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...Three years after achieving independence from Britain, Greek and Turkish communities clash...
...After a failed coup attempts to unite the island with mainland Greece, Turkish forces occupy northern Cyprus...
...Cyprus Together Again? The latest in a decades-long series of reunification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots began on this Mediterranean island Sept. 3, and with both sides' leaders taking moderate positions, hopes are high for a resolution this time. A brief recap of the divided nation's contentious history...
That slow-footedness gave criminals time to wrap their tentacles around the district, as the city's first high-profile sex-trafficking trial showed this summer. Two German-Turkish brothers, Saban and Hasan Baran, were charged with running a large-scale prostitution operation, assaulting prostitutes and forcing some of them to undergo breast-enlargement operations; they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms in July. Yet despite that victory, law-enforcement officials believe many other criminals are escaping prosecution. "Girls just will not go to the police, in case these men threaten their families at home," says a police officer...
...Russian domination, deserves international support that goes beyond simple declarations of sympathy. Then there are questions of geostrategy. An independent Georgia is critical to the international flow of oil. A pipeline for crude oil now runs from Baku in Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, through Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The link provides the West access to the energy resources of central Asia. If that access is cut, the Western world will lose an important opportunity to diversify its sources of energy...