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...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...
Just as Greek Cypriots were getting ready to join the European Union, they voted down a United Nations plan to unify their island - killing what may have been the last chance to heal Cyprus' 30-year division. Their Turkish-Cypriot neighbors were left out of the E.U accession bash. So why were the Turks celebrating last week? Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the "most successful event" for Turkish diplomacy in 50 years; Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül declared the start of a "new era." Their joy springs from the fact that Turkey's real goal...
...RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkish Prime Minister
...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...
Revamping NELC will not be an easy task. For one, it needs to be separated into at least five departments: Arabic and Islamic studies, Persian studies, Jewish studies, Turkish studies and Ancient Near East studies. While these departments would still share geographic proximity, they would have a coherence that the current NELC department lacks. Instead of focusing on geographic regions as their sole reason for existing, these departments would rely on culture...