Word: southeasterners
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...sizeable presence in the Middle East, the Kurds number roughly 20 million and reside in a broad swathe from Southeastern Turkey, to Northern Iraq and Western Iran. The largest concentration of Kurds in the region—around 10 million—resides in Turkey and comprises upwards of 20 percent of the country’s population...
...Verheugen, who was on his final swing through the country before his Oct. 6 recommendation on whether Turkey should be invited to start E.U. membership talks. Verheugen seemed to be enjoying his trip immensely: he feasted on stuffed vine leaves and pastry filled with sheep's cheese in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. He tapped his feet to Kurdish folk dances, met with Christian leaders in Istanbul, and accepted a specially made bracelet: it had 26 glass beads - one for each of the 25 E.U. member states, plus Turkey. Verheugen's pink cheeks beamed from the front page of every...
...Volunteer Force said it would disarm after the government agreed to discuss its demands for greater regional autonomy and a share of oil wealth. The NDPVF rescinded an Oct. 1 deadline for foreign oil workers to leave. Grower Pains PERU Riot police stormed an Inca temple in the southeastern city of Cuzco to free 19 foreign tourists briefly held by coca farmers protesting the government's U.S.-sponsored efforts to eradicate their crop. The increasingly restive coca growers say the plant is a part of Andean culture and their livelihoods depend on it; officials say it is mostly used...
...mystery didn't last long. As first reported in the Los Angeles Times, Buckhead is Harry MacDougald, 46, a conservative, big-firm lawyer from Atlanta with a history of pugnacious activism. As an advisory-board member for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, he helped write the group's petition to disbar Bill Clinton and worked with former Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr to challenge a federal campaign-finance law. As the online avenger Buckhead, he has described Clinton as the "Ozark Caligula." Now identified, MacDougald shuns media attention; as one of his postings claimed, perhaps disingenously: "It wasn...
...heavy rains turned creeks into rivers and rivers into inland seas. At least 40 people are thought to have died during Ivan's terrifying assault on the U.S., and more than 70 in the Caribbean . And it's not over; even as Ivan's tattered remnants saturated the southeastern U.S. with flooding rains, Tropical Storm Jeanne was menacing the Dominican Republic and Hurricane Karl - the seventh...