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Turkish dailies covered on Tuesday the leaked reports, exposed in a news piece by UK daily The Guardian, which suggest Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek was spied on by British intelligence agencies during the G20 meeting in 2009.
Daily HURRIYET headlined "Scandal: UK spied on Turkish Minister", and said the information was obtained from reports leaked by former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who is currently hiding out in Hong Kong.
Daily RADIKAL headlined "'Big Brother was watching Simsek in G20", referring to a fictional character in George Orwell's famous novel 1984, a dictator whose government wields total control over its citizens by using monitoring technology in every household to supervise the whole population.
The dailies covered the passing of Peride Celal, aged 97, Turkish novelist and story writer who has authored upwards of 20 novels and hundreds of stories in her long and celebrated literary career.
Daily AKSAM headlined "The pen that wrote for 80 years now in silence." Daily MILLIYET published "Quiet farewell from Peride Celal," saying the author passed away on Saturday in her home. Her family did not disclose funeral arrangements and wanted a quiet ceremony for her, the daily said.
Turkish dailies covered a methane gas accident which left 7 water supply station workers dead in southwestern province of Mugla. Daily MILLIYET said a small team of workers went down to a water tank 7-meter underground. Not hearing from their colleagues for a long time, another group followed and all died of asphyxiation, it said.
The dailies covered a joint union strike in support for Gezi Park demonstrations. Daily AKSAM said several unions and chambers took to streets on a one-day strike, protesting harsh police interventions against demonstrators. The daily said they were prevented in Istanbul by the police to go into Taksim Square where Gezi Park is located, and their planned rally in Ankara was not allowed to take place.
Turkish dailies also covered an order issued by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office within the Court of Cassation, highest judicial body in the country, for the approval of sentences handed to Sledgehammer coup case convicts, including several high-profile retired generals. Sledgehammer is the name of an alleged military coup plan foiled in 2010. Daily SABAH said the Public Prosecutor's Office order the approval of 256 sentences, and the reversal of 67 others.
