mardi, 19 février 2008
TURKEY: WOMEN CAN NOT RELY ON THE ARMY FOR THEIR GAINS
(By Ertuğrul Kürkçü / Source : Bianet.org – Turkey) Those who believe that the issue of headscarves at university is a “legal issue” are totally mistaken. We are faced with a historical question: Does the new block of Islamist AKP and ultranationalist MHP with the passive consent of the army represent a moment of freedom?
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mercredi, 13 février 2008
US CAMPAIGN'08: CLINTON CAN'T EXPLAIN OBAMA'S WINS...
(By Ari Berman / Source The Nation - USA) The Clinton campaign has been busy inventing new reasons for why Barack Obama keeps winning state after state. "One of the hilarious side-effects of every Obama victory is the spin from Clinton quarters and its surrogates and supporters explaining why said victories 'don't matter,'" Markos Moulitsas blogged this week. Either the state has a caucus, or too many black people, or too many affluent people, or too many independent voters, or too many red staters. If only the Clintons had the perfect electoral map. If only. If only the Clintons had a coherent explanation for why Obama has so thoroughly out-organized and out-hussled them across the country in February. After all, there was no reason why Hillary Clinton, after spending eight years in the White House and amassing a hefty war chest of money and incumbency in the Senate, couldn't of won caucus states, or red states, or states with large African-American communities. The front-runner is supposed to win these places. If Obama had lost eight states in a row, his candidacy would most certainly of been toast.
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TURKEY URGENTLY NEEDS PEACE JOURNALISM
(By Erol önderoglu / Source : Bianet.org – Turkey) A reaction in the Turkish press to the fire in Ludwigshafen which killed nine Turks shows how great the need for more balanced reporting is. A newspaper accusing Germany of covering up a neo-Nazi attack is perpetrating racism itself.Read on
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jeudi, 07 février 2008
TURKEY: PARLIAMENT PASSES HEADSCARF CHANGES IN FIRST ROUND
(By Gökce Gündüc / Source: Bianet.org - Turkey) The bill put forward by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) suggesting constitutional change in order to allow women wearing headscarves to attend university was passed in the first round yesterday (6 February). After a debate lasting for over thirteen hours, amendments to Articles 10 and 42 were passed with between 397 and 404 votes. The second round of votes will be on Saturday (9 February), starting at 11 am. The votes on constitutional amendment in general were 113 against and 397 for. The first part of the bill was passed with 401 for and 110 against, the second part with 404 for and 99 against, and the third part with 404 for and 92 against. At each stage of the proposal, opposition MPs used their right to make suggestions and speak.Read on
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mercredi, 06 février 2008
TURKEY: NO COURT CASE AGAINST HRANT DINK'S LAWYER
(By Erol Önderoglu / Source : Bianet.org – Turkey) An Istanbul court dropped the case against Hrant Dink’s lawyer Erdal Dogan for writing that nationalist lawyer Fuat Turgut should be tried for threatening Hrant Dink. After lawyer Hrant Dink’s lawyer Erdal Dogan wrote an article entitled “The big brothers use the law very well” in the Aksam newspaper on 9 April 2007, lawyer Fuat Turgut filed a criminal complaint against him. Fuat Turgut, who was taken into custody and later released in the ultra-nationalist Ergenekon gang investigation, is the defense lawyer for one of the murder suspects in the Hrant Dink murder. In the article in question, Dogan had accused Turgut of threatening Hrant Dink before his murder. He had written, “When a person who should be prosecuted for targeting Dink, for threatening him and for obstructing a fair trial, then turns up as the lawyer for one of the murder suspects, this is where the law has nothing else to say.” Turgut had taken the case to court, demanding 5,000 YTL compensation. However, the Sariyer 2nd Civil Court of Peace decided yesterday (5 February) that there was no crime committed.Read on
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CAMPAIGN'08: SUPER TUESDAY - OBAMA WINS BIG ON INDEPENDENTS...
(By Ari Melber / Source: The Nation - US) The Democrats' Super Tuesday battle offers a revealing yet indeterminate snapshot of a Democratic Party that is unusually energized and firmly divided. Barack Obama won the most states, including pivotal red territory like Missouri, Georgia and Kansas, while Hillary Clinton ran up large margins in the blue strongholds of California, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Final estimates for delegates, which ultimately choose the nominee, were close and still being tabulated overnight. Across the country, over three million more voters turned out in Democratic primaries than Republican contests -- a trend that persisted even in traditionally conservative states. Turnout in Missouri's Democratic primary was a whopping 70% higher than the G.O.P. contest, for example, where Obama won by a point. The last time the state held two contested primaries, in 2000, Republicans beat Democratic turnout by 56%. Those numbers suggests that in both Red and Blue states, Democrats are bolstering their ranks with an intense contest between two compelling, celebrity candidates.17:24 Publié dans CHERRY PICKING , ENGLISH EDITION , USA | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : usa, super tuesday, campaign'08
mardi, 05 février 2008
HEAD-TO-TOE MUSLIM VEILS TEST TOLERANCE OF SECULAR BRITAIN
(By Jane Perlez / Source: International Herald Tribune) Increasingly, Muslim women in Britain take their children to school and run errands covered head to toe in flowing black gowns that allow only a slit for their eyes. Like little else, their appearance has unnerved Britons, testing the limits of tolerance in this stridently secular nation. Many veiled women say they are targets of abuse. At the same time, efforts are growing to place legal curbs on the full Muslim veil, known as the niqab. The past year has seen numerous examples: A lawyer dressed in a niqab was told by an immigration judge that she could not represent a client because, he said, he could not hear her. A teacher wearing a niqab was told by a provincial school to go home. A student who was barred from wearing a niqab took her case to the courts, and lost. In fact, the British education authorities are proposing a ban on the niqab in schools altogether.
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lundi, 04 février 2008
TURKEY: SECULARISTS - MAD MINORITY
(By Yusuf Kanli / Source: Turkish Daily News - Turkey) The secularists have now become the "mad minority" according to radicals and Islamist media. So said one of those newspapers propagating the replacement of the secular lifestyle in the country with an Islamic one from top to toe: Mad minority engulfed in panic! Reports in other Islamist media were no different... They were all stressing one common new perception: The naughty minority secularists... The prime minister was talking at the inauguration of the "political academy" of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Istanbul... "It's not us, it is those who create this atmosphere of confrontation with the assumption that allowing turban in universities will pose a threat to their lifestyle... The AKP is the guarantee of secularism..." Military is the guarantee of democracy.... The AKP is the guarantee of secularism... Why worry, let's relax and sit back!
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TURKEY: INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AT CARTOONISTS' INVESTIGATION
(Source : Bianet.org – Turkey) The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly criticises the preliminary proceedings brought against Turkish cartoonists Musa Kart and Zafer Temocin, both of the “Cumhuriyet” newspaper. Both cartoonists are being investigated for caricatures considered insulting to the President.
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jeudi, 31 janvier 2008
CAMPAIGN'08: FORMER CANDIDATE RUDY - THE YEAR IN STORIES
(By Michael Clancy / Source: Village Voice - USA) How does Rudy Giuliani go from being the presumptive Republican frontrunner in the 2008 presidential race to sitting on the sidelines in just a few short months? Stories like these certainly can't help. Here's the year in Wayne Barrett's Rudy reporting with a politico.com story thrown in for good measure.
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