And the Polish international made an important second-half save from Nihat Kahveci as Villarreal threatened to claw back their two-goal deficit.

BBC: Strachan keen to keep team intact

And even the enigmatic goalkeeper David James can snatch his share of the credit with an astonishing late save from Nihat Kahveci.

BBC: Rooney the shining light

Semih justified his second-half introduction when he rose highest to meet Nihat's superb inswinging cross from the left flank, and Benaglio could only palm the powerful header into the back of the net.

CNN: Turks rain on Swiss Euro 2008 parade

"Some believe that now that relations (with Turkey) have deteriorated again, Syria may have reactivated the group to cause turmoil in Turkey, " said Nihat Ali Ozcan, a terrorism expert at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey.

NPR: Turkey Says It Won't Be Drawn Into Syria Conflict

Turkish Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat Ergun said before the launch that Gokturk-2 should be seen as an investment in high technology, and a signal of Turkey's determination to have its own, restrictions-free use of Earth observation imagery.

MSN: Chinese rocket lofts Turkish Earth observation satellite