Word: turkish
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Since the early 1970s, when the last of the Turkish gastarbeiters arrived, Germany has scrupulously limited the number of immigrants allowed into the country. And before the European Union admitted 10 new members last month, Germany and other E.U. states insisted that workers from the accession countries should be barred for up to seven years from holding jobs in Western Europe. Fearing the effect of cheap labor on already high unemployment - and damage to Germany's Christian heritage - politicians from the conservative opposition claimed that Germany was "not a country of immigration." So it comes as a pleasant surprise that...
...Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader; making the world safe for his friends in the energy industry. The neoconservatives had ulterior motives too: almost all were fervent believers in the state of Israel and, as a prominent Turkish official told me last week, "they didn't want Saddam's rockets falling on Tel Aviv." At the very least, they were hoping to intimidate the Palestinians into accepting Ariel Sharon's vision of a "state" without sovereignty...
...Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader; making the world safe for his friends in the energy industry. The neoconservatives had ulterior motives too: almost all were fervent believers in the state of Israel and, as a prominent Turkish official told me last week, "they didn't want Saddam's rockets falling on Tel Aviv." At the very least, they were hoping to intimidate the Palestinians into accepting Ariel Sharon's vision of a "state" without sovereignty...
...officially tied to both Sept. 11 and the Madrid bombings in March. Garzón's indictment also revealed that security services earlier let a number of key terror suspects slip their grasp. Azizi fled Spain before police could arrest him in November 2001. A year earlier, Turkish police had detained Azizi in Istanbul, along with fellow Moroccans Said Berraj and Salahedin Benyaich. All three men were released. Berraj is a suspect in the Madrid bombings; Benyaich has been jailed for his role in the Casablanca attacks last May. A Heavy Hand THAILAND The government denied security services had used...
...aimed at bringing the country's legislation in line with E.U. norms. "We have entered the critical period," Gül said. Until last week, Cyprus had been a major stumbling block to Turkey's E.U. ambitions. The E.U., U.N. and U.S. pressured Turkey to use its influence on Turkish Cyprus to bring about a yes vote. "People would say, 'You may be fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria [E.U. membership conditions laid out in Denmark in 1993], but what about Cyprus?'" said Gül. "Now Cyprus is no longer an obstacle." No sooner had the last no vote...