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Feb 11, 2009 Homepage News Business Interviews Columnists Op-Ed Arts & Culture Expat Zone Features Travel Leisure Life Cartoons Weird But True Sports Health Briefs Turkish Press Review Today's think tanks Turkey in Foreign Press Columnists BÜLENT KENEŞ Columnists Jewish lobby, Armenian resolution and possibilities A lobby that has been working stealthily in the media and in diplomatic circles has been claiming, as its main line of argument, that having harshly protested against Israel for the massacre it perpetrated in Gaza, Turkey will have to pay a heavy price and that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's debate in Davos has only served to accelerate the payback process. EKREM DUMANLI Columnists Anti-Semitism? In one of his recent articles (Feb. 6), Cengiz Çandar made an important observation that deserves some thought. “The Turkish opponents of [Prime Minster Recep] Tayyip Erdoğan are rubbing their hands with the possibility that the cross [which has been drawn] over Erdoğan’s photo in Israel will also be drawn by Washington. BERİL DEDEOĞLU Columnists Abbas’ visit to Turkey The recent visit to Turkey by Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, needs to be taken into account. Even the fact that this visit coincides with a period in which people have started asking, after the "Davos crisis," whether Turkey is preparing to become the advocate of Hamas has meaning in itself. YAVUZ BAYDAR Columnists The case of Karamehmet vs. the public The panorama is of a swamp. The leaks and revelations of secret meetings, deals, threats, "carrots," orders and "polite" demands all tell us of a Turkey, sunk in political filth, in which the media has been a key player in a game of keeping democracy at a "safe distance." AMANDA AKÇAKOCA Columnists Let’s not forget Georgia It is easy for one crisis to overtake another. With the ongoing global economic crisis, the recent Russia-Ukraine gas crisis and the crisis in Gaza, little Georgia seems to be increasingly forgotten. DOĞU ERGİL Columnists Old problems and new leadership President Barack Obama pledged a new start with the Muslim world in his inaugural speech. If this policy proposal is to have any consequence, the US government has to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. İBRAHİM ÖZTÜRK Columnists Facing challenges in production Following the release of industrial figures by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) in December, we can now see the big picture of industrial production in 2008. CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON Columnists CCTV cameras: a threat to privacy or a way to beat crime? When I go to the United States to visit friends and family on holiday, I often have people express their concern for my safety in the Middle East. I usually just reply by saying that life has become a lot more complicated everywhere. It presents unusual security challenges. BERK ÇEKTİR Columnists Responsibility of a guarantor (1) If I’m not mistaken, there is a song (quite old by now) that goes something like “That’s what friends are for…” Sometimes friends are designated as guarantors, but this may end up with you losing a friend. One saying states, “If you don’t want to lose your best friend, never get into financial commitments with him/her.” FATMA DİŞLİ Columnists Is the CHP developing into a real opposition? The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) continues to surprise with its latest moves, such as accepting covered women into the party’s ranks and supporting Quran courses. © Feza Gazetecilik A.Ş. 2007, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Cad. No: 6, Bahçelievler - İstanbul 34194 Turkey, +90 (212) 454 1454, +90 (212) 454 1497(fax) Columnists ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ ALİ BULAC ALİ H. ASLAN AMANDA AKÇAKOCA ANDREW FINKEL ASIM ERDİLEK ATA ATUN AYŞE KARABAT BERİL DEDEOĞLU BERK ÇEKTİR BÜLENT KENEŞ BÜLENT KORUCU CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON DOĞU ERGİL EKREM DUMANLI ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN FATMA DİŞLİ FEHMİ KORU FİKRET ERTAN HASAN KANBOLAT HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE İBRAHİM KALIN İBRAHİM ÖZTÜRK İHSAN DAĞI İHSAN YILMAZ KATHY HAMILTON KERİM BALCI KLAUS JURGENS LALE SARIİBRAHİMOĞLU M. NEDİM HAZAR MEHMET KAMIŞ MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ MICHAEL KUSER MUHAMMED ÇETİN MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE MURAT YÜLEK NICOLE POPE NİHAL B. KARACA ÖMER TAŞPINAR PAT YALE ŞAHİN ALPAY SUAT KINIKLIOĞLU YAVUZ BAYDAR