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     ANKARA, Sept 25 (Reuter) - These are the leading stories in
the Turkish press on Monday. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

    MILLIYET

    - Liberal Turkish politician attacked by club-wielding
Turkish far-left militants in Berlin.

    CUMHURIYET

    - Wave of public sector strikes grows.

    YENI YUZYIL

    - Moderate words from separatist Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah
Ocalan: We want to exercise democratic rights within the borders
of the Turkish republic.


Thousands of Turks Strike
      ISTANBUL, Sept 25 (Reuter) - Thousands of Turkish public sector workers
began a strike on Monday which union officials said would cripple railway
stations and ports.

    Striking railway workers demonstrated at the main Haydarpasa train
station in Istanbul and the port area of the same name ground to a halt.

    About 46,000 workers are expected to join Monday's action. The work
stoppages are part of a wider public sector workers' strike, which started
last Wednesday and is expected to swell to 350,000 workers this week.

    Turk-Is, the largest labour confederation, is demanding that the salaries
of about 680,000 workers in industries ranging from sugar to mining at least
match inflation.

    Turkey's annual inflation is expected to be about 70 percent for 1995.

    The stoppages also plunged Turkey in a sugar shortage after workers at 25
state-run sugar processing plants started a strike during the sugar beet
harvest.


Iraqi Kurds In Turkey for Talks
      ANKARA, Sept 25 (Reuter) - Representatives of an Iraqi Kurdish group
arrived in Ankara on Monday to discuss peace talks held earlier this month,
the semi-official Anatolian news agency said.

    A delegation from Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
spoke with Turkish officials about the results of the U.S.-mediated talks
that took place in Dublin some 10 days ago, the agency said.

    Iraqi Kurdish sources told Anatolian there would be a third round of
Dublin talks, which began in August, but could not give a date yet. Iraqi
Kurdish and foreign ministry sources could not be immediately reached for
comment.

    About 3,000 people have been killed in fighting between the militias in
northern Iraq in the last year. The main sticking points have been the
distribution of revenues from a makeshift oil trade run by the KDP and the
status of the main city of Arbil, which is held by the rival Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan.

    Ankara, which says the Iraqi Kurds' infighting allows the Turkey-based
separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to operate from northern Iraq, is
closely following the Dublin talks.


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