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...destroy our business reputation and they were successful at it. How has the freeze on your international assets, including Swiss bank accounts and Park Avenue apartments, affected you? The assets frozen would not be enough to cover [Motorola's] legal fees. Besides, 99% of our assets are in Turkey. Ninety-nine percent? Okay, 98% - correct me if I'm wrong! What about the travel ban? It would be a problem if I could not travel in Turkey. That's what matters. Why did you decide to enter politics in 2002? I wanted to give something back to Turkey. The country...
Lightly tanned and galvanized by his daily workout, Cem Uzan, 42, is relaxing in a trim blue business suit at his swanky party headquarters in downtown Ankara. Behind him is a wall-length map of Turkey, lit up with red flags of towns and villages he has visited in his first year as a barnstorming politician. He is in an expansive mood. "I believe in certain values in life," he says. "I want to set an example of public service." Politics, in fact, is a welcome pursuit for Uzan, who is leader of the Youth Party. But he is also...
...Pentagon had hoped India would would supply 17,000 of its own troops to lead a third division, but India has declined, joining France and Germany in insisting that their forces could serve only under UN command and mandate. And given the fact that U.S. relations with Turkey are at a 50-year low in the wake of the war - particularly following the arrest by U.S. forces of ten Turkish commandos in northern Iraq ten days ago - the Pentagon is having to face the reality that many of the armies most competent to help in Iraq are simply unavailable...
...before the referendum, opinion polls had the yes camp ahead by 6%. "Corsicans realized this was a doctrine of decentralization being applied to Corsica, not a studied plan to address our problems," said François Tatti, deputy mayor of Bastia, where the no vote surpassed 70%. Arresting Development TURKEY Already strained relations with the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse when American soldiers in Iraq arrested 11 Turkish troops stationed in the northern Iraqi town of Suleimaniyah, and accused them of plotting to murder a local Kurdish official. Though the soldiers were released after two days, Ankara...
...cited as proof against such skepticism the separation of mosque and state in Turkey, and trends towards democracy in Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and especially Iran, where democratic reforms and a new generation of citizens reevaluating the role of religion in their lives are taking root...