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...Wolfowitz and his lawyers prevailed on their terms - he received a qualified statement of support about whether he had violated conflict-of-interest rules when he intervened on behalf of Shaha Ali Riza, his girlfriend. The Board noted Wolfowitz's assurances that he had performed in good faith. The Board said it would "accept" those assurances, a remarkable outcome considering the circumstances. And so Wolfowitz, satisfied that his name and honor were still intact, tendered his resignation, effective at the end of June. He had to go; he had become a distraction...
...clear: the military reserved the right to intervene if Gul became President. Though condemned in all corners of the Turkish press, the military's gambit made the court ruling against the AKP "almost inevitable," according to a senior Western diplomat. In an interview with TIME, retired army general Riza Kucukoglu said the military is now prepared to step back "because democracy is working," but he insisted that the ruling party was to blame for the crisis because it chose to nominate a "religious President." If the army fails to "deal with extremist ideology," he added, "Turkey could become a swamp...
...course. The Iraq-war architect was plucked from the Defense Department and deposited by President George W. Bush at the World Bank in 2005 (by tradition, the U.S. President picks the bank's chief). At the time, Wolfowitz informed the bank's ethics committee that he was seeing Shaha Riza, a communications adviser at the bank, and the in-house ethicists told him she should be moved to another agency and given a raise for her troubles. But the size of the pay hike (from $133,000 to $180,000, tax free) and other details about Riza's transfer raised...
...possible, though analysts are now leaning toward an AKP win. That would leave the military, which has now openly declared its opposition , with the choice of backing down or sending tanks into the streets. "There will be no need for further intervention because democracy is working," retired General Riza Kucukoglu said in an interview. Each of those assertions is, unfortunately, open to question...
...around: Wolfowitz got the job in part because he was thought by the Bank's board to enjoy good relations with the Republican Congress - an idea that doesn't look so shrewd now that the Democrats control both chambers. It won't help Wolfowitz with Congress that Riza's first boss at State was none other than Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of the vice president...