news blog | March 31, 2010 | 0 comments

What's news in Turkey?

One of favorite things to do when I visit another country is reading the newspaper. As I'm sure you've guessed, I've always got a hankering for consuming as much news as possible - but there's another reason. I love to see the lens through which another country sees the stories out there in the world. What are the important local issues and which international issues are deemed appropriate. Yesterday, as I was checking in to the hotel I found the Turkish English-language daily: Hurriyet Daily News.

This was yesterday's cover:


Yeah - a little bit of a different perspective over here.

What's in today's paper? Monday we looked at the story of the Switzerland voting to ban minarets. Turkey, as a country that's vying to be the first Muslim-majority member of the EU, has a unique perspective on this issue. Both Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke out against what they saw as a violation of basic human rights. I thought this quote from Erdogan was the most resonant: "I am speaking as Prime Minister of a country, of a civilization that proved mosques and synagogues can co-exist on the same street for centuries." Here's a link to the story online.

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