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...murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink has put Turkish nationalism in the spotlight. The suspect, 17-year-old Ogun Samast, was quoted by newspapers as telling police he shot Dink because the journalist insulted the Turkish nation. Local papers are reporting that Samast was allegedly linked to a small ultranationalist group in his hometown, Trabzon, on the Black Sea Coast. "Those who created nationalist sentiment in Turkey have fed such a monster that there are many youngsters on the streets who do not find the ... state nationalist enough and are ready to take the law into their own hands...
...Dink, 52, a widely respected journalist and editor of Agos, a Turkish and Armenian newspaper, was gunned down in front of his office in central Istanbul on Friday. He had been branded a "traitor" by nationalists for his comments on the genodice of Armenians in the then Ottoman Empire during World...
...piece of engineering, the BTC pipeline is a brilliant geopolitical bank shot. Built over three years, the pipeline had to skirt war zones in the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, and in Georgia, which has been in a conflict with South Ossetian separatists. Then there were the engineering issues: the pipeline had to pass under about 1,500 rivers. At one point BP hired 400 archaeologists to sift through the mountain of ancient artifacts unearthed along the way. Equally daunting was the political wrangling: two of the three countries changed Presidents during construction, requiring lengthy renegotiations over...
Last Thursday, the French parliament exacerbated existing tensions between European states and Turkey, which is in talks to join the European Union. In an overwhelming 109-19 vote, the lower chamber of the French National Assembly unwisely passed a bill to criminalize the denial of the 1915 genocide of Armenians on Turkish soil. The French Senate and President have the chance to bury the bill, and we hope they take it. Unsurprisingly, the Turkish government reacted swiftly against this bill, as have Turkish emigrants all over Europe. Some Turkish parliament members proposed a law criminalizing the denial of the French...
CASE DISMISSED. Against Elif Shafak, 35, best-selling novelist who faced charges of "insulting Turkishness"; due to a lack of evidence; in Istanbul. Shafak, whose book The Bastard of Istanbul deals with the legacy of Turkey's 1915 Armenian genocide, was the first novelist to be prosecuted for allegedly violating a controversial law prohibiting criticism of state institutions...