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...declined, joining France and Germany in insisting that their forces could serve only under UN command and mandate. And given the fact that U.S. relations with Turkey are at a 50-year low in the wake of the war - particularly following the arrest by U.S. forces of ten Turkish commandos in northern Iraq ten days ago - the Pentagon is having to face the reality that many of the armies most competent to help in Iraq are simply unavailable. The addition of small numbers of troops from the old Warsaw Pact countries may ease some of the burden on U.S. forces...
...applied to Corsica, not a studied plan to address our problems," said François Tatti, deputy mayor of Bastia, where the no vote surpassed 70%. Arresting Development TURKEY Already strained relations with the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse when American soldiers in Iraq arrested 11 Turkish troops stationed in the northern Iraqi town of Suleimaniyah, and accused them of plotting to murder a local Kurdish official. Though the soldiers were released after two days, Ankara angrily denounced the arrests. Chief of Staff General Hilmi Ozkok declared the arrests "the biggest crisis of confidence between Turkish...
Growing up the son of a famous man can be traumatic, particularly on an island of less than a million people. Take Serdar Denktash, the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Democrat Party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Despite the fancy job titles, to most residents of the divided island he is far better known as the son of Rauf Denktash, the rotund septuagenarian President who has dominated Turkish Cypriot politics for nearly half a century. Rauf is still the most important Denktash on Cyprus, but the son may be rising. Serdar, 44, worked behind the scenes...
...memory. They also went out of their way to reward movies that were moderate in tone (except for Elephant): the winners included a genial comedy-drama about a dying professor (French Canada's The Barbarian Invasions), a minimalist study of two cousins getting on each other's nerves (the Turkish Uzak), and the one Asian awardee, At Five in the Afternoon, set in Afghanistan and directed by 23-year-old Iranian Samira Makhmalbaf...
...powerful and well-organized majority Shi'ites will have to cut a deal with the proud, well-organized, not so powerful Kurds. (If the Kurds are given an excuse to declare their independence, both Turkey and Iran--countries with large, freedom-seeking Kurdish populations--will be destabilized, and a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq is a good bet.) Even if there is an accord between the Shi'ites and the Kurds, the two will then have to find a place for the Sunnis, who have been the ruling class in Iraq since the Ottoman Empire. The U.S. is not well...