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...Turkey, of course, is still playing hard-to-get. Ankara on Thursday again delayed a parliamentary vote authorizing the deployment of some 60,000 U.S. troops on Turkish soil. The government has been negotiating over a multibillion dollar aid package from the U.S. as well as over Turkish involvement in northern Iraq. But some 90 percent of Turkey's electorate opposes a war, leaving the ruling party in a tough predicament...
...what the Turkish model does show is that the Bush administration need not confining itself to assembling a "coalition of the willing." In some instances, it simply needs the broadest coalition money can buy. To muster the requisite nine votes to pass a resolution in the Security Council, for example, the administration is plainly aware that its leverage is not restricted to its powers of persuasion. Mexico, for example, has consistently backed "old Europe" in calling for inspections to be given more time. But on Wednesday, the Mexican government hinted it may be ready to shift its vote...
...Turkish coffee, Turkish carpets, yes. But Turkish jeans? No item of clothing is as American as a pair of jeans, and no market is harder to crack. So when the father and son team behind burgeoning Turkish denim brand Mavi set their sights on the New World, people naturally thought they were mad. Even madder, rather than sell their jeans at Wal-Mart on the cheap, as many developing country producers do, the pair went for the gold: fashion-conscious youths willing to fork out $60 a pair. And for more than a year after Mavi began exporting to select...
...reunification finally at hand for Cyprus? On Feb. 16 Tassos Papadopoulos, 69, grabbed a surprise victory in presidential elections in the Greek section of Cyprus, the Mediterranean island that has been divided into Greek and Turkish enclaves since Turkey invaded the north in 1974. So when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits Cyprus this week as part of an attempt to enforce the U.N.'s Feb. 28 deadline for a plan to stitch the island back together, he will not be dealing with defeated incumbent Glafcos Clerides, who was favorably disposed toward reunification. Instead, Annan will have to address...
...when I visited it. By the time I'd got home, the agent called to announce a teeny change: the price was actually $5,000. By the time I called back to tell her we might still be interested, the price had risen to $5,500. Not even the Turkish lira inflates as quickly as rent for a Shanghai apartment. In the end, we finally settled on a unit in a 1930s apartment building built during Shanghai's last great boom. Once, the Grosvenor House was one of the most prestigious buildings in town, known for its sweeping garden...