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...million of his fortune, though he has an unknown amount of money stashed overseas, had urged his supporters earlier Friday to accept the court's decision, whatever it might be. He spoke via video from an undisclosed location, having fled the country in 2008 rather than serve a two-year prison sentence for an earlier conviction on conflict of interest charges involving the sale of government land to his wife. He also told supporters that if the ruling went against him, he would take his case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ICJ, however, only decides...
...reining in the military's power - a goal of Erdogan's party for years. After it came into power, for instance, the party started using European Union-inspired reforms to pave the way for civilian courts to try military staff. The government has also backed a two-year court investigation into allegations that a bizarre alliance of military men, mafia bosses and secularists sought to create social upheaval by plotting to plant bombs and stage assassinations - all as a pretext for military intervention. Monday's arrests mark the latest step in these efforts - never before have so many military officers...
...situation is further complicated by questions surrounding the motivations of the AKP. Erdogan has yet to answer critics who say that the government's two-year investigation into the other suspected plotters is partially aimed at settling old political scores against secularist journalists and government opponents who have been rounded up in recent months. "This government has done nothing in the name of democratization except to rein in the military. That's why I see this process not as one of democratization but of substituting military tutelage with a form of civilian tutelage," says Cuneyt Ulsever, a liberal columnist...
...conclusion of her year-long acting deanship, Sorensen was appointed the dean of arts and humanities in July 2007. Following that two-year appointment, she agreed to serve for an additional year in the role, though she had planned on returning to full-time teaching and research in 2009, Sorensen wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...business in the Senate. On an almost daily basis, the Republican minority - just 41 Senators - stops bills from even coming to the floor for debate and amendment," Democratic Senator Tom Harkin wrote recently in the Huffington Post. "In the 1950s, an average of one bill was filibustered in each two-year Congress. In the last Congress, 139 bills were filibustered. The Republican abuse of the filibuster is unprecedented, routine, and increasingly reckless." (See 10 embarrassing things that didn't stop Americans from getting elected...