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...historic highs under President George W. Bush, polls show Obama with an approval rating in Turkey above 50%. Even the typically antagonistic Turkish press - left, right, secularist and Islamist - were united in their praise on Tuesday. "He won our hearts," read the banner headline on the mainstream daily Vatan. More important, all referred to Obama's message urging democratic progress. "We must all change," said the top-selling Hurriyet...
...three-year prison term on men or women found guilty of sexual intercourse with someone other than their lawful spouse. Verheugen was not impressed. "Turkey should not give other countries the impression that it's putting Islamic elements into its legal system," he told the newspaper Vatan. Parliament is expected to approve the package but President Ahmet Necdet Sezer - a staunch secularist - may well use his veto. Still, Erdogan's conservative allies "have proved that when they wanted to they could put their foot down," Mehmet Ali Birand, a political commentator, told TIME. Party politics - nothing un-European about that...
...police are reported to have said the attack was set up by four former government officials, including ex-central bank chairman and former Deputy Prime Minister Khudaiberdy Orazov. All four are émigrés and active members of the anti-Niyazov opposition. Orazov, who is chairman of the Vatan (Motherland) opposition movement, dismisses the alleged attempt as "a filthy provocation" concocted by the regime to smear its opponents. "The years of Niyazov's rule have ruined Turkmenistan," Orazov told TIME. "We don't want him dead. We want him alive to stand trial" for alleged embezzlement and other crimes...
...cheers. Outside, a crowd waiting for the vote roared its approval and set off celebratory firecrackers. As the parliamentarians stood to sing the national anthem, a Creole woman placed garlands of ribbons around the neck of Prime Minister Henck Arron and Opposition Leader Jaggernath Lachmon, head of the Hindustani Vatan Hitkarie (Progressive Reform) party. Close to tears, the two longtime political opponents embraced...
...cheering among what remains of Turkey's free press-for the government happened to be celebrating the occasion by clapping 72-year-old Ahmed Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish newsmen (TIME, Jan. 18), into jail for violating the oppressive national press laws. His crime: reprinting in his daily Vatan (Nation) articles by U.S. Newspaper Tycoon Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers) that "belittled" Premier Adnan Menderes. For that, Yalman began a 15½-month sentence in Uskudar prison on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus...