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Paul Helmig wrote:
Please pray for a total healing. I've been diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. They have taken out the tumor and if all is well will start chemotherapy on July 26. So please pray for my mind that I keep it under control and in obedience to Christ.
Friday, July 16, 2010, 11:46 AM
christopher broadnax grant wrote:
just put me on your prayer list please
Saturday, June 20, 2009, 06:40 PM
Lisa wrote:
Can you all please pray for my good friend Lori,she has been through so much trying to have a baby,she just lost her third baby yesturday,she has really went through alot, please keep her and her husband in your prayers. I also have a friend that just passed away on Sunday,he had three kids and he was married,please pray for that family, it's the Pudder family,and also i have a friend that is pregnant right now and she is so scared,she is due in November,please pray everything will be ok with her. Thank you and God Bless.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 04:11 PM
lisa gramdmother wrote:
pray for my grandaughter Sherry Kiblinger.she is having some heart problems .she is going to hospital the 9/30/08 pray everything goes ok for her.thank you
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 01:46 AM
Donna wrote:
I have a good friend who's sister is in ccu with possible cancer they are not sure what is going on with her she hasnt seen her daughter in almost a week please keep her in your prayers her name is sarah
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 01:04 AM


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I'll be on the north shore in mid/late July and looking for a local group to head out with for a couple of hours. Are there any shop rides near Tahoe City? Maybe a loop up to Truckee and around?
I'll be on the north shore in mid/late July and looking for a local group to head out with for a couple of hours. Are there any shop rides near Tahoe City? Maybe a loop up to Truckee and around?
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Nesdog, I used to live there. Probably not any organized rides, but you can solo it. A nice 45+- loop is to go from Tahoe City to Truckee via Highway 89. You can use the bike trail that starts across the street from the Chevron station and goes past Alpine Meadows, then you are on the road. It is a wide shoulder and there are a lot of riders, so no worries. Go into Truckee and take Highway 267 up and over the hill. It drops you into Kings Beach. Turn right and you are back in TC in about 10 miles. Here's a link to the basic route that someone posted on Ride with GPS.
Truckee to Tahoe Loop - Placer, CA
I think there were some road rides meeting at NorthStar but I was never able to make them. Try googling that. But I'll second that TC-Truckee-KB loop. Good pavement, just try to go early to avoid heavy traffic, especially on weekends. The ride along Donner Lake up to the summit is also nice.
Cyclists of the world, unite! You have nothing to lube but your chains!
I rode fifty miles today with a little over 3000' of climbing so I've got a decent idea of the time required for the loop. Do you prefer clockwise or the other way? We are staying in Carnelian Bay.
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I would go clockwise. The prevailing south winds blow right down the TC/Truckee corridor. It is better to have a downhill tailwind from TC to Truckee that the other way around. The climb over Brockway is not as gentle however. Just a great ride.
Updating my post from June. Just returned from NLT.
I did the loop from Carnelian Bay-TC-Truckee-Brockway Summit-King's Beach-CB. Excellent ride. Stopped at the California Welcome Center in Truckee for water and restroom. A local dragged me up Brockway....thank you Billy! He kept a steady stream of encouraging remarks and let me know how far each marker was. It was tough, no doubt.
Also did Brockway from King's Beach a couple of times before breakfast on days my wife and I had plans. Managed some decent climb times.
Next summer, I'm planning for the entire lake circuit. Will probably post here looking for others who could join me...definitely strength in numbers on those narrow roads. I expect we'll be there again around 22nd of July for two weeks.
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There are two organized rides around the lake, one in June (?) and one in September. If you lookup America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride you'll find it. The highway patrol closes he northbound section of road near Emerald Bay (very windy and narrow) which really helps. They are well supported rides and a lot of fun.

