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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...
...envoys in the country warned the government not to attempt to re-establish control in contested areas until more progress was made on a two-month-old peace accord. The government has yet to enact key provisions that would upgrade ethnic Albanian rights in the country. TURKEY New Moves Ankara edged a step closer toward membership in the European Union when parliament passed a package of reforms allowing more individual and political freedom. Thirty-four amendments to the 1982 constitution include permitting broadcasts in the Kurdish language and limiting use of the death penalty to acts of terrorism. The measures...
...turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than 7%. ARRESTED. ROBERT S. GORDON,42, former Cisco Systems executive accused of embezzling $10 million from the networking equipment maker and one of its smaller partners; in San Jose, California. ARRESTED. BADARUDDIN ISMAIL, 56, Malaysian human- rights activist...