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...Turkey has voted itself the right to launch cross-border military attacks on Kurdish separatist fighters holed up in Northern Iraq, but it has not yet decided to exercise that right. The Turkish Parliament on Wednesday authorized military operations into neighboring Iraq to hunt down guerrillas of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, which continues to launch attacks inside Turkey that have killed more than 30 Turks in recent weeks...
...valley was awash with drug crops. Lebanese police estimate that some 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares) of hashish and a small amount of opium poppies were planted this year on the sun-baked plain of the northern Bekaa. "Lebanese hashish is the best in the world, better than Turkey and Afghanistan," says Ali, a Bekaa farmer standing in his field of knee-high hashish plants, the spiky saw-toothed cannabis leaves swaying gently in the hot breeze. Ali and other hashish farmers interviewed by TIME requested their real names not be printed...
Responding to a question about further expansion of the bank, Yunus noted that 85 percent of the 120 million people with access to microloans are located in Asia. Yunus pointed to other nations where Grameen and its partners are expanding their reach, such as Argentina and Turkey...
...members of Congress, however, warn that this abstract resolution will have no tangible effects beyond alienating America’s relationship with a key ally in the war on terror. In particular, they are worried about the United States military’s mission in Iraq, in which neighboring Turkey has been a critical ally. It seems there is some legitimacy to these claims, as Turkish General Yasar Buyukanit has warned that his country’s “military relations with the United States can never be the same,” and the Turkish ambassador...
...Turkey rage. The tide has turned globally in favor of the frank acknowledgement of all the horrors that took place in the chaos of World War I. Even if this resolution serves as a mere symbol of solidarity, one may hope that its weight might counteract the indelible pain of almost a century of impunity and silence...