Word: cuneyt
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...made all camps happy, but he also gave everyone something to think about," says Turkish newspaper columnist Cuneyt Ulsever of Obama's first day in the capital, Ankara, where he addressed the parliament and met with leaders. "He met with the nationalist opposition but said 'Deal with your past.' He honored the government and hugged the President but asked for progress on normalizing relations with Armenia and improving Kurdish rights. For the secularists, he emphasized Turkey's secular identity but also spoke of respect for Islam's rich history." (See pictures of the Obamas abroad...
...Sunday's attack came a day before a top court convened to decide whether to ban the governing party for anti-secularism, and just two days after another court decided to take up the case against the Ergenekon defendants, the timing struck many as significant. "Call me paranoid," says Cuneyt Ulsever, columnist for the mainstream daily Hurriyet. "I think the bomb was Ergenekon at work. It was telling us that they are still here." That seemed to be the angle the PKK itself was taking when it blamed Sunday's attack on "dark forces...
...Turkey is at a historic turning point," says Cuneyt Ulsever, a columnist for the mainstream daily Hurriyet. "But there's no one controlling this change, which unnerves me. It's as if we're riding a bus and there's several people vying to take control of the steering wheel, but nobody knows which direction we'll end up taking...
...Cuneyt Yuksel, a 1994 graduate of the Harvard Law School, will be seeking one of 550 seats in the Turkish National Parliament in the country’s July 22 election...
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