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Adapting books into films is big business for studios, and this week two of the authors who are considered the cream of the genre crop will be seeing their written work turned into full features on the silver screen.Read More »
Update: THR confirms that Raimi will produce MGM's "Poltergeist" reboot and help select a director. The film has a script from "Rabbit Hole" and "Oz The Great And Powerful" writer David Lindsay-Abaire.Read More »
Well, it's not quite "John Carter," but today MGM revealed in a call with investors (via Deadline) that though "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" took in $231 million worldwide (not bad for a hard-R crime drama that runs 2 1/2 hours long) it still didn't meet the numbers h...Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: In case you missed the memo, MGM is back from the brink, and heading into the New Year, they are very busy. With major productions "The Hobbit" and "Skyfall" underway, the studio is now focusing on a number of other projects they have in the works, and putting particular attention on a mo...Read More »
The past year has seen the boxing movie get a little bit of a resurgence. Of course, there was David O. Russell's "The Fighter," which jumped late into the Oscar race last year and went on to nab statutes for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo, and for the past two weeks, Hugh Jackman's robot boxing fli...Read More »
When MGM went bankrupt, it was a major headache for some of the film industry's biggest figures and properties. "The Hobbit" was delayed for a year, causing Guillermo Del Toro to leave the production, and Peter Jackson to take over, while Sam Mendes also had to significantly delay his entry into the James Bond series, the longest running franchise around. But there are two films that were most adversely affected by the situation, the last two productions at the studio: "Red Dawn," the remake of the fondly-remembered Commie-bashing classic, and "The Cabin in the Woods," a post-modern horror flick written and produced by geek deity Joss Whedon...Read More »
North Koreans are the new Chinese, who were the new Russians it would seem. "Red Dawn," a remake of the 1980s film about a bunch of kids who keep those pesky Soviets from taking over America was remade by Dan Bradley (a stunt coordinator making his directorial debut) with the Chinese now serving as the updated baddies. But according to the LA Times, it appears that the film is undergoing a post-production makeover that will now digitally swap out Chinese flags and whatnot and substitute with North Korean ephemera. Additionally, dialogue in the film will be altered to match the story changes as well, which will not totally erase the Chinese bu...Read More »
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Executive Q&A: Oklahoma trailer manufacturer hauls in North American, Australian clients
CHICKASHA — Once known as the horse trailer capital of the world, Chickasha — following previously high interest rates and a slumping economy — boasts only three aluminum trailer manufacturers, versus some 25 in the late 1980s.
Michael Terry, president of Cimarron Trailers, proudly counts himself among the survivors.
"It's not the golden years any more," said Terry, who opened his operation in early 2000.
His business immediately took off, Terry said. But between September and December 2008, Cimarron lost 65 percent of its business, he said. "Everybody just quit buying."
These days, Cimarron, which employs 92, makes some 600 custom trailers annually, 60 percent of which are horse trailers; 30 percent, stock. Some trailers retail for as much as $150,000 to $175,000, Terry said.
Ninety percent of his trailers are sold out of state, including to buyers in Australia and Canada.
From his 65,000-square-foot facility on 17 acres east of Chickasha, Terry, 57, talked with The Oklahoman on Tuesday about his professional and personal life. This is an edited transcript:
Q: Tell us about your roots?
A: I grew up right here in Chickasha. My mother, 82, was a special needs teacher; she earned her master's from OU. My father, now deceased, worked in the oil field and owned a liquor store. There were six of us kids, three boys and three girls. I'm in the middle. We were raised Catholic, but I'm now a member of the First Christian (Disciples of Christ) Church.
Q: What were the highlights of your school days? Were you a good student?
A: I was a mediocre student until I got into vo-tech my senior year and became an A student. I studied building construction. I've always liked making things. I grew up working on my (paternal) grandfather's cattle and wheat farm — welding, doing carpentry, fixing fences and dealing with animals. I learned to drive a tractor when I was 8. I went on to be an Eagle Scout and loved the outdoors big time. I had a great scout leader. We were floating the Illinois River before there were ever canoe rentals there.
Q: And college?
