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Monday, June 22, 2009

The Year Of Turkey

"The Year Of Turkey
Published: 6/21/2009

BY ERDAL SAFAK
SABAH- We recently published news about the construction of a replica of a ship which left Foca 2,600 years ago to go to France carrying Anatolians who went on to found Marseille. The replica ship set sail from Foca and is now in the Mediterranean. It will reach Marseille on July 1, when the Year of Turkey will start in France. A huge program has been prepared for the Year of Turkey event, which will continue until March 2010. There will be more than 400 activities, including a Mercan Dede concert, an exhibit of sultans' caftans at the Louvre, and Ramadan night entertainments. But as the year approached, France started to get anxious and even concerned. They got suspicious that Ankara wasn't very interested in the nine-month event. Nor were they entirely wrong, as Turkey did lose some enthusiasm, or more precisely it was made to lose enthusiasm due to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's anti-Turkey stance."

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