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...Secretary Paul Wolfowitz traveled to Turkey to secure support for an attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, offering to write off at least $6 billion of military debt and an undisclosed amount of other aid in return. Then, even as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived for talks on Ankara's application to join the European Union, Wolfowitz said it would be "unthinkable" for the E.U. to exclude Turkey - music to the ears of his hosts. Back in Washington, the Bush Administration swatted away complaints from right-wing hawks that the President was overselling the Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion...
...President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to confirm that the U.S. did not want to see Iraq's borders changed. The Turkish government is worried that Iraqi Kurds will be so overjoyed if Saddam is defeated that their mood will infect the Kurds in Turkey, rekindling demands for autonomy from Ankara. As sweeteners, Bush reaffirmed American backing for Turkey's candidacy for membership in the European Union and promised support for Turkey's mess of an economy. Then he was off to Russia, where he reassured President Vladimir Putin that the Americans have not forgotten that Iraq owes Russia $8 billion...
...Turkish politician Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not look like a man so dangerous as to have been accused of "inciting religious hatred." His comfortably furnished offices in Ankara look more like a banker's suite than a fundamentalist's den. Impressionist prints adorn the walls, along with a portrait of Turkey's fiercely secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. There isn't a prayer bead in sight. "I am a Muslim," the beardless Erdogan, 48, dressed in a pressed blue suit and red tie, said in a recent interview with Time. "But I believe in a secularist state...
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...