Word: diyarbakir
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...final swing through the country before his Oct. 6 recommendation on whether Turkey should be invited to start E.U. membership talks. Verheugen seemed to be enjoying his trip immensely: he feasted on stuffed vine leaves and pastry filled with sheep's cheese in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. He tapped his feet to Kurdish folk dances, met with Christian leaders in Istanbul, and accepted a specially made bracelet: it had 26 glass beads - one for each of the 25 E.U. member states, plus Turkey. Verheugen's pink cheeks beamed from the front page of every newspaper, while posters proclaimed: citizen...
...Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, scores of people were convicted in freedom-of-expression cases last year. Twenty-eight television and 32 radio stations were obliged to cease broadcasting for a total of 3,786 days. The day before Chomsky arrived in Turkey, a local radio station in Diyarbakir, capital of the southeastern Kurdish region, was ordered off the air for a year for playing Kurdish music that had an ideological content. Fifty books were removed from store shelves in 2001, and a number of Kurdish musical cassettes were banned. (While a constitutional amendment allowing Kurdish broadcasts was approved...