From J,S (with thanks) - detailed expose of a current usurping of another Australian University. Arab money at work. John Howard is right; the economy has never been in better shape - everythings for sale.
University Chairs sponsored by Islamic Groups
The ACU is establishing a centre for inter-religious dialogue studies.
How independent is the position?How is the position being funded?Will the position be held by a Muslim?How much liaison with the Islamic academics and the Islamic community will occur? (This is a stated aim of the Chair).How will ‘inter-religious dialogue’ be affected?Who is FETHULLAH GULEN - and who is Said Nursi? (These are important because the person holding the Chair is supposed to educate people in the teachings of these two men!)
Here is the article from the AIS announcing the Centre and the position. It announced the Chair as “for Islamic Studies and Interfaith Dialogue” however the Job ad changes this to “FETHULLAH GULEN CHAIR IN THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND MUSLIM- CATHOLIC RELATIONS”.
Fethullah Gulen Chair for Islamic Studies at Australian Catholic University
On Thursday, 31 August 2006 Australian Catholic University organized a ceremony marking the establishment of a centre for inter-religious dialogue studies. The event also witnessed the official signing of an agreement between the AIS and the University for the establishment of a Chair for Islamic Studies and Interfaith Dialogue, with the Faculty of Arts.
The Australian Catholic University also invited his eminence Fethullah Gulen or a nominee of his choice to the official launch of the centre.
The objectives of the centre is to:
* promote the further development of inter-religious harmony and dialogue in Australia and in the Pacific-Asia region.
* Educate future leaders in the humanities, business, health sciences, social sciences and theological sciences in the teachings of Islam, as expounded in Fethullah Gulen’s writing and in the teachings of Said Nursi.
The Chair of Islamic Studies and Interfaith dialogue was named “Fethullah Gulen Chair”.
His eminence M. Ali Sengul attended the ceremony on behalf of F. Gulen.
Mr Orhan Cicek, executive advisor of AIS entered into a memorandum of understanding with the ACU, officially launching the Chair.
But first see Australian Intercultural Society press release in regards to the ACU Fetullah Gulen Chair:
The objectives of the center is to:
promote the further development of inter-religious harmony and dialogue in Australia and in the Pacific-Asia region.
Educate future leaders in the humanities , business, health sciences, social sciences and theological sciences in the teachings of Islam, as expounded in Fethullah Gulen’s writing and in the teachings of Said Nursi.
http://www.intercultural.org.au/events_2007/gulen_chair/index.htm
Source: The Australian
Job Code: 2185015
Location: Aus-Other, Australia
Date: 01-08-2007
Residency: Must have residency
Job Type: Permanent
Job Description
ACU NATIONAL
Australian Catholic University
FETHULLAH GULEN CHAIR IN THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND MUSLIM- CATHOLIC RELATIONS
(Full-time, 3 Year Fixed-term Appointment)
FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES (VICTORIA) - St Patrick’s Campus, Fitzroy
ACU is a public university open to all, with six campuses located at Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Ballarat. Australian Catholic University (ACU National), in partnership with the Australian Intercultural Society (AIS), invites applications for the newly established Fethullah Gulen Chair in the Study of Islam and Muslim- Catholic Relations. Initiation and conduct of leading-edge research programs relevant to the Missions of the University and the Australian Intercultural Society will be a primary focus for the appointee.
The successful applicant will be responsible for providing academic leadership in relevant research and scholarship, teaching and learning, and community engagement related to the study of Islam and inter-religious dialogue. In collaboration with other University staff and with the AIS, the appointee will work effectively to foster productive links with external national and international academics and with members of the Islamic community. Significant outcomes of this appointment will include contributions to professional knowledge in the fields of the study of Islam and inter-religious dialogue and its applications in community environments.
Applicants must have a significant academic profile in higher education, including academic leadership in teaching and learning and research and scholarship in the study of Islam and inter-religious dialogue. The successful applicant will demonstrate superior interpersonal and communication skills and show a firm commitment to the Mission, Catholic ethos and values of the University.
