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...Turkish novel subtitled Who Will Kill the Pope in Istanbul? (the book fingers everyone but Islamists) have increased as his trip approaches. The country is expected to place about 22,000 policemen on the streets of Istanbul while he is there. "This is a very high-risk visit," says Cengiz Aktar, a Turkish political scientist. "There is a vocal nationalist movement here, and there is the Pope, a man who likes to play with fire...
...military's political clout - in a bid to meet E.U. standards. But the country's old guard still sets its face against change. "There has been a huge amount of legal reform, but it takes time for the mental transformation to sink in," says one senior Turkish official. Cengiz Aktar, a professor at Galatasaray University, says Pamuk's case "is a sign of how this accession process is going to go. It's going to be a roller coaster of a ride...
...opposition in the past six months, citing political differences. Erdogan has so far failed to appoint a chief negotiator for E.U. talks in October or to sign a protocol establishing ties with existing member states, a key condition for the talks. "The government has lost its focus," says Cengiz Aktar, a political scientist at Galatasaray University. The result is an increasingly divided society and, in Turkey's volatile southeast where most Kurds live, a greater number of abuses by the authorities, claims Selahattin Demirtas of the Human Rights Association in Diyarbakir. "The verdict by the European Court on Ocalan only...
...what will the deaths of Cengiz Soydas and his - so far - 44 Turkish comrades come to mean? Soydas died last March, on the 150th day of a prison "death fast" begun in October 2000. A 29-year-old university student who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for membership in a violent leftist organization, Soydas was the first to die. Other prisoners and some outside supporters joined him in protest and, later, in death. According to the Turkish Justice Ministry, slightly more than 100 people are now on hunger strike in a dozen prisons...