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...corruption scandal -- has signaled it would be happy to see the Kurdish rebel tried in a third country. Italy refused Turkey's request to extradite Ocalan, but Germany could still potentially charge him with incitement to murder. For all Turkey's protests, Italy's decision may actually help Ankara by sparing them the trouble that might have arisen from trying Ocalan at home. "Putting Ocalan on trial in Turkey could cause further turmoil here," says TIME Istanbul correspondent James Wilde. "Turkey would likely settle for rendering Ocalan inoperative in a third country, such as Germany...
...Ocalan moved into a Rome apartment after being released from prison pending the outcome of his asylum request. Turkey warned the EU against supporting Kurdish separatists and sent 30,000 troops to root out Ocalan's supporters at his stronghold in eastern Turkey. But there appears to be little Ankara can do to shake Italy's resolve, which means Ocalan's careful choice of sanctuary...
Whether it is true, as a flurry of news accounts have suggested, that Ataturk's astonishing support is the result of a national campaign backed by the government in Ankara, we cannot say. But whoever is behind this should know that while our final selection will not be bound by these poll results, we are keenly aware of Ataturk's role in Turkish history. We will consider him carefully...
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan knew he would pique the U.S. when for his first official trip abroad he chose Iran. Acting Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff telephoned Ankara to warn him that he was defying Washington's campaign to isolate Tehran for its sponsorship of international terrorism. Just a week before, President Clinton had signed with great fanfare a new sanctions bill to curb major investments in Iran and its fellow rogue state Libya. But Erbakan went to Tehran, and last week he upped the affront by endorsing a contract to buy $23 billion worth of Iranian...
...ANKARA, Turkey: The first Islamic party to form a government in modern Turkey narrowly won a vote of confidence Monday under a leader who had promised to yank the staunch U.S. ally out of NATO and evict thousands of strategic U.S. troops from the country. But since his election as prime minister last month, Necmettin Erbakan has backed away from his opposition to the West and said that attaining full membership in the European Union would be one of his party's "ultimate goals." TIME's James Wilde reports from the Turkish capital: "Erbakan has made a 180-degree turn...