... And that... it goes beyond any issues of the moment. JIM LEHRER: On another occasion, he even quoted something in Latin on the NewsHour. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH (The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer 1995): And you think that by responding to it this way, we could do more harm than good, is ...
... With the war coming closer, the unlawful behavior of the police is rising and today we have experienced violence at a very high level. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Farnsworth: Diyarbakir was a hotbed of support for Kurdish separatist guerrillas, known as the PKK who fought an armed, bloody 16 year battle against ...
RAY SUAREZ: Well, you heard Elizabeth Farnsworth’s report a few moments ago. She talked about Turkish troops massing on the border with northern Iraq about the new prime minister’s -- or coming prime minister's -- desire for guarantees from the United States that the Turks would have ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Tayyip Erdogan, who was sworn in as a member of the Turkish parliament yesterday, and will become prime minister in a day or so, stands at the center of the controversy over this country's role in any American invasion of Iraq. Erdogan led his Justice and Development ...
... because the conservatives, they don't have enough power-- because the circumstances don't permit them to use all the power that they have. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Conservatives can't use all the power they have, Yazdi said, because they have recognized that too much repression-- of student demonstrations, for example ...
... whether they're Arabs or Kurds or from the North or South. We want to get rid of Saddam Hussein, but without foreign intervention. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Entisar Mehdi Mousawi said her husband was disabled by poison gas in 1984, during the Iran/Iraq War. She invited us to her home ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: How about pacifism? Are you a pacifist? LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI: Oh, definitely. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: After the war, Ferlinghetti got a Ph.D. At the Sorbonne in Paris on the G.I. Bill, married, and moved to San Francisco. By 1956, he had opened City Lights and was publishing works ...
... fundamentalists, radicals, Islam... whatever religion they belong to. These things should not be despised in a condescending language, should not be looked down upon. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: How would you address them? How would you advise that the western leaders to address them? ORHAN PAMUK: I'm a novelist. I don ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Erdogan and other AK candidates watch what they say because of fear of what the military might do. Since Ataturk, Turkey's generals have been the country's most ardent defenders of secularism. Retired Major General Armagan Kuloglu: GEN. ARMAGAN KULOGLU (Ret.), ASAM Center for Eurasian & Strategic ...
Elizabeth Farnsworth reports on the uneasy relationship between Turkey and the Kurds living in Northern Iraq.
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