A: I graduated high school on a Tuesday and left home on a Thursday. A friend and I moved to Tulsa, where we had an opportunity to build apartments. Lynn and I, who were high school sweethearts, married the September following graduation and moved to Okmulgee were I studied drafting and engineering for three years at OSU Tech. Lynn worked as a secretary at the school. The deal was I'd go to school first and then she would. After I earned my certificate, we moved to Norman, where she earned an accounting degree from OU.
Q: What was your first professional job?
A: I worked as a drafter in Dolese Bros.' engineering department. Lynn and I would go to lunch everyday together and they hired her for the maintenance shop. They weren't supposed to hire spouses, but they thought she was cute.
Q: You've had a long career in the trailer manufacturing business. Give us a quick overview.
A: I started as a drafter with Haynes Manufacturing Co. Inc. in Chickasha, where I worked eight years. The owner died and the production manager and I had plans to buy the company, but he left. Over the next few years, I taught the ropes to a financial guy, who ultimately squeezed me out. (After losing that job) I didn't know what was going to happen. I knew I had a family to feed; my daughter was 3 at the time. That's when I joined Hart Trailers of Chickasha, where I worked 15 years. I started in drafting and engineering, moved to sales, and was general manager when I left.
Q: What led you to start your own business?
A: Opportunity. I wasn't necessarily planning it, but God shoved me into it and things fell into place. We started on Feb. 2, 2000, as partners to a couple who owned Cimarron Trailers in Madill. But Lynn and I bought them out in the summer of 2003. We had no idea how we were going to get the financing. Our first bank backed out as we got nearer closing. The second bank gave us a USDA guaranteed loan, which we paid off over eight years. Tony Hackney, our production manager and a former co-worker at Hart, has been with us from the start. Today, his dad and son work for us.
Q: You've built some custom trailers for some unique "clients," including several college mascots. Tell us about those.
A: Yes. We've built one for Bevo, the longhorn steer of the University of Texas, USC's white horse, Traveler, and Colorado State's Cam the Ram. In fact, we're building a trailer now for the live horse ridden by Texas Tech's "The Masked Rider." We've even built one for an elephant.


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Demon Fish
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of SharksJuliet Eiperin
Pantheon, 320 pp., $26.95
I once held a live shark in my bare hands. Admittedly it was a juvenile, but despite its age, it still made my arms shake and my knees weak as two-and-a-half feet of pure muscle thrashed desperately in my grip. The researchers I was accompanying did the hard part, measuring the young scalloped hammerhead, clipping a tiny piece of its tail to record its DNA, and punching a bright blue tag through a fin in the hopes that they -- or another research team -- would one day meet it again. All I had to do was remember their most important piece of advice: keep your fingers away from the mouth.
This was in 2001, at the end of the infamous "Summer of the Shark." As a reporter for the Carolinas' largest daily newspaper, I was doing my part to help feed the media's insatiable shark frenzy. The decade since then has brought an explosion in knowledge about -- if not respect for -- sharks, as new tagging and satellite tracking technology has transformed our understanding of their life history and biology. In the words of one researcher, "If you read shark books from a decade ago, large tracts of them are incorrect." Juliet Eilperin's Demon Fish remedies that situation by bringing shark science into the present.
In her survey of recent discoveries -- sharks engage in longer migrations than previously thought, dive deeper, and can reproduce asexually when necessary, for starters -- Eilperin begins to do justice to an animal that appeared 200 million years before the dinosaurs and plays a vital role in the health of our oceans. As befits a newspaper reporter (Eilperin is a longtime Washington Post correspondent), her writing is more matter-of-fact than literary. But the sheer volume of information she uncovers, and the plight and importance of her subject, keep the book moving forward with a momentum that sharks might envy.
