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...BOTTOM LINE: A rare show of Turkish treasures in an unlikely setting...
...political ties, like the 12-nation European Community. The contrasting trend is toward splitting up existing states into smaller ethnic nations, some of which then go on to divide amoeba-like into ever smaller pieces. Moldova conceivably might split in three: the Gagauz, a 150,000-member clan of Turkish Muslims, have proclaimed autonomy and appealed to Turkey for protection...
...dissident ethnic groups. Democracy alone may not satisfy ethnics who suspect that their representatives in a national legislature will be constantly outvoted on such matters as where and how tax money should be spent. The presence of 22 Kurds out of a total of 450 members in the Turkish parliament has not prevented Kurdish terrorists seeking autonomy from turning southeastern Turkey into a land of fear...
...Turkish President TURGUT OZAL is a close ally of President Bush, but some think he's taking on too grand a role. Ozal staunchly supported Bush during the gulf war, and has volunteered Turkey's help in forging closer U.S. ties with the fledgling Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Diplomatic sources say the White House passed the word in Washington that Turkey will be the conduit for assistance to those five republics. But the republics are unhappy with the arrangement. Tulegen Zhukeyev, a respected top Kazakhstan official, maintains that his fellow Central Asians welcome U.S. ties...
...issue weren't complicated enough, the Tatars, who controlled the Crimea until 1783 when the Turkish Khanate was defeated by Catherine the Great, are staking a claim to their native land. Deported across the eastern Soviet Union en masse in 1944 after Stalin accused them of collaborating with the Nazis, the Crimean Tatars have been returning by the tens of thousands in the past two years. With support from Kiev, which views them as a buffer against the Russian majority, some 200,000 Tatars have started building houses across the peninsula on state-owned land...