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Two-weeks after the historic presidential election in the U.S., in which President-Elect Barack Obama became the first man of African descent to be elected to the office, Germany had a historic moment of its own. Derek Scally became the first ethnic Turk to be elected to the head of a political party. As leader of [...]
The Hurriyet Daily News reported that all thirty countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are now in a full-blown recession. Turkey’s exporters are growing increasingly panicked, because their main client, Germany, has fallen on hard economic times. Asa result, Turkish imports could fall by 20%. There is speculation that the economy [...]
On September 25, 2008, The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced the launch of an emergency response program to facilitate the ongoing food crisis in Yemen. The program is the result of a recent investigation that revealed a dramatic decrease in food security among Yemen’s population due to the global rise in food prices. [...]