The tragedy is that even as we learn more about sharks, we're losing our chance to study them further. A staggering 73 million are killed every year to supply the growing demand -- mainly in Asia -- for shark fin soup, a dish that's more about social status than taste. When sharks suffer, so do our seas -- and so do we. A 2007 study in Science provided convincing evidence that several shark species off the Atlantic seaboard had declined by more than 97 percent since 1970, resulting in an explosion in the population of their prey species, including the cownose ray. Rays eat huge amounts of oysters, clams, and scallops; by 2004, their appetite had forced North Carolina to close its century-old scallop fishery.
We may never lose our selachophobia -- our fear of sharks -- but, as Eilperin makes clear, we also need them. As more shark species become endangered, scientists have begun to use computer models to simulate a world without sharks. As ever in a complex ecosystem, there are winners and losers when a top predator is deleted from the data set, but without sharks, the oceans quickly start to become something we wouldn't recognize today. It might not make sense on a gut level to protect creatures we also fear, but in doing so, we also protect ourselves. Just remember the advice I got on that trip 10 years ago: hold on tight and avoid the teeth.


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Radioworks takes a historical look at the state of Mississippi during the battle for integration.
In honor of Black History Month, WXXI presents State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement, airing Sunday, February 27 at 10 p.m. on AM1370/FM-HD 91.5-2. Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America's civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. No place was more violent. While the history of civil rights activists has been well documented in radio and television, the stories and strategies of their white opponents are more hidden. Drawing on newly discovered archival audio and groundbreaking research on the civil rights era, State of Siege brings to light the extraordinary tactics whites in Mississippi used to battle integration and the lasting impact of that battle in American politics today.
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This thread is like the penny tray at your neighborhood 7-11...
Have a bread recipe,
leave a bread recipe,
need a bread recipe,
take a bread recipe.
After brewing another 10 gallon double batch of Graff (a type of malted, hopped, hard cider) I decided I needed to explore options besides just drinking it all. This led me to some searching for other cider products and the baking of:
Cider Bread
1 bottle of Graff (hard cider)
2 Tbsp softened butter
3 cups bread flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp dry active yeast
Let's Bake:
1. Put all ingredients in bread machine according to manufacturer's instructions and set for dough cycle (Generally: wets, fats, flours, other dry items, yeast)
2. When dough cycle ends, put dough in well-greased loaf pan and punch down.
3. Cover dough and let rise for ~30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°F
4. Bake bread for about 40 minutes. Cover loosely with foil after 30 minutes if browning too much.
5. Remove bread from pan and cool completely on a wire rack
After making a loaf of this bread I have to say that drinking it may become only my second favorite thing to do with my home brewed cider. The apple taste is subtle but certainly there. This bread is sweet enough for breakfast but neutral enough to be served with a savory meal as well. I haven't tried yet but I believe some mind-blowingly good french toast could also be produced from this loaf.
Q: But I don't have a bottle of your homemade hard cider?!
A: If you are local, you are welcome to stop by and I'll give you a bottle. Otherwise you can use commercial hard cider such as Hornsby or Woodchuck or you can just use plain old [non-hard] apple cider from the grocery store [be sure it is unsulfited as sulfites will kill the bread yeast]. A bottle = 12oz.
Q: What if I don't own a bread machine?
A: Buy one! I got my bread machine in like-new condition for $10 off craigslist but I know there is always a pile of them at the local thrift store too. For $10 the bread maker has already paid for itself after only a few 'specialty loaves' that would cost $3-5 at the store. You can also knead the dough by hand but you'll have to look up further instructions for that yourself.
Q: What should I grease the pan with?
A: I used a Pampered Chef stoneware bread pan with a light spray of PAM. Bread popped right out with no problems.


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I need to set up a filter file for my findbugs ant script that scans only the src/* files and not the test/* files.
What is the syntax for checking all classes while ignoring any filename or package name with 'test' in the name?
FindBugs is actually scanning the compiled class files, not the
That won't work if src/* and test/* are both compiled to a single directory. In that case, use a filter file and exclude the packages or class names that correspond to tests.
