EUROPEUS - cherry_picking

TURKEY: WOMEN CAN NOT RELY ON THE ARMY FOR THEIR GAINS

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:35:47 +0100

(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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US CAMPAIGN'08: CLINTON CAN'T EXPLAIN OBAMA'S WINS...

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:00 +0100

(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…

TURKEY URGENTLY NEEDS PEACE JOURNALISM

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:55:17 +0100

(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.

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TURKEY: PARLIAMENT PASSES HEADSCARF CHANGES IN FIRST ROUND

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:13:37 +0100

(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…

TURKEY: NO COURT CASE AGAINST HRANT DINK'S LAWYER

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:31:26 +0100

(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…

CAMPAIGN'08: SUPER TUESDAY - OBAMA WINS BIG ON INDEPENDENTS...

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:24:24 +0100

(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…

HEAD-TO-TOE MUSLIM VEILS TEST TOLERANCE OF SECULAR BRITAIN

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

(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…

TURKEY: SECULARISTS - MAD MINORITY

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:45:10 +0100

(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…

TURKEY: INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AT CARTOONISTS' INVESTIGATION

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:40:00 +0100

(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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CAMPAIGN'08: FORMER CANDIDATE RUDY - THE YEAR IN STORIES

noreply@blogspirit.com (EUROPEUS.ORG, FIRST EUROPEAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:14:36 +0100

(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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