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...Wrong Track TURKEY A recently introduced high-speed train running from Istanbul to Ankara derailed near the northwestern town of Pamukova, killing 37 people. Two drivers and a crew chief of the train were charged with negligence, but the media and unions criticized the government for allowing its showcase high-speed rail service to start operating in June, despite warnings from experts that the existing track was not good enough...
...again. Belka has two weeks to rally support ahead of a vote of confidence in parliament, which bounced his first nomination in May. A second rejection would trigger a general election in August; Euro-skeptic parties currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. Brussels had warned Turkey that the M.P.'s detention jeopardized its chances...
...soothing domestic French concerns about E.U. enlargement. Chirac's conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement, said it will campaign openly against Turkish membership in European parliamentary elections in June. Meanwhile, German conservatives have suggested a "privileged partnership" for Turkey instead of full-fledged membership, an idea Ankara rejects. Washington and London, for their part, want the E.U. to embrace Turkey as an example to other nations in the Middle East that Islam and democracy can coexist. Turkey's "presence among us," British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote last week in Le Monde, "will throw a bridge...
...terrorism." Lost Opportunity CYPRUS Greek Cypriots ignored the pleas of the E.U., the U.N. and the U.S. and voted by a margin of three to one to reject a U.N. plan that would have reunited the divided island after 30 years of armed standoff. Turkish Cypriots backed the plan. Ankara announced that Turkish troops will now stay on the island indefinitely and called for international recognition for Turkish Cyprus as a separate state. Some Greek Cypriots voted against the plan because they feared investment in the less developed north would lure tourists away from their side of the island...
...favor of the deal is mounting. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, who supports the plan, said that a split vote with the south rejecting the arrangement and the north approving it should lead to formal partition of the island, in which the north, which is currently recognized only by Ankara , gains international recognition as a separate state. - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Anthee Carassava An Open-Source Spy RUSSIA A Moscow court sentenced researcher Igor Sutyagin to 15 years in prison after a jury convicted him of treason for spying. Prosecutors claimed that Sutyagin passed classified defense information...