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Turkish Tourism DVD In the June 6, 2005 issue of the European edition of Time, you ran a four-page advertisement, placed by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, promoting tourism in Turkey, together with a dvd. The dvd contained a 70-minute segment that completely denied and distorted the facts of the Armenian genocide. It also contained many heinous allegations against the Armenian people, portraying them as terrorists, liars, killers, racists and pro-Nazis...
...Kerinçsiz dismissively, "has dug his own grave." In the runup to the E.U. talks, Turkey's two main right-wing and nationalist parties - which together form the main opposition to Erdogan's government - mobilized, bringing tens of thousands of sympathizers onto the streets of several cities, including Ankara. These protests grabbed attention in Turkey, but it was the case brought by a state prosecutor against the world-renowned novelist Orhan Pamuk in August that generated outrage beyond the country's borders. The charge against Pamuk - that he insulted Turkey's good name by discussing the mass killings...
Italian authorities may soon hear from another defendant in the conspiracy trial. Turkish police last week arrested Bekir Celenk, a Turk whom Agca has accused of helping arrange the plot against the Pope. Until his reappearance in Ankara, Celenk, a reputed smuggler, had been secluded in Bulgaria since at least...
...first time in 50 years, it is the U.S. that needs Europe's help, rather than the other way around. Americans realize that, without European diplomacy, money and soft power, freedom's march would be a lot more halting. In Kiev, Sarajevo, Ankara, Ramallah and even Tehran, the E.U. is having a more constructive impact than the U.S. Yet the E.U.'s transformative power is often confused with weakness. The E.U. doesn't change countries by threatening to invade them. Its biggest threat is not intervention but withdrawal of the hand of friendship and especially the prospect of membership...
More than 40 years after Ankara and the European Union first discussed Turkish membership, E.U. leaders meet this week in Brussels to vote on whether to open accession talks next year. Roadblocks remain: France and Austria insist the summit statement should spell out a "privileged partnership" or lesser union if Turkey fails to make adequate progress in legal and economic reforms. Tiny Cyprus threatened to veto the talks if Ankara failed to give de facto recognition to the Greek part of the island state. Turkey complains that the invitation is "discriminatory" because it makes demands not made of previous...