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Peace Boat visit marks Nagasaki Day in N.Y.
August 17, 2007 5:15 AM CDT
NEW YORK — Michimasa Hirata was not supposed to be speaking in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on Aug. 9, the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Another atomic bomb survivor was to address the crowd about the atrocities that resulted from the use of atomic bombs against the largely civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But in a tragic illustration of the bombs' continuing effects, the originally scheduled speaker was diagnosed with leukemia in April and died within the following two weeks.
In his place, Hirata, a Hiroshima survivor, recalled the day when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on his city. "It was a hell, an inferno," he reflected quietly. "On the doorway in front of my house, there were people with burns so bad it was impossible to distinguish male from female, young from old."
Hirata was traveling with Peace Boat, a Japanese nongovernmental organization that organizes voyages across the globe to promote international solidarity and peace. In this, its 24th year of operation, a large passenger boat carrying some 900 peace activists docked in New York City to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to hold the third annual People Building Peace Concert.
The event, featuring speeches by prominent disarmament activists and performances by musical groups spanning the globe from India to Nigeria to Latin America, was sponsored by groups as diverse as the Hague Appeal for Peace, Art Refuge, United for Peace and Justice and Mayors for Peace, the latter representing 1,698 cities in 122 countries and regions.
Hundreds of people listened attentively to the message of the Peace Boat participants and the sponsoring organizations of the voyage. Peace Boat U.S. organizer Maiko Morishita explained that the event empowered citizens to realize that "we're not powerless — it's not up to the government to decide. [The government] discusses disarmament as if it was their own business, but it's not. They're discussing the future of our world, and it's our world, and it's going to be the world of our children."
In that spirit, the crowd became a symbol of the international community of peace the boat was designed to promote. Japanese participants danced with New Yorkers to Nigerian jazz, all in a reaffirming hope that the world would one day be free of the threat of nuclear arms.
Betty Reardon, founder of the International Institute on Peace Education, explained the spirit of the event by noting that Nagasaki Day is "a day of shame, a day of sorrow," because of the United States' past use of atomic weaponry, but also "a day of hope, a day of possibility, of commitment, of courage," because it challenges the international community to unite in opposition to an increasingly violent U.S. foreign policy.
More than six decades after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed over 220,000 people, the threat that nuclear arms will be used again is still real. Michimasa Hirata expressed his hope that today's youth — the last generation that will hear the call for disarmament directly from Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors — will take direct and mass action to oppose the use and stockpiling of nuclear arms.
In light of the U.S. failure to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or to take any significant action to cut the global stockpiling of nuclear weapons, organizers said a tremendous amount of work remains to be done. However, the Peace Boat's visit to New York to commemorate Nagasaki Day expressed the hopes of people the world over for peace. Until a nuclear-free world is achieved, the Peace Boat has vowed to continue to circle the globe, working to realize that goal.
Mary Slosson (maryslosson @gmail.com) is an intern at the People's Weekly World.
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Q: Reverse order of elements on stack I have my exercise: reverse the order of elements on stack using one additional stack and some additional non-array variables. And what I have done:
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I used one additional stack (stack1) and where additional non-array variables could be used?

A: Try this.
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A 1967 Stingray with Super Bowl Swagger
John GunnellMay 1, 2018
A Super Bowl super car will be among the headline offerings at the Dana Mecum's 31st annual Spring Classic Auction May 15-19 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. The 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible was given to the most valuable player in the NFL's very first Super Bowl in January 1967.
The Green Bay Packers won the game under the leadership of quarterback Bart Starr, an NFL legend. He led the Packers to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Starr was named the game's MVP and given the 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible as a result.
That Corvette was built at Chevrolet's St. Louis assembly plant in June 1967. It was painted Goodwood Green, a match to the color of the Packers' home jerseys. It had a black interior and black soft top. Under the hood was a 327-cid 300-horsepower V-8. The car also had a four-speed manual transmission, a 3.36:1 Posi-traction axle, Soft Ray-tinted windshield, telescopic steering column and AM/FM radio.
The Corvette found its way into private hands in the 1980s, eventually coming into the ownership of a woman in Wausau, Wisconsin, as part of a divorce settlement. That same woman was at Brainerd International Raceway in Minnesota in 1994 when she bumped into Michael Anderson, the owner of Thunder Valley Classic Cars of nearby St. Joseph, Minnesota. Anderson still specializes in Corvettes.
After describing her Corvette, the woman told Anderson it was originally given to Starr for winning Super Bowl MVP. Anderson offered to buy the car, which had been stored for several years. On the advice of her mechanic and also to help her daughter pay for college, the woman accepted Anderson's offer and he took the Corvette back to his shop in St. Joseph.
Anderson, a restorer with several Bloomington Gold and NCRS Top Flight winners to his credit, soon confirmed the Corvette's tutelage. He uncovered a tank sticker that read Courtesy Delivery: B. Starr. Also discovered under the passenger seat was an AFL-NFL World-Championship Game ink pen.
The Corvette was highly original but in need of restoration. Anderson was faced with a choice: Complete a nut-and-bolt rebuild to factory-original specifications or do a sympathetic refreshing that would respect the car's originality and maintain the wonderful patina it had acquired over time.
Fortunately for Corvette purists, Anderson chose the latter route. He removed the body from the frame to clean and recondition the undercarriage and suspension, hand-scrubbed chassis components and the underside of the body and replaced the body mounts, suspension rubbers, u-joints, seals and bearings.
The brakes were overhauled. The calipers were upgraded with stainless-steel piston sleeves for durability. According to Anderson, the car now runs and drives well. He says the driveline is original and has matching numbers. The V-8 has never been disassembled and retains its original gaskets and paint. A new Dewitts reproduction radiator is installed, but the original was kept.
The car's Goodwood Green paint is mostly original with a few minor touch-ups. While exhibiting some checking and cracking, it shows well. A set of period-correct bias-ply redline tires on original 1967 Rally wheels is mounted.
Photos, materials for videos, descriptions and other information provided by the seller are part of this unique auction offering.
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John Gunnell has been writing about classic cars since 1972. He is also the owner of Gunner's Great Garage in Manawa, Wis. He owns 11 cars and seven motorcycles.
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Over time, you will notice that your teeth have taken on the yellow pigment left behind by tobacco, and this can advance to brown stains if it continues for too long.
While you should try to quit smoking to prevent other oral health issues such as gum disease, regular visits to your dentist can help reduce the stains through proper cleanings.
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Over time, the exposure to acids in your mouth causes the white enamel to thin. Once this happens, the underlying dentin being revealed can make your teeth look more yellow. This is the reason why teeth yellowing is a common complaints among the elderly.
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The timing of the Turkish military withdrawal from northern Iraq came as a surprise."
Turkey's prime minister has called on Kurdish PKK rebels to lay down their arms and embrace democracy."
Another in a series of residential fires erupted in the German city of Herne Thursday night, injuring two Turkish people after another fire broke out on Monday in a building predominantly inhabited by Turks, the Anatolia news agency reported."
Ali Bardakoglu, Turkey's top religious official, says his country's effort to purge the hadith of sexism and superstition is not an attempt to reform Islam but to change the Turkish way of practising it. This reform project hit the headlines this week when the BBC ran a story on what it called "a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam - and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion". It said the revision of the hadith, the collection of the sayings of the Prophet Mohammad that are second only to the Koran as an authority for Muslims, was something akin to a Protestant Reformation in Islam."
According to Soner Cagaptay, France's President Sarkozy was elected partly because of his tougher approach to Islamic radicalism within France which was a public reaction to events such as the rioting in Paris in 2005. Cagaptay also endorses actions the French President has taken that include the appointment of Algerian-Moroccan immigrant Rachida Dati as Minister of Justice. However, Cagaptay argues that Sarkozy can reinforce the "European-ness" of non-radical Muslims within France by supporting Turkey's accession into the European Union. Thus far, Sarkozy opposes inclusion of Turkey in the European Union.
