ANKARA - These are some of the major headlines and their brief stories in Turkey's press on April 10, 2003. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

HURRIYET (LIBERAL)
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BAGHDAD FALLS, STOCK EXCHANGE INCREASES
Istanbul Stock Exchange (IMKB) increased 400 points in ten minutes due to the news that ''Baghdad fell and the war was over.'' The stock exchange closed the day at 10.866 points and increased 3.6 percent when compared with the previous day. The U.S. dollar decreased 18 thousand Turkish liras (TL) to 1 million 630 thousand TL.

DENOMINATIONAL VISION SAVED
The government changed the statement of reasons of the security cooperation agreement between Turkey and Germany in which the ''Denominational Vision'' was defined as ''a fundamentalist terrorist organization'' and which caused crisis in the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). The expression which considered Denominational Vision a terrorist organization together with PKK-KADEK and DHKP-C was erased from the statement of reasons. Thus, the Denominational Vision was ''acquitted.''

MILLIYET (LIBERAL)
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FAIK OZTRAK PERIOD ENDS IN TREASURY
It has become definite that Treasury Undersecretary Faik Oztrak will be removed from the office. Oztrak continued to work whole day yesterday. He even joined a meeting on International Monetary Fund (IMF) with State Minister Ali Babacan. But, it became definite that Oztrak's duty as the Treasury Undersecretary would end soon. It is stated that Oztrak will continue to be in the office until a new person is appointed and continue work on the economic program on which he has exerted great efforts till the last day.

ANKARA SHOULD BUILD CONFIDENCE IMMEDIATELY
The International Monetary Fund (IM) report which noted that the government should build confidence in Turkey immediately predicted that the economy would grow 5.1 percent and inflation rate would be around 24.7 percent this year. IMF saw that financial conditions were getting worse in Turkey in the first months of 2003 and stated that the most important reason of this was the mistakes in financial and banking policies and geopolitical situation.

SABAH (LIBERAL)
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NIGHTMARE OF TOURISM SECTOR ENDS, RESERVATIONS START
As the course of Iraq war became clear, reservations started to be made for the hotels in the south of Turkey for April 20 and the following days. The hopes of the tourism sector that the summer will be a full season has been raised.

QUARTET SUMMIT HELD
Speaking after the quartet summit between Turkish and Greek prime ministers and foreign ministers, Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis expressed belief that as the two countries, a road to peace would be found. Simitis said that if a solution was found, it would be a part of the European Union (EU) acquis. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that United Nations (U.N.) Secretary General Kofi Annan's plan could be taken as a basis regarding Cyprus issue but negotiation ground should continue in a way to preserve the rights of the both sides in a better way. Erdogan added, ''our aim is to reach a result in which the two communities will live in a friendly way.''

CUMHURIYET (LEFT)
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CASE AGAINST KUTAN
Regarding the Treasury aid to closed Welfare Party (RP), the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit against then five party officials including Felicity Party (SP) leader Recai Kutan on charges of ''falsification in special documents''. It seeks imprisonment terms up to 7.5 years.

BAGHDAD FALLS
While U.S. tanks reached the Firdevs Square of capital Baghdad which has been under intense bombardments for three weeks, residents of Baghdad welcomed U.S. soldiers with different feelings. A group of people who gathered in the square pulled Saddam Hussein's sculpture down, but they reacted to the U.S. soldier who tried to wrap the sculpture's head with a U.S. flag. Washington announced that the war had not finished yet, but said ''Baghdad regime collapsed''.

RADIKAL (LEFT)
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QUAKE MEASURING 4.8 ON RICHTER SCALE JOLTS ANTALYA
An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale rocked southern Antalya province last night. Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory Center and Seismology Institute said that the earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale was recorded in Antalya Gulf at 8.19 p.m.

ISRAELI AND GERMAN MINISTERS COMING
Ankara, which has been a stage of busy diplomacy traffic during the U.S. operation against Iraq, is expecting important guests next week. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom will come to Turkey on Monday. After Shalom, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer will hold contacts in Ankara. The visit of Fischer, the main agenda of which is expected to be Iraq, gains more importance after the news in Turkish press organs regarding the Copenhagen summit.

TURKIYE (RIGHT)
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WHERE IS SADDAM?
When civil Iraqis couldn't pull down the Saddam Hussein sculpture, six meters in height, in the Firdevs Square in capital Baghdad, U.S. tanks ''rushed for help''. Upon the people's reaction about ''invasion'', U.S. soldiers changed the U.S. flag on the sculpture's head with an Iraqi flag. When the sculpture fell down, civil Iraqis attacked on it. Now everybody asks this question to each other: ''Where is Saddam?''

NORTHERN IRAQ CRISIS NEAR
Despite Turkey's warnings, Kurds reached Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Peshmargas led by Massoud Barzani were deployed a few kilometers from Mosul while Jalal Talabani's forces were deployed a few kilometers from Kirkuk, and they started to make preparations to enter these cities. Upon these developments, General Staff Chief General Hilmi Ozkok got hourly information, sources said.

ZAMAN (CONSERVATIVE)
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SADDAM HUSSEIN ERA ENDS
On the 21st day of Iraq war, U.S. soldiers entered the city center of Baghdad at 03.50 p.m. local time without encountering any resistance. There are contradictory information about the fate of Saddam Hussein and his senior aides.

ANKARA INSISTS ON RED LINE
Now attention is focused on the Kurdish groups who were advancing towards Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq after the Saddam regime reached its de facto end in Baghdad. Speaking at a conference on Iraq at the War Academies in Istanbul yesterday, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said that Turkey attributed special importance to prevention of an ethnic group to get hold of those two cities and separation of those two cities from Iraq's territorial integrity, and the President recalled Ankara's red lines about the issue.

TURKMENS FEEL CONCERN
Turkmens feel concern about Peshmargas' reaching Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. They want Turkey to take action. Hundreds of Turkmens are migrating from Mosul-Kirkuk.

(BRC-MS-AÖ) 10.04.2003