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Mar 10, 2010 Homepage News Business Columnists Op-Ed Arts & Culture Weekly Almanac Features Travel Life Portrait Women Leisure Sports Cartoons Interviews Weird But True Turkey in Foreign Press Columnists ANDREW FINKEL Columnists Counting the votes and counting the cost “Anger” was the way the BBC described the Turkish reaction to the US congressional committee’s vote to call for the recognition of the deaths of the Armenians under Ottoman rule as genocide. AYSE KARABAT Columnists Turtles can fly While I was in Egypt earlier this week traveling with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, there were two phrases that kept my mind busy. One of them was “Turtles can fly.” AMANDA PAUL Columnists US and Turkey: Time for the trading to begin Once again storm clouds have formed over US-Turkey relations. The approval of the Armenian “genocide” resolution by the US House Foreign Relations Committee has left Ankara furious and on the warpath. IHSAN YILMAZ Columnists The nature of the outgoing regime I am not sure if it is fortunate or unfortunate that the semi-authoritarian bureaucratic oligarchy in Turkey does not want to wake up to the domestic and international realities surrounding them and relinquish their undemocratic tutelary regime peacefully. MICHAEL KUSER Columnists The price of harmony Last week I noticed three new or refurbished wig shops on Tarlabaşı Boulevard. This struck me as I had thought of the old wig shops as historical oddities. DOGU ERGIL Columnists ‘The hidden constitution’ As the government is getting ready to launch a series of legal and administrative reforms to secure its position and to end the ongoing intervention of powers into each other’s turf, one of the likely areas of reform will be altering the content of the “Red Book.” IBRAHIM KALIN Columnists Turkey’s coup that failed The exposure of the plan hatched by senior military officials -- called the “Sledgehammer” plot -- to destabilize Turkey’s government, and the subsequent arrest of high-ranking officers, demonstrates the growing strength of Turkey’s democracy. Copyright© Since 1994 Feza Newspaper Publishing Co. Fevzi Cakmak Mah. A. Taner Kislali Cad. No:6 34194 Bahcelievler / ISTANBUL Phone:+90 (212) 454 1 454 (pbx), e-mail: advertise@todayszaman.com This web-site is generated by Zaman Newspaper's Data Processing and Internet Services. Columnists ABDULHAMIT BILICI ALI BULAC ALI H. ASLAN AMANDA PAUL ANDREW FINKEL ASIM ERDILEK AYSE KARABAT BERIL DEDEOGLU BERK CEKTIR BULENT KENES BULENT KORUCU CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON DOGU ERGIL EKREM DUMANLI FATMA DISLI FIKRET ERTAN HASAN KANBOLAT HUGH POPE HUSEYIN GULERCE IBRAHIM KALIN IBRAHIM OZTURK IHSAN DAGI IHSAN YILMAZ KERIM BALCI KLAUS JURGENS LALE SARIIBRAHIMOGLU MEHMET KAMIS MICHAEL KUSER MUMTAZER TURKONE MURAT YULEK NICOLE POPE OMER TASPINAR PAT YALE SAHIN ALPAY SELCUK GULTASLI SUAT KINIKLIOGLU YAVUZ BAYDAR