The Professor of the Study of Islam and Muslim-Catholic Relations will be located at the Melbourne Campus, and will work in conjunction with the Institute of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education.
Full details of selection criteria are provided in the position information package obtainable by contacting Junne Kamis by telephone (612) 9739 2909, facsimile (613) 995 3715 or email J.Kamis@vcy.acu.edu.au Detailed or confidential enquiries can be made to Professor Gail Crossley, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, by telephone (613) 9953 3356, facsimile (613) 9953 3715 or email DeanFAS@patrick.acu.edu.au.
The Professor will be offered an appointment initially for three (3) years, with a review after two (2) years, and a potential extension following review. Total remuneration for a Professor (Academic Classification Level E) from Saturday, 14 July 2007 will be valued at $143,110 per annum, including salary component of $122,316 per annum, employer contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading. The University offers a comprehensive salary packaging service.
Applications including full details of qualifications and experience, together with the names and contact details of three referees should be forwarded by Friday, 7 September 2007 to:
Dr John Barclay, Director of Personnel Relations and Equal Opportunity
ACU National, PO Box 968, NORTH SYDNEY NSW 2059, AUSTRALIA
The University reserves the right to seek independent assessment of any candidate’s suitability for appointment, to invite any person to be a candidate, or not to make an appointment.
Equal Opportunity and Privacy of personal information is University policy. For more details visit www.acu.edu.au
Contact: Junne Kamis - Aus-Other, Australia Phone: (612) 9739 2909 Fax: (613) 995 3715
http://jobs.careerone.com.au/texis/jobsearch/print.html?id=46afef9348d1030
Islamic scholar from Turkey in the 1930s.
c) “Said Nursi’s Teachings on the People of the Book “
At http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/713670333
“Said Nursi’s Teachings on the People of the Book: a case study of Islamic social policy in the early twentieth century”
ZEKI SARITOPRAK
Excerpt from article:
Nursi says: ‘World peace will be possible only via Islam and Christianity, which will join and be allied with the Qur’a¯n.’ 39 Commenting on a prophetic tradition about the coming of Jesus, Nursi says: Christianity will be purifed and rid of all the superstitions and misbeliefs. It will unite with the Islamic religion … If Christianity and Islam remain separate, they will be defeated by the atheism movement. But if they are united, they will be able eventually to defeat and destroy the atheism movement.
In another passage of his writings, Nursi coins the term ‘Muslim Christians’ to describe the followers of Jesus. “The zealous and devoted Christian society, rightly deserving the title of Muslim Christians, will attempt to unite the two (Christianity and Islam) and will destroy and kill the Anti-Christ committee that tries totally to destroy the holy and sacred things with the aim of denying Almighty God’s divinity. This Christian society will eliminate the Anti-Christ and save human beings from atheism, under the leadership of Jesus Christ.”
The document is attached and some similar statements (see d) are online at http://www.nur.org/treatise/articles/muslim_christian_alliance.htm
d) Nur website - ‘Muslim-Christian Alliance’
The Nur website has a section titled ‘The Muslim-Christian Alliance at this link: http://www.nur.org/treatise/articles/muslim_christian_alliance.htm
It expands on the claims made in the previous point - there are 22 separate points - some in Q and A form, some with quotes and references - useful information…
This is the sort of thing said:
9- “The Christianity (Christian doctrine) will surrender to Islam:
Christianity will either be vanished or purified, and will surrender to Islam and give up weapons.
Repeatedly torn out, came up eventually to Protestantism, Christianity did not see real improvement and righteousness in Protestantism.
Curtain again torn out and fell into absolute corruption, however some of them approached to Unity of God and will have prosperity, there. Already prepared again and started to get torn up. If not fails, it will find purity and ingenuousness within the meaning of Islam.
