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...disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May 1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and bureaucracy," recalls the woman whose name means "patience" in Turkish (her mom studied in Turkey in college). "Sometimes it was hell, but I enjoy challenges!" Fifty pupils have been made welcome at the center, where they learn to read and write Tibetan, Chinese and English, and also receive vocational training. But their most important lesson is self-reliance. "We want to show the kids that they...
...courtship seemed to be going so well. Last month, Turkey rolled out the red carpet for the European Union's outgoing Commissioner for Enlargement, Günter 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...
...comedy is about a community of poor souls who find ways to survive. So are two fine films from Iranian directors, but their palette is necessarily darker, since the settings are Iraq and Afghanistan. Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly tells a story of Kurdish kids on the Turkey-Iraq border. Many have been maimed by land mines yet never stop performing the one job that brings them money?searching for mines?under the command of a charming, scheming 13-year-old who pretty much runs the town. Stray Dogs, shot in Kabul by Marziyeh Meshkini, focuses on the young...
...presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko that he was poisoned. Yushchenko, who is in a close race with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych for elections on Oct. 31, became ill on Sept. 6. Doctors at a Vienna clinic where he underwent tests could neither confirm nor rule out poisoning. Join the Club TURKEY Ankara moved a step closer to joining the E.U. as European Commissioner for Enlargement Günter Verheugen, following a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, announced that there were "no more obstacles" to the start of accession talks. Crucially, Erdogan gave assurances that a revised...
...INDICATORS Jammed Signal Iran's parliament approved a bill giving the legislature a veto over majority foreign-owned investments in the country. The vote cast doubt over Turkey's leading cell-phone operator Turkcell's $3 billion deal to begin operating Iran's second cell-phone network...