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L’Aquila today, Istanbul tomorrow
The images, stories and numbers that continued to reach the world yesterday from L’Aquila, Italy, prompt not just our heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with the people of Italy. They also prompt painful memories of the recent past in Turkey in the face of official blundering. And they also prompt fears toward the future in what is the world’s most earthquake-vulnerable major city.
Comedy ’Marley & Me’ more than puppy love
LOS ANGELES - 'Marley & Me,' a canine comedy inspired by a memoir, and starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, is effective in its ability to evoke emotion. But if you have read the best-selling memoir by John Grogan that inspired the movie, you also know that it has more than its share of hanky moments
Who’s trying to fool whom?
As the global markets continue to fall, the bubble has not deflated yet we are told, and the Ministers of Finance of the G-20 are supposed to be working on implementing the decisions of the G-20 summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy did it again by convening another summit on Jan. 8 and 9 to bring together political leaders and thinkers to discuss globalization and the values of capitalism, if any remain.
Gönül's remarks evoke reminiscences in the Rums
The remarks by Defense Minister Vecdi Gönul last week that population exchange at the beginning of the Turkish Republic was necessary for the building of a Turkish nation state, have already been harshly criticized in Turkey. The minister himself has claimed his remarks were misunderstood. Yet, in his speech at the Turkish Embassy in Brussels, his position was clear, "If there were Greeks in the Aegean and Armenians in most places in Turkey today, would it be the same nation-state? I do not know what words I can use to explain the importance of the population exchange, but if you look at the former state of affairs, its importance will become very clear."
