Word: ankara
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Napoleon once remarked that if the world were a single state, Istanbul would be its rightful capital. The Turkish city's fortunes have risen and fallen on the tides of empire, being last demoted when Ankara became the capital of the newly founded republic in 1923. But 2,700-year-old Istanbul is used to comebacks, and today the city is enjoying a massive revival, thanks to a deft mix of old and new. Driving toward the city center from the new airport, you pass through 5th century walls built by Emperor Theodosius II. Downtown, Roman, Byzantine and Otto...
...CONVICTED. NECMETTIN ERBAKAN, 75, former Prime Minister of Turkey and longtime leader of the country's Islamic movement, to 28 months in prison for fraud; in Ankara. Erbakan will likely appeal, and has remained influential despite being barred from politics for five years and having his own Welfare Party banned in 1998 by Turkey's secular-military establishment...
Even if the ISAF's authority is extended, policy in Afghanistan will remain fuzzy. In April Britain is set to give up its role as lead nation in the ISAF, at which point the blueprint, such as it is, calls for Turkey to take over. But in Ankara it is widely expected that the timetable will slip, and the Turkish government would like to know exactly how the peacekeeping force will be paid for. As for American involvement, even under Rumsfeld's minimal plan, building and training an Afghan army will take time. "You're watching a sausage being made...
...strict criteria for positive change, many feel, judges will be left to interpret the laws as they see fit - and not necessarily in ways that will help Turkey on its path to E.U. membership. "Law is not local anymore," says Vahit Bicak, who lectures on human rights at the Ankara Police Academy. "We are part of an international legal system and must have respect for global values...
...plans to send peacekeeping troops to Kabul, of course, having apparently tapped Turkey for the job. And that appears to have created intense interest there in the political infighting among the Taliban's would-be successors. Ankara's Turkish Daily News carries a lively account of the sit-down in Pakistan among mostly Pashtun mujahedeen leaders hoping to forge a "southern alliance" against the Taliban (and the Northern Alliance, whom many Pashtuns distrust). The delegates urged the U.S. to halt its bombing campaign on the grounds that this was supposedly consolidating Pashtun support for the Taliban. They'd prefer...