Early indications from Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP), which assumed governance for the second time in July 2007, render it possible to make certain predictions about the future of Turkish foreign policy. The AKP will likely continue its hallmark policy of good ties with the US, while increasingly sympathising with the Muslim countries of the Middle East. The AKP successfully balanced good relations with the US and solidarity with Muslim countries and concerns during its first term between 2002 and 2007. Can the party keep this balance in its second term?"
BEIJING, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- Some 10,000 Turkish troops, backed by F-16 warplanes and Cobra attack helicopters, poured over the border with Iraq last Thursday in the first large-scale cross-border offensive since the Justice and Development Party came to power."
Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece obligated that ceremonies in national festivals, 25 March, 28 October and 17 November, in Turkish minority schools will only be celebrated in Greek language. According to this decision, using of Turkish language in ceremonies in Turkish Minority schools in national festivals of Greece has been prohibited. According to news written in Gundem news-paper which is published in Western Thrace, Directorate General of Foreign and Minority Schools of Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece obligated that ceremonies in national festivals, 25 March, 28 October and 17 November, in Turkish minority schools will only be celebrated in Greek language, with a mandat signed by Angelos Sirigos, General Directorate. Ministry made out non-usage of Turkish poems and literature in national festivals to prohibition of Turkish language in ceremo-nies in national festivals in minority schools."
ISTANBUL, Turkey, February 29 /PRNewswire/ -- AIG Investments today announced that an affiliate of AIG Capital Partners, Inc. has sold its shares in AFM Uluslararasi Film Produksiyon Tic. ve San. A.S. ('AFM Cinemas'), the leading cinema and entertainment company, headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. On February 26, AIG Capital Partners together with other existing shareholders completed the sale of 51.91% of the company to A1 Group Limited, the key investment group of the Alfa-Group Consortium.
Founded in 1965, AFM Cinemas is Turkey's largest cinema chain with 32 theatres and 183 screens in 12 different cities."
As the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq to fight the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) enters its seventh day, there has been no major reaction from the European Union, which has acknowledged the legitimacy of the need for Ankara to protect its citizens. "
Turkey has invited Russia to join the construction of an oil pipeline, bypassing the congested Turkish straits, through Anatolia, President Abdullah Gül said yesterday in an interview with Russia's Itar-Tass news agency."
Turkish hotel chain Dedeman Hotels&Resorts International will take over the management of two Bulgarian hotels, owned by Turkish businessman Sudi Ozkan, Dnevnik daily reported on February 29. The hotel operator has already placed job ads to fill available vacancies in Bulgarian papers."
The cabinet of Cyprus's first communist President Demetris Christofias was sworn in on Friday, tasked with reviving peace talks with the Turkish Cypriots and ending the three-decade division of the strategic Mediterranean island.
'The hard work starts now,' Christofias told his ministers, including one woman, at their first cabinet meeting following the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace in Nicosia."
PARIS -- A 25-million year old rhino bone shows that Anatolia, the bulk of modern-day Turkey, was not then encircled by water, as some geologists have contended, according to a study published Friday.
The first evidence that a pre-historic rhinoceros from the genus Paraceratherium wandered the rugged hills and plateaus of Anatolia in the late Oligecene era proves that a land passage to Asia existed at the same time, said the study."
A Turkish company has confirmed its interest to become a strategic investor in the Kremikovtzi steel mill, Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov told members of Parliament (MPs) on February 29, BTA reported.
Asked when the steelworks would pay workers' salaries, Dimitrov said that the ministry and the mill's management would do everything possible to defer current liabilities for an indefinite period. He expressed concern, though, that in this way the mill would accrue new debt that would most likely be transferred to the new owner of Kremikovtzi. A bigger debt burden would only further cut the chances to sell on the steel mill for a fair price, Dimitrov said."
I still cannot forget the things said by Turkish artist Bulent Ersoy that evening. In fact, I even wrote a column about his statements.
Bulent Ersoy was speaking later on a television program.
There was a photograph of former President Turgut Ozal hanging in the salon, and Ersoy was reading prayers to the memory of Ozal."
ISTANBUL, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Turkish stocks dropped more than 2 percent on Friday, while the lira and bonds eased as well in line with emerging market weakness as fears of a U.S. economic slowdown curbed risk appetite, dealers said."
Berlin - Germany's Turkish community called Friday on the government to change its integration policy in order to pay more attention to the needs of the country's 1.7 million Turks. A five-point proposal released in Berlin called for 10 per cent of public service jobs to go to migrants as well as the introduction of Turkish lessons and a course called 'intercultural life' in schools."
Turkish troops have begun returning to their bases from northern Iraq, however Ankara has not yet confirmed that the ground incursion is over. Turkey sent thousands of soldiers across the border last week to root out PKK rebels. Each day has brought reports of militant deaths as well as the loss of some Turkish troops. The Turkish media is saying that it is the end of a limited campaign."
The World Bank on Thursday approved a four-year $6.2 billion financing program for Turkey, which hopes to join the European Union before 2015. 'The strategy anticipates World Bank financing for programs of the Turkish government, or guarantee by the government, up to $6.2 billion during the four-year period,' the World Bank said in a statement. [Reuters]"
Almost exactly 150 years ago, in June 1858, Abraham Lincoln famously declared that a house divided against itself could not stand. Yet in recent days, despite deepening internal divisions over the government's attempts to lift the headscarf ban in Turkish universities, officials and politicians from across almost the entire political spectrum have been unanimous in resisting U.S. pressure to ensure that Turkey's ongoing military operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is kept as short as possible. The only exception has been the Democratic Society Party (DTP), many of whose members are openly sympathetic to the PKK."
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Turkey's army declined comment on reports that it started pulling its troops out of northern Iraq, ending a week-long incursion.
The army said on its Web site that it will make a ``comprehensive'' statement on the reports later today."
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Turkey's army withdrew its troops from northern Iraq after its biggest military incursion into the country for 11 years.
Turkish units pulled out early today after more than a week of battles with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the army said in a statement on its Web site. The clashes with the PKK, which seeks autonomy for Turkey's 15 million ethnic Kurds, killed 237 militants and 24 Turkish soldiers, the military said."
The Turkish military says it has withdrawn its troops from northern Iraq, following a controversial ground offensive against Kurdish rebels."
ISTANBUL, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Turkey's textile industry is looking to develop beyond its Istanbul heartland to shore up its global market share in the face of growing competition from China, a leading sector official told Reuters.
Textiles are central to Turkey's exports, surging to some $16 billion in 2007 from less than $9 billion five years earlier."
Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias said on Thursday his first priority was a peace deal on the divided island but said the key to a settlement was Turkey, whose bid to join the EU is hampered by the conflict. (UPDATED)"
Production of PSA small vans in Turkey is to be increased to include new versions and exports outside the European union.
PSA Peugeot Citroën and Karsan, which already builds the first-generation Peugeot Partner (now called Origin after the debut of a redesigned model line) on have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly produce the Citroën Berlingo First and Partner Origin and develop and manufacture extended versions."
Dubai: While aiming to become part of Europe, Turkey is keen to maintain its relations with its neighbours in the Arab world. In an exclusive interview, Mehmet Simsek, Turkey's Minister of Economy, told Gulf News that the region needs visionary leaders like those in the UAE to bridge the gap with the West."
Sarkozy's Policy on Turkey's E.U. Accession: Bad for France?
"Sarkozy's Policy on Turkey's E.U. Accession: Bad for France?
