PRESS DIGEST - Turkey - April 7

ISTANBUL, April 7 (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.

MILLIYET

- U.S President Barack Obama meets with three opposition leaders. Leader of the Nationalist Movement Party tells Obama that Turkey will never accept an independent Kurdistan and that it expects the ethnic separatist Kuridstan Workers Party to be disarmed.

- Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party leader Ahmet Turk tells Obama that a formula that would satisfy the country's minorities must be found.

HURRIYET

- Obama tells the Turkish parliament that everyone must change. He says that the events of 1915, referring to the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks that year, must be brought to the agenda and that it was Turkey and Armenia's responsibility to do so.

ZAMAN

- Obama signals that he will not use the word 'genocide' in reference to the events of 1915.

YENI SAFAK

- A fire which destroyed a tent-like entertainment complex in the south of Istanbul prompts speculation of sabotage after the fire-extinguishing system failed to work.

AKSAM

- The incoming NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in Istanbul for the Alliance of Civilisations conference, thanks Turkish doctors for treating him at a state hospital after he dislocated his shoulder in a fall in his hotel room in the early hours of Monday.

REFERANS

- Turkish companies say they are shooting for $5 billion in sales in the halal food sector, although Turkey has not yet issued a licencing procedure for halal goods.