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...fiscal discipline remains the cornerstone of our economic program." In the meantime, relations between Erdogan and the business community, never overtly cordial at the best of times, have turned nasty. This month, after the head of the leading business lobby, the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSIAD), criticized the government for not being sufficiently proactive in the current crisis, Erdogan shot back, accusing her and other critics of talking up the bad news in order to profit from it. "These people are pumping darkness into the nation," Erdogan said...
...think that young black females are dealing with the same self-acceptance issues today as your character was in The Bluest Eye? -Francesca Siad, Calgary, Alta.No, not at all. When I wrote the book, the young women who read it liked it [but] were unhappy because I had sort of exposed an area of shame. Nowadays I find young African-American women much more complete. They seem to have a confidence that they take for granted...
What's going on? No doubt some of the violence can be blamed on the general chaos that has gripped Somalia in the 17 years since it last had a functioning government, the dictatorship of Mohamed Siad Barre. But there are also fears that recent fighting, and especially the latest in Mogadishu, are signs that Somalia is entering its bleakest chapter...
...much of the time since the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, Mogadishu and much of Somalia has been ruled by clan-based warlords who laid waste the country and turned Mogadishu into an anarchic, continuous battlefield. More than 100,000 people died in the fighting in 1991-92, and when the U.N. launched a massive relief operation in April 1992, the U.S. was drawn into the conflict - at first guarding the relief, then delivering it, then attacking the warlords that were stealing it. In October 1993, in events depicted in the film Black Hawk Down, Somali militiamen...
...most strife-torn parts of the world, a bear market for weapons would be cause for relief. But tranquillity rarely lasts long in Somalia. Since the overthrow of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, the country has been a byword for dysfunction, less a nation-state than a destitute, unremittingly violent land ruled by the barrel of a gun. Last June the warlords' grip on power was finally broken by a dedicated confederacy of fundamentalist Muslim militias that fought their way into the former capital and sent the warlords fleeing...