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Mar 14, 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 A lot in a name As if the debt-ridden George Papandreou hadn’t enough troubles already. AYSE KARABAT Columnists Now and then “Hey! Nice to meet you! We were just talking about your country.  We are planning to go and get arrested over there so we could have some fun,” one of the men I was introduced to in Copenhagen almost 15 years ago told me when I was paying my first visit to Europe. AMANDA PAUL Columnists Turkey blames everybody but itself If there was an award for passing the buck and blaming others, Turkey would surely be near the top of the nominee list. It really never ceases to amaze just how often Turkey does this. IHSAN YILMAZ Columnists The Abant Platform, democratization and the weakest link The Abant Platform gathered in Ankara on March 12-13, and more than 100 academics, intellectuals, writers and a few politicians discussed for two whole days different aspects of democratization. MICHAEL KUSER Columnists Hidden economic woes My brother in San Francisco lost his job last month when the catering company he worked at went out of business. DOGU ERGIL Columnists Taliban vs. al-Qaeda? While US President Barack Obama pledged to pull out of Iraq, he took ownership of the Afghan war because “Al-Qaeda is still there.” 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