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		<title>Turkey: 1 Killed, 24 Injured After Balloon Crashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / SUZAN FRASER</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ANKARA, Turkey) — A hot air balloon collided with another balloon mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey and crashed to the ground on Monday, killing two Brazilian tourists and injuring 23 other people on board, officials said. The accident occurred above central Turkey&#8217;s Cappadocia region, when an ascending balloon struck another balloon&#8217;s wicker basket above it, causing a tear in the balloon&#8217;s fabric and sending it plunging to the ground. The accident &#8212; the second fatal one in Cappadocia since operations began more than a decade ago &#8212; has put the spotlight on balloon safety and Turkey&#8217;s civil aviation agency said it had launched an inquiry into the accident. As the tours become increasingly popular, there are questions as to whether too many balloons may be launching over Cappadocia at the same time. In 2009, a British tourist was killed and nine other people were injured when two balloons also collided. The passengers on board the balloon that crashed were mostly tourists from Brazil, Argentina and Spain, according to Abdurrahman Savas, the governor of Nevsehir province. Many had fractured bones and were being treated in hospital around Nevsehir. A Canada-based American tourist who witnessed the accident from another balloon, said and the crash occurred some 45 minutes after as many as 100 balloons had taken off for the early morning tour. &#8220;We could hear the radio chatter and we knew something was happening. There was a frantic urgent transmission: &#8216;Release your parachute! Release your parachute!&#8221; said Ross, whose balloon was some 200 meters (yards) away from the vessel that crashed. &#8220;It was probably some 300 meters in the air and it descended increasingly rapidly to the ground,&#8221; he said in a telephone interview. &#8220;There was a large tear in the fabric, probably some 10 to 15 meters long.&#8221; As his balloon flew directly over the crash site, Ross said he saw one person lying on the ground while other passengers were still inside the basket. Several ambulances and trucks were converging on to the scene.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86927&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Erdogan Visits the U.S.: 4 Problems That Won&#8217;t Be Solved</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/16/turkeys-erdogan-visits-the-u-s-four-problems-that-wont-be-solved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As domestic scandals clouded Washington, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived for a U.S. visit enveloped in his own fog. The Turkish Premier has been one of the most outspoken international statesmen on the need for intervention in the brutal Syrian civil war raging on his country’s border. The main agenda of his American sojourn was to seek support from an Obama Administration that has watched the conflict warily. At a joint press conference on May 16 in the White House’s Rose Garden, Erdogan and Obama stood in the rain and reaffirmed their shared wish that Syrian President Bashar Assad be removed from power. But much went unspoken. As Erdogan’s visit concludes, here are four geopolitical conundrums that underlie his country’s relationship with Washington. 1. Syria Erdogan’s clamor for action on the issue of Syria was given tragic reinforcement last weekend when two car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanli, on the Syrian border. Some 50 people died and dozens more were injured in an attack that Turkish authorities blame on agents of the Assad regime. Turkey now houses nearly 400,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the war and has lost 19 of its own nationals in isolated clashes with Syrian forces. Turkey is a member of NATO, whose founding treaty stipulates collective action if a member state comes under attack. Erdogan gestures to both those obligations as well as the heavy burden of the refugee influx when underscoring the need for greater international involvement in Syria. This would include the long-sought arming of the Free Syrian Army by the West. But Obama made no mention of weapons in his promises of aid. Despite being one of the rebellion’s earliest cheerleaders, Erdogan and his government appear to have only limited sway over the opposition, which has seen an influx of radical jihadist fighters swell its ranks of fighters on the ground. The focus now falls on a planned U.N. conference to be held this June in Geneva, with diplomatic prodding from the U.S. and Russia hopefully bringing both the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86752&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey Says It Won&#8217;t Be Drawn into Syrian Conflict</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/12/syria-denies-involvement-in-turkey-car-bombs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Suzan Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkey&#8217;s prime minister vowed Sunday his country won&#8217;t be drawn into Syria&#8217;s civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with close ties to pro-government groups in Syria. The bombings left 46 people dead and marked the biggest incident of violence across the border since the start of Syria&#8217;s bloody civil war, raising fears of Turkey being pulled deeper into a conflict that threatens to destabilize the region. Syria has rejected allegations it was behind the attacks. But Turkish authorities said Sunday they had detained nine Turkish citizens with links to the Syrian intelligence agency in connection with the bombings in the border town of Reyhanli, a hub for Syrian refugees and rebels just across from Syria&#8217;s Idlib province. Harsh accusations have flown between Turkey and Syria, signaling a sharp escalation of already high tensions between the two former allies. But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that Turkey would not be drawn militarily in retaliation. He insisted Turkey would &#8220;maintain our extreme cool-headedness in the face of efforts and provocations to drag us into the bloody quagmire.