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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.
Rasmussen, Gül and Erdoğan
Did Turkey really give Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen the thumbs up to head NATO? This is a question, particularly those from Denmark and the United States, are asking their Turkish journalist colleagues since the “we do not have any attitude against the prime minister (Rasmussen) or anyone else on that matter. He is one of the most important and one of the most successful prime ministers in Europe” statement of President Abdullah Gül in Brussels last Friday.
