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...famously written of the inevitability of a "clash of civilizations" in the wake of the Cold War.] We will have Turkey, with a predominantly Muslim population as part of the European Union, and this will have profound effect on the views of the people of the Middle East, the Caspian Sea region, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions towards the EU. Europe has a great opportunity to prove that EU is not a Christian club, but based on democratic values...
...losing our way and leaving ourselves vulnerable to this kind of exploitation." As for terrorism, he thinks Sept. 11 "gave the secular governments of the Islamic world carte blanche to crack down on Islamists. It also gave Bush a pretext to grab Afghanistan and its access to the Caspian Sea." Assem was drawn to Hizb ut-Tahrir 16 years ago, as a 22-year-old lost soul in Vienna. "I'd grown up in Egypt, where my father was from, and then moved to Austria, where my mother is from," he says. "I didn't really fit in with...
...Europe's - wireless sector will remain. Which means it's only a matter of time until someone else gets his chance to be saved. OIL A Pipe Dream Comes True Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. A few years ago, the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and into the Mediterranean was touted by the U.S. as a way to get the Caspian's rich oil reserves without going through Russia. But there was a hitch: oil companies weren't terribly interested. With prices and demand still growing and U.S.-Russia relations...
...foreigners from owning farmland, though they will still be allowed to lease it. The bill now goes to the upper house before officially becoming law with Putin's signature. Meanwhile, the flooded Sunja River washed away oil-storage facilities in southern Russia. The resulting oil slick moved toward the Caspian Sea, threatening to cause environmental catastrophe. MIDDLE EAST In a Corner In response to suicide bombs in Jerusalem, Israeli troops took over seven of the eight main towns in the West Bank, imposing curfews and declaring Hebron a "closed military zone." Israeli tanks and gunships destroyed Palestinian police headquarters...
TURKMENISTAN A Slice of the Pie A long-awaited summit on dividing the oil-rich Caspian Sea between its five surrounding states ended in complete disarray. The Caspian's status is still governed by a 1940 agreement between the U.S.S.R. and Iran, and the summit was meant to end a decade of bitter squabbling. But the meeting failed to adopt even a planned declaration after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami walked out and Turkmenistan accused Azerbaijan of intransigence over a disputed oil field. "More problems emerged than expected," admitted Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev...