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...Turkey 's hopes of joining the E.U. received another boost as the European Commission recommended the start of accession talks with Ankara - a decision that must be ratified by E.U leaders in December. Despite stringent conditions imposed to ensure that Turkey does not backpedal on political and legal reform, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan was confident the negotiations, which could take up to 15 years, would conclude successfully. "We consider the European Union a community of values, not a Christian club," he said. The Commission also set a date of January 2007 for the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. Terror...
...being such a substantial minority in Turkey, the Kurds enjoy little in the way of representation or freedom. The Turkish government severely repressed Kurdish culture to such an extent that children couldn’t even be given Kurdish names until as little as a decade ago. But because of its desire to join the European Union, the Turkish government has begun publicly imploring the acceptance of the Kurds residing within its borders. These efforts though, for the most part, disguise the ongoing draconian regulation of the Kurds. Just this past July, several Kurdish activists were charged by Turkish police...
...region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May 1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and bureaucracy," recalls the woman whose name means "patience" in Turkish (her mom studied in Turkey in college). "Sometimes it was hell, but I enjoy challenges!" Fifty pupils have been made welcome at the center, where they learn to read and write Tibetan, Chinese and English, and also receive vocational training. But their most important lesson is self-reliance. "We want...
...plus Turkey. Verheugen's pink cheeks beamed from the front page of every newspaper, while posters proclaimed: citizen verheugen! welcome to greater europe! Nothing spoiled the fun - not an attack by Kurdish militants on a nearby police outpost during his stay, nor even a last-minute hiccup over a Turkish measure that would have criminalized adultery. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who at first supported the adultery proposal to appease conservative allies, agreed to drop it, and last week pushed a 700-page package of penal-code reforms through parliament. "We have worked hard and we have done...
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