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War) &#8220;Those who target Turkey will be held to account sooner or later,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Great states retaliate more powerfully, but when the time is right&#8230; We are taking our steps in a coolheaded manner.&#8221; Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Berlin those detained were linked to a Marxist terrorist group. Sabah, a Turkish newspaper close to the government, reported Sunday that authorities suspect the leader of a former Marxist group, Mirhac Ural, now believed to be based in Syria, may have revived his group and ordered the attack. The group, Acilciler, was one of many Marxist groups active in Turkey through the 1970s and 1980s, and was long-rumored to have been formed by the Syrian intelligence agency. Many of its militants allegedly included ethnic Arab Turks belonging to a sect close to Syria&#8217;s Alawites. &#8220;Some believe that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86088&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Worry: How I Learned to Live With Bombs in Turkey and Israel</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/16/life-during-wartime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is unsettling the first time the doors of a shopping mall glide open to reveal a magnetometer, an X-ray machine and a person wearing a holster. Less so the second time, and the point quickly arrives when it’s no more remarkable than finding a maze of chrome posts and retractable belts standing between an airport’s ticket counters and the boarding gates. Put your phone, keys and coins in the tray and get on with it. I first acclimated to the diffuse background threat of urban bombing in the summer of 2002, when I moved to Istanbul, where small explosives had become the weapon of choice for assorted separatists and radicals in the 1990s. Turkey was a fine preparatory course for life in Israel, which on Tuesday celebrated 65 years of existence, not one passed in peace. Security is a way of life in this country — most famously at the airport, where the solemn questioning and extraordinary inspections are almost a feature of a tourist visit, one that visitors often relate afterward with the specificity of a lion sighting after a  drive through a game park. But the preoccupation is scarcely less present in Israel’s cities, where a decade ago, storefronts would from time to time disintegrate in the same burst of ignition and billowing dust that rose over Boylston Street on Monday afternoon. There are different ways to go afterward. The British “Keep Calm and Carry On,” as the sign says, stiffening the upper lip following the London subway bombings in July 2005 — a trait that held true from the blitz of World War II through the Irish Republican Army attacks of a quarter century ago. London barely missed a beat. Jewish Israelis take some pride in cultivating the same attitude. During the second intifadeh, which at its height in March 2002 meant something exploding somewhere inside Israel almost every day, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked the social psychologist Reuven Gal to measure how the Israeli public was bearing up under the stress. Politicians love anecdotes,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=82172&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Turkey&#8217;s Rebel Country, Women Lead the Charge &#8212; in Soccer</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/08/how-turkeys-best-womens-football-team-deals-with-discrimination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Hakkari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tahir Temel shuffles across the artificial turf, yelling at a defender and dodging errant free kicks, and points toward a snow-covered mountain soaring over the field, some 8 km east of Hakkari. Last summer, from where he stood in the middle of the town’s soccer field, one could see militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), ensconced in the mountaintops, and Turkish soldiers, stationed on lower ground, exchanging fire. “It made for quite a show,” Temel says, humorlessly. Wedged between Iran to the east and Iraq to the south, Hakkari, (pop. 70,000) has witnessed some of the worst fighting in an ongoing 30-year war between the PKK — listed by the U.S. as a terrorist group — and the Turkish army. Though armed clashes inside the city itself are rare, the sight of Kurdish kids pelting military vehicles with stones or Molotov cocktails is not. Army checkpoints abound. When Hakkari makes headlines — which is seldom — it is usually because blood has been shed. (MORE: Turkey&#8217;s Triumphs) A small group of people may soon change that: the local women’s soccer team, coached by Temel. In 2008, its debut season, Hakkari Gucu, or Hakkari Power, which plays in one of Turkey’s eight regional second divisions, won six games and lost two. Since then, it has only grown stronger, making the playoffs year in, year out and steamrolling the competition. Last season, Power became the only soccer team in all of Turkey, first or second division, male or female, to concede no goals. The women scored 72, won