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Kocaeli Garrison Commander Lt. Gen. Galip Mendi paid a visit yesterday to retired generals Şener Eruygur and Hurşit Tolon, both terror suspects in the

 

Ergenekon case. The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) yesterday sent an envoy to meet with two suspects in the Ergenekon terrorist organization case, retired Gen. Şener Eruygur and retired Gen. Hurşit Tolon, a statement on the General Staff Web site has said.

Turkey's top general said on Friday terrorist organization had been approaching a breaking

 

point.Chief of General Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug held a press conference at the 2nd Tactical Air Force Command in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.Fight against terrorism should be maintained with all organizations and institutions of Turkey, Gen. Basbug said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said regarding Russian limitation against Turkish export products that many countries violated Russian customs regulations, and customs administration took stricter measures against them.

He said that there was no discrimination against Turkey, adding that Russia wanted to continue commerce with Turkey.Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan replied questions of reporters after their joint press conference in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Turkey's chief prosecutor has put the country's governing party - the AKP - on trial, calling for it to be closed down. The party, founded by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a landslide victory in the last election, but its critics say it is trying to impose Sharia law on the secular state.

Here readers from Turkey react to the trial and debate whether they support or oppose the prosecutor's case.

Turkey's Constitutional Court is meeting to consider if the governing AK Party should be banned for alleged anti-secular activities.

It is the culmination of a series of clashes between the party, which has Islamist roots, and the secular elite.

The AKP, which won a huge poll victory last year, denies it wants to create an Islamist state by stealth and calls the case an attack on democracy.

Hours before the court opened, bomb attacks in Istanbul killed 17 people.

A three-storey girls' dormitory has collapsed in southern Turkey, killing at least 17 students and injuring around 27.

The rescue operation has been called off after no further signs of life were detected in the ruins of the building near Taskent, in Konya province.

Authorities said the collapse happened when a large gas canister exploded.

The explosion occurred at about 0500 local time (0200 GMT) when most of students were asleep in the dormitory.

The military, in a statement on its website, said 13 targets were "successfully hit" in the raids.

There was no information on any casualties suffered by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Wednesday's attacks, in the Zap region, were the latest in a series carried out by Turkey since it intensified operations at the end of last year. <!-- E SF -->

The Turkish statement said its military would press ahead with anti-PKK operations inside Turkey and across the border in Iraq "according to military needs".