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There's a bigger problem: the relationship between Turkey and the E.U. is now so testy that even technical talks, like the ones over energy transit, are becoming politically charged. Turkey started negotiating E.U. membership in 2005. But progress has been slow for a number of reasons. There has been obstruction from France, Germany and a few other E.U. members who are not keen on a predominantly Muslim country of 70 million joining their club. There has also been political turmoil in Turkey, where the highest court only last year threw out a case on the closure of the ruling...
...region at the time of his son's abduction subpoenaed. The military has still not responded to his appeal. That snub doesn't surprise Kardas, the former military judge. "Turkey's most fundamental issue is how to get the military back into the barracks," he says. "The Kurdish problem is at the heart of that. The military have been deciding policy. If military officers committed crimes, they should be held accountable...
...Turkey will need to deal with its Kurdish problem, including ending hostilities with a militant group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who have about 3,000 guerrillas based in the mountains of northern Iraq. Turkish officials seem to recognize this. A trilateral commission of Iraqi Kurd, Turkish and U.S. officials meets regularly to discuss a possible PKK amnesty. Other measures on the agenda in Ankara include restoring Kurdish place-names and cleaning up the jingoistic billboards that litter the southeast. What's really needed is a more democratic constitution. But the government has backtracked on that promise before...
...first two months of 2009. For firms with an eye on an eventual recovery, one of the main reasons to cut working hours and not jobs is that it reduces costs at the same time as preserving the talent base. But cutting hours also adds to the bigger macroeconomic problem currently hammering the world economy: lack of demand. Pay cuts eat into consumer spending, which in turn amounts to more bad news for a world economy in need of stimulus. "If you go too far, you'll just aggravate the demand crisis," says Torres...
...problem, as anyone with a sweet tooth, an alcoholic relative or a maxed-out Visa card knows, is that old habits die hard. Temptation is strong. We are weak. We've got plenty of gurus, talk-show hosts and celebrity spokespeople badgering us to save energy, lose weight and live within our means, but we're still addicted to oil, junk food and debt. It's fair to ask whether we're even capable of changing...