According to Soner Cagaptay, France's President Sarkozy was elected partly because of his tougher approach to Islamic radicalism within France which was a public reaction to events such as the rioting in Paris in 2005. Cagaptay also endorses actions the French President has taken that include the appointment of Algerian-Moroccan immigrant Rachida Dati as Minister of Justice. However, Cagaptay argues that Sarkozy can reinforce the 'European-ness' of non-radical Muslims within France by supporting Turkey's accession into the European Union. Thus far, Sarkozy opposes inclusion of Turkey in the European Union."
The reason that Armenia does not have too many problems with its contradictory 'policies of balance' is partially because of its current 'cease-fire' with Azerbaijan and because of the embargo that Turkey has placed on Armenia."
The first and only website donating its profits to women's funds and supporting women entrepreneurs by only selling their products was opened in January 2008."
Court's impartiality questioned as evidence, courtroom recording withheld.
MALATYA, Turkey, Lawyers representing the families of three Christians tortured and slaughtered with knives in eastern Turkey last April demanded this week that the three-member bench of judges hearing the case be replaced."
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday approved a four-year $6.2 billion financing program for Turkey, which hopes to join the European Union before 2015."
A top Turkish court has suspended a privatisation tender for Izmir port, won by a consortium of Hong Kong's Hutchison and Global Investment Holding, the union involved in the case said on Thursday. Metin Bayyar, lawyer for the Liman-Is union which had appealed for last year's tender to be cancelled, told Reuters the court had suspended the deal, not cancelled it as local media had reported earlier."
It started as a women's protest for the right to wear Muslim headscarves at university, in this case at Marmara University in Istanbul. Then the men showed up with their banners and megaphones, lined up in front of the cameras and began speaking in place of the women. That left the ladies standing demurely on the sidelines or in the crowd, all decked out with their bright silk scarves with nothing to do but clap at what the men said."
THE latest incursion by Turkish forces into northern Iraq in an effort to squash the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which draws its support from Turkey's own Kurds, is the biggest in a decade. It is also one of the most worrying for the region as a whole. The danger is that it may draw in the peshmerga, the Kurdish forces loyal to the government of the Kurds' autonomous region in northern Iraq, and destabilise all of Iraq, just when the insurgency across the country is gradually being contained. The most striking development is that America, whose relations with Turkey, its old ally in NATO, have been chilly, this time appears to have sided more plainly with the Turks. The Americans have even sent high-tech specialists to work alongside the Turks to provide "real-time" intelligence to help Turkish helicopters and artillery to target the PKK in its mountain fastnesses."
The norm eliminates an historical situation of injustice according to which some Turkish citizens were treated differently from others. Now religious foundations can accept new donations, and proceed with the purchase of new properties."
A TURKISH catering company from Trowbridge is promising a feast fit for kings as part of its new venture."
The European Investment Bank (EIB) granted 2.2 billion euros of loans which makes Turkey 7th country to borrow highest amount of money from the bank last year.
Total amount of loans given by the bank to Turkey between 2003 and 2007 reached 6.2 billion euros considering 1.8 billion euros issued in 2006. As the bank's short-term perspective, EIB projects to offer nearly 2 billion euros of loans to Turkey each year until 2013, said Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen, vice president of the bank."
Istanbul as a Center of Global Finance?
"Istanbul as a Center of Global Finance?
Over the last four years Turkey has been at the forefront of global investors. Thanks to the intense privatization applications, to the improvements regarding the EU membership process and to the ample global liquidity conditions, the foreign direct investment in Turkey increased from 2.8 billion dollar in 2004 to 21.8 billion dollar in 2007. The main sectors that aroused the interest of the investors are transport, storage and communications sectors as well as the wholesale and retail trade. The recent financialization wave in Turkey attracted not only the traders but also the investment banks or more famously known as the "masters of the universe". The financial intermediation sector has attracted at an amount of 7 billion dollar in 2006 and 11 billion dollar in 2007."
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Turkey has said it had "no timetable" to withdraw troops fighting Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, resisting pressure from the US and other allies to end the offensive quickly.
Turkish troops crossed the border last Thursday to root out Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters, which have used remote mountainous northern Iraq as a base in their armed campaign for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey."
Russia, Moscow, 27 February / Trend News corr. R.Agayev / The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict on the Nagorno-Karabakh has continued for 20 years. Approximately 20% of Azerbaijani territories were occupied by the Armenians as a result of the conflict. Today there are 1mln internally displaced people in the country and the Khojali tragedy is considered to be one of the most difficult and horrific experiences of this conflict."
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which is getting prepared to withdraw from the countries in central Europe, plans to make investments in Turkey in the upcoming period."
(dpa) - A probe by German and Turkish investigators into a fire that claimed the lives of nine Turkish women and children when it gutted a century-old tenement in the city of Ludwigshafen at the beginning of the month is nearing completion.
A police spokeswoman in the south-western city said Thursday that the report would not be made public until a psychological report had been submitted on two girls who claimed to have seen a man setting a fire in the stairwell of the house."
ISTANBUL, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Turkey's Eczacibasi Ilac ECILC.IS said on Thursday it was talking to possible partners to work together in the health sector, sending its stock sharply higher."
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's incursion against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq should be short and focused, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
But Turkey's military chief declined to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops, who have been operating in Iraq for a week. 'The United States believes the current offensive should be as short and precisely targeted as possible,' Gates said after a meeting with Turkish counterpart Vecdi Gonul."
Turkish government should not endorse the same principles, which, if they had been implemented in the 20s would have reduced the modern Turkish state to a small rump in central Anatolia"
To be free, to let the citizens of a country decide exactly how they wish to act seems very ideal and, to an extent, very comfortable. Once we take a step towards realism, however, we will realize that such drastic liberties could lead to chaos and segregation within a country. Democratic idealism is taking a toll on Turkey and on its current discussion about permitting women who wear the turban to attend universities."
Turkey's highest religious authority is preparing to publish a groundbreaking guide to Islam for the modern world, putting the words of the Prophet Muhammad into context for a sweeping reinterpretation of the religion."
ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey said Thursday its offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq will continue 'as long as necessary,' rejecting pressure for a speedy end to the military incursion from US Defence Secretary Robert Gates."
The decision by the Four Seasons Hotel to enlarge its existing building over an archaeological site in the historic Sultanahmet neighborhood of Istanbul has sparked debate over whether the desire to preserve the city's heritage is being sacrificed to possible profit from tourism."
Istanbul engineer Sina Kuseyri is planning for his retirement in two years when he reaches the ripe old age of 48, benefiting from a state pension that allows millions ofTurks to end their working lives in their 40s.As Kuseyri figures out how to live on a stipend he estimates will be about a tenth of the 4,500 liras ($3,800) he spends a month, Turkey's government is confronting a system that eats up 17 percent of its budget. Payments for the 12 years leading up to 2006 totaled 119 percent of that year's gross domestic product."
Police yesterday took several Energy Ministry officials and businessmen into custody for alleged involvement in a corruption ring that involved the leaking of information on secret mineral reserves in order to allow private companies to claim ownership before the state."
Fatih Akin is embarrassed that his new film The Edge of Heaven picked up awards in Cannes and at the European Film Awards for Best Screenplay. The Turkish filmmaker admits: 'The final film looks nothing like the script. We completely changed its structure in the edit room.' For this reason, Akin made a point of praising British editor Andrew Bird when he picked up the prizes."
Two Turkish engineers have built a prototype of an autonomous rescue helicopter equipped with Microsoft robotics and mapping software so that it can capture video of disaster sites and stream it back to command centers. The engineers Oguz Bayrakdar and Omer Celik began developing the robot, called RoboTurk, last year with the help of the Istanbul municipal government and Microsoft Robotics Group, which makes commercial software for autonomous applications that could range from a child's robotic Lego set to an unmanned helicopter."
