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HOMEPAGE HEADLINE
Agencies demand legalization of temporary employment
Private employment industry representatives are urging the government to pass a law regulating temporary employment.»»
AGENDA
Does recalling envoys really work as a foreign policy tool?
The presidents of Turkey’s leading think tanks recognize the diplomatic message conveyed by recalling»»
Turkey fails in fighting violence against woman
Last week, a parliamentary deputy submitted a question motion demanding a response from the justice minister on why»»
LATEST NEWS More»»
14:52   Turkish state-run TRT and Jordanian JTV sign protocol
14:00   Babacan expects Turkey to grow between 3.7 and 5.5 percent in 2010
13:15   Turkish FM: "Turkey supports efforts for solution of Darfur problem"
12:52   Iraqi president demands election recount
12:44   Donors conference seeks $2 billion for Darfur
11:22   Turkish foreign minister arrives in Egypt
Obama, Democrats push hard ahead of health vote
President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensely for landmark US health care legislation Friday,»»
Covered women still awaiting solution to discrimination
Long-standing discrimination against Turkey’s women who wear the headscarf has remained in place despite past»»
Samanyolu TV increasingly popular outside Turkey
Private Samanyolu Television (STV), which broadcasts many programs, highly rated in Turkey, that promote values such»»
Sarkis Zabunyan enhances art space with his own ‘fingerprints’ in ‘Opus’
“I rebel with love, and I still have so much love to give them,” says Sarkis Zabunyan, an»»
Interest in reed flute on the rise, classes in high demand
The reed flute, a traditional wind instrument, has seen a surge in popularity over the past four years,»»
From Ankara to Cappadocia: the road less traveled
These days when it comes to the mystical side of Islam you can hardly move for whirling dervishes, not all of them,»»

News
Deep state did great injustice to non-Muslim minorities, says Çelik
Turkish foreign minister arrives in Egypt
Donors conference seeks $2 billion for Darfur
Expert view: September 12 coup generals can face trial
Iraqi president demands election recount
Business
Agencies demand legalization of temporary employment
Encouragement needed for solidarity with Greece
Obama, Democrats push hard ahead of health vote
Book piracy: theft or an unavoidable option?
Turkey’s next challenge: the development of the ‘intrapreneur’
Op-Ed
İzmir’s future: urban (re-)development by KLAUS JURGENS
Opportunity for judicial reform by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE
Resolutions by ‘passing’ the relations by ÖZLEM TÜRKÖNE*
[Humiliation as American experience]US public diplomacy shattered at JFK Airport (2) by Mehmet Kalyoncu*
[Humiliation as American experience] US public diplomacy shattered at JFK Airport (1) byMEHMET KALYONCU*
Arts & Culture
Sarkis Zabunyan enhances art space with his own ‘fingerprints’ in ‘Opus’
Interest in reed flute on the rise, classes in high demand
‘The Light of Day’
‘SOLAR’
‘61 HOURS’
Features
Ten years on The Lycian Way
A 'model' Islamic education from Turkey?
İstanbul’s traditional wooden houses under threat
A century-old Ottoman legacy in China
Travel
From Ankara to Cappadocia: the road less traveled
Africa’s northernmost nation Tunisia
Hiking in an apostle’s footsteps: the St. Paul Trail
Eat your way around Turkey -- without ever leaving İstanbul
Brazil, South America’s giant
Leisure
Jessica Simpson investigates standards of beauty in new show
[Movie Guide]
[TV Guide]
[Radio Guide]
Everyday is special - 21 March 2010


Armenian Blackmail
SEDAT LAÇINER, USAK, Mar 12, 2010,
The Diaspora, and also of course Armenia, uses blackmail as a means to fight against Turkey and the Turks. There are many historical examples of it coming from the 19th century.

Iraq: The right idea after all
JOSEPH R. WOOD *, GMF, Mar 12, 2010,
WASHINGTON — “Bush was right” is not a view frequently expressed in the New York Times.  But, there it was, in Thomas Friedman’s March 10 column:  “Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right.”

Not just Greece, not just money: The geopolitical stakes of Southern Europe
IAN O. LESSER *, GMF, Mar 11, 2010,
VENICE -The Greek crisis is the product of decades of mismanagement in public finance, a lack of transparency, and the pitfalls of sovereign debt in an age of credit default swaps.

Belarus' Aleksander Lukashenko, European Chessmaster
PAVOL DEMEŠ , GMF, Mar 05, 2010,
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — When Aleksander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, began a recent campaign to intimidate and punish members of the country’s disobedient Polish community, he opened a new front not only with neighboring Poland, but also with the EU as a whole that must now meet that challenge head on.


Columnists
Basic (wrong) instincts
ANDREW FINKEL
Wasted youth
AYŞE KARABAT
Tough days for Obama
AMANDA PAUL
İzmir’s future: urban (re-)development
KLAUS JURGENS
Armenians and our speaking prime minister
İHSAN YILMAZ
How much do we really know?
MICHAEL KUSER
Social and cultural impacts of globalization
DOĞU ERGİL
Impact of Iraqi elections on Kurdish politics
EMRE USLU

Turkish Press Review


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Covered women still awaiting solution to discrimination
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