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...That means Kurdish parties will probably be shut out of parliament again in the July elections: Although they garner majorities across south-eastern Turkey, they are not likely to get 10% nationwide. "As long as real democratization is not achieved, military operations will fail to reach their goal," says Ragip Duran, a prominent author and analyst of Kurdish issues. "More blood will be spilled. The Kurdish problem is not based in north Iraq, it's based in Turkey, and that is what needs to be addressed...
Also named as fellows were Ragip Duran from Turkey; Aytul Gurtas, also from Turkey; Andreas Harsono from Indonesia; Tatsuya Inose from Japan; Rakesh Kalshian from India; and Lee Kwangchool from South Korea
...kept gaining ground with their strange mixture of aging leaders forever trotting out the ghost of the dead leader and young politicians forever promising that they could run things more efficiently than Inonu. In last month's nationwide municipal elections, Inonu was plainly overconfident. While Justice Party Leader Ragip Gumuspala, 66, campaigned strenuously, covering thousands of miles a week, Inonu loftily limited his politicking to a single 20-minute radio speech. The results gave Inonu's Republicans only 37% of the vote; two smaller parties in Inonu's shaky government coalition were virtually wiped out. The winner...
Died. Husseyin Ragip Baydur, 65, Turkish Ambassador to Britain, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. (1945-48) and Turkish delegate to the U.N. General Assembly (1946-47); in London. A strong advocate of closer ties with the U.S., Baydur played an important part in Turkey's flat rejection of Russia's demands for joint control of the Dardanelles...
Everyone agreed that the new Russian attitude was wonderful, and spoke quietly so as not to disturb it. Even Turkey's Huseyin Ragip Baydur only indirectly referred to Russian demands on the Dardanelles by growling that "arms and military might are powerful [but] world opinion is far more important...