Turkey’s political identity is facing renewed crisis after the foreign minister and former Islamist, Abdullah Gul, announced he would run for president, the country’s highest secular post. Defying the secularist elite, he resubmitted his candidacy for the job after his first attempt to secure the post prompted a tidal wave of protests that followed a veiled threat of intervention by the army.
It looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials. But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it is the world’s oldest computer.
More than half of Turkey’s young female population has no schooling, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). Females account for the vast majority of the seven-million people believed to be illiterate in the predominantly Muslim state. Under Turkey’s Education Minister, Huseyin Celik, this inequity is however being addressed
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee Leyla Zana, who has championed Kurdish causes in Turkey from a prison cell for the past 10 years, was released last week with three fellow ex-MPs. At the same time, Turkey has allowed Kurdish language programmes to be broadcast for the first time.
It was the news Giorgos Voulgarakis did not want to hear. Eight hours before the Greek public order minister was due to begin briefing FBI and CIA officials in Washington on security arrangements for the Olympics, three bombs exploded outside a police station in an Athens suburb. The blasts blamed on anarchists have drawn attention to fears and delays dogging the games.
Nearly 30 years after the leaders of Greece’s hated military dictatorship were tried in the same bunker-like chamber, the trial of November 17 – the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group born out of the resistance movement – had finally begun.
Nearly 30 years after the leaders of Greece’s hated military dictatorship were tried in the same bunker-like chamber, the trial of November 17 — the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group born out of the resistance movement — had finally begun.
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/ 20 January 2003
The United States last night offered Saddam Hussein immunity from prosecution if his departure from Baghdad would avert war.
The ethnic Greek and Turkish leaders of Cyprus held crucial talks on Thursday in an effort to reunite the island ahead of the country’s anticipated accession to the European Union.