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...Ironically, Hilmi Kaya Turan, a leading member of Germany's Turkish community, has fond memories of trips to the G.D.R. Turkish guest workers from West Berlin found that a handful of hard cash ensured they were treated like kings by the Ossis. These days Turan counsels the long-term unemployed. Among the 200,000 Berliners of Turkish origin - many live in districts along the old course of the Wall - joblessness, which averages 14% across the city, hovers around 50%. There's yet another irony there. "Turks came here to work," says Turan. "We were Gastarbeiter - guest workers. And there...
...fewer than 50 channels, it will soon have hundreds, and eventually thousands. To keep things simple, you can stick to a few channels. Or you can open the floodgates. "Today TV is 500 channels but we're not far--maybe three years--from a 5,000-channel world," says Hilmi Ozguc, CEO of Maven, which powers Internet TV for media companies like CBS and Univision. "And in 10 years, we could easily be at 50,000 channels from all over the world. You'll have a fly-fishing channel and a channel just for Lost." Warner Music exec Alex Zubillaga...
...judicial and political systems to speed E.U. accession against Turkish nationalists, many of whose idea of "Turkishness" dates back to the days of the nation's founding father, Kemal Ataturk, and which they insist is threatened by European reforms. Others go further back, citing Ottoman imperial might. When General Hilmi Ozkok, head of the powerful Turkish military, heard of the ruling, he complained obliquely...
...This is serious ... we are just investigating if a debt is owed." NABIL HILMI, Egyptian lawyer, on his plan to sue Jews worldwide for "plundering" gold during their Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible...
...page bookmarked for the occasion, and read from the colloquial definition of the word infidel: "'without mercy, pitiless, without conscience.'" In that context, he says, "I would say it again." The government insists it was merely upholding the law when it shut the Uzan businesses down. Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said the Uzan utilities failed to pay debts and repeatedly refused to turn over their transmission lines to the newly formed national grid. Erdogan denied that his government was engaged in a political witch-hunt. "We have no personal vendetta," he said last week. "We have a duty...