six games and lost none. Several team members have been called up to play on Turkey’s national youth team. A similar record would be considered impressive for most sports teams. For a squad that hails from one of Turkey’s poorest, most conservative and most violent provinces, it is no less than extraordinary. The PKK’s war against the Turkish army has reaped a grim toll on Hakkari’s economy. Unemployment, the legacy of a counterinsurgency campaign that flooded the town with tens of thousands of fleeing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79988&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s Big Week Means New Clout In An Emerging Middle East</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/28/turkeys-big-week-means-new-clout-in-an-emerging-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sandstorm was kicking up at Ben Gurion International midday last Friday, winds bad enough to cancel the departure ceremony for President Obama’s winning trip to Israel. But in a sheet metal trailer on the tarmac, Obama was calming another storm, three years along and finally running out of bluster. In the box with him was his host, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Nentayahu.  In Netanyahu’s hand was a cell phone. And on the other end of the line was the prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As arranged in advance by Obama and diplomats from all three countries, Bibi read out an official apology for the nine lives lost on the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara in May 2010, when Israeli commandos boarded the aid ship en route to breaking Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip.  Netanyahu’s words, along with a promise to compensate survivors and continue to ease strictures on the Palestinian enclave, ended a diplomatic cleavage seated in sheer cussedness, and restored what one Israeli diplomat calls “the triangle” – made up of the two most stable and prosperous democracies in the Middle East, and the superpower that needs them on the same side. If that was all that went Erdogan’s way last week, he might have come in second to Obama, whose tour of Israel left the supposedly wary Jewish population something close to twitterpated.  But Erdogan had already pulled off a diplomatic coup of his own &#8212; and just one day earlier:  Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known by its intials in Turkish as the PKK, had agreed to end the country&#8217;s bloody 29-year civil war and bring the Kurdish struggle into the realm of representative politics.  In the space of two days, Erdogan – once jailed himself for an Islamist proclamation – had brought to life the foreign policy slogan of Turkey’s modern founder, the rigorously secular Kemal Ataturk: “Peace at home, peace abroad.” (MORE: New Day for the Kurds: Will Ocalan’s Declaration Bring Peace With Turkey?) The story of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=78589&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Deepest Kurdistan: A Wary Welcome for Peace with the Turks</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/22/in-deepest-kurdistan-a-wary-welcome-for-peace-with-the-turks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Hakkari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked into Turkey’s south-easternmost corner, between Iran and Iraq, nestled by mountains studded with ghost villages, Hakkâri, a town of 70,000, is forlorn, violent and cold. It is March 21, the day local Kurds celebrate their new year and the coming of spring, but thick sheets of snow still cling to the mountains and fields. Usually, it’s after the snow melts that the fighting begins: when militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), ensconced in the mountains here or across the border in northern Iraq during the winter months, begin to launch attacks against Turkish military outposts. Last summer, PKK fighters attempted, in vain, to take control of parts of the province, inflicting significant casualties on Turkish troops and suffering tens if not hundreds of losses themselves, helping to make 2012 the bloodiest year on record in Turkey’s Kurdish conflict in more than a decade. This spring may yet turn out to be different. For once, the melting snow may herald peace, not war. At the local headquarters of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), Turkey’s main legal Kurdish party, dozens of men gathered to wait for a statement from the PKK’s jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, or Apo, as he is referred to by most Kurds. Öcalan, who was captured by Turkish special forces in 1999 and is serving out a life sentence on an island prison near Istanbul, had been in talks with Turkish intelligence officials for the past half year, prompting anticipation of a ceasefire deal. Even here in faraway Hakkâri, as Kurds waited for his words, there was hope, moderated by past experience and caution, that an end to a conflict that has spanned three decades and claimed more than 40,000 lives was finally within reach. (MORE: New Day for the Kurds: Will Ocalan’s Declaration Bring Peace With Turkey?) And so came the news. Onscreen, a pair of BDP deputies read Öcalan’s statement to a crowd of over 200,000gathered in Diyarbakir, one of the largest cities in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast. In front of the TV in Hakkâri, all was silence, except perhaps for the steady click clack of prayer beads turning between<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=77388&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France May Aid Syrian Rebels Unilaterally If EU Doesn&#8217;t Lift Arms Embargo</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/14/france-may-aid-syrian-rebels-unilaterally-if-eu-doesnt-lift-arms-embargo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France