The results of the Armenian elections last Tuesday were unfortunately not as hopeful as those experienced recently in Cyprus.
The former prime minister and new president Sarkisian is from the 'Karabakh family,' which holds power in Armenia in its hands like a caliphate. Sarkisian is, like Kocharian, a politician who supports the independence of Karabakh."
Iraqi, Turkish and US officials are scheduled to meet in İstanbul on Saturday for a meeting that will focus on energy issues amid frenzied diplomatic correspondence between Ankara, Baghdad and Washington concerning Turkey's ongoing military operation inside northern Iraq to eliminate the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based there."
Madeleine Bunting's comment on the protests in Turkey against women wearing headscarves in Turkish universities (Comment, February 25) avoided the political feeling within the nation at the heart of the matter. There is a creeping feeling in middle-class liberal Turkey that the conservative AK party is promoting more regressive values. Political favour is being granted to the openly religious (or those who wear the trappings of the openly religious) at the expense of secular non-believers."
Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Ankara and will meet today with Turkey's president, prime minister and military brass."
Did Incursion Just Happen to Coincide With Easing of Ban on Head Scarves?
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 27 -- Turkey's military offensive in northern Iraq has clear objectives: attack Kurdish separatist guerrillas in their mountain bases, destroy their camps and weapons caches, and show them they can be pursued anywhere, anytime. "
"Both Turkey and Israel are unique in the Middle-East as the only countries with democratic regimes and democratic culture with multi-party systems. The close ties of friendship and tolerance between the Turkish and Jewish People throughout the centuries is proof that Moslems and Jews can live together with mutual respect."
It's a 30-year-old story between Iraq and Turkey: the snow melts, the Kurdish fighters of the PKK emerge from hibernation in Iraq's Kandil Mountains, and fighting starts in Turkey's southeast. This year the Turkish Army started early, pushing thousands of men across the border in the first significant ground incursion since America arrived in Iraq. The Turks apparently procured Washington's acquiescence, but Iraqi Kurds of all stripes, ranging from the central government to ordinary Kurdish citizens to dissident Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, demand Iraqi sovereignty be defended."
On February 21, Turkish ground forces crossed the Iraqi border in an attempt to dismantle Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorist camps, following weeks of periodic aerial bombardment that began in mid-December. The incursion was partly the product of a November 5 agreement between Turkey and the United States to share intelligence in fighting the PKK, a group that the U.S. State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization. On February 22, the White House backed the operation: 'The United States agrees with Turkey that the PKK is a terrorist organization, and . . . an enemy of Turkey, Iraq, and the United States.'"
A BEAUTIFUL sunrise welcomed me as I set foot in Istanbul. The ride to my hotel was breathtaking with the Bosphorus Sea creating a lovely backdrop of the sunrise. I felt that the moment was perfect for a small prayer thanking God for the loveliest things in the world."
Kahraman Sadikoglu remembers the day in May 2003 when a U.N. agency asked him to move forward with a business deal that would make the world a better place — and help him earn a tidy profit."
In a move designed to capitalize on the growing need for information and communications technology [ICT] expansion opportunities among U.S. businesses, the Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey [ISPAT] is hosted this week its first ICT investing seminar in Chicago."
"Can Turkey Succeed in Northern Iraq?
Turkish military leaders as well as Turkish papers have reported success in northern Iraq, but how effective has the invasion been? US and Iraqi leaders are impatient, while Kurdish militants have probably melted away."
ANKARA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Turkey deployed additional troops and armored vehicles along the borders with Iraq on Wednesday to prevent the infiltration of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)as the ground operation against the terrorist group in Iraq's north continues, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported."
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the multilateral bank for former communist countries, is considering launching operations in Turkey.
Extending its reach to the country could aid western efforts to build links with Turkey at a time when Ankara's bid for European Union membership faces some difficulty. The move could give the EBRD a new role as it pulls out of richer former communist economies and cut its risk of over-exposure to Russia."
Turkey on Thursday delayed the opening of a tender for the construction of the countrys first nuclear power plant. The energy ministry was waiting for a government audit agency to comment on the tenders technical details before potential bidders could be invited, state-run media said. Officials said earlier but it was not clear how long the delay would be."
Public opinion in Turkey is in a celebratory mood - the Turkish army appears to be rapidly liquidating Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq. But can the party mood continue?
The Turkish military's website is not renowned for its user-friendliness: the press statements do not distinguish themselves by giving detailed information or clear explanations. However, that has changed in recent days. The website has been regularly updated with new press communiqués. The reason is simple: at the end of last week, the Turkish army launched an invasion of northern Iraq to eliminate the PKK or Kurdistan Workers' Party. The 'people's army' believes the fighting is going well as it has managed to kill more than 150 PKK guerrillas so far."
A living example of "here today, gone tomorrow," musician İlhan Erşahin's Wax Poetic released "Copenhagen," the second piece of a trilogy devoted to cities. The Scandinavian-influenced album is one station on his endless journey through many musical genres and places of the world"
An official at the North Oil Company said on Sunday that Iraq's exports of crude oil to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey would not be affected by the Turkish military incursion in northern Iraq"
The Hocalı massacre has gone down as one of the worst and most striking pages in Azerbaijanian history.
For 200 years the people of Azerbaijan were victims of constant nationalist, chauvinist attempts on the part of the Armenians to engage in ethnic cleansing and to carry out the politics of genocide."
Desa Deri Sanayi & Ticaret AS, a Turkish maker of leather bags and shoes, bought a factory and the land on which it's situated near the city of Tekirdag"
Since Kosova unilaterally declared independence on February 17, its action has caused a fissure in international reactions. Thirty states have now recognized Kosova's independence, including the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. However, Russia, China, Spain, Georgia, and Greece, among others, oppose the move."
Turkey declined to give Iraq a timetable for withdrawal of troops fighting PKK on Wednesday, while Turkish army announced that 77 more PKK militants were killed, taking the death toll to 230 since the operation launched last week.
Turkish army said in a statement five more Turkish troops were killed in heavy fighting. Turkey's fatalities now rose to 24. It described the Tuesday night's operation as 'the most extensive one since the beginning of the cross-border land operation'. Its forces had hit 475 new targets, including shelters, anti-aircraft facilities, training bases and command centers, it added. On Wednesday Turkish warplanes are bombing hide-outs of PKK terrorists in mountainous area in Siladze region to neutralize terrorists and destroy the organization's infrastructure in the region, the official Anatolian Agency reported."
There are three main architects in this all: One is Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the other is MHP leader Devlet Bahceli, and the third is the president of the influential Board of Higher Education (YOK), Professor Yusuf Ziya Ozcan."
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition party said on Wednesday it had asked the Constitutional Court to quash a government-backed reform aimed at easing a ban on women students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university."
BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Turkish envoy to Baghdad said on Wednesday that his country will not set a timetable for the withdrawal of its troops fighting PKK fighters in northern Iraq.
"Our mission in northern Iraq is clear and there will be no timetable for our troops to withdraw until those terrorist bases are eliminated," the Turkish envoy, Ahmet Davutoglu, told a news conference in Baghdad after talks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd. "
CUKURCA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish troops have killed 77 Kurdish rebels in night-long clashes in northern Iraq, the military said Wednesday. Five soldiers were also killed.
Meanwhile, more than 40 military trucks ferried troops toward the Iraqi border Wednesday, a day after heavy snow slowed down Turkey's ground incursion against Kurdish rebels."
As the US and EU promote the concept of a new 'Wider Black Sea' geopolitical region, economics may be the key to common identity and security, Haroutiun Khachatrian reports for ISN Security Watch."
