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.

The company said the plan was prompted by the deteriorating economic outlook.

It said this "far exceeded the worst-case scenarios envisaged" when it started a profit recovery plan two years ago.

Renault, the sixth largest car maker in Europe, said it was now scaling back its production targets because of weak sales in Spain, Italy and the UK. <!-- E SF -->

The French car maker had planned to produce 3.3 million vehicles this year but said it would miss that target by 300,000.

Ronald Herberman, of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said users should not wait for definitive studies on the risk and should take action now.

He said children should use mobiles in emergencies only and adults should try to keep the phone away from the head.

No major academic study has confirmed a link to higher brain-tumour risks. <!-- E SF -->

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Dr Herberman said his warning was based on early findings from unpublished data.

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".