This is a great secret symbolized as the prophet Muhammad said “Jesus Christ will act under Islamic Law and become a Leader of my Nation.” (Sozler, page: 703)
“Religious movements like “Nurculuq,” whose founder is considered to be Academic theologian Said Nursi, are also gaining ground.”
“The followers of the Nur leader Fetulah Gulen, whose stated goal is the establishment of a single Islamic Shari’ah state in the region, have imported his teachings into Azerbaijan from Turkey.”
“In contrast to Wahhabism, Nur ideology prefers a peaceful assumption of power, therefore they actively push their people into government structures.”
Russian paper says Islamic groups pose “serious” problems for Azerbaijan
3 May 2005 - BBC Monitoring Caucasus
English (c) 2005 The British Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. No material may be reproduced except with the express permission of The British Broadcasting Corporation.
Excerpts:
A Russian newspaper has said that various religious missionaries have stepped up their activities in Azerbaijan which poses “serious problems” for the country. Nezavisimaya Gazeta said that Azerbaijan might turn into “an arena for struggle between various models and movements of Islam - Arab, Turkish and Iranian” religious groups. It said that the most radical of all is Wahhabism which could turn into “a force capable of influencing the socio-political life of the country”. The following is the text of Sohbat Mammadov’s article headlined “Into the Mosque out of Hopelessness” report by the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 25 April; subheadings have been inserted editorially:
Teachers of Nurculuq [Nursism] appeared in Azerbaijan in 1992. One of the reasons for the heightened interest in Azerbaijan may be their striving to counterbalance the increasing activity of radical Iranian Shi’i organizations. In contrast to Wahhabism, Nur ideology prefers a peaceful assumption of power, therefore they actively push their people into government structures. In addition, according to information from the Baku mass media, almost half of the Turkish business in the Azerbaijan market in concentrated in the hands of this religious movement. They have already opened more than a dozen educational schools and higher schools here.
Full article on BBC archive - cost $2.95 - (extracts provided by my source) see
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-au%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLD&um=1&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22A+Russian+newspaper+has+said+that+various+religious+missionaries+have+stepped+up+their+activities%22
f) Interview with Fethullah Gulen
This interview was published in the journal Muslim World,Volume 95 Issue 3 Page 447-467, July 2005 .The full article is in the attachment.
Although these thoughts on individualism are true for some cultures and some regions of the world, they are not true for every religion, for every thought, and for every community. From the perspective of
This is because humans are either both free with no acceptance of any moral values and rebellious with no moral criteria, or they are servants who are dependent on God and seriously obedient to His commands.
g) Russia Takes Over Fethullah Gulen School For Ties To Islamist Sect
From the source below…
“Mainstream Turkish daily Milliyet reported that the administration of Fethullah Gulen’s Turkish school in St.Petersburg is taken over by Russian authorities due to suspicions that this and other Gulen schools in the country were tied to the Nur (Light) Islamist sect of which Fethullah Gulen is the leader. An investigation committee found that the school’s curriculum was not in line with Russia’s Education Ministry’s guidelines; most of the 24 Turkish teachers did not have appropriate visas and only four of the teachers were certified to teach. So far 10 similar Turkish schools have been closed in Russia and many Turks have been deported.
[For more on Fethullah Gulen please see “The Upcoming Elections in Turkey (2): The AKP’s Political Power Base”)
http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/2608.htm
Erdogan, AKP backer Fetullah Gulen finds support for Islamist cause from Australia’s Catholic University
From the website of the Turkish based Australian Inter-Cultural Society:
On Thursday, 31 August 2006 the Australian Catholic University organized a ceremony marking the establishment of a centre for inter-religious dialogue studies . The event also witnessed the official signing of an agreement between the AIS(Australian Inter-Cultural Society) and the University for the establishment of a Chair for Islamic Studies and Interfaith Dialogue, with the Faculty of Arts .
The objectives of the centre is to:
promote the further development of inter-religious harmony and dialogue in Australia and in the Pacific-Asia region. Educate future leaders in the humanities, business, health sciences, social sciences and theological sciences in the teachings of Islam, as expounded in Fethullah Gulen’s writing and in the teachings of Said Nursi.
