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...Deniz Yigitoglu, Mark Twain's story 'The Awful German Language' would be of painful significance. Although the pretty 16-year-old daughter of Turkish migrants has spent most of her life in Germany - her parents moved to the industrial city of Duisburg when she was three - she speaks heavily accented German, which she admits is "quite faulty...
...have a sufficient knowledge of German even though most of them have been born and raised here," says Ali Ucar, a professor of pedagogy at Berlin's Technical University. In a study of 273 preschool children from immigrant families in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, most of whom were of Turkish origin, Ucar found that 63% of the children spoke little or no German and thus "didn't meet the linguistic requirements for primary school." Similar research from other regions and for other age groups, Ucar adds, confirm his finding: "The situation is not good...
Turkey is knocking on the European Union's door. Whether it gets in or not depends on the commitment of the Turkish parliament to political and economic reform. But it may also depend on one M.P. who has transformed herself from an internist at a provincial hospital into a human rights warrior...
...ground floor of her home, a recently built, two-story whitewashed house with thick concrete-block walls. She even invited two other families--15 children and 10 adults--to shelter with her. The illusion did not last long. The 36-year-old mother of two was pouring Turkish coffee in small china cups for her guests when the shell hit. It tore into the upstairs bedroom, blasting a 10-ft.-wide hole in the outer wall and shattering an interior wall, blowing out all the windows and hurling shrapnel into a jumble of mattresses where the family normally sleeps. Instantly...
...passengers and crew. Saudi authorities said three people were killed in the rescue operation, which was authorized after hijackers threatened to blow up the plane. The Interior Ministry said a flight attendant was stabbed to death by the hijackers during the siege. Gunfire killed a hijacker and a Turkish passenger. Three hijackers seized control of the Moscow-bound Tuplov 154 jet as it left Istanbul airport, issuing a list of demands including an end to Russia's military campaign in Chechnya. The Saudis said they decided to storm the plane after 18 hours of negotiation at Medina airport proved fruitless...