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19 May 2013, Sunday |
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JOOST LAGENDIJK
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Last week was not a good week for Turkey’s leading politicians. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan went to Washington, D.C., and did not get what he was looking for: a clear American commitment to support the anti-Assad rebels in Syria. |
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MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE
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Ceremonial interest and ostentatious meetings sometimes help to cover up the empty meetings held in the background. |
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ARZU KAYA URANLI
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Hollywood star and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) special envoy Angelina Jolie, who is loved and admired for her peacemaking efforts in Africa and the Middle East, has become a role model for health with her revelation about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy because of her high genetic risk of breast cancer. |
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AMANDA PAUL
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At the end of June, the long-awaited decision regarding which pipeline will be selected to transport natural gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field across Turkey to the EU market will be made. |
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ORHAN OĞUZ GÜRBÜZ
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Throughout history, the essential human struggle has always found its basis in the clash between tyranny and justice. Essential elements of society, such as positive and negative rights, belief, enterprise and educational freedom, can all exist under the roof of justice. |
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DOĞU ERGİL
d.ergil@todayszaman.com |
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Turkey and a few other countries have been defending intervention in Syria for different reasons. |
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CUMALİ ÖNAL
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The price Turkey is set to pay for the civil war in Syria is getting bigger and bigger. In addition to the economic damage to Turkey, there are also the responsibilities associated with the refugees from Syria, the growing security threats and, of course, the terrorist attacks now taking place on Turkish soil. |
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EKREM DUMANLI
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The long-awaited meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Barack Obama took place on Thursday. I am saying that it has been long awaited because there has been a general conviction that the US has not been able to take direct action to deal with the Syrian crisis over the last two years because of the presidential election. |
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ABDULLAH BOZKURT
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After spending a week in Brussels talking to advocacy groups, members of the European Parliament and officials from the European Commission as part of a program organized and funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), it was refreshing to see that Turkey-watchers in this town full of Eurocrats are following very closely what is happening in the 27-nation bloc's largest candidate country. |
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İHSAN YILMAZ
ihsan.yilmaz@todayszaman.com |
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The press conference on Thursday held by President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reminded me two of pieces that I wrote here almost one year ago. On Thursday, Obama insisted on working together with the international community and especially with Russia to solve the Syrian crisis. It now seems that instead of toppling the Baath regime altogether, a coalition between the old regime and the opponents will be tried. Only time will tell if this works or not after everything that has happened. |
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ABDÜLHAMİT BİLİCİ
a.bilici@todayszaman.com |
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On his most recent trip abroad, President Abdullah Gül had the opportunity to comment on a number of issues, from the writing of the new constitution to the settlement process under way. Gül expressed his excitement about the strides taken by Turkey over the past decade via a detail he noticed while watching BBC World in his hotel room: Two of the news pieces running along the bottom of the screen had to do with Turkey. One was a story about Galatasaray's championship, and the other was about the $22 billion nuclear power plant to be built in Turkey by a Japanese-French cooperative effort. |
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ORHAN MİROĞLU
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The Supreme Court of Appeals has issued its verdict on the Hrant Dink case, which has attracted a great deal of attention in Turkey as well as the rest of the world: There is an organization involved; however, this is not the Ergenekon organization that the court prosecutor referred to in the legal opinion he submitted to the court panel. |