NEWTOWN, Conn. [February 26, 2008] - With its large military, burgeoning economy, and pivotal location as a bridge between two continents, Turkey has emerged as a crucial player involving regional geopolitics in both the Caspian Basin and the greater Middle East. As detailed in its most recent 'Turkey Military Market Overview,' Forecast International anticipates that Ankara's growing role as a regional powerbroker will be strengthened in coming years as its geopolitical bandwidth expands eastward."
Four American players of Efes Pilsen basketball team of Turkey refused to go to the Serbian capital of Belgrade for ULEB Cup game against Partizan Igokea to be played Thursday."
Baghdad - The government of Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region denied Thursday that wounded rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were receiving treatment in the region's hospitals. 'News reported on the website of the Turkish General Staff that wounded PKK rebels are receiving treatment in hospitals in the Kurdish region are untrue,' said a statement by a government spokesman."
Citizens of around 70 countries have bought property in Turkey, according to a report of the foreign population in Turkey conducted by the Chamber of Foreign Affairs of the Deed and Cadastre Head Office."
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Istanbul engineer Sina Kuseyri is planning for his retirement in two years when he reaches the ripe old age of 48, benefiting from a state pension that allows millions of Turks to end their working lives in their 40s."
The state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has started partnership negotiations with European news channel Euronews, which broadcasts news in eight different languages."
Making politics over a woman's body is just as wrong as depriving women who wear headscarves the right to an education in the name of protecting secularism, says UN's special rapporteur on violence against women"
ANKARA, Turkey: Two secular Turkish opposition parties jointly appealed to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to overturn a law allowing women to wear Islamic head scarves in universities."
ANKARA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Arguably Turkish football's most important and historic derby will take place Wednesday night, and both Galatasaray and Fenerbahce know that this will be more than asimple Fortis Turkish Cup quarterfinal match, Turkish Daily News reported."
NEW DELHI — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will tell Turkish leaders they need to wrap up their military operations in northern Iraq quickly, and that the ongoing assault must not last longer than a week or two."
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said Turkish operations in northern Iraq must end as soon as possible."
ANKARA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The six-nation natural gas pipeline project Nabucco is 'crowded enough' and there is no need at present to discuss a seventh partner, the head of Turkey's state gas pipeline company Botas said on Wednesday.
Gaz de France said earlier on Wednesday that it was still ready to join if the consortium behind the Nabucco pipeline, which is designed to help Europe diversify its gas imports away from Russia, backed its participation."
Turkish pop star ASLIZEN YENTU has been left fuming after authorities in the country banned her latest music video - as it featured shots of a dinner table laden with alcohol. The country's broadcasting authorities are currently working on plans to ban any scenes that 'encourage' consumption of alcohol and Yentu's video became one of the first victims."
SANA'A, Feb. 27 (Saba) – Well-informed sources said that the Turkish government had decided to set up a monument in the capital Sana'a for Turkish people who died in Yemen during the Ottoman Empire."
The Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, starting this spring, will be holding weeklong Turkish movie screening programs in around 30 countries, the ministry's copyrights and cinema department announced this week."
Iraq is disintegrating faster than ever. The Turkish army invaded the north of the country last week and is still there. Iraqi Kurdistan is becoming like Gaza where Israel can send in its tanks and helicopters at will."
Turkey is engaged in a bold and profound attempt to rewrite the basis for Islamic sharia law while also officially reinterpreting the Qur'an for the modern age.
The exercise in reforming Islamic jurisprudence, sponsored by the modernising and mildly Islamic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, is being seen as an iconoclastic campaign to establish a 21st century form of Islam, fusing Muslim beliefs and tradition with European and western philosophical methods and principles."
Turkey's religious authorities are close to completing a significant revision of the reports and interpretations of what the Prophet Mohammed said and did, in a project likely to generate fierce debate in the Muslim world and the west."
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the multilateral bank for former communist countries, is considering launching operations in Turkey."
A grim but tireless debate between Turks and Armenians for more than nine decades found its way into the U.S. presidential campaign, as Turkish-Americans began organizing politically against any change in Washington's policy toward the 'Armenian genocide' of 1915."
BERLIN, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- While the European Union has criticized Turkey's ground incursion into northern Iraq, Washington seems to silently approve. That strategy is not without risk, however, especially if the military move would take civilian lives and longer than it should."
NICOSIA, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- President-elect of Cyprus Demetris Christofias said on Tuesday that efforts to solve the Cyprus problem also depend on Turkey, which has stationed up to 40,000 troops in the north."
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Turkey's president on Tuesday approved a European Union-backed law to return properties belonging to religious minorities confiscated by the state decades ago, state-run media said."
In a remote, snow-covered region of northern Iraq, Turkish troops have been battling Kurdish PKK rebels for five days."
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch insurer Aegon (AEGN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy Turkish insurer Ankara Emeklilik from Polis Bakim ve Yardim Sandigi as it expands into the fast-growing Turkish life insurance and pension market."
Brussels - Azeri demonstrators called on the European Union on Tuesday to condemn Armenian war crimes in the disputed area of Nagorno Karabakh, 16 years after one of the most notorious massacres in the conflict. 'Rising generations must build a rampart against the renewal of this tragedy,' the group of several dozen protesters said in a statement calling on the UN, EU and international organizations 'to recognize and condemn the genocide at Khodjaly.'"
Most Turkish women who wear a headscarf believe it is a symbol of their religious identity and an obligation, a poll indicates."
THE CRISIS between Turkey and Iraq, with the United States playing the uneasy role of mediator and friend to both, has escalated with the Turkish land operation launched Feb. 22. Following last fall's spate of attacks inside Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the Bush administration gave Turkey intelligence to facilitate air strikes against key PKK bases in remote Iraqi Kurdish mountains. Washington hoped this would prevent any Turkish military offensive inside Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq's most stable region and the PKK's unwilling host. This policy has clearly failed."
TURKEY'S current military offensive inside northern Iraq has touched off a crisis - one to which several other players in the region have contributed. Although the ultimate responsibility for ending this crisis falls on Turkey, all of the others, including the United States, must do their part to prevent a larger regional conflagration."
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Suzan Sabanci Dincer was an 8-year- old schoolgirl when she began visiting the main office of her family's bank, Akbank TAS, during summer vacations. In the 1970s, she befriended Medeni Berk, Akbank's chief executive officer at the time."
Azerbaijan, Baku, 25 February / Trend News corr. I.Alizadeh / The next Turkic speaking countries meeting is expected to held in Ankara at the end of May.
" Turkey proposes to meet by Parliament chairmen at the end of May. At present, the exact date of the meeting is being specified through diplomatic channels," Parliament reported to Trend News."
ISTANBUL, Feb. 25 -- One of the agents of Turkey's cultural transformation stood, 5 feet tall and less than 100 pounds, at the gate of Istanbul Bilgi University on Monday, a flying wedge of social change in a fuzzy purple winter coat, brown hiking boots and a black wool scarf wrapped around her head. "
U.S. Department of State said Monday during the military operation in the north of Iraq, Turkey should continue with its stated policy to minimize the impact and take very serious account of the concerns of civilian populations in the area."
The fighting between its ally and a Kurdish separatist group it considers a terrorist organization puts the Bush administration in a bind. 'They could do more,' an Iraqi official says.
SHILADEZAH, IRAQ -- Artillery and gunfire echoed through the mountains of northern Iraq on Monday during continued clashes between invading Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, with Turkey saying that 153 guerrillas had been killed in four days."
Can Turkish economy survive high energy prices?
"Can Turkish economy survive high energy prices?
One of the test beds of peak oil, or supply constraints, is Turkey. The country is not gifted with many hydrocarbon reserves and faces a decline in its oil production. The rising thirst of energy for this developing country relies on exports from close countries. Natural gas, which is not peaking soon, is also a twin brother of oil in terms of pricing of the contracts, yet Turkey has no chance on this front either."
