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...decidedly secular, right-wing former Prime Minister who got her husband to take her surname. Odd couplings are common in politics, but the union of Necmettin Erbakan and Tansu Ciller is especially curious. Last week Erbakan became the head of the first Islamist-majority coalition government in Turkey since Kemal Ataturk declared it a secular state in 1923. In two years' time, Erbakan is due to hand over power to Ciller and her True Path Party. The deal was ratified during a parliamentary vote of confidence that provoked the wildest scenes the National Assembly has seen in many years...
...Kemal Kurspahic, chair of the 1994-95 Lyons Award Committee and a Nieman Fellow last year, said that "we believe his struggle for the freedom of the press provides inspiration for journalists everywhere, since we know there are areas of the world where it takes courage and integrity to speak openly...
...What we are witnessing today is the final picture of the incompetence and impotence of the world," said Kemal Kurspahic, a Nieman Fellow and journalist from Sarajevo...
...Turkey: Last January, Zeynep Atici allegedly plied boyfriend Abdullah Kemal Konak with drink, tied him up and cut off his penis with a bread knife after he said he was leaving her for another woman; it is uncertain whether his reattached penis will recover sexual function...
...interview yesterday at Harvard's Nieman Foundation for journalism, Oslobodzenje's editor-in-chief, Kemal Kurspahic, described how he produces a publication out of a gutted basement that serves as both newsroom and home for 70 staff members...