GOOD MORNING --TURKEY PRESS SCAN ON FEB 29 - Hürriyet

General Staff said number of the terrorists killed at the end of the 7th day of the ground operation rose to 237. The statement said the allegations that civilian infrastructure was damaged in north of Iraq were not right.

Well-known famous sports and casual outfits brand mark Puma appointed international designer, artist and film director Huseyin Caglayan as deputy creative director of Puma. On the other hand, Puma became the main shareholder of the brand "Hussein Chalayan".

Following U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, U.S. President George Bush sent a message to Ankara to end the cross-border operation as quickly as possible. Bush said, "it is in nobody's interest that there be safe haven for people who have the willingness to kill innocent people." Prime Ministry sources said PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Gates did not talk about any date in their meeting. Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said, "short time is sometimes one day and sometimes a year. We have been countering terrorism for 24 years. The United States is in Afghanistan for some time. I told all these issues to him (Gates)."

It has become definite that the fire that killed nine Turks, including five children, in Ludwigshafen, Germany was "set intentionally." A committee of 50 people that was investigating the fire said the fire did not break out due to a technical reason, and the place where the fire first started was very away from electric cables.