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces fought Kurdish guerrillas at close quarters as they advanced on a key PKK base in northern Iraq on Monday, and Baghdad warned a prolonged incursion could have serious consequences for the region"
In the five-year period from 2003 through 2007 the value of real estate purchases by foreign interests in Turkey was approximately $10 billion, recent Undersecretariat of the Treasury figures have shown."
After deliberating about an India office for almost a year, Turkey has finally confirmed its plan to open a dedicated National Tourist Office (NTO) in India in the next two months. The office is scheduled to come up in Chanakya Puri, New Delhi. It is, currently, scouting for a suitable location in the area."
Baghdad - Turkey's incursion into northern Iraq - its second in three months - threatens to trigger regional turmoil and destabilise the only peaceful area in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein."
WASHINGTON -- The Turkish government briefed the Bush administration about its plans to strike northern Iraq well in advance of launching the controversial operation and the U.S. raised no objections, according to American and Turkish officials."
Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said on Tuesday the election of a new Cypriot president offered a chance for relaunching reunification talks, that could come as early as April and he believed a solution could be found by the end of 2008."
The European Parliament approved the European Union's Lisbon Treaty on Wednesday, with 525 votes in favour, 115 against and 29 abstentions. It is expected to come into effect next year, after all 27 member states of the EU have individually ratified the treaty. Replacing the rejected constitution of 2005, the Lisbon Treaty has so far been ratified by France and four other member states."
The amendments were backed by the ruling Justice and Development Party and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party.
ANKARA - Turkey's main opposition party has confirmed it will seek to have constitutional amendments allowing women to wear the Islamic headscarf to attend university overturned."
Ankara - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday defended Turkey's military offensive against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, amid calls for US and Iraqi troops to be withdrawn as soon as possible."
The Iraqi government has denounced a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq in some of the strongest terms heard since the operation began last week."
Eflatunpınar Holy Hittite Monument and Pool, situated in the central Anatolian city of Konya's Beyşehir district and little known, will be illuminated and broadcast live to the world on the Internet."
NICOSIA, Cyprus -- The decades-long division of Cyprus could be resolved by the end of the year, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots said yesterday, a day after Greek Cypriots elected a new president."
The fourth hearing has brought no further clarity in the case, as many of the requests of the joint plaintiffs were refused.
On 19 January 2007, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper, Hrant Dink, was murdered in front of his office in central Istanbul. The suspected gunman O.S. and eighteen other, mostly young, men are on trial; eight of them are in police detention."
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish conglomerate Dogan Holding (DOHOL.IS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it was considering offers for talks about Turkey's upcoming privatisation of highways and bridges, but had reached no agreement on any partnership."
Turkish Transportation Ministry will soon send to State Planning Organization (DPT) a feasibility report on a new highway project in Istanbul, including the third bridge planned to be built at Bogazici (Bosphorus)."
Commercial interests between Kuwait and Turkey rest on friendly political relations that date as far back as the independence of Kuwait. 'Since its independence in 1961, Kuwait enjoyed good relations with Turkey. Political missions were exchanged from the earliest times,' says Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Duwaikh, the Kuwaiti ambassador to Turkey"
Foreigners who own summer houses in Turkey's popular summer resorts rent them out over the Internet, placing the country seventh out of 112 countries in demand for holiday homes, according to a study by the Web site holidaylettings.co.uk."
Turkey's higher education watchdog has warned university chiefs they risked prosecution if they flouted new laws allowing women students to wear the Islamic headscarf.
Some universities have stood defiant against the constitutional amendments that came into force over the weekend, backed by those who fiercely object to measures they believe will undermine Turkey's secular system."
Ankara - Turkish troops were Monday advancing on the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) headquarters located in the Qandil Mountains near the Iraqi border with Iran, as Ankara defended the operation saying Turkey had the right to self-defence."
ANKARA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Thousands of flag-waving Turks mourned the deaths of three army officers at their funerals in Ankara's main mosque on Monday in a show of solidarity with the military's fight against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq."
A cooking course held at the Yediburunlar lighthouse near to Fethiye has been highlighted in a list of the finest culinary tuition programmes in the world."
A number of Turkish universities have defied a new law allowing women students to wear Islamic headscarves."
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Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat reacts during an interview in his office in the Turkish occupied area of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. The election of a new president in Cyprus could see a solution to the island decades-long partition by the end of the year, according to the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state, Mehmet Ali Talat said the Turkish Cypriot side was willing to be flexible.
The decades-long division of Cyprus could be resolved by the end of the year, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots said Monday."
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Last week, a senior French official flew to Istanbul to discuss Turkey's exclusion of Gaz de France from an $12 billion pipeline project - designed to bring Central Asian oil directly to European markets - because of recent French legislation making it a criminal offense to deny that the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide."
What Is Behind Turkey's Invasion of Northern Iraq?
Turkey had been warning for months that it was considering an invasion of northern Iraq to go after Kurdish rebels based there. But now that it has happened, many are wondering why now? Could it actually be an invitation to negotiate?"
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Some Turkish academics dispute whether a recent change in the Constitution allows women to wear Islamic head scarves in universities, signaling that the battle over the religious attire has yet to run its course."
BRUSSELS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The European Union on Friday repeated a call on Turkey to refrain from any disproportionate military action in northern Iraq.
As supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) stage sporadic protests in western Turkey against the ongoing Turkish military operations in northern Iraq, the government's hurried attempt to lift the headscarf ban in Turkish universities appears to be deepening the other great divide in Turkish society, namely that over the role of Islam in public life."
A mixture of civilians, military personnel and children attended a recent event at the Lewis and Clark Center at Fort Leavenworth (KS) to learn about Turkey's history, culture and government."
Turkey's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will meet foreign companies at the Mediterranean Business Partneria, to be held at the Antalya Expo Center May 15-16. The organization, which aims to secure long-term commercial synergies, targets a business volume of at least 500 million euros. "
"Was the Ottoman Empire a colonizer?
International University of Sarajevo, jointly with Ankara Centre for Thought and Research (ADAM), through the sponsorship of Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), hosted an international conference on "East-West Relations: Past, Present, Future" on February 14-15, 2008, in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. "
For anyone about to invest in the emerging Turkey property market, it's a good idea to discover as much as possible about this ancient land at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, to uncover its mysteries and try to imagine what the future holds for those who reside within its extensive borders. In this article we are going to set the scene by taking a brief look at modern-day Turkey."
An AKP official said there is no need to change the additional 17th article of the Higher Education Law to lift the headscarf ban, reversing an earlier agreement between the governing party and nationalist MHP, who supported the constitutional amendments as the legal dispute grows."
(dpa) - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday called on new Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias to waste no time in seeking a deal with the Turkish Cypriot community on the status of the divided island."
Ankara - The implementation of two constitutional amendments allowing womento wear Islamic-style headscarves at universities varied Monday with some universities allowing covered women to enter classes and others forcing students to uncover before being allowed onto campus. Students wearing the headscarf were allowed into Bogazici University, but at the nearby Istanbul Technical University the ban on the covering continued, Anadolu news agency reported."
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Newly-elected Cyprus President Demetris Christofias came under immediate pressure on Monday to make good on promised efforts to reunite the divided Mediterranean island."
In the third day of the military's ground operation into northern Iraq, the clashes intensify. Major PPK camps are hit by artillery and warplanes, killing 112 terrorists. Iraq says the operation does not target the country's sovereignty"
In Today Scenario Investing overseas is the ongoing trend, Developing countries are not only investing in countryside, but they also are seeking investment opportunities abroad."
