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...MIDDLE EAST The Saudis Have a Plan Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul emerged as a pivotal player in diplomatic efforts to prevent a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Turkey will this week host a meeting of regional leaders to discuss ways to persuade Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to cooperate with U.N. inspectors. Adding to the military pressure on Iraq, Gul agreed in principle to allow U.S. troops to use Turkey as a base for launching strikes against Iraq. He also confirmed that he had discussed with other leaders a Saudi plan, first reported by TIME last week, to offer amnesty...
CYPRUS People Power They came waving olive branches and E.U. flags and bearing a message for their longtime leader, Rauf Denktash: "We can't wait another 40 years." More than 50,000 Turkish Cypriots - a quarter of the island's Turkish population - crowded the streets of Nicosia demanding Denktash sign a U.N. peace deal to reunify Cyprus after 28 years and enable them to join the E.U., as Greek Cypriots are set to do in 2004. Under the plan, which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says must be signed by Feb. 28, the two sides would come together...
...Western and Arab diplomats say that Saudi Arabia is actively canvassing support for the initiative among regional players and Security Council members. This week, President Hosni Mubarak and Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul flew into Riyadh to discuss the plan with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Without confirming the details of the initiative, Abdullah told reporters that he believed war would be avoided. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal also refused to comment on the initiative, saying only that Arab states want a final opportunity to seek a diplomatic solution...
That enthusiasm isn't shared overseas. Hopes seem to be dimming that Turkey will allow its bases to be used as stepping stones to open a northern front against Iraq. Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said last week that his nation isn't interested in "opening a front against its neighbor." Nearly 9 of every 10 Turks oppose a U.S.-led war against Iraq, according to a recent survey, and only 5.9% think Turkey should provide any assistance Washington needs. --By Mark Thompson
...city's 22 gun homicides were the result of black-on-black crime. Simon Hughes, a Liberal Democrat frontbench M.P. for a South London constituency, says "the culture isn't limited to youngsters of Caribbean extraction but is spreading out into other black communities, and into Turkish and Balkan ones." While last week's headlines prompted calls for stronger action against gangs, the government's first reaction was to lash out at the most predictable target. Culture Secretary Kim Howells suggested that rap groups, in particular London's garage collective So Solid Crew, were at least partly to blame. Three...