By the way, it is a good idea to cover unit tests with FindBugs as well. There is no reason for using lower quality standards towards tests. Bugs in test are just that, bugs.
Sure, if you run FindBugs first time, there might be many bug reports, but the bug count will come down overtime if you pay any attention to them.


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Harbinger Capital Partners has sold $158 million of Harbinger Group's shares to Leucadia National Corp. as the hedge fund firm meets redemption requests after reaching a settlement with U.S. regulators.
Bloomberg reported that the transaction makes Leucadia the second largest shareholder in Harbinger Group, the publicly traded holding company run by hedge fund manager Phil Falcone, with a stake of about 13%.
Harbinger also sold an additional 5.1 million shares to other undisclosed investors.
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Former Employee of D.C. OCTO Pleads Guilty to Bribery and Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity
|U.S. Attorney's Office December 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—Yusuf Acar, the former Acting Chief of Security Officer of the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) has pled guilty to Bribery and to Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity for his role in an alleged bribery and kickback scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and Charles Willoughby, Inspector General for the District of Columbia, announced today.
Acar, 41, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty before the Honorable Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. today to a two-count information that charges him with Bribery and to Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity. Sentencing is set for March 12, 2010.
During his guilty plea, Acar admitted that between September 2005 and March 12, 2009, on at least 59 occasions he accepted bribes from Sushil Bansal, who owned a company called Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation (AITC). Bansal paid Acar a total of $558,978.50 in bribe payments during this time. Acar also admitted to engaging in 17 transactions, each over $10,000, that involved the bribe money and which utilizing financial institutions.
Acar also agreed that he is jointly and severally liable with Bansal for $507,463.50 in restitution and jointly and severally liable with Bansal and Farrukh Awan for $44,315 in restitution. Acar is also solely responsible for an additional $7,200. Acar also agreed to forfeiture of $206,153.75 and to the forfeiture of $69,550 in cash seized at the time of his arrest.
The maximum penalty for Bribery is fifteen years and the maximum penalty for Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity is ten years. The applicable sentencing range under the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines, with all of the enhancements the government believes apply, is 108 to 135 months' incarceration.
In announcing the guilty plea, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillips, FBI Assistant Director in Charge Persichini, and D.C. Inspector General Willoughby commended the outstanding investigative work of Special Agents Mary Gleason, Joseph Gordon, Julie Lenkart and Andy Sekela of the FBI and Special Agent Teddy Clark and the late Special Agent Lloyd Hodge of the D.C. Office of the Inspector General. They also acknowledged the efforts of U.S. Attorney's Office paralegals Diane Hayes, Tasha Harris and Maggie McCabe, former legal assistant Lisa Robinson, as well as Assistant U.S. Attorneys Thomas Hibarger and Glenn Leon, who are prosecuting this case.


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Released By: Hinterland Records
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3 years ago, when Tobias Meggle composed, wrote and recorded the songs of his solo debut long player wanderlust (released in march 2004), he was far from imagining the convergence of enthusiasm the album caused in music lovers circles. Indeed, besides the general critical acclaim and overwhelmingly positive reviews of the international music press, an astonishing movement of "musical fellowship" started when like-minded producers' feedbacks spontaneously reached the hinterland HQ.
This was the beginning of a process that naturally lead to the release of 'Echoes.' Inspiration is really the keyword when it comes to understanding what brought sandboy and this international cast of producers, musicians and vocalists together. All these artistic exchanges have happened due to a genuine mutual respect and fascination which guide this double angle production project: other artists revisiting and remixing the world of sandboy and sandboy himself exploring the sonic universe of others.
