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Jul 03, 2009 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 Fighting the last coup Generals are always preparing to fight the war that has just finished, or so the saying goes, but are Turkish politicians still fighting the last war with their general? AYSE KARABAT Columnists Stockholm syndrome on the democracy platform The cost of the Sept. 12, 1980 coup was incredibly heavy, and we are still paying for it. First of all, the coup government's constitution is still in effect. It does not matter how many articles of it have been amended, its spirit is there and it is reflected in every key institution and in all laws.   FIKRET ERTAN Columnists Afghanistan and China Afghanistan is not only a playground of influence for outside great powers such as the US, Russia and others, but also for regional powers such as Iran, Pakistan and India. IHSAN YILMAZ Columnists A final joke that will break the back of the AK Party It is not news that the oligarchic militarist establishment is not happy with the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and that they will do anything they can to stop democratization and positive transformation of the country. MICHAEL KUSER Columnists How to connect emotionally Whale crushes penguin in İstanbul. No, not at the famous Aqualand marine park -- it happened in the convoluted world of Turkish media. Catch all the gory details at 7. DOGU ERGIL Columnists Kirkuk and Iraqi elections: Trouble or reconciliation? Kirkuk is the center of Iraq's northern oil industry. This ethnically mixed city, with Kurdish, Assyrian, Turkmen and Arab residents, holds about 20 percent of Iraq's oil reserves together with its neighbors Mosul and Khanaqin. The oil fields in this area is said to contain an estimated 8.7 billion barrels in reserve. 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 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