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...Suleimaniyah, and accused them of plotting to murder a local Kurdish official. Though the soldiers were released after two days, Ankara angrily denounced the arrests. Chief of Staff General Hilmi Ozkok declared the arrests "the biggest crisis of confidence between Turkish and American armed forces to date." The Istanbul stock market and the lire slid over fears that the Pentagon was punishing Ankara for failing to back its war on Iraq. Plane Tragedy SUDAN A toddler was the sole survivor when a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 crashed 10 minutes after takeoff, killing all of the remaining 115 passengers and crew...
...Europe and has sex very, very often. His nemesis, Q, a spy for the Vatican, stalks him for more than 30 years, thwarting his vision of a heavenly kingdom on earth, though not his vision of heavenly sex. "We deserve the warmth of baths," the hero concludes in an Istanbul spa after a life of struggle. "May the days be aimless. Do not advance the action according to a plan." A satisfying formula for life, perhaps, but not for writing a book. So how - and why - did a gang of novelistic neophytes pull it all off? "We had a five...
...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 of criminal offenses; authorities did not immediately respond to Ankara's request for extradition to Turkey. Arming the Iraqis RUSSIA...
...public is overwhelmingly antiwar. The cash-strapped government has negotiated a $15 billion compensation package from the U.S. if the deployment takes place, and fears that if it does not cooperate with the U.S. it will lose influence on postwar developments in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. An Istanbul court banned the main pro-Kurdish group, the People's Democracy Party, for aiding the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, which in the 1990s fought for an autonomous Kurdish state. What We Now Know About Nuts BRISTOL It's a medical mystery that has baffled researchers: Why have peanut allergies tripled...
...rise of Mavi, and by 1996 it had overtaken Levi's as the country's No. 1-selling jeans brand. That same year, Akarlilar invested $20 million to set up Europe's largest integrated fashion jeans factory in Cerkezkoy, a tiny hamlet in rural western Turkey, 120 km from Istanbul. More than 1,500 people work here at the company's mammoth factory in the middle of rolling farmland, churning out up to 11 million pairs of jeans a year, more than half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest...