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...Turkish Travels...
None of these courses have prerequisites, although for Modern Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkish language [is] desirable." And for Old Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkic Language is desirable." What's the difference between Turkish and Turkic? And under which category does Uzbek fall...
...fraternity of international arms dealers, this Janus-like profile does not make Ghorbanifar extraordinary. That shadowy netherworld teems with other characters who might seem too garish for a remake of The Maltese Falcon. Among them: Sarkis Soghanalian, a 300-lb. Turkish-born Lebanese citizen living in Miami who specializes these days in selling helicopters to Iraq and is said to receive jars of severed human ears from clients; and Sam Cummings, a wisecracking American-born British subject operating out of Alexandria, Va., who is unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth...
...West Berlin verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...
...obsession, for all the apparent generalizations of his style. Even in paintings of calm and predictable subjects, like the girl seated by a vase of flowers in The Black Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right...