has significantly upped its efforts to unblock Western military support for rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by calling for the European Union to lift its arms embargo in the conflict. In the most emphatic sign yet that Paris intends to get weapons and ammunition flowing to anti-Assad fighters, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius said March 14 that if the E.U. and other international partners fail to heed that call, France may act on its own to bolster rebel fighting capacity. “The position we’ve taken, with [President] François Hollande, is to demand a lifting the arms embargo… [as] one of the only ways to get the situation moving politically,” Fabius told France Info radio Thursday morning. Asked what France would do if its partners refused that request, Fabius indicated Paris would act unilaterally, reminding listeners that “France is a sovereign nation”. (MORE: Syria’s Many Militias: Inside the Chaos of the Anti-Assad Rebellion) That push isn’t the first time France has sought to extend aid to Syrian civilians and anti-Assad militias beyond the medical and humanitarian assistance it now provides. During a Jan. 28 conference on Syria in Paris, Fabius warned that continuing to withhold armaments to democratic forces within the Syrian resistance risked seeing large and powerful Islamist members of the anti-government coalition seize control of the country once the conflict ended. Fabius more recently escalated the tone of that message in a March 13 editorial in the daily Libération by describing what he called a Franco-British initiative. That consisted, Fabius said of seeking to bring a swifter end to the escalating massacre of the civil war by offering military as well as political and moral support to rebel forces. &#8220;More than 70,000 dead and a million refugees, the systematic destruction of a country: the second anniversary of the launch of the Syrian revolution is an anniversary of blood and tears,” Fabius wrote Wednesday. “We must convince our partners, particularly in Europe, that we no longer have any other choice than to lift the embargo on arms to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75356&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Syria</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://world.time.com/category/middle-east/syria/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>The Big Prison By the Sea: Will Its Captives Change Turkey&#8217;s History?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/06/the-big-prison-by-the-sea-will-its-captives-change-turkeys-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pelin Turgut / Silivri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, Silivri is just another seaside town. Shuttered and sleepy in the winter, it throngs with ice cream stands and holiday-home owners from nearby Istanbul in the summer. Then there’s the prison. A few miles out of town, the massive new complex — so big that signposts call it &#8220;Campus&#8221; — is home to a landmark court case that has made Silivri one of the most politically charged words in Turkey. Hundreds of high-ranking Turkish military officers, including former Chief of Staff Ilker Basbug, are behind bars there — along with journalists, lawyers and several members of parliament. They are accused of plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government because of their opposition to its Islamist leanings. (MORE: The U.S. Embassy Bombing in Turkey — the Unusual Suspects) Across from its steel gates, a ragtag group of secularist protesters have set up camp in a field strung with fluttering red-and-white Turkish flags. They began arriving more than a year ago to attend the court hearings. Eventually they rented a field from a local farmer, installed prefabricated huts, dormitory-style beds and a wood stove and bunkered down. &#8220;This place is like Turkey’s conscience,&#8221; says Bugra Demiroren, 18, an economics major from Ankara, in Silivri on semester break. &#8220;There is so much accumulated anger and sorrow. What’s happening here isn’t normal.&#8221; Demiroren belongs to the Turkish Youth Union, a militantly secularist group that was formed in 2006 to protest Erdogan’s government and now has some 40,000 members. &#8220;2012 was a record year of growth for us,&#8221; he says. To Demiroren and people like him, Silivri is synonymous with the malaise of Turkish democracy under Erdogan. Silivri’s cells hold the captives of a government crackdown on a group called Ergenekon — named after a mythic valley to which Turks trace their origins. The Ergenekon purge began in 2007 as a police investigation into a shady network of military men, lawyers, journalists and intelligence agents who saw themselves beyond the reach of law. Many Turks initially supported it as a turning<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67437&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Embassy Bombing in Turkey: The Unusual Suspects</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/02/the-u-s-embassy-bombing-in-turkey-the-unusual-suspects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At approximately 1:15 p.m. on Feb. 1, a man later identified as Ecevit Sanli, 40, stopped outside a personnel entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara and detonated a belt carrying 13 lb. (6 kg) of explosives, as well as a hand grenade, killing one Turkish security guard, wounding several others and blowing himself in pieces. Amid the confusion that reigned over the ensuing few hours, Turkish news and social-media sites buzzed with the names of possible culprits. By late afternoon, the list that