The Chair of Islamic Studies and Interfaith dialogue was named “Fethullah Gulen Chair”.
( Source: http://www.intercultural.org.au/events_2007/gulen_chair/index.htm . See also inet.acu.edu.au/Annual_Report_06/common.html )
R. Krespin , director of MEMRI’s Turkish Media Project has written: (see http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA37507)
According to an investigative series by columnist Hikmet Cetinkaya in Cumhuriyet (June 22-July 4, 1999), in the 1970s, Fethullah Gulen was convicted for his Islamist activities in Turkey. During this decade, he organized and ran secret summer camps in the mountains of western Turkey where children as young as elementary school age were taught Islam, and taught to hate nonbelievers and to become jihad fighters. These camps were guarded by armed “brothers.” Some were run in cooperation with the Suleymancilar sect.
In 1999, footage was aired on Turkish television of sermons delivered by Fethullah Gulen to a crowd of followers, in which he revealed his aspirations for an Islamist Turkey ruled by shari’a as well as the methods that should be used to attain that goal. In the sermons, he said ,amongst other things:
“You must move in the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centres… until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria… like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete, and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it… You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey….”
By the time the above was aired, Gulen had already left the country for the U.S., supposedly for health reasons. A year later, in 2000, he was indicted in absentia for attempting to change Turkey’s system of government and for “forming an illegal organization with the purpose of establishing an Islamist state.” It was from there that he built his international Islamist community.
At a 2003 judicial hearing, it was decided to postpone Gulen’s trial, subject to reprocessing if he was indicted again for a similar crime in the next five years. In May 2006, the AKP government modified the criminal code regarding acts of terror, and Gulen was acquitted.
(http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA37507)
The AKP Government’s intervention in Gulen’s matter is not surprising .
Fethullah Gulen is thought to be one of the richest Turks in the world. He lives on a large estate in Pennsylvania, and it is from there that he runs his million-member community. The prevailing perception in political circles in Turkey is that Fethullah Gulen is the power behind many Islamist politicians, especially in the AKP.
(http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA37507)
This then brings us to another wealthy businessman that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended,and who appears to have financially supported at least one individual close to the AKP:
On July 20, 2006 a Turkish administrative court overturned a government order to seize the assets of Yassin Al Kadi, designated as an individual associated to Al Qaeda and the Taliban by the UN Security Council. The decision was apparently made on technical grounds.
The decision came days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended al-Qadi as a “charitable person” and after the Turkish press revealed that Yassin Al Kadi had received funds from a close advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister.
This unprecedented Turkish ruling clearly contradicts the international obligations of the Turkish government
( see http://jcb.blogs.com/jcb_blog/2006/07/a_turkish_court.html and other postings by Jean Charles Brisard on this site)
Readers will recall that Yassin Al-Kadi also has associaites and businesses in Australia- see www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2006/08/yassin_alkadist.html
Chief among Al-Kadi business associates in Australia , Dr Rahim Ghouse, is known to have close contacts with the local Turkish community.As well, Anwar Ibrahim, whom Dr Ghouse represents in Australia is known to have close rapport with Erdogan and the AKP.( see http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2007/02/yassin_alkadia_.html)
The Australian Catholic University (ACU) and its Vice-Chancellor Peter Sheehan have refused to provide any details of how or who will be funding the Fethullah Gulen Chair.
i) Not the only Seminary or University to get funding from F Gulen supporters!
Seminary To Get $2 Million For Islamic Studies Position
Faculty Chair Funding To Promote Understanding Of The Contemporary Faith
November 10, 2006 - Report By Courant Staff
“Hartford Seminary will receive a gift of $2 million from a Muslim community in Turkey to advance the study of contemporary Islam.
This is the largest gift from the Muslim community in the history of Hartford Seminary, said David S. Barrett, director of public and institutional affairs at the seminary. The largest gift ever received by the seminary was $6 million in 1997, he said.
