Turkey Is Basic, but Immigrants Add Their Homeland Touches
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Thanksgiving, which began as a party for immigrants, remains the most accessible American holiday for many newcomers.
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Some Turks see participating in the Lebanon peacekeeping force as a chance to reassert Turkish influence in the region, decades after their Ottoman Empire ruled across southeastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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Friday&#39;s European papers offer a distinctly cool reaction as the prospect of &quot;Turkey in Europe&quot; appears to move one step closer.
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Newcomers in both houses could produce more than their share of individual standouts, especially among minorities.
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Turkey&#39;s marathon campaign to join the EU appeared to gain momentum on Thursday after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured the union&#39;s worried bureaucrats in Brussels, Belgium, that his governing Islamic party was not straying from Turkey&#39;s
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Turkey has become more democratic in recent years, and the competing forces of the religious and secular have burst into full view.
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Admitting mainly Muslim Turkey into the European Union would mark nothing short of a cultural, economic and political revolution for Europe, analysts say.
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BRUSSELS -- In a historic move that could extend Europe's borders to the edge of the volatile Middle East, the European Union recommended yesterday setting mostly Muslim Turkey on a course for full membership in the prosperous 25-nation bloc.
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Turkey has always shown two faces: One, confidently pointing toward Europe, is wealthy, urban, and secular; another, gazing eastward, is poor, rural, and devoutly Muslim.
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Polls open in Turkey's general election, which is seen as a key test of the country's secular tradition.
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Supporters found plenty of reasons to cheer the EU's recommendation Wednesday that talks begin on making Muslim-majority Turkey a member.
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The European Union&#39;s decision to begin entry talks with Turkey has received a widespread welcome. But Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will face tough questions at home about what he has signed up to.
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Turkey has made a start on improving cultural rights for its Kurdish minority under EU-oriented reforms, but must go further, European Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said on Tuesday.
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In a historic move that could extend Europe&#39;s borders to the edge of the volatile Middle East, the European Union recommended Wednesday setting mostly Muslim Turkey
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A vexing, and rather wicked, question that every immigrant grapples with is the following: how does one strike a balance between the homeland left behind and the newly-adopted homeland? Even more fundamentally, ...
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As a young man, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a gifted footballer, but not quite good enough to turn professional.
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The European Union's decision to hold entry talks with Turkey receives a widespread welcome.