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These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in the Turkish press on August 23, 2008. Hurriyet English does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Turkish athlete Elvan Abeylegesse won Friday her second silver medal in women’s 5,000 meters in Olympic Games in Beijing. Abeylegesse became the first Turkish athlete ever to claim two medals in a single Olympic Games. U.S. U.S. warship USS McFaul -- en route to Georgia carrying humanitarian aid --transited through Turkey's Canakkale and Istanbul straits on Friday to set sail in the Black Sea. Supreme Court of Appeals accepted a case opened by a woman to divorce from her husband on charges that he forced her to wear headscarf. The woman, identified with the initials T.L., wanted to divorce from her husband that he forced her to cover her head. U.S. U.S. warship "McFaul" and Polish warship "General Plasky" passed from the Canakkale and the Istanbul Straits on Friday. The U.S. warship did not give in...
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