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Islam and the great Turkish headscarf war
Times Online July 18 2008
By Janice Turner
Turkey's increasingly Islamic Government wants to relax a ban on the Muslim headscarf as traditional secularists fight to maintain it - and Turkish women are caught in the crossfire. 
EU, Mediterranean countries to forge union
Xinhua July 13 2008
Leaders of the European Union (EU) and countries around the Mediterranean gather in Paris on Sunday to forge a union. The Paris summit brings together heads of state and government of all 27 EU nations and leaders from North Africa, the Middle East and the Western Balkans.
Turk PM urges France to loyal its commitments to Turkey accession
Hurryiet July 13 2008
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan urged EU President France to loyal its commitments in the accession talks with Turkey at his meeting held with French President Nicholas Sarkozy in Paris on Sunday, where he is attending the summit on the "Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean." Heads of state and government from 43 countries are in Paris for the launch summit of the new regional club, bringing together countries that line the Mediterranean as well as European Union member states.
Charge of ‘Insulting Turkishness’ Questioned
CompassDirect June 26 2008
Istanbul: Court requests review of accusation against two Christians under revised Article 301.
ISTANBUL. Twenty months after two Turkish Christians went on trial for allegedly “insulting Turkishness and Islam,” a local criminal court has requested a Justice Ministry review of one of three charges in the case.
Masterminds of Maltaya murders named in court
CompassDirect July 09 2008
MALATY: Defense turns trial of slaughter of three Christians into missionary witch-hunt.
Despite new court testimony naming a web of ranking local officials behind the slaughter of three Christians in Malatya last year, defense lawyers for the alleged murderers attempted to turn last week’s hearing into an investigation into Christian missionary activities.
