{"id":290,"date":"2007-05-02T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=290"},"modified":"2007-05-02T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T16:57:13","slug":"news-and-analysis-5207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/2\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Turkish Constitutional Court strikes down Islamic-oriented party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential bid, described by some constitutional law experts as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unfortunate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and denounced by Prime Minister Erdogan as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bullet fired at democracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"detaybaslik-font\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/tz-web\/detaylar.do?load=detay&#038;link=110073\"><font size=\"2\">Court Cancels Presidential Vote, Early Elections Loom<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Zaman)  <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"detaybaslik-font\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adnki.com\/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&#038;loid=8.0.410091944&#038;par=0\"><font size=\"2\">Turkey: PM Lashes Out at Constitutional Court<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Adnkronos International)  <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">&#8220;Instead of improving ourselves, we are returning back to the Stone Age.&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201cUm Mohammad, Baghdad resident <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/01\/AR2007050101798_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">In Baghdad, Survival Depends on Simpler Ways<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<u>  <\/u><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">&#8220;We can no longer accept civilian casualties. It is becoming a heavy burden\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201cPresident Hamid Karzai <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/02\/AR2007050200806_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">CORRECTED: Karzai Says Afghans Lose Patience Over Killings<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Reuters)<u>  <\/u><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">New York Times editorial slams Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s withdrawal of its voluntary\u00e2\u20ac\u201cnot legally mandated\u00e2\u20ac\u201c decision to get a court warrant before <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=197\"><font size=\"2\">electronically spying<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> on Americans: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/02\/opinion\/02wed1.html\"><font size=\"2\">Spying on Americans<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/02\/washington\/02intel.html?pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">Administration Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff advocates for an <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=209\"><font size=\"2\">immoral and ineffective<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> race-based approach to preventing UK-based terrorists from infiltrating America: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/02\/world\/europe\/02britain.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Constitutional Court strikes down Islamic-oriented party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential bid, described by some constitutional law experts as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unfortunate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and denounced by Prime Minister Erdogan as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bullet fired at democracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Court Cancels Presidential Vote, Early Elections Loom (Zaman) Turkey: PM Lashes Out at Constitutional Court (Adnkronos International) &#8220;Instead of improving ourselves, we are returning back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}