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...TURKEY Rights-ward Move Parliament cut the time terror suspects can be imprisoned without trial and liberalized a law used to jail dissidents. The reforms represent a move toward E.U. human-rights standards. But opponents of the change said that it would only benefit radicals and separatists...
...into the new year, I stopped at Subway at 8 p.m. to buy a sandwich. The restaurant was empty and the fluorescent lights and yellow paint were about the same shade of somber. A woman, apron-clad, emerged from the back and took my order without looking at me. Turkey sub, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise. She removed a pre-sliced roll from a large plastic container and put it down on the white counter length cutting board before her. Next she took the turkey, already portioned out and wrapped in plastic, because every Subway sub needs to have the same...
...cannot say the same for a Subway sandwich, of course, which is supposed to be the same regardless of who makes it. That’s the whole point. Precise preordained amounts of bread, turkey, cheese, tomatoes and mayonnaise. It does not matter who makes the sandwich, it always turns out the same and while one earning seven dollars an hours makes some semblance of a living, she in essence makes nothing else. There is no self-expression, self-creation or individuality—just a paycheck, just a job, the suffocation of self...
...percent are ethnic Kurds, whose inclination is to seek autonomy or even full independence from Baghdad. Simply put, the concern is that destroying Saddam's regime could presage the breakup of Iraq itself, dramatically expanding Iranian influence while a breakaway Kurdish region in the north proves unacceptable to Turkey as an encouragement to secessionist activity among its own Kurdish minority...
...Turkish Cypriot leaders Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash said they would meet three times a week over the next few months in the hope of hammering out a power-sharing deal that could stitch back the divided parts of Cyprus. Both leaders agreed to keep meeting until June. Turkey has threatened to annex the north of the island if Cyprus joins the E.U. without agreement by both parties...