{"id":293,"date":"2007-05-06T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=293"},"modified":"2007-05-06T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T19:46:51","slug":"news-and-analysis-50607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/06\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Ruling Islamic-oriented AK party withdraws its candidate for Presidency after Turkish Parliament failed to reach a quorum: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/7860B646-3A90-4A86-A5F0-0CB1AE9D1B7A.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Gul Withdraws from Turkey Poll<\/font><\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">New York Times editorial criticizes Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of support for Democracy in Egypt: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/06\/opinion\/06sun2.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font color=\"#800080\">Denial and Democracy in Egypt<\/font><\/a> (New York Times)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Using an article <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">blaming Islamic values on blocking development as its excuse, a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> putatively secular nation whose president is on the Reporters Without Borders watchlist of &#8220;predators of press freedom&#8221; increases the number of journalist critics of the regime <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">in prison to five:  <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2007\/05\/53767d26-a8e1-46c9-8a93-87d6ad1da544.html\">Azerbaijani Court Sentences Two Journalists<\/a> (Radio Free Europe \/ Radio Liberty)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Strong support shown for Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former Chief Justice, seen as test of strength for opposition and Musharraf: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/1E28915B-D556-4B5D-966C-D316D14B7AEF.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Lahore Crowds Mob Suspended Judge<\/font><\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Human rights groups detail torture methods used by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian detainees: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6630139.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Israel Accused of Prisoner Abuse<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling Islamic-oriented AK party withdraws its candidate for Presidency after Turkish Parliament failed to reach a quorum: Gul Withdraws from Turkey Poll (Al-Jazeera) New York Times editorial criticizes Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of support for Democracy in Egypt: Denial and Democracy in Egypt (New York Times) Using an article blaming Islamic values on blocking development as [&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-293","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\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}