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Jul 23, 2008 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 Being driven to drink Thanks to a ban on smoking in more public places, I no longer have to dodge the smoke and windblown hot ash on the outside deck of the ferryboat home or plead with a taxi driver to put out his freshly lit cigarette in my feigned asthmatic wheeze. FIKRET ERTAN Columnists Taliban bolder and more sophisticated There are about three dozen US-NATO outposts in Afghanistan, situated mainly in the eastern regions bordering Pakistan. They are called "forward operating bases, and are they are staffed by both US and Afghan army troops. AMANDA AKCAKOCA Op-Ed The EU will show Turkey ‘tough love’ There has been a lot of speculation over the likely response of the European Union if the Constitutional Court decides to close down the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and/or ban 71 of its leading politicians. IHSAN YILMAZ Columnists Ergenekon terror vis-à-vis Kemalism We cannot understand the Ergenekon terror organization, its ideology and mentality without re-examining the Kemalism that is Ergenekon's root ideology. MICHAEL KUSER Business A new nation of citizen consumers Economists like to call Turkey the little China of Europe, citing its young population, growing middle class and burgeoning industry. DOGU ERGIL Columnists Military professionalism vs. civilian militarism Finally the Ergenekon indictment has been formulated and a case has been initiated into this putschist organization, labeled by the prosecutor as a terrorist outfit at the High Criminal Court, which sees crimes against the state. AYSE KARABAT National More and right now Regardless of what people may say or what may happen in the Ergenekon case, the trials in the minds of the people have already started. For some the defendants have been acquitted, while for others the case is still going on; still others considered Ergenekon and its ideology as being convicted long before the investigation was actually started. 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 AKCAKOCA ANDREW FINKEL ASIM ERDILEK ATA ATUN AYSE KARABAT BERIL DEDEOGLU BERK CEKTIR BULENT KENES BULENT KORUCU CEM OZDEMIR CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON DOGU ERGIL EKREM DUMANLI FARUK LOGOGLU FATMA DISLI FIKRET ERTAN HASAN KANBOLAT HUGH POPE HUSEYIN GULERCE IBRAHIM KALIN IBRAHIM OZTURK IHSAN DAGI IHSAN YILMAZ KERIM BALCI KLAUS JURGENS LALE SARIIBRAHIMOGLU M. NEDIM HAZAR MEHMET KAMIS MEHMET OGUTCU MICHAEL KUSER MUMTAZER TURKONE MURAT YULEK NICOLE POPE OMER TASPINAR PAT YALE SAHIN ALPAY SELCUK GULTASLI SUAT KINIKLIOGLU YAVUZ BAYDAR