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2005-01-13 Europe

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-13 11:00:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I prefer my Turkey well prepared. Looks like there is plenty of stuffing.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-13 12:27:20 PM|| 2005-01-13 12:27:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Putty playing the Turkey card? Turkey playing the Russian card? Oh my. Time to get the carving knife out.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-13 12:29:27 PM|| 2005-01-13 12:29:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I still have no idea why the Armenians might be resentful of the Turks.....
And I'm sure we'll get right on that PKK problem, too, once Kofi gets to work on that icky Cyprus thing.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-13 1:42:37 PM|| 2005-01-13 1:42:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin reportedly said, "We do not think that the economic isolation of northern Cypriots is fair."

Russia's concerned about being fair....hahahahahahahahahahahha

Posted by Jules 187 2005-01-13 1:45:36 PM|| 2005-01-13 1:45:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What's a Russian year going to be like in Turkey?

1. Kremlin Style goose stepping in front of all public buildings.

2. Repression of all forms or worship. Sorry Tayyip put away the Koran's for 24-7 365.

3. Friday movie marathons of classics like Ivan the Terrible and Stalin: The Lies Behind the Lies.

4. The Play will be changed to A Day In Hollywood and a Night in Ankara.

5. Relations with Israel are diving worse than Louganis' white blood cell count. No change there.

6. Turbans will be replaced with Pile Caps.

7. Turkish Coffee will be replaced with Smirnoff and Stoli.

8. Turks for once in their hideous history cannot act upon their innate urges to slaughter Eastern Orthodox Christians. Greeks and Armenians get a 1 year hiatus.

Posted by Rightwing 2005-01-13 2:08:20 PM|| 2005-01-13 2:08:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn! RW does a double chum!

9.4

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-13 2:35:16 PM|| 2005-01-13 2:35:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Unfortunately the chum guys are already trolling the thread... but something's bugging me:

As many other newspapers referred to the meeting between Turkey and Russia with almost the same headline, âGesture on Cyprus from Moscow,â Radikal reported the event more deliberately. It said that Putin criticized the isolation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) but spoke with the pretext of the Russian veto concerning the resolution submitted by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that included a call for easing the isolation on the KKTC. Putin reportedly said, "We do not think that the economic isolation of northern Cypriots is fair."

So what Putin basically said was, he agrees with the UN resolution regarding Cyprus that he just vetoed?

Am I getting that right?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-13 3:08:45 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-13 3:08:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Turkish" year and "Russian" year...

You know, with the fall of the Soviet Union, such alliances have become much more easy. Capitalists are no longer scared away by communism, Soviet Union isn't asking other nations to reform their whole of societies and systems of governance before they become one of the group...

Alliances have returned to the game of "you give me what I want, I give you what you want". Loss of Ukraine, gain of Turkey for Russia? Let's hope not.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-01-13 4:28:23 PM|| 2005-01-13 4:28:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 For some reason this gives me the image of pilot fish. Yippy swimming around Putin's teeth.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-13 4:35:50 PM|| 2005-01-13 4:35:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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