meeting. George W. Bush administration allocated 4-6 billion U.S. dollars of support package for Turkey in case of a possible U.S. operation against Iraq, it was stated.

POLITICAL TENSION INCREASES
The disputes between Republican People's Party (CHP) and Justice and Development Party (AK Party), both of which previously said that they could form a coalition after the November 3 elections by sending warm messages to each other, have increased when a little time left for the elections. AK Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CHP leader Deniz Baykal, who blamed Erdogan for not wanting to lift the political immunity, that if Baykal went too far, he would declare the cooperation between Baykal and a group of media.