emerged began to read like a register of every conflict in which Turkey — NATO member, E.U. hopeful and rising regional power — has played a part over the past decade. First came the usual suspects. There was al-Qaeda, which has already been blamed for a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Istanbul in 2003. Then came the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has waged war against Turkey for almost three decades and whose imprisoned leader recently agreed to talks with the government. Then there was Syria, which has turned from best friend to ultimate foe since the beginning of the armed insurgency to unseat President Bashar Assad and which has been suspected, at least by the Turks, of having a hand in a deadly bombing in Gaziantep, a Turkish city, in August. There was Iran, which has warned Turkey that its belligerence toward Assad — and particularly the recent deployment of NATO Patriot missile batteries along the country’s border with Syria — may soon usher in another world war. The list closed with ultra-nationalists, rogue intelligence operatives and homegrown Islamic extremists. (MORE: Missing NYC Woman Found Dead in Turkey, Report Says) By the end of the day, however, it had become clear that the group that appeared most likely to have been behind Friday’s bombing was a Marxist organization: the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C). High-ranking Turkish officials, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared that Sanli, the suicide bomber, was a member of the group. He had been incarcerated between 1997 and 2002 on terrorism charges. In a lengthy, rambling<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67040&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriot Missiles Arrive in Turkey: How They Affect the Syria Equation</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/01/patriot-missiles-arrive-in-turkey-how-they-affect-the-syria-equation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Gaziantep, Turkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barely 40 miles from the Syrian border, Gaziantep, a booming Turkish city of 1.3 million people, seems worlds removed from the conflict engulfing its southern neighbor. Yet, signs of the war raging next door are not hard to find. The local economy, although still buoyant, is losing some of its spark. Exports to Syria have been halved since 2010, and are continuing to fall. A few years ago, many of the Syrians arriving in Gaziantep were wealthy traders from Aleppo, less than two hours by car. Now, most are refugees, thousands of whom are unable or unwilling to settle in Turkish camps by the border. Locals might occasionally grumble about the impact of the influx on rent prices, but most remain sympathetic to the Syrians fleeing the regime of President Bashar Assad. Family and religious ties &#8212; like the Syrian newcomers, the vast majority are Sunni Muslims &#8212; are one reason why. In recent weeks, NATO&#8217;s deployment of Patriot missile batteries along Turkey&#8217;s 560-mile border with Syria &#8211; in response to a formal Turkish request last November &#8212; has sparked protests across the country. Given the depth of anti-American sentiment in Turkey, it was hardly surprising that small demonstrations also took place in Gaziantep, where a contingent of U.S. Patriots arrived in January. Still, at least here, the deployment seems to have met with muted approval. Ever since Syrian artillery shells began straying into Turkey last fall, and especially since one of these claimed the lives of five people in the border town of Akçakale, local concerns about a large-scale attack have increased, says Gökhan Bacik, a professor at Gaziantep&#8217;s Zirve University. The Patriots, he says, &#8220;are observed here as a mechanism to appease those feelings.&#8221; Once up and running, NATO officials say, the total of six batteries &#8212; two each sent by Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S. &#8212; and manned by roughly 1,200 alliance troops will protect up to 3.5 million people from any potential missile threat. The Dutch and German batteries, based 100 miles west and 60 miles north of the Syrian border, respectively, were declared active<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66737&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Turkey Is Talking to Its PKK Nemesis</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/15/why-turkey-is-talking-to-its-pkk-nemesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pelin Turgut / Istanbul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turks and Kurds may be trading accusations over responsibility for the execution-style murder of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris last week, but they agree on one point: the timing was no coincidence. The assassinations came just days after Turkey announced a new bid to find a political solution to its long-running conflict with its Kurdish population. The message? Peace-building will be no walk in the park. That&#8217;s because the conflict is too well-entrenched and the players too accustomed to violence &#8212; some 40,000 people have been killed in 30 years of insurgency and counterinsurgency. And also because it reaches into Iraq, Syria and Iran, not to mention Europe, where thousands of Kurds marched the streets last weekend to protest the killings. &#8220;There is no question that this was a warning &#8212; it shows just how difficult a peace process is going to be,&#8221; says Sezgin Tanrikulu, a well-known Turkish-Kurdish human rights lawyer and member of parliament. &#8220;First, the choice of location in the heart of Europe, then the timing, and that they were all women &#8212; including one who was widely respected among Kurds &#8212; had a huge emotional impact.