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Britain expected to postpone referendum
on EU Constitution
British Foreign Minister Jack Straw is expected to postpone the referendum on the new European Constitution, following the failure of the French and Dutch to ratify the charter. Analysts predict that if the British do postpone the referendum, it will signal the end of the charter. Straw is due to meet with parliament at 14.15 GMT on Monday. The ratification process is being followed carefully by Turkey, the next country seeking membership into the EU bloc. A concern exists that if the charter can not be ratified, the EU bloc that agreed to accession talks with Turkey will get gridlocked and may take years to move forward on many issues. |
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Talat: signing of the protocol
will not damage TRNC
President of The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Mehmet Ali Talat said on Friday as he was departing from Ankara's Esenboga Airport after two fruitful meetings over the Cyprus issue. Holding a news conference at the airport prior to his departure Talat said that Turkey's signing the additional protocol to extend the Customs Union to ten new EU-member states would not damage TRNC economically. President Talat was in Turkey for meetings in the run up to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's US trip early next week. |
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Loeb wins Turkey Rally
World Champion Sebastian Loeb won the Turkey Rally on Sunday, making it his fourth consecutive win. The French Citroen becomes the first driver to win the championship four times in a row since 1985. Loeb made the win look easy negotiating the roads well finishing just one minute ahead of opponent Subaru's Petter Solberg. "I'm very proud of the team," Loeb said after securing his victory. The rally which went through the Taurus mountains near to the southern Mediterranean tourist town of Antalya was well organized and is just another Turkish success story in hosting an international sporting event. |
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Erdogan to be met with less pomp and circumstance on this year's trip to White House
In this week's upcoming June 8 visit to the White House to meet with US President George W. Bush, it is expected that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hear the message: "Let's bury the past and strengthen our ties." But, according to US authorities, even the shape that PM Erdogan's visit to the White House is taking reveals current and recent problems in Turkish-American relations.
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PM Erdogan: Graduates of all high schools, religious or not, are our treasures
In a speech yesterday to the Justice and Development (AKP) Party's "First Regional Education Program," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that no one had the right to divide the youth of Turkey according to where they had gone to school. Said Erdogan, "You are valuable to us whether you went to the Imam Hatip (religious) schools, or a private secular school. Anyone who judges and divides on this basis is committing treason to the country." |
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Demirel: There should be a dress code law for the First Lady
Suleyman Demirel, former President of the Turkish Republic, in comments to CNN Turk, said that the turban worn by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's wife, Emine Erdogan, would not be enough of a reason to keep PM Erdogan from being chosen as President of the Turkish Republic. Demirel did however assert that rules should be brought into place according to the situation which would prevent Erdogan from taking to the post with a wife whose head was covered. |
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Strong words from Sabanci University professor for critics of Armenian conference
Reactions continue following the recent postponement of a conference entitled "Ottoman Armenians During the Collapse of the Empire" which was to be held at Bosphorus University. Strong comments on the matter made by Sabanci University Professor Halil Berktay were published in the Vatan newspaper recently, comments in which he compared retired diplomat Gunduz Aktan, who was a strong critic of the conference prior to its cancellation, to a Ku Klux Klan member during the 1960s fight against segregation in the US. |
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Hezbollah win second-round of elections
in Lebanon
The armed Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah and its allies claimed a massive victory in the second stage of Lebanon's elections on Sunday, sending a clear message of defiance to the US that the group will not disarm following last year's UN Security Council resolution 1559 that calls for the group to put down their arms. The US named the group a terrorist organization and called for the disarmament, a move not supported by the Lebanese authorities. Hours after the polling stations closed the group's leader Sheik Naim Kassem said that they had won all 23 seats of the region bordering with Israel. |
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Yuschenko to discuss the "turbot" fish and other matters on visit to Ankara
The architect of the "Orange" revolution in his country, Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko, will visit Ankara today as Turkish President Ahmet Necet Sezer's official guest. A subject scheduled to be discussed in meetings between the two countries is that of Turkish Black Sea fishermens' repeated violations of Ukrainian water limits in their search for the turbot fish. |
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