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...provide. The EU is about common grounds, and maybe there are certain fundamentally different things in today’s Turkey. Why should this fact be so hard to digest?Homogenization is not an idyllic goal: multiculturalism is not about tolerating dissidence, but welcoming it, and there is a Bosporus Strait between those terms. European powers should stay true to their illuminated Constitutions and embrace other values. More time is needed before Turkey can secure membership in the EU, and not to allow further conformist demands to be placed upon the Turkish people. Rather, time is needed to overcome despicable...
...rapsters to Turkish jazz. Check out what's on at www.babylon-ist.com. Seyhbender Sokak, 3, tel. +212 292 73 68 BEST CLUBS Istanbul's jet set kick up their well-shod heels at Leila and Reina, exclusive night-clubs with both summer and winter venues. Their summer spots on the Bosporus are among Europe's largest open-air discos, with a capacity of 3,000. Mooring services available for those arriving by yacht. Leila: Muallim Naci Caddesi, 44, tel. +212 259 5919. Reina: Muallim Naci Caddesi, 141/142...
...Istanbul's most notable landmarks - and the easiest way to orient yourself - is the Bosporus, the strait that divides the city, the fluid boundary between Europe and Asia. European Istanbul comprises the bulk of the city to the west, while the mostly residential Asian Istanbul is to the east. To get your bearings, take a ferry from the Eminonu docks up the Bosporus, stopping for lunch at one of the fishing villages near the Black Sea, passing a series of sumptuous villas and Ottoman houses along the way. European Istanbul is itself divided by the Golden Horn, an inlet...
...resolving the crisis. The hijackers have offered to release all hostages in Istanbul in return for a Friday news conference to publicize the plight of Chechnya. Turkish officials, who say that they will not let a ship that the hijackers say is packed with explosives sail through the crowded Bosporus straits to Istanbul, have offered the port city of Eregli as an alternative site. While this hostage crisis seems headed to a peaceful end, TIME's James Wilde says that its effects will be far-reaching. "Observers here say that however it is handled, this incident will do little...
Ciller, a mother of two, has a doctorate in economics from the University of Connecticut and has lectured at the University of Bosporus in Turkey...