Word: hakan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gets tired of watching him win with a struggle, 10 times in a row. Nadal can beat Federer every single time they meet, but that won't make him greater than Federer, nor it will make Federer anything less than a living, and still playing, legend of tennis. Hakan Azatoglu, ISTANBUL, TURKEY...
...terms of getting that message across, a good dose of honesty helped. "He called for change but began with himself, pointing out the shortcomings of the U.S. in terms of dealing with its racial history, for example," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Istanbul. "That disarmed everyone. After years of the U.S. taking a superior approach to the rest of the world, he put himself on the same level as anyone else, and that really worked." (See pictures from the streets of Istanbul...
...unrelenting downpour in Basel gradually reduced Wednesday's game to a cross between football and water polo. Along the sidelines the ball stopped bouncing and rolling - conditions under which a match could be abandoned. But once Hakan Yakan converted a pass from Gelson Fernandes that nearly stopped dead in the goalmouth, in the 31st minute, there was no way the game was going to be stopped. Both teams had to settle for knocking long balls in the air like any other pub team and hoping for the best. The best turned out to be Turkey - Semih Sent...
...real casualty in this process has been respect for the law, and for institutions," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. In light of today's ruling, he sees only a 1% chance that the AKP might scrape through its upcoming court case. "Even if you don't agree with a court verdict, you should still be able to respect its legality. But the establishment is so busy trying to stave off what it sees as the imminent danger of political Islam, it isn't calculating the longer-term damage to our soul...
...great Zinedine Zidane is the son of an Algerian; Florent Malouda, born in French Guiana, and Congo-born Claude Makelele will feature for France this year. Turkey once exported guest workers to Switzerland and Germany, and is now seeing a return. Several of its team, including Hamit Altintop and Hakan Balta, are German-born. Germany itself reflects Europe's now swirling populace. Two strikers, Miroslav Klose and Lukas Poldowski, are ethnic Poles, and striker Kevin Kuranyi was born in Brazil. An intriguing newcomer, Stuttgart striker Mario Gomez, is a Spanish-German blend whose subtle southern touch made him the Bundesliga...