ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish parliament will re-open onOctober 1 after a summer recess, and will primarily debate a motion oncross-border operation as a primary issue.The Parliament General Assembly will convene with a special agenda onOctober 1, the first day of the new legislative term.The session will begin with Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek's remarksand President Abdullah Gul will then address the General Assembly.The main topic of the parliament next week will be a motion authorizing thegovernment to stage cross-border operations.It is not clear when the motion will be discussed.Turkish government presented the motion to the Office of Parliament Speakeron Tuesday. The motion asked the parliament to allow the government to stagecross-border operations into the north of Iraq in order to take necessarymeasures in line with international law and as a part of fight against terrorism,and to eliminate terrorist threat and attacks. It also demanded that theparliament extended government's mandate to stage cross-border operations foranother year, starting on October 17, 2011.The motion was first brought up to parliament in 2007, and it was extendedtwice in 2008 and 2009.Moreover, initiatives to re-write a constitution will be speeded up in thenew legislative year. Parliament Speaker Cicek will send letters to politicalparties that have groups at parliament.The parliament will start dealing with preparation of a new constitutionafter the Constitutional Compromise Committee is established.(BRC-MS)

NEW YORK (A.A) - Turkish Foreign Minister AhmetDavutoglu on Tuesday met with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati as well as hisLebanese counterpart Adnan Mansour in New York as part of his contacts on thesidelines of the 66th United Nations General Assembly.Source close to the meeting said Davutoglu and the Lebanese officialsdiscussed political situation in Syria and Lebanon as well as latest developmentsin the Middle East.Also, Davutoglu met separately with his Ukrainian counterpart KostyantynGryshchenko as well as with his Bosnian counterpart Sven Alkalaj.(Ä°MB)

ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday received chairperson of thesub-committee on Europe and Eurasia of the U.S. House of Representatives, DanBurton, and an accompanying delegation in the Turkish capital, Ankara.The meeting at the Cankaya Presidential Palace was held closed to newsmedia.(Ä°MB)

ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep TayyipErdogan on Tuesday met with South Korean steel producer Posco's Chief ExecutiveOfficer Joon-Yang Chung in the Turkish capital, Ankara.The meeting lasted about an hour and it was held closed to news media.(Ä°MB)

UNITED NATIONS (A.A) - Turkish Foreign Minister AhmetDavutoglu on Tuesday submitted to the UN Turkey's ratification paper on theOptional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture.Davutoglu submitted the ratification paper to Patricia O'Brien,under-secretary-general for legal affairs and United Nations legal counsel, in aceremony at the United Nations headquarters.After the ceremony, Davutoglu was set to meet Lebanese Prime Minister NajibMikati.(İMB-EÖ)

ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish people have so far collected atotal of 498.1 million Turkish liras in donations for Somalia, the Turkish PrimeMinistry Disaster&Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) announced on Tuesday.As of 5.00 p.m. today, AFAD has collected 107.5 million TL and TurkishReligious Affairs Authority has collected 198 million TL, as 192.6 million TL hasbeen collected in several other campaigns launched across the country, AFAD said.Turkey has recently initiated a country-wide aid campaign to help Somalia.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Mogadishu and several refugeecamps in the country, pledging more aid in cash and infrastructure.Turkey has so far sent 9 planes and 7 ships of humanitarian relief suppliesto famine-stricken Somalia.(İMB-EÖ)

LEFKOSA (A.A) - Turkish Cypriot President Dervis Erogluand Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias met again on Tuesday in their talksto find a settlement to the division Cyprus amid a dispute erupted after theGreek Cypriot side moved to start offshore drilling for hydrocarbon reservessoutheast of the Eastern Mediterranean island.Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Eroglu said today's talks hadfocused on issues related to the European Union, adding the Greek Cypriot naturalgas drilling did not come during the meeting."The Greek Cypriot side didn't raise the issue, so neither did we,"Eroglutold reporters.Eroglu said an agreement he and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoganhad signed in New York had made a remarkable impact, adding,"the agreement isvery important in the sense that it demonstrated both our resolve and Turkey'sdetermination on this particular issue."Eroglu said he was scheduled to meet Christofias again on Friday to take upthe issue of police force in a united Cyprus state.Also speaking to reporters after the meeting of the Cypriot leaders,Alexander Downer, UN secretary general's special advisor on Cyprus, said Erogluand Christofias would discuss the chapter on security in their next meeting onFriday, which he said was the last chapter in the two leaders'talks."The next week will open a whole new stage which will see necessarypreparations for the leaders'meeting with UN secretary general in October,"Downer said.Downer said Eroglu and Christofias did not discuss hydrocarbon explorationin Tuesday's meeting, adding that the leaders knew that the issue would riskderailing the entire negotiations process."We don't want talks to collapse. A united federal Cypriot government at theend of the settlement talks would be the sole authority on the island's naturalresources and water. This is something that the two leaders had agreed upon,"Downer said.Downer said neither the Turkish Cypriot side nor the Greek Cypriot side hadappealed to the UN secretary general for mediation on the issue of offshoredrilling.(İMB-EÖ)

ISTANBUL (A.A) - The top 10 shares in terms of valuegained and lost on daily-basis on Tuesday at the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE)are as follows:SHARES CHANGE (%) 01 - ALTINYAG KOMBINA. 23,38 02 - EGE ENDUSTRI 16,86 03 - SAGLAM GMYO 12,74 04 - EGEPLAST 11,54 05 - HAZNEDAR TUGLA 11,52 06 - INTEMA 11,4307 - T.TUBORG 10,06 08 - ERSU GIDA 9,17 09 - EKIZ YAG 8,84 10 - DENIZLI CAM 8,57 SHARES CHANGE (%) 01 - RAN LOJISTIK -11,19 02 - NUROL GMYO -8,29 03 - MARSHALL -7,62 04 - SONMEZ PAMUKLU -4,56 05 - METRO YAT.ORT. -4,27 06 - ALARKO CARRIER S. -2,72 07 - FAVORI DINLENME -2,56 08 - INFOTREND B MYO -2,53 09 - ANADOLU CAM-1,87 10 - TRABZON SPOR -1,58 (EÖ)

ISTANBUL (A.A) - The Istanbul Gold Exchange (IAB) wasup 4.05 percent on Tuesday as gold traded at 98,450 Turkish liras a kilo and1,664.80 USD an ounce.A total of 2,273 kilograms of gold was traded at the IAB.The trading volume was 23.8 million Turkish liras in 22 transactions and108.8 million USD in 115 transactions.The trading volume in the silver market was 1.1 million Turkish liras in 1transaction and it was 3.8 million USD in 5 transactions.(GC-EÖ)

UNITED NATIONS (A.A) - Turkish Foreign Minister AhmetDavutoglu met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Tuesday.Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu, TurkishAmbassador in Washington Namik Tan, Turkey's Permanent Representative to the UNErtugrul Apakan and UN Secretary General Ban's special adviser Vijay Nambiar alsoattended the meeting.Before his meeting with Ban, Davutoglu had a meeting with Lebanese ForeignMinister Adnan Mansour.(EÖ)