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...BankTrack accused many companies of failing to deliver on their lofty principles. The report highlighted the decision by nine Equator Principles banks--including ABN Amro, Italy's Banca Intesa and Citigroup--to fund BP's controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which will run through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to bring Caspian Sea oil to the West. The project, argued BankTrack, violates the Equator Principles in key areas, notably in regard to protection of indigenous peoples. BankTrack suggested the Turkish government might use the new pipeline as an excuse to crack down on ethnic Kurds living along its route. Banca...
...year-long Kurdish uprising that ended with the capture and imprisonment of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. Bayramoglu's tears are not of grief, but of anger. Last week, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that, in order to comply with European law, Turkey must give Ocalan a new trial. Her fury is directed not only at Ocalan, whom she blames for her son's death, but also at the European institutions that demand Turkey conform to their standards as a precondition for joining the European Union. "We can't just do everything the Europeans...
...accession talks with the largely Muslim country. A poll published last week found support for joining the E.U. among Turks had fallen 12% in that period, to 63%. "Turks feel at the mercy of forces they don't understand," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute's Turkey office in Istanbul. The long-awaited E.U. decision was "intoxicating for many Turks," he says. "This is the hangover." Suat Kiniklioglu, head of the German Marshall Fund's Turkey office, adds: "Before [the E.U. decision], everyone was holding together to get a date to start talks. Now people are becoming...
LSU’s Pokey Chatman and Boston College’s Cathy Inglese will serve on Delaney-Smith’s staff. The games will be held Aug. 11-21 in Imzir, Turkey...
...community atmosphere has allowed for the development of some unique traditions including “Thanksoween”—an event celebrating Thanksgiving and Halloween complete with “tofurkey,” a tofu turkey...