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What do you think of the government crackdown on your family businesses? Everyone knows this is a political lynching. There is no country in the world that does to you what [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has done to my family. Motorola's complaint states that your company, Telsim, never intended to pay back its loans. It also says your family has tried to intimidate Motorola into dropping the suit A bunch of outright lies. The intention to settle was there all the time. This family has never said we will not pay. Not once. So when will...
...going to the President, to the Turkish government, day by day to convince them," he said. Opening the line, he argued, would show ordinary Greeks that Turkish Cyprus was not an economically backward province laboring under military rule. Ankara was receptive, says Serdar, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "was particularly encouraging." Rauf Denktash - who, to the displeasure of many of his own people, has fiercely resisted the U.N. effort to find a solution - agreed to go along as an "experiment." Analysts say Turkey's support for the measure may be a step in the new, pro-Islamic government...
...three roommates died one by one. "At first, we were talking to each other in the dark," he said. "But after a while their voices died out." Turks were outraged that the dormitory collapsed while other buildings around the school were still standing. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to pursue allegations that bad construction standards may have been responsible. - By Pelin Turgut/Istanbul See Also: May Day Disaster Poll Postponed U.K. British Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed elections for Northern Ireland's Assembly just four weeks before voters were set to go to the polls. The Assembly was suspended seven...
...ousted dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira Markovic, as key suspects in that killing. More than 1,000 people, including several prominent judges and prosecutors, have been arrested so far because of mob links. - By Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade Trouble in the Skies greece Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, persuaded a 20-year-old Turkish draft dodger to surrender and release 200 hostages after hijacking an Istanbul to Ankara flight and forcing it to land in Athens. The hijacker used three razor blades and four candlesticks to commandeer the aircraft. A Greek prosecutor charged him with a string...
TURKEY Recep Tayyip Erdogan, head of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party, was appointed Prime Minister after parliament overturned a law barring him from public office because of a conviction for inciting religious hatred. He is likely to call for a second parliamentary vote on a motion to allow the deployment of U.S. troops on Turkish soil. Washington wants to open a northern front in any war against Iraq and needs Turkish bases to do so. Parliament's approval of the deployment would be controversial, since the Turkish public is overwhelmingly antiwar. The cash-strapped government has negotiated...