&#8221; He was referring to Sakine Cansiz, 55, a founding member of the outlawed Kurdish PKK in 1978 and a leader of its women cadres. Despite its designation as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union, the PKK retains considerable popularity among Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere. (MORE: Kurdish Assassinations in Paris Turn a Spotlight on Turkey-PKK Talks) Turkey&#8217;s government revealed earlier this month that it had begun talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK leader serving a life term on an island prison. These talks are aimed at establishing a ceasefire and eventual disarmament of the PKK, in exchange for addressing unspecified Kurdish grievances. Turkish media reported that Ocalan&#8217;s demands appear to be limited to greater cultural rights, constitutional recognition and regional self-governance. &#8220;Ocalan&#8217;s demands aren&#8217;t challenging for the state,&#8221; Ahmet Turk, a senior Kurdish politician, told reporters after visiting the PKK leader in prison<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63735&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish Assassinations in Paris Turn a Spotlight on Turkey-PKK Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French justice authorities scrambled for clues Thursday into the assassination of three women in a Kurdish institute in Paris — a crime that appeared to have clear political overtones. Two of the victims were shot in the head, in what Interior Minister Manuel Valls said was &#8220;no doubt an execution.&#8221; One of them was Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group that has waged an often violent Kurdish separatist struggle against Turkey and which has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the E.U. The slayings come at a sensitive time. Turkish media report that the Ankara government has recently made progress toward ending the nearly three decades of violence through unpublicized peace talks with some PKK leaders, included jailed PKK chief Abdullah Ocalan. Such peace talks are not supported by all PKK militants — a strategic division that may have caused a schism within the group. (MORE: How the Kurds Have Changed Turkey’s Calculations on Syria) Reports on Thursday quoted top Turkish politicians speculating that the Paris murders were a result of &#8220;an internal feud&#8221; within the PKK. But that claim was rejected by many of the hundreds of Kurds who gathered Thursday morning outside the Kurdish Information Center in Paris where the killings took place; instead, they blamed Ankara. &#8220;The murder of these three Kurdish women, at this time, is a political crime,&#8221; Berivan Akyol, a worker at the center, told French news channel i-télé. &#8220;These three victims &#8230; represent all Kurds.&#8221; The deceased had apparently been shot Wednesday afternoon and were discovered around 1 a.m. Thursday after concerned colleagues failed to reach them by phone. In addition to PKK co-founder Cansiz, a woman described as a representative of the Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress was among the dead. According to the Firat news agency — which is considered sympathetic to the Kurdish cause — two of the women were shot in the head and a third in the stomach by a silencer-fitted gun. French security officials tell TIME it&#8217;s too early to openly speculate about who was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63122&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Turkey&#8217;s Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/26/why-is-turkeys-prime-minister-at-war-with-a-soap-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crammed with trinkets, eunuchs, wine, giggly harem girls, seduction and intrigue, Magnificent Century — a Turkish soap opera based on the life and reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the 16th century Ottoman sultan — might at times appear gaudy, predictable and rife with historical inaccuracies. To the show’s estimated 150 million viewers, spread across Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East, however, it’s nothing more than good entertainment. To Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, though, it’s blasphemy. During a speech in late November, Erdogan rained fire and brimstone on the show’s makers. “That’s not the Suleiman we know,” he said, referring to the depiction of the Ottomans’ great ruler as a drinker and womanizer. “Before my nation, I condemn both the director of this series and the owner of the television station. We have already alerted the authorities, and we are awaiting a judicial decision.” (MORE: Turkish P.M. Erdogan: We Cannot Deny Our Ottoman Past) Erdogan has had little reason to complain about the wave of Ottomania that has propelled programs like Magnificent Century to record ratings. Intent on restoring Turkey’s links with the Balkans and the Middle East, and just as keen to use his country’s newly assertive foreign policy to win votes at home, the Prime Minister has probably done more than anyone else to rekindle Turkish nostalgia for the age of empire. (Critics allege that he likely fancies himself a modern-day sultan.) What Erdogan appears to resent, however, is any interpretation of the Ottoman past that is less than adulatory — or at odds with Islamic values. A sultan on horseback is fine. A sultan on a bender is not. Within days of the Prime Minister’s remarks, Turkish Airlines, the national air carrier, reportedly scratched Suleiman and his dancing girls from all of its in-flight programming. At roughly the same time, Oktay Saral, a lawmaker from Erdogan’s mildly Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), announced that he would table a law banning programs that infringe on “national values” by “insulting, denigrating, distorting or misrepresenting” historical personalities and events.