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...Although Gul is backed by the majority of his party, other AKP nominees may step forward in coming days - including two men who may be less offensive to the military: One is a former Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul; another is a former Minister for Religious Affairs, Mehmet Ali Aydin. Both are considered moderates and both, notably, are married to women who leave their hair uncovered. The largest opposition party, the Nationalist Action Party, or MHP, may also field a candidate...
...Aydin Dogan wants to make one thing perfectly clear. "All I want is transparency," says the Turkish media magnate. "I want for my country exactly the same conditions as there are in the West." His words, spoken after parliament approved a complex and harsh new media law, do not reflect disappointment. Rather, he is pleased to have got his way on the one bit of the law that matters most to him. Dogan, like other owners of major Turkish media outlets, now will be able to own, legally and publicly, what he already controls clandestinely. With the emergence of private...
...ringleader of Bosnian cell, arrested in Zenica, Bosnia Oct. 10, 2001 Lased Ben Heni, closely tied to bin Laden, nabbed in Munich on suspicion of planning a biochemical attack. Aouadi Ben Belgacem, a Tunisian national also suspected of planning a chemical attack, arrested in Milan Oct. 17, 2001 Harun Aydin, a Turk, apprehended in Frankfurt attempting to board a plane to Tehran. Believed to be a leading member of a Cologne-based extremist group. Five people arrested in separate investigations in Sarajevo Oct. 23, 2001 Yasser al-Siri, who runs the extremist Islamic Observation Center in London, is arrested...
...friends discovered Middelhoff to be a man of surprising charm and easy humor. That down-homeness may reflect his roots. He lives on a farm outside Gutersloh with his wife, five children, 45 cows and sheep, and a duck pond. "Thomas can defuse the tension in any room," says Aydin Caginalp, Bertelsmann's U.S. attorney for 18 years...
...People don't like to wait," said Serife Aydin, a cashier at Loker. At the new stand, "we try to be quick...