Word: hikmet
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...several other Iraqis will join Ali as unlikely Olympians this summer. For the first time since 1988, Iraq's soccer team has qualified for the Olympics. Iraqi women's sports--destroyed under Uday's rule because athletes feared he would rape them--are recovering. A female sprinter, Al'aa Hikmet, will make the trip to Athens. Some 30 Iraqis will march in the Aug. 13 opening ceremonies. During the 2000 Games in Sydney, four Iraqis competed. "We still don't have nearly enough resources," says new Olympic chairman Ahmed al-Samarrai, an exbasketball player who defected to Britain...
...members and other sympathizers joined the "death fast." With the toll of fatalities inching upward and no resolution in sight, the government ponders its options as it continues to pursue reforms that it hopes will please the E.U. "People don't have a right to die," says Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk, who is responsible for the country's prisons. Like many in Turkey, he sees the hunger strikes themselves as a kind of terror...