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...reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (M?nster) of part of the dialogue carried on - perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both. It was presumably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than those of his Persian interlocutor. The dialogue ranges widely over the structures...
...with Iraq. Turkey's new army chief, General Yasar Buyukanit, who took office last week, is known for his hawkish views on how best to deal with the p.k.k. "Turkey has never been face-to-face with this much armed separatist terrorism," he said at his handover ceremony in Ankara. "Our state, nation and security forces will eliminate this threat." Until now, the U.S. has urged Turkey to keep its troops out of northern Iraq so as not to foment a broader war with Iraqi Kurds, who are not currently aligned with the p.k.k. Some Turkish TV and newspaper commentators...
...DIED. Mustafa Ozbilgin, 64, one of Turkey's most senior judges, after being shot in court by a lawyer; in Ankara. Alparslan Arslan, 29, from Istanbul, shouted Islamic slogans as he opened fire on a morning meeting at the Council of State, fatally wounding Ozbilgin and injuring four other court officials. Arslan, who was arrested immediately after the attack, told police that he was punishing the court for ruling against the promotion of a female teacher who wore an Islamic headscarf...
...nomination of incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister. The main Kurdish grievance with Jaafari appears to be his resistance to their attempts to incorporate the northern oil city of Kirkuk into their de facto autonomous mini-state; the last straw was a recent visit by Jaafari to Ankara to discuss Iraqi affairs with Turkey, which has made clear that it regards anything resembling Kurdish sovereignty on its border as intolerable. It has vowed to support Iraq's Turkmen minority, concentrated in Kirkuk, in resisting attempts to incorporate the city into Kurdistan...
...Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even the Prime Minister's wife and daughters packed the glitzy premiere in the capital Ankara. Turkey and the U.S. are traditional allies, but relations have been tricky since the onset of the Iraq war, when Turkish M.P.s refused to allow U.S. troops to use Turkey to launch their invasion. Anti-American sentiment has been on the rise since then. A 2005 Pew Research Center survey found...