Word: ahmet
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President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who cultivates the common touch, has his car stop at traffic lights. He still found himself involved in a devastating collision last week, a sudden political smash-up with Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit-over corruption and banking reform-that has left the International Monetary Fund's inflation-cutting program for the country a twisted wreck, the lira in free fall and Turkey's 66 million people facing even more inflation. By week's end both officials, chastened, had left the crash scene to attend international gatherings...
...What started this, essentially, was a row between Turkey's prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, and its president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Ecevit is a classic Turkish machine politician, who's used to looking the other way at corruption in order to hang on to power. Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer and a real thorn in the side of those in power...
...question of genocide should be left to historians," said the Turkish President Ahmet Nejdet Sezer in an attempt late last year to diffuse nationalist passions - a remark that earned him criticism at home for being too soft. To people like Berktay, the issue of whether it was genocide is a legal not a historical question: "Our job is to explain what happened and why it happened...
...more somber mood pacified the pandemonium as respect was dutifully given to one of pop music's powerhouses, Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records in 1947, for whom the "Ertegun Impact Award" was inaugurated. The award was prefaced by Peter Wolf, who, as part of the producer's bio, read off a seemingly unending slew of well-known music acts that have released albums under the Atlantic label (from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones to Kid Rock). Thus the crowd's eruption into madcap applause with Amhet's eventual appearance on stage was entirely appropriate. Ertegun quipped that...