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Later this year, the Europeans will assess whether Turkey complies with its obligation to extend its customs union with the E.U. (in place since 1996) to Cyprus. Turkey will not do that unless there is tangible progress in ongoing talks about a political settlement on the island. But for this to happen, big E.U. countries will have to lean more heavily on the recalcitrant Greek Cypriots...
...military presence in the mainly Kurdish southeast remains strong and the only Kurdish party in parliament constantly worries it will be forced to disband. But in other ways, change is happening. After years under a ban, the Kurdish language is flowering, the result of European Union-mandated reforms introduced in 2006. In Silopi, the same store that once secretly sold bootleg Kurdish tapes is now plastered with pictures of budding Kurdish stars. Language courses in the unofficial regional capital Diyarbakir are packed, writers' groups have sprouted and at the local theater, young actors are staging the city's first ever...
...economic-bloc-for-itself nasty diplomatic failure. It turned out better than expected: Although many worthwhile bottom-up institutional reforms didn’t squeeze through, the six-pronged plan for global recovery proposed by the leaders of the world’s 19 largest economies, plus the European Union, offers at least a small sign of hope...
...vigil, students and union members read the testimonies of four workers who will be laid off, effective Friday—one who had worked at HMS for three years, another...
Medical School students and union officials said that the layoffs are very likely to continue, with more cuts scheduled for July 1. Over the course of the day, three protests took place, the last being a candlelight vigil that drew over 40 people to the Medical School Quadrangle in the midst of a light rain...