The donation, announced by the seminary Thursday, will be used to fund a faculty chair bearing the title of professor of contemporary Islamic studies. The donor, Ali Bayram, a Turkish scholar and representative of the Muslim community made up of followers of Turkish theologian and religious leader Fethullah Gülen, said he hopes the chair will help in the understanding of contemporary Islam.
“For many unfortunate reasons, Islam has been greatly misunderstood,” Bayram stated in a release issued by the seminary. “Neutral scholarly knowledge on Islam is missing from the discussion and not highlighted.”
A key aspect of the gift is that, in accordance with Islamic principles, it may not be invested in companies or funds that are based on the sale or promotion of alcohol, gambling or tobacco.
Hartford Seminary houses the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. The chair will be housed in the Macdonald Center to enhance its program.
The seminary has worked with the Gülen community for many years. The community, which condemns violence in the name of Islam, has several students studying at the seminary, and has had scholars come to the seminary for sabbatical work. Its followers favor modernism, tolerance, dialogue and democracy without sacrificing religious precepts.
“The study of Islam is especially important in these difficult times, and this gift will allow us to offer precedent-setting research and teaching on contemporary Islam as it is lived out in the world today,” said Hartford Seminary President Heidi Hadsell in the release.”
At http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/FaithCommunity/htfd_courant_111006.asp
They were the first seminary to appoint a Muslim to its core faculty… see http://www.hartsem.edu/about/history.htm
Islamic leader urges Jews be wary of fundamentalistsCharles A. Radin Globe staff. Boston Globe 14 March 2007
CAMBRIDGE - The president of the Islamic Society of North America warned last night that American Jews who ally with right-wing Christians to oppose Muslim organizations are pursuing a high-risk strategy that could backfire.
Speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, at an event sponsored by the school and four Muslim student organizations, Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian-born convert from Roman Catholicism who became the Islamic society’s first woman president last year, said that many American Jews have an existential fear that Muslims are anti-Israel.
Such fear leads Jews to ally with Christian fundamentalists who are supportive of Israel and critical of Islam, she said.
“Right-wing Christians are very risky allies for American Jews,” Mattson said, “because they [the Christians] are really anti- Semitic. They do not like Jews” and enter into the alliance on the basis of fundamentalist beliefs that it would be desirable for all Jews to return to Israel. She suggested that fundamentalist Christians might turn against Jews or that there could be backlash from ordinary Americans against Jewish and fundamentalist Christian supporters of Israel.
Mattson, who is professor of Islamic studies and director of Islamic chaplaincy at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, said that constructive interfaith exchanges between Muslims and Jews and between Muslims and Christians are much more numerous than is generally appreciated.Some Muslims and Jews from the Boston area have visited and talked with faculty at the seminary about how to resolve the bitter standoff between a group of Jewish organizations and the Islamic Society of Boston over the local Islamic society’s efforts to build a mosque in Roxbury, she said.
j) FROM LOCAL HIZBOLLAH TO GLOBAL TERROR: MILITANT ISLAM IN TURKEY
Zulm (Tyranny, Evildoing, Injustice, Oppression)
On November 20 and 25, 2003, Istanbul was rocked by four suicide bombing attacks in which trucks heavily loaded with explosives killed over 60 people. The November bombers first attacked two Jewish synagogues; five days later, the British Consulate General and the Istanbul headquarters of the HSBC bank were the targets. These dramatic, deadly assaults were unexpected and without precedent. They revealed that radical Islamic terrorist groups in Turkey pose a new and serious threat. Their goals and targets have become global rather than local, and their doctrine now sanctions the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians. In support of their new modus operandi, their members are undergoing a thorough process of radicalization and training. As all of this suggests, these new terrorists generally share the aims, values and ideological orientation of al-Qaeda but are not directly subordinated to the organization.
