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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Turkey Zaman

Business
Turkish businesses see opportunity as Iran opens up

Turkish businesses see opportunity as Iran opens up

The lifting of sanctions against Iran may be a mixed blessing for Turkey, opening »»
World
Egyptian court orders retrial in mass death sentence case

Egyptian court orders retrial in mass death sentence case

Egypt's highest appeals court on Wednesday ordered a retrial in a case in which 149 »»
Arts & Culture
Long-lost film to mark Turkish debut at !f fest

Long-lost film to mark Turkish debut at !f fest

“Tekerleme” (Tongue Twister), a feature film that was lost for the past 30 years »»
Expat Zone
Dear Aunty Margaret: Dear America

Dear Aunty Margaret: Dear America

Dear Aunt Margaret, Many thanks for your email Aunty Margaret (and of course Uncle »»
Sports
Turkish football clubs pay price of ambition

Turkish football clubs pay price of ambition

Ambitions to secure a place at international football's top table have come at a »»
todayszaman oped

The demise of the two-state solution and Israel’s culpability 
by ROBERT OLSON* 

February 03, 2016, Wednesday/ 15:02:45 
“The fading two-state solution.” This was the caption of the lead editorial of The New York Times on Jan. 23, emphasizing there was no or little chance of any two-state solution in which a Palestinian state would come into existence in the West Bank. To be sure, such a state, even if had a chance to materialize, would be a truncated entity, consisting at most of some 40 percent of the 2,200-square-mile West Bank. Implicitly unmentioned in the Times edit

Justice for Litvinenko 
by ALEX GOLDFARB* 

February 03, 2016, Wednesday/ 14:50:24 
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the KGB's successor, was poisoned in London with radioactive polonium-210. For the last decade, his widow, Marina Litvinenko, has waged an uphill battle to get a measure of justice for her husband. Now, finally, she has prevailed. Litvinenko had to stand up not only to the Kremlin, which was accused of sending two agents to London to carry out the assassination, but a
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