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...instructs females to be like males, while Islam encourages us to accept our sex and live as proud females." Looking at both cultures, a Canadian man felt it might be best to merge them: "If there is an answer, it lies in the proud and beautiful faces of the Turkish women you pictured, who have found a way to combine the restraint of the East with the liberties of the West, avoiding the extremes of both...
...Russian government alone lists up to 200 terrorist organizations it believes may be trying to obtain nuclear material. In Istanbul last month, Turkish undercover officers arrested two smugglers who attempted to sell them more than 2.5 lbs. of non-weapons grade uranium for $750,000. In July police in Paris raided an apartment in which three men were holding a small quantity of highly enriched uranium and plane tickets to various East European countries...
Turkey is an exception to many rules. Women in Turkey are the most liberated in the Muslim world, though Malaysia and Indonesia come close, having hosted relatively progressive cultures before Islam came to Southeast Asia in the 9th century. In Turkish professional life women enjoy a level of importance that is impressive not only by the standards of other Islamic countries but also by European lights. Turkey's liberalism is a legacy of the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, an aggressive secularist who gave women rights unprecedented in the Muslim world (even if he found it hard to accept...
Many other arms stretched the same way: Indian, Persian, Arab, Mongol, Turkish, Chinese. There were also lesser-known tribal groups, like the Kushans, a Central Asian nomadic lot who around the start of the Christian era controlled northern India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, using the Kabul region as a summer vacation spot. For all their power, the Kushans handled cultural and religious diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse...
...admiral, Miodrag Jokic, surrendered to the tribunal to face charges relating to killings in Dubrovnik in 1991. GERMANY Libyan Involvement A Berlin court convicted four people and implicated the Libyan secret service in the bombing of a local nightclub 15 years ago that killed two American soldiers and a Turkish woman. The four were found guilty of murder or attempted murder and jailed for 12 to 14 years. The attack on the La Belle discothèque, which also injured 230 people, prompted retaliatory U.S. air strikes against two Libyan cities. The judge upheld claims that Libyan secret agents...