More meetings on anti-terrorism efforts held

A fourth round of meetings led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on anti-terrorism efforts was held yesterday, with Chief of General Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug and other high-level state and military officials in attendance. Terrorism's diplomatic, political, sociological and economic and legal aspects were discussed at the six-hour gathering, said a statement released afterwards. Plans to form a new unit to coordinate anti-terrorist efforts in the Interior Ministry were also discussed, and the ministry's theater of operations is expected to expand with that unit. "Civilian influence in anti-terrorist efforts is expected to rise through the planned unit," it stated.