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61197&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Turkey Is Already at War: Are Kurdish Militants Doing Syria&#8217;s Bidding?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/14/where-turkey-is-already-at-war-are-kurdish-militants-doing-syrias-bidding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Sirnak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The police station in Sirnak, a town of 60,000 in southeastern Turkey, remains almost entirely covered with blue tarp, obscuring the damage done to its edifice nearly two months ago when a group of Kurdish militants — seven or eight of them, according to a sales clerk at a nearby phone shop — blasted the building with rocket-propelled grenades from the surrounding streets. The date of the attack, Aug. 18, was meant to convey a message, the shop clerk explains. On that day 20 years ago, the Turkish army reduced much of Sirnak to rubble after rebels attempted to take control of the town. Dozens died in the fighting. Anniversaries are a big deal in Sirnak to most of Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast — and to the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK), the group held responsible for the August attack. The day before I arrived, shop owners across the city brought down their shutters to mark the passing of 14 years since Turkey browbeat Syrian authorities into expelling Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK’s founder and leader, from his base in Damascus. (Ocalan, captured and tried shortly thereafter, is now serving out a life sentence in a Turkish island prison on the Sea of Marmara.) Most of the shopkeepers close their doors voluntarily and out of sympathy for the Kurdish cause, the phone-store employee says. Those who demur risk seeing their shops firebombed by PKK sympathizers patrolling the streets. (MORE: Turkey Rattles Its Saber at Syria but Remains Unlikely to Invade) Over the past year, attacks like the one on the police station in Sirnak have become increasingly common. The most brazen came earlier this summer when the PKK attempted to capture and hold Semdinli, a town tucked between the Iranian and Iraqi borders, as well as surrounding areas. The Turkish army hit back with overwhelming force, deploying artillery, cobra helicopters and tanks, eventually repelling the rebels. By most counts, the clashes claimed over a hundred lives, adding to a grim tally that makes this the bloodiest period in Turkey’s Kurdish conflict since Ocalan’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=49726&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France Holds Seven Suspects Thought to Be in a &#8216;Terrorism Cell&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/11/france-holds-7-suspects-thought-to-be-in-a-terrorism-cell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[French justice officials have opened legal proceedings against seven of 12 alleged jihadists arrested in sweeps across France on Oct. 6, during which one suspect died in a shootout with police. Though insufficient evidence of terrorist plotting led to five of those individuals being freed on Oct. 11, officials said raids conducted the previous day — which uncovered guns, bombmaking materials and proof of intent to carry out strikes — allowed the other seven suspects to be placed indefinitely under detention as members of a “terrorism cell” determined to “commit attacks on national territory.” French authorities also revealed other evidence in the case corroborating TIME’s Aug. 31 exclusive report on the growing allure of the conflict in Syria among French Muslim extremists seeking jihadist experience. Some of the seven suspects remanded in custody intended to travel to Syria to fight alongside Islamist militants battling the regime of President Bashar Assad, according to authorities. Two were also described as having worked to recruit and facilitate travel of French extremists to Syria. Those developments on Thursday came a day after French authorities announced they had unearthed weapons in a Paris suburb and an array of materials that Paris prosecutor François Molins described as “useful in the making of what are known as improvised explosives.” The chemicals, pressure cookers, cables, alarm clocks and other components were reminiscent of homemade bombs used in the wave of attacks in France in 1995–96 that killed 13 and injured 281 — the last successful terrorist campaign in France using explosives. “In terms of dangerousness and extent of preparations, we’ve not seen any like this since 1996,” Molins said on Thursday in announcing the case against the seven suspects for “association with criminals involved in a terrorist enterprise.” He said a second legal dossier for “association with criminals seeking to join jihadist groups” had also been lodged against suspects who’d been planning to join combatants in Syria, or who&#8217;d helped others to do so. Molins said the seven suspects are 19 to 25 years of age, all French-born citizens and all recent<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=49419&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Next Front in the Syrian Revolt Be with Turkey?