ISTANBUL
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Turkish dailies on Thursday covered Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's remarks on a wave of gun and bomb attacks which have rocked the country, including the deaths of police officers, army personnel and civilians.
Turkey is facing a "conscious, malicious and planned" escalation of terrorist attacks since the June 7 general election, Davutoglu told a meeting of his Justice and Development (AK) Party's parliamentary group on Wednesday.
"Three terrorist organizations: Daesh; the [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK; and [Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front] DHKP-C have started simultaneous attacks on Turkey," YENI SAFAK quoted him as saying.
Davutoglu said "certain circles went into action against Turkey, with the aim of leaving the country without a government," the paper wrote.
Turkey's four parliamentary parties have been negotiating over a possible coalition government since the June 7 election, after the first-placed AK Party lost its majority in parliament.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had asked Davutoglu to form a new government on July 9 within the official period of 45 days. Now, if no coalition appears, the country may have to hold a new election around the end of November.
A series of counter-terrorism operations have come in a period when the country was already busy with possible coalition scenarios.
Davutoglu also slammed the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which allegedly ignored his call for signing a joint declaration against terrorism after the deadly attacks, STAR reported.
"Everyone must reveal their clear position. When they condemn PKK terror as they condemn Daesh terror [then] we can respond to their calls, and sit and talk," the paper cited him as saying.
VATAN wrote that the prime minister said operations against the PKK would continue until it leaves Turkey and lays down its arms.
Turkey recently launched airstrikes against Daesh and PKK terrorists in Syria and Iraq, following the Daesh-linked Suruc suicide bombing in eastern Sanliurfa province and follow-up violence across the country.
On June 24, Turkish jets bombed PKK camps in northern Iraq for the first time in more than two years. Turkish jets again hit PKK targets on June 26 and 28.
"Daesh is a threat both to our safety and religion," SABAH quoted Davutoglu as saying.
"They had better not to test our patience, or we will make life unbearable for them if they harm our citizens," he added.
Dailies also covered remarks by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan against the pro-Kurdish HDP, which is accused by some in the Turkish authorities of having links to the PKK, itself classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and European Union.
The HDP has been duped by enemies of the country’s ‘solution process’ to end conflict between Ankara and the Kurdish population, Akdogan told Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk on Wednesday.
Akdogan said the party "played a game. For passing the [electoral] threshold, it was involved in a dirty relationship and sacrificed the process,” STAR published.
The wave of violence in the country has raised concerns that the Turkey’s solution process with the PKK has come to an end -- an initiative started by Turkish government in early 2013 to end the decades-old conflict with the PKK, a dispute which has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people over 40 years.
Akdogan accused the HDP of delaying a call by imprisoned PKK head Abdullah Ocalan for the organization to convene a congress to lay down its arms, STAR wrote.
Nobody should try to blame the Turkish government for recent operations, he said, referring to nationwide counter-terrorism operations which have seen more than 1,300 detentions.
HURRIYET wrote about Turkey's security barrier along the Syrian border.
The 2.5-meter-high and 1-meter-wide wall in the Yayladagi district of the southern Hatay province will be resistant to rocket launcher attacks, the paper said.
The length has reached 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles), with an additional 20 kilometers planned. Night-vision cameras will also be placed around the barrier, the daily added.
Papers also covered President Erdogan's official visit to China.
Bilateral trade, Syria, and terrorism were the focus of Wednesday's meeting between Erdogan and Chinese President Xi Jinping, MILLIYET wrote. China supported Turkey's fight against the PKK and Daesh, the paper wrote.
HABER TURK said the two leaders also discussed issues surrounding China's Turkic-Muslim population, Uighurs. Erdogan is to meet with representatives from China's Uighur and Hui Muslim communities, the paper wrote.
Financial newspaper DUNYA ran a story on its front page claiming that Turkey and China were weighing up a potential economic free-trade zone, to be based in Turkey for Chinese companies.
