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...arts center where I work. Have a drink at Bar Alto, sit out on the deck and watch the lights come on across the Brisbane River. Then head to Azafran, tel: (61-7) 3892 1776, on the edge of the CBD, for modern Australian cuisine with a Turkish twist. It's a very intimate dining experience in an old colonial Queenslander house. Next, go to the South Bank for a stroll along the boardwalk, where you have a great view of the city. Stop and have a drink at the Greystone...
...pumped to Turkey from Azerbaijan and elsewhere in Central Asia from bypassing Russian control. Georgia claims that Russian planes have in recent days bombed the strategically important oil pipeline that transits Georgia. The pipeline actually had been inoperative since Aug. 6 as a result of a fire in its Turkish segment, and Azerbaijan instead kept supplying oil through two Georgian ports. As these ports were also heavily bombed by the Russians, Azerbaijan has suspended oil shipments through Georgia...
...exchange for the return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967, the Israeli government demands that Syria curtails its strategic alliance with Iran and its backing for Hizballah and for Palestinian militant groups. Still, since Syria and Israel revealed in May that they are negotiating via Turkish mediation, Damascus has paradoxically strengthened its military and economic alliance with Tehran...
...cent of [our] last academy class was foreign-born," says the NYPD official. "Scotland Yard is pretty much still lily white. They have a different reputation within the population as a result." In Hackney, where about 20% of the population is black and there are large Asian and Turkish communities, only 11% of officers come from ethnic minorities. That's better than the Met as a whole, where minorities account for just 8.3% of police. But, says Dann, "we have independent advisers who are community representatives: Jewish, Turkish, black, faith, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
...distance. Women walk through the streets in headscarves, sometimes fully covered from the hot sun and blowing sand. Men wearing skull caps greet one another with handshakes and the phrase "As-Salamu 'Alaykum," Arabic for "Peace be upon you." The language of the Uighurs is closer to Turkish than Chinese, and the architecture - Islamic domes, decorative Arabic script, grape trellises - looks more to the oasis cities of Central Asia than to the east...