You can recognize them by their red shawl and a red and white bag, which resembles a school satchel. "
The high Qandil mountains and deep gorges on the northern Iraqi border region with Iran must be one of the world's most ideal terrains for guerrilla war. That is where the fighters of the separatist Turkish Kurdish movement the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have set up its headquarters. The PKK is close enough to the Turkish border to stage its guerrilla attacks and can easily frustrate 'hot pursuits' by the Turkish army."
Looking at the bigger picture, against the backdrop of all this internal politics, the economic agenda of the country is quite different. Despite all absurdities in the political stage, Turkey is heading forward like a mammoth pushing its way through the jungle.
Thrilling developments in the energy business are on the way, especially those concerning oil and gas are in full steam. "
Turkish troops intensified their offensive against Kurdish PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq on Saturday, two days after crossing the mountainous border in a campaign Turkey's allies hope will be short and limited."
Turkey will be a popular tourism destination this year for European tourists, according to a study conducted by Thomas Cook, a leading tourism agency in Europe."
BAGHDAD -- The president of the Kurdistan regional government ordered Iraqi Kurdistan to prepare for 'full-scale resistance' Saturday if a Turkish military incursion expands into populated areas."
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq fears that a prolonged Turkish incursion into northern Iraq could trigger clashes between Turkish troops and Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga security forces, the country's national security adviser said on Monday."
ANKARA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has postponed a planned trip to Africa this week due to a major Turkish ground offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq, the state Anatolian news agency said on Monday."
The Turkish Cypriot leader has called on the new Cyprus president to resume negotiations as soon as possible in an effort to reunite the island."
brooklyn, n.y. - Just as a flag is not merely a swatch of material – stars, stripes, sickles – a scarf is no longer a piece of silk. Turkey is set to repeal its longstanding scarf ban in university settings – setting off a firestorm of controversy about class conflict, human rights, and the rise of Islam in a country fearful of religious influence."
"Turkish women are 'handmade' champions. A handmade trousseau is a must and a way to measure the suitability of the bride to be. Incredibly beautiful stuff (and some very ugly) is made by hand for that trousseau."
In Turkey, any day now, a female university student will mark a dramatic moment in her country's history. After years of heated debate, culminating in street demonstrations in recent months, she will no longer have to replace her headscarf with a wig or hat before attending her lectures, thanks to a constitutional amendment that received presidential consent last week. However, she will know that her newly won right is by no means secure; university authorities have been threatening to break the law and enforce the headscarf ban, while legal appeals are likely to end up in the constitutional court."


Although Turkish LCC Pegasus Airlines reported a year on year increase in 2Q net profit, the underlying operating result was less than the same period last year. This was the fourth successive quarter of year on year declines in the underlying operating result.
Reading Pegasus' results is complicated by foreign exchange movements, since the majority of its revenues and, particularly, its costs are denominated in hard currency (mainly EUR and USD). Expressed in EUR terms, rather than in Pegasus' reporting currency of TRY, Pegasus lowered its CASK (cost per available seat km) in 2Q, but not enough to compensate for the drop in RASK (revenue per available seat km).
Nevertheless, Pegasus reiterated its FY2014 guidance amid some signs that it may have turned a corner and be ready to leave the path of deteriorating margins.
In 2Q2014, Pegasus Airlines grew its net profit by 72% compared with the same period a year earlier to post a figure of TRY87 million (EUR30 million). Revenues increased by 33% to TRY800 million (EUR276 million). The net profit was boosted by foreign exchange movements both from operating activities and from financing activities.
A truer reflection of the underlying performance of the business can be seen in the operating profit before other operating income and expense (which excludes these currency effects). This figure fell by 16% to TRY81 million (EUR28 million).
For 1H2014, the net result slipped from a profit of TRY44 million (EUR19 million) last year to a loss of TRY18 million (EUR6 million) this year. The 1H operating profit before other operating income and expense fell from a profit of TRY95 million (EUR40 million) to a loss of TRY32 million (EUR6 million). 1H revenues grew by 33% to TRY1,311 million (EUR442 million).
Pegasus continued its strong capacity growth in 2Q2014, with ASKs up 22.1%, slightly slower than the 28.4% growth in 1Q2014. Although growth was stronger in international markets than in the domestic market, the difference was not as pronounced as it had been in 1Q2014.
Passenger load factor was flat (-0.1 ppts) at 79.9% for 2Q2014, a figure that is broadly equal to that of Europe's full service carriers (as represented by the Association of European Airlines), but short of the load factors achieved by most of its principal LCCs. The load factor on the international network fell by 1.2ppts to 76.3% in 2Q and this looks to be an area of considerable scope for improvement.
Pegasus increased its total number of destinations by 18% year on year to 84 and will have launched nine new destinations during summer 2014 (Madrid, Frankfurt, Kuwait, Mineralnye Vody, Prague, Geneva, Bahrain, Hamburg and Budapest). It also moved its Belgian operation from Brussels Airport to Brussels South Charleroi.
It increased frequencies on a further 18 routes, but a considerable proportion of Pegasus' capacity growth is coming from new routes and this appears to be having a weakening impact on load factors for now.
CFO Serhan Ulga told analysts on a conference call to discuss the 2Q results that Pegasus was seeing load factor improvements of around 1ppt in its bookings for the late summer months in the domestic market. In international markets, he said there continued to be a small fall in load factor, but yields were recovering.
Pegasus' 2Q revenue growth of 32.5% was faster than the growth in ASKs. This was mainly driven by international scheduled flight revenue, which grew by 37.8% and accounted for 44% of total revenues. Domestic scheduled revenue growth of 20.2% was broadly in line with domestic ASK growth.
Ancillary revenues grew strongly, up 66% year on year, and increased their share of 2Q revenues from 13% in 2013 to 17% in 2014. Ancillary revenue per passenger grew by 38% to TRY25.76, although much of this growth can be attributed to the weakening of TRY versus EUR. In EUR, ancillary revenue per passenger grew by 14% to EUR8.90 in 2Q (up 12% to EUR8.92 for 1H). Pegasus continues to target EUR10-12 within the next three years and looks to be on course to achieve this.
Total revenue per ASK grew by 8.5% in 2Q, an acceleration on the 5.7% increase in 1Q. However, this increase in TRY-reported RASK was boosted by the weaker TRY against the EUR.
In EUR terms, RASK fell by 10.1% and this better reflects the market environment, particularly in the competitive international markets operated by Pegasus. While still weak, the fall in EUR RASK was less severe than the 17.9% decline suffered in 1Q2014. The competitive impact on pricing of Turkish Airlines' expansion into Pegasus' Sabiha Gokcen hub appears to be easing.
Operating costs increased by 41.8% in 2Q, faster than the growth in revenues and ASKs. Fuel costs, which accounted for 41% of the total, increased by 40% and ex fuel costs grew by 43%. Cost per ASK (CASK) increased by 16.1% in TRY-reported figures, but fell by 3.8% when expressed in EUR.
Pegasus' functional currency is the euro, but its reporting currency for its financial statements is the Turkish lira. The weakening of TRY had the effect of raising both RASK and CASK in its TRY-reported results relative to its EUR-denominated management accounts, but the impact on costs was greater than it was on revenues.
This was mainly due to the significant imbalance in Pegasus' USD exposure in its income statement. It has 54% of costs in USD, but only 13% of revenues (1H2014, source: Pegasus), so a weaker TRY versus USD lowers its operating profit.
Its EUR exposure is greater on the revenue side (39%) than on the cost side (26%). This means that a weaker TRY versus EUR actually increases operating profit, but the impact is less significant than the USD impact.
Pegasus has not changed its guidance and targets for FY2014. It plans 20% growth in ASK and passenger numbers and an EBITDAR margin in the range 17% to 19% (it achieved 22.3% in 2013).
