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...fire was set on the evening of Jan. 11, when Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, summoned Turkey's ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol to an urgent meeting. Its purpose was to deliver Israel's complaints about a Turkish TV series that portrays Israeli soldiers as baby killers. At the meeting, Ayalon was caught on camera instructing the Israeli TV news crew covering the event to make sure that its footage captured the fact that Celikkol had been deliberately seated on a chair lower than that of his Israeli counterpart, that only the Israeli flag was on the table (without...
...city of Konya. War games involving multiple countries take months to organize, and the last-minute decision was clearly unexpected. The U.S. and Italy pulled out shortly after they heard about the snub, with Washington calling the move by Ankara "inappropriate." Turkey's reason for barring Israel? Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said his country "was showing its sensitivity." "We hope that the situation in Gaza will be improved, that the situation will be back to the diplomatic track," he said. (See TIME's video "Israel's Lonesome Doves...
...shaking its hard-line stance. In January, it launched a Kurdish-language television station with a flashy Kurdish singer as main billing. "The state is recognizing, in effect, that Kurdish is a language and that it can be used to deliver a public service like broadcast," says Ahmet Birsin, of Gun TV, a local station...
...time of Dickens have long since made way for barbed wire-laced industrial units, the grinding of saws behind closed doors drowning out the faint crackle of the power lines overhead. Inside a tiny corrugated iron shell, the air thick with the smell of fried eggs and sausage, Ahmet Yucetan's café relies on the local laborers for its trade. Business is down 30% in recent weeks, and he's already laid off one member of staff. But he's holding out little hope for help from the G-20. "People," the burly 50-year-old says, "are left...
...Running Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, 91, launched the pop careers of R&B giants Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, made a crossover star of Bobby Darin, kept the Drifters a top act through ever-changing personnel and in the '70s signed the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Wexler produced Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis LP and Bob Dylan's first Grammy-winning album, the 1979 Slow Train Coming...