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...Turkey this week looks a lot like Russia, Brazil or Thailand during the Asian currency crisis of 1997 - financial panic, a crashing currency and interest rates that reached 17 percent a day before the central bank had to let the currency slip into free fall...
Bartley had named one of his chicken burgers--added to the menu alongside turkey and veggie burgers as a concession to the increasing health consciousness of his customers--after Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates...
...have a gambling problem. It's not that I'm addicted to wagering, it's just that I'm not very good at it. I have lost bets this year on Robert Downey Jr.'s ability to stay out of trouble, on my certainty that a turkey-hand drawing Emeril Lagasse made for me would not contain "Bam!," on the actual lyrics to Christopher Cross's Arthur's Theme--and a sizable one on the presidential race that the Supreme Court totally screwed...
...events of 1915, the solemn declarations of foreign parliaments are anything but welcome. Halil Berktay, professor at Istanbul's Sabanci University describes the French Parliament as being "incredibly stupid" by simply fuelling intolerance on both sides. The action, Berktay believes, has strangled a growing dialogue between historians in Turkey and abroad. He himself speaks from painful experience after having been the target of what he describes as a McCarthyite witch-hunt after an interview in which he expressed the "open secret" that Turkish irregular units attacked Armenian civilians as they were forcibly evacuated from their homes...
Such attitudes fill Dink and other Turkish Armenians with despair. He denies the view of the diaspora that Armenians living in Turkey are being held hostage. They believe that it is years of silence on the part of Turks themselves that has resulted in the current impasse. "I want to be proud of my country with its past and present," said Nazar Buyum, the head of a large Istanbul advertising firm. The first step, in this way of thinking is to stop labeling legitimate attempts to examine history as some sort of conspiracy...