PRESS DIGEST - Turkey - Jan 15

ISTANBUL Jan 15 (Reuters) - These are the leading stories in the Turkish press on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

SABAH

- Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vows a new constitution will solve the problem of a ban on wearing Muslim-style headscarves in public offices and universities in a way that will not create tensions in society.

HURRIYET

- Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency will discuss at a meeting in Istanbul on Friday whether to establish a uranium enrichment centre in Turkey.

AKSAM

- Turkey will begin seeking oil in the Aegean Sea from Jan. 25 and neighbouring Greece is using fishermen in international waters to create tension over the issue.

RADIKAL

- The government's argument for moving the central bank from Ankara to Istanbul, because it is a major centre, appears weak and could be used as justification for moving other institutions to the city.

MILLIYET

- Sixteen civil servants working at a title deeds office, including three managers, are detained in an Ankara suburb on suspicion of accepting bribes.

YENI SAFAK

- Reports claim that a four-member assassination team was sent from Turkey to the United States less than four years ago to kill religious leader Fethullah Gulen, but the FBI and CIA thwarted the assassination attempt.

VATAN

- A health ministry undersecretary pays 50,000 lira ($43,000) to the family of a girl killed in an accident involving his official car so that they would not open a court case.

REFERANS

- The Turkish automotive sector will grow 5 percent this year, shrugging off the impact of an economic slowdown in the United States, according to the chairman of Dogus Otomotiv (DOAS.IS).

ZAMAN

- Iran will construct a pipeline to overcome gas supply problems which it suffers with Turkey.

(Reporting by Daren Butler)