Indeed, the group that carried out the bombings was typical of the many largely independent local al-Qaeda “franchises” identified in the Middle East today. Credible reports indicate that group leaders received some general funding from alQaeda sources. However, they recruited their subordinates, selected their targets, performed their operational planning, and acquired their vehicles and explosives on their own. They assembled their group on the basis of past organizational affiliations, kinship, tribal ties (to a limited extent) and, primarily, close personal and hometown relationships. Of course, these factors often overlapped. For example, several of the terrorists both had common roots in the radical Kurdish Hizbollah organization (see below) and were natives of the southeastern town of Bingol,1 traditionally a major center of radical right-wing Islamism in Turkey.
Almost all group members by and large had previously belonged to Kurdish Hizboflah and other Turkish right-wing extremist groups, which, in most cases, had been harassed and broken up by the Turkish National Police over the previous decade. Several had fought abroad, particularly in Chechnya, where the extremist Muslim opposition attracted many Turkish militants. Some of its members had trained at alQaeda camps in Afghanistan. (According to police estimates, 450 Turkish militants received terrorist training in Afghanistan.2)
No further proof of the group’s independence from al-Qaeda is necessary than the amateurish character of their major operation, whatever its grim results. The assaults were mistimed, so that in the case of the synagogues, the great majority of those killed were Turkish Muslim pedestrians rather than the intended victims, Jewish worshipers.
After the explosions, police found numerous clues that led to the apprehension of most group members, including identity documents the drivers should have destroyed in advance. These errors do not bespeak alQaeda professionalism. Nevertheless, some of the group escaped to neighboring countries over obviously well-planned routes, which suggests continuing ties with elements of alQaeda ’s international network. (While they were in Afghanistan, according to police interrogation reports, group leaders were told by their al-Qaeda contacts that they should make an attack against the American Consulate General in Istanbul their first priority.1 After one look at the Consulate General’s new heavily guarded hilltop location, the terrorists quickly concluded it was a target well beyond their capabilities)….
The paper will also analyze the internationalization of Turkey’s radical Islamic movement, a development that begins in the late 1990s. Among the events leading to this transformation, two in particular stand out. First, on February 28, 1997, Turkish Army generals forced the Islamist government of Necmettin Erbakan to resign, in what Turkish scholars refer to as “history’s first postmodem coup d’état.” Turkey’s secular military acted largely because they believed that Islamic movements were spreading rapidly under the Erbakan regime. Then, on January 17,2000, the Turkish National Police cracked down heavily on Hizbollah. Its leader was killed and 2000 Hizbollah members quickly taken into custody. These events influenced some of the more important Islamic terrorists still at large to leave the country, move their operational bases abroad, and shift from domestic to international targets, exporting militants to fight in troubled areas of the Islamic world. . . .”
Article attached…
Abstract at http://www.mepc.org/journal_vol14/0703_uslu.asp
k) Finally - Turkey’s PM dismisses term ‘moderate Islam’ as ‘offensive’
Turkey’s PM Erdogan: The term “moderate Islam” is ugly and offensive — Islam is Islam
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018003.php
And so in two sentences Erdogan dismisses the concept on which the Western world has placed its hopes of survival and peace.
Islam is Islam.
Will this be discussed in the Western media?
Will American and European analysts publicly take up the question of whether or not Erdogan is right, and what the implications might be if he is?
Or will they ignore this and continue to assume in all their analyses that the opposite is true, and to dismiss as “ideologues” or “Islamophobes” those who point out that influential Muslims like Erdogan are saying things like this?
Which course do you think they’ll choose?
Will Western leaders then begin discussing political Islam and its implications openly?
Or will they ignore this and continue to pretend that Islam has no inherent or traditional political character, or if it does, it is infinitely malleable anyway, and can be massaged without difficulty into something completely benign?
Which course do you think they’ll choose?
“PM Erdogan: The Term ‘Moderate Islam’ Is Ugly And Offensive; There Is No Moderate Islam; Islam Is Islam,” from the MEMRI Blog :
Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, PM Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, ‘These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”
Source: Milliyet, Turkey, August 21, 2007