Pegasus' 1H2014 EBITDAR margin roughly halved to 10.6% versus 20.4% in 1H2013. Its FY2014 target implies that it will make a similar 2H EBITDAR margin this year to the 23.6% recorded in 2H2013.
Mr Ulga said that many of the costs that have burdened Pegasus in recent quarters were one-of in nature and should ease in future quarters. The outlook for CASK in EUR terms is "to remain stable for the near term", although it fell by 2.1% in 1H2014.
While both RASK and CASK increased year on year in TRY terms and both fell in EUR terms, the key point is that RASK performed more weakly than CASK in either currency and this was why the operating result deteriorated. 2Q2014 was the fourth consecutive quarter when the spread between RASK growth and CASK growth was negative.
More encouragingly, the rate of decline in EUR RASK eased in 2Q2014 versus 1Q2014 and EUR CASK once again fell after two quarters of small increases. The curve plotting the spread between RASK and CASK, while still negative, turned upwards in 2Q2014 after a period of sloping downwards (see chart below).
Although Pegasus expects lower margins in 2014 than in 2013, at least the RASK-CASK relationship stopped deteriorating in 2Q2014. This helps to give some reassurance that profitability could start to improve once more. The seasonally important 3Q, when the bulk of its profits are earned, will be the key to its achieving (or perhaps bettering) its 2014 target.


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Q: Custom Button style is applying partially Created custom style for button when apply the style for button it is partially. Here is the style code snippet.
Manifest.xml
<application android:theme="@style:AppTheme">

styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/back_button_style</item>
    <item name="buttonStyle">@style/back_button_style</item>
</style>

<style name="back_button_style" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button">
    <item name="background">@drawable/back_button_shape</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">40dp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    <item name="android:textAlignment">center</item>
    <item name="android:textAllCaps">true</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginStart">72dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginEnd">72dp</item>
    <item name="android:fontFamily">sans-serif</item> //sans-serif nothing but robot regular
</style>

layout.xml
<Button
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="continue"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.501"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp" />

After applying the style only the text color changes to white since i given the text color as white in style but other credentials are not applied background, before applying the button text color was black.
So I not getting why it is partially applying the style.
I tried like this also but it is not working
<Button
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="continue"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.501"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:theme="@style/back_button_style/>

I am not getting what and where is the bug in the code.

A: Rectify  Button android:theme section .
Don't
 android:theme="@style/back_button_style

Do
style="@style/back_button_style"

Then Clean-Rebuild-Run .


Following up on Vince's post about how instilling confidence in young girls improves their interest in math, I'd like to mention some other important factors pointed out to me by a mother who's raised two mathematically-talented daughters.
The article misses so much of what was most important about the Math Olympiad experience, which is the sense of belonging to a mathematical community which Melanie, Alison, and Sherry all got out of their Olympiad experiences. There's a researcher at SUNY, Abbe Herzig, who works on issues of math & women, and she has a slide show on her website emphasizing the need for women to get a sense of "belonging" in mathematics.
I know that Alison got an enormous sense of belonging out of her first math Olympiad summer training camp experience, and it literally transformed her life. Melanie Wood was a staff member at Alison's first camp and I think she deserves an enormous amount of credit for her leadership in transforming the culture there. Alison has tried to "pay that forward" by mentoring younger students and helping to create mathematical communities they could enjoy. For Alison and Melanie, I think coaching and mentoring has been even more fun and rewarding than competing.
Many people know that Alison won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad in Athens, Greece in August 2004. But few people know of something that makes me even prouder–Alison tied for "most welcoming vet" in a vote of the rookies at the 2004 training camp.
Even the Times' choice of photographs to accompany the article reinforced a wrong-headed notion of what math is about, Mary feels.
The photos the NYT ran were awful. All three take great delight in doing math, especially doing math in a passionate community of kindred spirits. All three have lovely warm smiles. They have a great sense of "mathematical playfulness," which is an essential quality in mathematics.
By the time Alison was 8, her folks decided it didn't make sense to tell her to put away her calculus book to prepare for her multiplication test and pulled her out of school.
in China math is regarded as an essential skill that everyone should try to develop at some level. Parents in China, he said, view math as parents in the United States do baseball, hockey and soccer.
Can the U.S. school culture that values sports over math be changed? Or are outside communities of math circles, MathCounts teams and the like the best way to encourage kids who love math?


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About Leadership Duncan Greene
Duncan Greene
Group President, Mission Systems Engineering & Technology
Duncan Greene is the Group President of Akima's Mission Systems, Engineering & Technology Group, a portfolio of companies providing a broad range of mission support, IT services, and analytic solutions to the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and the federal civilian government.
Prior to joining Akima, Duncan served in a number of leadership roles at BAE Systems, most recently as vice president and general manager of their Space Intelligence business area and their Global Analysis & Operations business area. Prior to BAE Systems, he served as an intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Duncan began his career in the U.S. Marine Corps where he was a Reconnaissance Marine specializing in strategies and tactics for combating terrorism. He earned a bachelor's degree in geography and environmental planning from Towson University as well as executive education from Oxford University and the INSEAD International Business School.
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Dundee Contemporary Arts ban for man accused of threatening staff
January 30 2018, 6.00am Updated: September 23 2021, 9.46am
A man has been banned from entering Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) ahead of a court appearance in April.
At the city's sheriff court, Frank Watt, of Tulloch Court, denied that he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm and acted in an aggressive manner at DCA on Tuesday.
He allegedly repeatedly shouted and swore, repeatedly uttered threatening remarks and repeatedly refused to leave when asked to do so by employees.
Watt also denies failing to give identification to police, behaving in a disorderly manner, and refusing or failing to leave DCA when asked to do so by PC Andrew Barrie.
Trial date was fixed for April 30, with an intermediate diet to be held on April 10.
Thirty-one-year-old Watt was granted bail with the special condition that he does not enter the DCA until completion of the court proceedings.
This article originally appeared on the Evening Telegraph website. For more information, read about our new combined website.
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Trump Jr. lends support to James' Senate run
by: Rick Albin
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — John James, the Republican challenging Debbie Stabenow for her seat in the U.S. Senate, swung through West Michigan Wednesday while on the campaign trail, and he brought a high-profile supporter with him.
Donald Trump Jr. accompanied James on a tour of Skytron, a medical supply manufacturer in metro Grand Rapids. Trump Jr. talked briefly with some of the employees and others gathered for the mid-afternoon event.
While the president's son did not talk to the media, James did, outlining his approach to serving in Washington if he is elected.
"When I go to Washington, like I said to the president himself, I can support the president without worshipping him. I can disagree with the president without attacking him," James said. "And I think you see evidence here of mutual respect because I'm able to go into a debate and say plainly and loudly that I am an independent thinker, and now his son shows up because he recognizes how important Michigan is to moving forward and how we have been failed — by both parties, quite frankly — in the past."
Trump and James will be joined by musician Kid Rock for a campaign rally in Pontiac later Wednesday evening.
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As some Republicans in Congress continued to back President Donald Trump's doomed effort to overturn the election, critics — including President-elect Joe Biden — alleged that they had violated their oaths and instead pledged allegiance to Trump.
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by Sydney Kalich / Jan 8, 2021
WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — President Donald Trump's former acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney joined a growing list of Trump administration officials who are leaving following the violent riot at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Mulvaney resigned his post as special envoy to Northern Ireland Thursday, saying "I can't do it. I can't stay."
Biden win confirmed after pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol
by LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press / Jan 7, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America's presidential election, undercut the nation's democracy and keep Trump in the White House.
Lawmakers were resolved to complete the Electoral College tally in a display to the country, and the world, of the nation's enduring commitment to uphold the will of the voters and the peaceful transfer of power. They pushed through the night with tensions high and the nation's capital on alert.