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...Andrew Meier: The Turkish authorities are saying the hijackers announced themselves as Chechens before taking over the cockpit and causing the plane to take a 1,000-foot drop. But we have to treat that information with caution, particularly in light of the experience of January 1996 in which a group of "Chechen" hijackers took over a ferryboat from Turkey. Once they surrendered, it turned out most weren't Chechen, but that six of the nine were actually Turks. They were sentenced to eight years, but all later escaped. There were reports at the time that they might have been...
...crisis is both financial and political, touched off during a meeting last Monday of the National Security Council when Sezer accused Ecevit of being soft on corruption and pushed a copy of the Turkish constitution across the table at him, only to have it flung back by an Ecevit aide. The Prime Minister then stormed out, announcing, "This is a serious crisis." While there undoubtedly was conflict inside the conference room in Ankara, the "serious crisis" developed when Ecevit left. His remark was widely taken as a sign that his fragile three-party coalition-formed in mid-1999-was losing...
...politics. On the other hand, it is Ecevit's job, not his, to keep the unwieldy coalition together. So what happens next? No immediate resignations are expected, but no one will be going into the next elections (due by April 2004) on a platform of having restored prosperity. The Turkish military, which watched the clash in stunned silence, probably would prefer a cabinet reshuffle and perhaps a national-unity government with a few members of its own choosing. For now, though, the generals have urged Ecevit-who was visiting Macedonia while Sezer was in Egypt-not to resign...
...says. "Everyone was trying to one-up each other." Next came a two-minute music video, and soon "All your base!" was being yelled out of dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home page of Turkish journalist Mahir, All Your Base spread from office to office via e-mail like a benign virus. As a slide show rather than bandwidth-hogging video, it takes seconds to load (on such websites as thefever.com/AYB2.swf) Much of the spreading was being done last week by dotcom workers...
...Losers NAOMI CAMPBELL No super models allowed. Staff at London boutique Voyage ban the notoriously petulant poser ROGER CLINTON How 'bout another pardon, bro? Former U.S. First Brother charged with drunk driving BULENT ECEVIT Turkish PM rows with Prez, spat triggers collapse of lira. Time to purchase that villa in Smyrna? Verbatim...