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...Some time later, Jyllands-Posten was inundated with correspondence from outraged Danish Muslims. Several European newspapers republished the cartoons, and the discontent spread. Amidst death threats, the newspaper and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen maintained a stance against apology-seeking Muslim radicals, despite being accused by the Turkish Foreign Ministry of “abusing Islam in the name of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.” However, the United Nations (UN), the European Commission and the Council of Europe were all quick to withdraw their support...
...movie high jinks of a Turkish Rambo who single-handedly takes on U.S. forces in lawless northern Iraq are filling cinemas across Turkey, America's only predominantly Muslim nato ally. Valley of the Wolves Iraq, which is set to break Turkish box-office records, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq as they raid a wedding, machine-gun the guests, and take survivors to a prison where a Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even...
DROPPED. Charges against ORHAN PAMUK, 53, popular Turkish novelist who could have faced up to three years in prison had he been convicted of denigrating Turkey's national identity by discussing in a newspaper interview the 1915 massacre of more than 1 million Armenians by the Turks; by a court in Istanbul. The World War I killings are controversial in Turkey, which denies that Ottoman forces committed genocide. Pamuk's case was much watched because Turkey has come under scrutiny from the E.U.--which it is applying to join--over whether it adequately protects civil liberties...
RELEASED. MEHMET ALI AGCA, 48, Turkish assailant who spent almost 20 years in prison in Italy for shooting and wounding Pope John Paul II in 1981, then served five more in a Turkish jail for the 1979 murder of a journalist; in Istanbul. The Pontiff, who was shot by Agca while riding in an open car through St. Peter's Square in Rome, forgave his would-be assassin and visited him in prison. But after the Turkish press railed at his release, Justice Minister Cemil Cicek ordered a review of whether Agca had been credited correctly for time served. Cicek...
...RELEASED. MEHMET ALI AGCA, 48, Turkish assailant who spent almost 20 years in jail in Italy for shooting and wounding Pope John Paul II in 1981, then served five more in a Turkish jail for the 1979 murder of a journalist; in Istanbul. The Pontiff, who was shot by Agca while riding in an open car through Rome's St. Peter's Square, forgave his would-be assassin and visited him in prison. But after the Turkish press railed at his release, Justice Minister Cernil Cicek ordered a review of whether Agca had been credited correctly for time served. Cicek...