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/08/will-the-next-front-in-the-syrian-revolt-be-with-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Akcakale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We don’t want war, but this can’t remain unanswered,” says Mithat Acikkol, a resident of the southern Turkish border town of Akcakale, pointing to the house where a mortar bomb fired from Syria fell on Oct. 3, killing two women and three children. On the opposite side of the street sits another squat building, abandoned and pockmarked with bullet holes. A few hundred yards to the south, Turkish military vehicles patrol the border, their turrets pointed toward Syria. He would leave town if he could, says Acikkol, but is afraid to leave his property behind. “There are too many thieves at night.” The locals in Akcakale have grown used to the sound of bullets and shells tearing through the air — ever since Syrian rebels began battling the forces of Bashar Assad for the nearby border crossing in Tal Abyad in mid-September. Yet, for many Turks, it was the Oct. 3 shelling that finally brought home the idea that their country — never a spectator to begin with — risked becoming directly embroiled in the civil war raging across Syria. Just two years ago, the Turkish and Syrian governments were in the midst of a historical rapprochement, lifting visa restrictions, signing free-trade agreements and holding joint cabinet meetings. Things soured after the eruption of protests in Syria at the beginning of last year. Turkey initially offered to mediate, calling for a halt to the fighting and urging Assad to engage with the opposition. After its pleas fell on deaf ears, Ankara gave up. Its decision to host the Syrian opposition in exile — as well as leaders of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) — proved the final nail in the coffin. Tensions increased in late June when the Syrian military downed a Turkish army jet flying over the eastern Mediterranean. (PHOTOS: Syria&#8217;s Slow-Motion Civil War) Since Oct. 3, not a single day has gone by without Syrian shells landing on Turkish soil. (Each time, Turkish troops have responded by pounding military targets in Syria with artillery volleys.) On Monday,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=48767&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey Rattles Its Saber at Syria but Remains Unlikely to Invade</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/04/turkey-rattles-its-saber-at-syria-but-remains-unlikely-to-invade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pelin Turgut / Istanbul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ankara feels compelled to respond to shelling that killed five Turks, but is in no position to intervene alone in Syria's civil war<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=48147&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey Retaliates Against Syria: How It May Give Rebel Soldiers Cover to Expand</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/03/turkey-retaliates-against-syria-how-it-may-give-rebel-soldiers-cover-to-expand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Abouzeid / Antakya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not the first time Syria artillery has hit the Turkish town of Akcakale. But this time Ankara struck back—and the attendant show of force may just give the enemies of Bashar Assad a chance to assert themselves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=47988&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey’s Massive Military Trial Opens Old Wounds and New Anxieties</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/24/turkeys-massive-military-trial-opens-old-wounds-and-new-anxieties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pelin Turgut / Istanbul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was meant to be a milestone for Turkish democracy. In a trial that ran for 21 months, more than 300 senior military officers — including two ex-generals — were accused of seeking to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted government in 2003. Never again would hard-line secularist generals — the arbiters of political life for decades by force of coups or behind-the-scenes coercion — be able to act with impunity. The trial — dubbed Sledgehammer — was to represent the end of an era when the top brass believed themselves beyond the reach of the law, justified in their actions because Turks needed protection from radical Islam and could not know what was best for themselves. On Friday a judge in a crowded, purpose-built courthouse outside Istanbul handed down jail sentences ranging from 13 to 20 years against 325 officers. But instead of writing an epilogue to a divisive era, a nation already bitterly polarized over its future became even further divided. (MORE: 10 Questions for Recep Tayyip Erdogan) The defendants — including two former generals and a former admiral — were accused of planning to bomb mosques at prayer time and to shoot down a Greek fighter jet in an attempt to stir public unrest and cause the downfall of Erdogan&#8217;s Islamic-rooted government, now in its third term in power. But the trial was dogged from the start by allegations of improper conduct, false evidence and apparent anomalies, such as dozens of officers nowhere near an incriminating war-games exercise and CDs said to have been recorded in 2002–03 but using Word 2007 software. The defense repeatedly complained that its counterevidence was not heard, and key witnesses were not called to testify. Erdogan, critics charged, used the trial as a pretext to lock away his former opponents. &#8220;I am not convinced by the verdict, and I don&#8217;t believe it is fair because the court ignored much of the counterevidence that emerged during the trial,&#8221; says Sedat Ergin, columnist at the top-selling Hurriyet daily. &#8220;From here on there is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=46470&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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