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Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's most widely read living author. His fame and his liberal views have made him a symbol of Turkish aspirations to join the European Union. But the decision of a Turkish state prosecutor to try him for "publicly denigrating" the nation reinforced European ambivalence - in some cases, outright hostility - toward admitting the mainly Muslim country. Pamuk is due to face trial in December for comments made to the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger in February in which he criticized Turkey's refusal to discuss the mass killings of Armenians at the start of the last century...
...Vatican sources say Turkey is on top of the list of prospective destinations for the pontiff's next voyage. Benedict would like to accept the invitation from the Patriarch of Constantinople for the Nov. 30 Feast of St. Andrew. The Turkish government, however, has not yet extended an invitation. They no doubt remember Cardinal Ratzinger's views about the European Union...
Sixteen suspected members of Ansar al-Islam, a group linked to al-Qaeda, were arrested by Turkish police in Bursa in April 2004 for allegedly preparing to bomb the June 2004 NATO meeting in Istanbul...
...Next to me, Ahson Baig, 30, an English accountant of Turkish descent, admitted he and his partner had argued over whether to come into work by tube today. ?It scares the living daylights out of you, doesn?t it?? he said. ?I felt hesitant, I asked myself whether it was safe, but why should I let someone else dictate what I want to do? No one has the God-given right to stop me living my life...
Last December he finally got some answers. After taking a $199 DNA test offered by DNAPrint Genomics in Sarasota, Fla., Kennedy was told he was 45% Northern and Western European, 25% Middle Eastern, 25% Turkish-Greek and 5% South Asian. "I felt freed," he says. "Suddenly there was an explanation for a lot of the shame and embarrassment in the family." As an adult, Kennedy had learned that his mother's family belonged to a mixed-race group called Melungeons who lived in the Appalachians. While their exact ethnic origins are unclear, Melungeons were united by their dark complexion...