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As the North's isolation eases, Turkish Cypriot leaders concede that their territory has fallen into ill repute. "Mistakes were made," Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Ferdi Soyer told TIME by e-mail. "We are determined to clean up our country and remove all these people who have done bad things...
TURKEY Making a Move His sights set on the Nov. 3 general election, Economy Minister Kemal Dervis resigned to focus on building a center-left alliance that secularists hope will keep the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party from power. The respected Dervis, who is not a member of any...
When the Ottoman empire of the mid-19th century started coming apart at the seams, Russia's Czar Nicholas I memorably dubbed it the "sick man" of Europe. Last week, the empire's successor, Turkey, reeled in political chaos as its own sick man, Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit...
EUROPEAN UNION Sowing the Seeds of Farm Reform The european commission approved a plan to overhaul the E.U.'s subsidy-addicted farming system. Tough talks lie ahead to get all of the Union's 15 member states to agree to the scheme, but countries applying to join the E.U. have...
The former World Bank official was called home to Turkey in February and named Economy Minister. Confronting crippling debt, corruption and a lira that had lost nearly 50% of its value, Dervis, 52, set about implementing a recovery plan backed by nearly $16 billion from the IMF and the World...