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- Turkey to recognize independent Kosovo in 48 hours
- Turkey and Islam | Veils of half-truth | Economist.com
- Turkey's EU official says image in Europe should improve
- Turkey's Koc sells Migros in private equity deal
- Tourism fair begins in Istanbul - 14 - February - 2008
- Turkey: Wrapped and delivered
- 'Never a Religious Necessity': Headscarf Researcher Condemns Turkey's Move to Lift Ban - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
- After Headscarves, What's Next?
- Senate leaders took trip to Turkey
- Turkey: Life Term for Man Who Killed Over Scarf Ban - New York Times
- Berlin and Ankara clash over integration - Middle East Times
- Decision to abolish headscarf ban hurts Turkey internationally - Turkish Daily News Feb 14, 2008
- The turban: An uninvited guest! - Turkish Daily News Feb 14, 2008
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"Turkey to recognize independent Kosovo in 48 hours Turkey will probably not be the first country to recognize an independent Kosovo but it will definitely be among a group of countries extending speedy recognition to the new state, Turkish government sources have said." More: TODAY'S ZAMAN  "Veils of half-truth Feb 14th 2008 | ISTANBUL From The Economist print edition What lies behind the row over lifting the headscarf ban in universities TO TURKEY'S secular elite it is a step back to the dark ages; to its conservatives, an overdue right. Either way, the constitutional changes approved by parliament to ease the ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in universities will trigger a new battle between the mildly Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his secular opponents." More: Turkey and Islam | Veils of half-truth | Economist.com  "Turkey's EU official says image in Europe should improve The New Anatolian / Ankara 14 February 2008 Oguz Demiralp, Turkey's Secretary-General for the EU, said Thursday Turkey experienced a stagnant period in its EU adhesion process in 2007, and the country should take concrete steps in 2008." More: The New Anatolian  "Turkey's Koc sells Migros in private equity deal (Adds comment from BC paragraphs 6-7, updates share prices) By Emma Ross-Thomas and Mustafa Yukselbaba ISTANBUL, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Turkey's Koc Holding has agreed to sell its 50.8 percent stake in retailer Migros to BC Partners for 1.98 billion lira ($1.7 billion), in the country's largest private equity deal." More: Feed Article | Business |  "Tourism fair begins in Istanbul 14 February 2008 A tourism fair has launched in Istanbul, Turkey, which is set to boost the country's travel industry for the coming year. The Eastern Mediterranean International Tourism and Travel (EMITT) fair opened on 14 February with a ceremony that included minister of culture and tourism Ertugrul Gunay as well as representatives from about a dozen neighbouring countries, Today's Zaman reports." More: Opodo travel news - Tourism fair begins in Istanbul - 14 - February - 2008  "Turkey: Wrapped and delivered By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - The constitutional amendment passed recently which allows young girls to wear head scarves at university has hit Turkish society like an earthquake. Turkish women, after all, were given the right to vote, own property, run for political office - and the freedom to choose whether or not to wear a veil - shortly after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, under president Kemal Ataturk." More: Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs  "Headscarf Researcher Condemns Turkey's Move to Lift Ban By Daniel Steinvorth in Istanbul In a SPIEGEL interview, prominent Turkish archeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Cig discusses her country's move to lift the headscarf ban on college campuses and why she feels it represents a 'step back' for her country." More: 'Never a Religious Necessity': Headscarf Researcher Condemns Turkey's Move to Lift Ban - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News  "After Headscarves, What's Next? By Soner Cagaptay PostGlobal, February 13, 2008 On February 9, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) passed constitutional amendments to legalize a specific woman's headscarf, known as the turban, on college campuses. The Turkish turban -- not to be confused with the south Asian male turban -- emerged in the country in the 1980s. When Kemal Ataturk founded Turkey as a secular republic after World War I, he looked to Europe, and especially France, for his inspiration. While American secularism provides freedom of religion, the French version that Ataturk adopted emphasizes freedom from religion -- that is, keeping religion and its symbols out of government and education. Turkey's secular courts have considered the turban a political religious symbol -- AKP leader and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose wife wears a turban, suggested that this might indeed be the case. Accordingly, the courts had, until last weekend, banned the turban on college campuses. But now that the turban is allowed on campuses, what will happen next?" More: Article or Op-Ed  "Senate leaders took trip to Turkey PAID FOR BY NON-PROFIT GROUP; LOBBYISTS PART OF THE DEAL The state Senate's two top leaders traveled to Istanbul this past fall, where they toured the Topkapi Palace, went to dinner with lobbyists for drug companies and learned about U.S.-Turkey relations." More: Senate leaders took trip to Turkey  "Turkey: Life Term for Man Who Killed Over Scarf Ban By REUTERS Published: February 14, 2008 An Ankara court sentenced Alparslan Arslan, a lawyer who shot at judges inside the Council of State, the top administrative court, in 2006, killing one and wounding four, to life in prison. He said at the start of his trial that he was motivated by a ban on Islamic head scarves in schools. The judges he shot at had supported the ban. More Articles in World » Need to know more? 50% off home delivery of The Times." More: Turkey: Life Term for Man Who Killed Over Scarf Ban - New York Times  "Berlin and Ankara clash over integration BERLIN, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Berlin and Ankara are at odds over the integration of ethnic Turks into the German society. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Germany last week and managed to shock Germany's conservatives when he warned some 20,000 Turkish expatriates in a speech in Cologne not to lose their culture and condemned assimilation as "a crime against humanity."" More: Berlin and Ankara clash over integration - Middle East Times  "Decision to abolish headscarf ban hurts Turkey internationally Europeans only have one main fear these days, and it is Islamism. Many believe that moderate Muslims do not exist, let alone moderate Muslim countries Michael van der Galiën As a foreigner visiting Turkey today, it is awkward to see how much has changed in only one year and even six months time. One year ago I visited Turkey and the country was relatively stable. Six months ago there was a controversy regarding how to elect the president of this great nation-state, but although it was a grand debate, there were virtually no protests. Of course people also talked about the PKK (outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party) and what to do about this terrorist organization, but one did not get the feeling that the situation was overly tense." More: Decision to abolish headscarf ban hurts Turkey internationally - Turkish Daily News Feb 14, 2008 "The turban: An uninvited guest! Thursday, February 14, 2008 The AKP, with the help of MHP, has hurled into our homes an 'uninvited guest' who appears to have no intention of leaving anytime soon!" More: The turban: An uninvited guest! - Turkish Daily News Feb 14, 2008
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