ISTANBUL
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Friday’s dailies focused on the release of official reports on how a Turkish prosecutor was killed after a courthouse raid, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s announcement on economic incentive measures, developments on Tuesday’s national power blackout and the major world power’s framework nuclear deal with Iran.
"This is how they entered," was HURRIYET’s title, publishing photographs of exact movement of terrorists that killed Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, on its front page. It reported that one of the two terrorists entered the courthouse through the lawyers' entrance, while the other entered through the citizens' gate.
"Security guards only responded after they heard gunshots (from inside the prosecutor’s room) and the terrorists fired back at the guards from inside," the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office said, according to the daily.
MILLIYET said the terrorist’s 7.65mm firearm was used in the killing of the prosecutor, quoting the Council of Forensic Medicine’s analysis of the murder.
Kiraz, 46, died Tuesday at hospital after being shot multiple times at his office in Istanbul’s courthouse. Police killed both terrorists who held the prosecutor hostage.
The prosecutor was handling the case of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who was critically injured during the Gezi Park protests in 2013 and later died in March 2014 following a 269-day coma.
Commenting on the slain Turkish prosecutor, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put the blame on private security forces. "This service should be abolished," Erdogan said, according to HABERTURK.
"Not only in courthouses but also in many institutions, private security should be abolished. Police officers should work even at stadiums and hospitals," he said, according to the daily.
In economic news, Prime Minister Davutoglu unveiled Thursday an 11-item package of measures to increase employment.
"Employment for 120,000 people" was AKSAM’s title to report the announcement. Saying that the measures will have "doping effect" on the economy, the daily published details on the package.
The 11-step package starts with support for the Turkish Employment Organization, or Iskur, for employers in private sector businesses to pay trainees minimum wage during a six-month vocational training period.
The second step is a 50 percent rise in tax relief for enterprises that are making investments. Davutoglu further said new investors in 2015 would enjoy more support and tax relief.
"Investigating cyber attack" was YENI SAFAK’s title to report Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz’s comment on Tuesday’s electricity blackout across the country.
Speaking during the opening ceremony of an oil conference in Istanbul on Thursday, Yildiz said the location where the power outage began is known but research is still underway as to its cause. "There are three possibilities for the cause: Interference, technical problems or manipulation (cyber attack)," the daily quoted Yildiz as saying.
Turkish dailies also covered a nuclear deal with Iran. "A historic deal" was HURRIYET’s title to report the development. The daily said that the U.S., Russia, China, the U.K., France, Germany and Iran reached a deal on the Tehran’s nuclear program whose purportedly peaceful goals Western powers dispute. "US President Barack Obama himself announced the deal," the daily said.
"It is a deal" was VATAN’s title in reporting the development. VATAN said the four-hour long meeting between U.S. Secretary of States John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif broke the deadlock in negotiations.
