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  • Time to bust the myth of the slumdog Islamists 28 Nov 2009 03:34 GMT
    ... Published on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 9:45PM EST ... to be more religious than the country's secular elite, but also tend to be more ... They don't want to do that.” Studies in Turkey and Iran reveal that public support for ...

  • Mr. Pamuk's Neighborhood 28 Nov 2009 07:12 GMT
    ... you hear from only a handful of Turks, those who frequent neighborhoods like Nisantasi, a ... story detailing the social ­mores of the Turkish upper class, the so-called White Turks, during the ... is an obvious reference to Pamuk's memoir “Istanbul,” which exposed his family's emotional and financial ...

  • Turkish youth bridging the political divide. By Selcuk R. Sirin 27 Nov 2009 15:42 GMT
    ... Islamic and secular groups in Turkey have long struggled for political control. Since ... the median age in Turkey is 27, Turkish youth are caught in the middle of ... political party. Secular-leaning organisations, such as the Ataturk Thought Association and the Association in Support ...

  • Turkey turns its gaze to the East 27 Nov 2009 21:16 GMT
    ... he flew to Libya on Tuesday, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked what ... echo from Westphalia to Manchester. But the Turks have grown used to hostility from the ... its eastern neighbours,” said Mustafa Kutley, an Ankara-based contributor to the Turkish Weekly journal. “It ...

  • Religious freedom survey, November 2009 27 Nov 2009 15:56 GMT
    ... recent years the victims have been Christians. Turkish citizens have argued to Forum 18 that ... law. This problem faces all religious communities in Turkey, including those which were not present in ... 72 million, about three-quarters of them ethnic Turks. The next largest ethnic group are the ...

  • Ruling through manipulation and provocation: The unwritten history of Turkey 27 Nov 2009 01:13 GMT
    ... Atatürk’s house was an employee of the Turkish intelligence service. Following this provocative news, a ... creating this atmosphere. One was the media. In Turkey, the media played a dubious role. On ... an active “fight†against missionary activities. The Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO) prepared and distributed ...

  • Foreign Policy: How the West lost Turkey 27 Nov 2009 18:29 GMT
    ... the country from its Western allies, eroding secularism as it seeks tighter bonds within the ... the rise of an Islamist foreign policy in Turkey. The more troubling reality is that they ... Iran and Syria, Erdogan is playing to Turkish leftists and rightists, secularists and Islamists. He's ...

  • Emulating Western Lifestyles: Consumption and Carbon Footprints in Less Industrialized Countries 27 Nov 2009 08:16 GMT
    ... the status consumption of 36 married women in Turkey. The subjects were upper-middle-class secular women in their 30s and 40s. The ... language (or, occasionally French or German), not Turkish language, literature, or history," write the authors. ...

  • Former first lady's clothes mirror Turkey's journey 27 Nov 2009 14:30 GMT
    ... helped define the image of the young Turkish Republic. The purple dress with draped back ... head moved into the presidential palace in Ankara to the chagrin of Turkey's traditional secular ... offense to the emancipation of women that Ataturk had struggled to achieve and epitomized a ...

  • Roger Cohen: Iranians in Exile 27 Nov 2009 18:37 GMT
    ... Shortly before I left Iran on June 24, ... had banned the veil in a furious Ataturk-like push for Westernization. In 1979, the Islamic ... middle course — a non-theocratic but also non-secular path — had been bloodied before my ...

  • Are we being unfair to the new European president? 27 Nov 2009 14:22 GMT
    ... a book entitled , who has opposed Turkish entry into the EU on the grounds that ... party – hardly an endorsement of his secularist tendencies. • Some members of his party ...

  • A changing France set to celebrate a durable symbol 27 Nov 2009 08:14 GMT
    ... PARIS - Ascending and descending the Eiffel Tower the ... Rome or the Sultan Ahmet mosque in Istanbul. It does not tell the time, like ... that outsiders conform to French norms of secularism and cultural uniformity. ...

  • In Turkey, Trial Casts Wide Net of Mistrust (Today) 22 Nov 2009 07:42 GMT
    ... In Turkey, Trial Casts Wide Net of Mistrust By ... Ergenekon (pronounced ahr-GEN-eh-kahn), named after a mythic Turkish valley. Prosecutors contend that they planned to ... the nation's modern history and has captivated Turks unused to seeing political secrets aired in ...

  • Opinion leaders in Turkey welcome Wilders visit 25 Nov 2009 12:31 GMT
    ... for EU membership that led the secular Turkish elite, and especially its guardian, the powerful ... army is the greatest defender of Kemal Ataturk's legacy, the man who compared Islam with ... political Islam, has done more for democracy in Turkey than any of its predecessors. The government ...

  • Soul-Searching in Turkey After a Gay Man Is Killed 26 Nov 2009 03:33 GMT
    ... say is the first gay honor killing in Turkey to surface publicly. He was shot five ... he was.” That clash of values permeates Turkish society. While Turkey's aspiration to join the ... Bosporus in Istanbul where secular and religious Turks live side by side. ...


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