Word: cumhuriyet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UGUR MUMCU WAS TURKEY'S TOP INVESTIGATIVE reporter and an articulate critic of Islamic fundamentalism. When a car bomb literally blew him to pieces in Ankara, Turks naturally suspected radical fundamentalists. Ozgen Acar, his editor at Cumhuriyet, the newspaper where Mumcu had worked for the past 18 years, said the murder was the work of agents sent from Iran, "the same people who are after Salman Rushdie...
...applies an anti-Muslim double standard. He massages Arab resentment that the same allied forces that retaliate so quickly against Iraq remain indifferent to the Serbian slaughter of Bosnia's Muslims and turn a blind eye to Israel's expulsion of more than 400 Palestinians. Said the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet: "How could the U.S. start this operation against the background of public opinion horrified by events in Bosnia? With 10,000 women raped and people jammed into internment camps in Bosnia, this bombing is inexplicable...
Ozal leaves behind him a bequest that can only benefit Demirel: a national consensus. Says Hasan Cemal, editor of one of Turkey's most influential newspapers, Cumhuriyet: "The clock cannot be turned back. The multiparty democratic system is here to stay. All parties except the fundamentalists make joining the European Community their No. 1 priority. We are on the right track." The same consensus applies to the economy. Whatever Demirel's reservations about the dangers of unbridled capitalism and his past inclination to subsidize state industries, he will have little choice but to follow in the path of Ozal...