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...pathetic scene, captured on a Turkish intelligence-service video, contrasted sharply with the macho image of the mustachioed Marxist guerrilla who has headed the long Kurdish insurgency that has left some 30,000 soldiers, rebels and civilians dead. But lest anyone imagine that the P.K.K.'s capacity for troublemaking ended with Ocalan's surprise seizure in Nairobi, his followers responded with a wave of protests across Europe and the Middle East. The violence reached its bloody climax in Berlin, where Kurdish militants burst into the Israeli consulate and security guards opened fire, killing three and wounding...
...TIME Daily's most recent poll was another hot-button issue: "A Kurdish Homeland? Should the United Nations support the creation of a Kurdish state?" Kurdish terrorist/guerrilla leader (depending on your point of view) Abdulla Ocalan had just been nabbed by the Turkish authorities, Kurds across Europe were storming embassies and setting themselves on fire, and the Turkish online community evidently figured the best defense was a good offense. TIME Daily writers were awash in form-letter hate mail with subject lines like "I am protesting you" and "demand for your apologize" -- and the poll was under assault...
...They couldn't change the tallies," says Martino. "They weren't hackers. But they did have a server." The assault came from a Turkish university, and students were armed with a CPU to match TIME Daily's -- the university's powerful server. The bots were identified and blocked by the IP and cookie-based defenses, but they churned out so many voting attempts that defending against them overwhelmed TIME Daily's own server. Access slowed to a crawl until the tech team was forced to ban the computers of the entire university from accessing our site...
...Hooch's painting changed after his move to Amsterdam. He was working for a richer and posher clientele--not that they made him rich. The plain stuff of his interiors gives way to more sumptuous surfaces: marble, Turkish carpets and gilded walls of embossed leather, all of which he painted with virtuosity. The people are dressed to the nines. The idea that De Hooch sold out to them, and to their way of life, thus sending his art into decadence, was widespread once. It isn't borne out by the pictures themselves. A strangely moody image from...
...Turkey, this is the equivalent of some country giving political asylum to Al Capone," says TIME Istanbul correspondent James Wilde. "Ocalan has done terrible damage to the Turkish state. He's seen here as a killer of babies, and they can't understand why a European country would offer him sanctuary." Despite its outrage, it looks as if there's not much Turkey can do to put pressure on its third-largest trading partner. After all, countries with real leverage don't ask its citizens to visit the post office and send a nasty fax to Rome free of charge...