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When the state security court sent Istanbul's Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan to jail in 1998, his pro-Islamic Virtue Party wept crocodile tears. The courts, guardians of the secular Turkish state, had been lying in wait for the charismatic Erdogan. So when he recited a well-known poem at a political rally, it was their chance to pounce. Their verdict was that quoting "minarets are our bayonets"; amounted to using religion to incite hatred - but many believe his greater crime was appealing to voters who wouldn't normally opt for a party with an Islamic reputation. The Virtue Party...
...Every artillery round fired, meanwhile, brings fragile Macedonia closer to the precipice. "At least before everyone was living their own lives, if within their own communities," said Jabir Derala, 33, a peace activist in Skopje of mixed Albanian, Turkish and Croatian descent. "Now everybody is one sided. You can see the city is empty. Albanians are on one side of the bridge and Macedonians are on the other. " In the past, he added, "we could speak about mistrust . Now it has turned into hatred." For Captain first-class Muhaedin Bela , who says he was singled out for suspicion only because...
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...Kane, a government concentrator with a specialty in international law, took a variety of language classes at Harvard, from a semester in advanced French to Spanish to one semester of Welsh. Since college, Kane has gained Arabic, Turkish, and Portugese...
Marouf, whose father is Egyptian and mother is Turkish, said she became interested in the living wage issue because she has many relatives in America who live in poverty simply because they don’t speak English...