GOOD MORNING--TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON MAR 05

HURRIYET
-- 592 METERS OF FAULT
The Netherlands announced the preliminary report on the Turkish Airlines (THY) plane that crashed in Amsterdam during landing. While the plane was at an altitude of 594 meters, a faulty altimeter showed the altitude as 2.43 meters. Thus, the automatic pilot cut the speed. Pilots noticed the fault but it was too late.
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-- TUSIAD: IMF'S CONDITIONS NOT UNACCEPTABLEÂ
Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) executive board chairperson Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag visited Republican People's Party (CHP) chairman Deniz Baykal at party HQ. Before the meeting, Yalcindag said, "The conditions from the IMF are not unacceptable and inapplicable."
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-- DERVIS AT SABANCI UNIVERSITY
Kemal Dervis, who resigned as U.N. Development Program administrator, will be a member of the international consultative board at Turkey's Sabanci University as of May 1, 2009.
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MILLIYET
-- FAULTY ALTIMETER PLAYED ROLE IN THY PLANE CRASH, DUTCH AUTHORITIES
Dutch investigators said a faulty altimeter played a role in a Turkish Airlines (THY) plane crash that killed nine people in the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Authority said the plane was landing on automatic pilot and the problem with the altimeter, a device that measures altitude, led to a loss of airspeed before the crash. Pieter van Vollenhoven, head of the Dutch Safety Board, said the pilot’s noticed the faulty altimeter but they did not consider it a problem. At 1,950 feet (around 700 meters) the airplane's radio altimeter at the left suddenly registered a change in altitude of negative eight feet (about 2 meters), he said. The chief investigator said the airplane had twice experienced problems with its altimeter before. THY plane TK-1951 bound for Amsterdam from Istanbul crashed about one kilometer short of the runway near Schiphol Airport on Feb. 25. Nine people, including three crew members, were killed. Five of the victims were Turkish and four others were U.S. nationals.
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-- SPEED TRAIN FOR ONLY 5 TL
Turkey's speed train will begin trips between the capital province of Ankara and the central Anatolian province of Eskisehir on March 13. A ticket for the speed train would be sold for only 5 Turkish liras until the end of March.
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SABAH
-- COUP ON PASHA
The provincial general assembly in the Aegean province of Izmir decided unanimously to erase the names "Kenan Evren" and "September 12" from the names of schools. The members of the assembly from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Republican People's Party (CHP), and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said "yes" to the project that envisions changing the names of schools that have the words "Kenan Evren", the leader of the September 12, 1980 military intervention and the seventh president of Turkey. The decision is valid for the "Evren Pasa" and "12 Eylul" (September 12) schools. Now the ball is at the National Education Ministry's court.

Twenty schools in Turkey have "Kenan Evren" in their names, six others are named "Evren Pasa" and six others are called "12 Eylul" throughout Turkey. Regarding this decision of the provincial assembly, Evren said, "There had been such initiatives in the past. They named the schools themselves, they are taking back that names themselves." Regarding schools named after him following the Sept.12 military intervention, Evren had said, "They will erase it one day."
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-- BAYKAL: TENSION SHOULD BE EASED
Deniz Baykal, the chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), announced the reason of his proposal to declare Nevruz (March 21) and May Day (May 1) as official holidays: "Society should be rid of fear and tension."

VATAN
-- DERVIS RETURNING
Former State Minister Kemal Dervis, who retired his mission in the U.N. Development Program administration, has become a member of the international consultative board of Sabanci University. Dervis will start his mission on the board --which is comprised of executives of leading companies, global opinion leaders, statesmen and prestigious academicians-- as of May 1, 2009. Guler Sabanci, chairperson of the board of trustees of the university, said, "Experience in the international arena and the background of Mr. Dervis will make major contributions to our university."
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-- WARRANT OF ARREST TO ANKARA'S GUEST
The International Criminal Court ruled that Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir committed humanity and war crimes. Al-Bashir had visited Turkey on two occasions, one of which he was invited. The Hague Court held Al-Bashir responsible for the death of 300,000 people and for displacing a further 2.7 million; and issued a warrant of the arrest for Al-Bashir who brought sharia (religious law) to Sudan.
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CUMHURIYET
-- EYES ON FINAL REPORT
Dutch authorities said that the preliminary findings regarding last week's Turkish Airlines (THY) crash indicated that the altimeter of the plane was faulty. The authorities said that the altimeter showed minus eight feet when the plane was at 1,950 feet, and also said that pilots might have been too late in accelerating again. Commenting on the report, Ali Ziya Yilmaz, the head of the Turkish Airline Pilots Association, said that cloudy weather might have prevented the pilots from seeing the runway during landing. Yilmaz said that they were waiting for the final report.
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-- AKP IS OUR KEY PARTNER
The "Leadership Group", that expresses views and makes recommendations to U.S. President Barack Obama regarding Muslims, said that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey is a key partner of the United States. The group argued that the Turkish army should stay out of politics.
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RADIKAL
-- 'NEVRUZ HEAT' IN POLITICS
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has submitted a draft law to make Nevruz (March 21) and May 1 official holidays in Turkey. Other parties look favorably to CHP's proposal.
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-- KEMAL DERVIS AT SABANCI UNIVERSITY
Past minister and former head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Kemal Dervis, has joined Turkey's prestigious Sabanci University. Dervis will serve as part of the Sabanci University International Consultancy Council (UDK).

YENI SAFAK
-- FLYING DUTCH
Pieter Van Vollenhoven, the head of the Dutch Safety Board, announced that the Turkish Airlines (THY) plane crashed due to a faulty altimeter. Vollenhoven said there was low visibility due to fog, and that the plane started landing on automatic pilot. Vollenhoven said that the captains realized that there was a fault with the altimeter, but did not see it a problem. According to Vollenhoven, the plane, which slowed too quickly, sent a warning and the pilots accelerated to avoid an accident. However, he said, the last effort of the captains could not prevent the crash. Vollenhoven said that the muddy ground helped the plane to stop, but split it into three pieces.

Here are four questions waiting for an answer:
1- What did the pilots speak of among themselves?
2- Where are the recordings of communications between the pilots and the control tower?
3- Was there a breakdown on the plane?
4- One plane cannot lose altitude due to a radio-altimeter. What is the reason of the sudden drop in altitude?
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-- VORTEX CAUSED THE CRASH
Veteran pilot Fevzi Altunbulak continued to claim that the THY plane crashed due to a vortex. Altunbulak said that the Dutch authorities were diverting the facts, and said radio-altimeter was measuring a plane's distance to the ground and starts to operate after 2,500 feet. "It is important for automatic landing. However, it never causes a plane to crash," he said.