First of all, 6 key moments of the wanderlust album are present here, reproduced and remixed by 6 artists that brought Meggle`s compositions in new musical territories. From the bumpy rework of lua nua by the fresh production duo of smiles ahead to the smooth strings`n`bass offbeat version of viver by Norvegian funksters butti 49, from the powerful broken beats of 4Lux ambassador and remix maestro gerd on bsb to the melancholic deep house moments of viver retweaked by neroli`s honcho volcov from Verona. The moodiest vibes definitely come from London`s break reform (from abstract blue fame) and newcomer leroy schlimm who delivered their magic with amazing renditions of written in the leaves and les éclairs.
When sandboy himself pays tribute to the work of gerd (with gracious vocals of UK soul diva vanessa freeman) and plastyc buddha by reinterpretating so real, a song of the forthcoming "new perspectives" album of gerd and bain mousse, we are rediscovering the musicality and the rich textures that make Meggles productions so special and singular.
To complete this wide circle of emotions and atmospheres, sandboy wanted to go beyond this reflection on each others work by displaying the subtle art of collaborations and featurings, offering 2 brand new tracks recorded especially for this album. Listen carefully to the 2 opening tracks here cause call out (recorded with low budget soul`s voice Randolph Matthews) and Common Cause (recorded with the gracious Sonar Kollektiv artist Clara Hill) are far from being 2 unreleased fillers. These tracks themselves justify the human and artistic accomplishment and the natural path of sandboy and the generous people he met on his road. Much more than a remix compilation, this album stands for itself - a sound journey of its own kind.
Call Out - featuring Randolph Matthews
Common Cause - featuring Clara Hill


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I'm going to write simple c++ application, server-client, client-client. I would like to develop server in Java or C++ and client in C++.Since now i haven't got any experiences with networking.
So what C++ and Java library or framework do you recommend to begin with?
I've heard that Java is better that c++ for network applications, is that true?


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Sat, Nov 5, 2011 | By Florian Druckenthaner
Turkey: in between Political Islam and the Military
The impact of Turkey's domestic policies on Turkish-Israeli relations during the governments of prime minister Erbakan and Erdogan.
This paper analyses the role that Turkey's domestic policies plays in its relations with Israel under two governments which both have been associated with the Islamic movement, the government of prime minister Necmettin Erbakan in the 1990s and the current government under Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The current crisis in Turkish-Israeli relations which started two years ago after Israel's Operation Cast Lead, has received international media attention and inspired political analysts in the West to repeatedly ask the same question: Does Turkey still remain in the Western camp? This essay approaches the issue from the viewpoint of Turkey's domestic policies. It analyses the impact of domestic dynamics on its relations with Israel during the current AKP government and the RP led government in the 1990s and suggests that domestic developments in Turkey play a major role in its relationship with the Jewish state.
One cannot understand the sudden change, first in Turkish rhetoric and then in political behaviour towards Israel, without understanding the changes that took place in Turkey after the AKP came into power. Simultaneously the strong alliance with Israel during the 1990s has to be interpreted in the context of political issues within Turkey of that time.
This paper argues that the relationship between Israel and Turkey is strongly affected, if not determined by the power relations between political Islam vis-a-vis the military and the secularist establishment of Turkey.
The strategic partnership of Turkey and Israel in the 1990s
"We can love each other, but we don't have to kiss and hug in public."[1]
This quote by Alon Liel who had been Israel's chargé d'affaires in Turkey in the early 1980s, but favoured a rapprochement with Egypt a decade later, points to the opening of a new chapter in Turkish-Israeli relations in the 1990s.
The signing of the Military Education and Cooperation Agreement on 24 February 1996 can be regarded as the symbolic turning point in the relations between the two countries, not because of its content, but as "it was the first time that the secrecy of the relations has been lifted".[2] Ofra Bengio points out, that it was the Turkish side which sought the publicity of the agreement,[3] marking a dramatic shift to the almost 40-years of covert collaboration under the peripheral alliance of 1958. As will be outlined in the next chapter, the reasons for this new openness lie in Turkey's domestic issues of that time, most importantly the rise of political Islam and the activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK.
The February agreement was followed by a series of agreements and bilateral meetings, which were all conducted publicly or made public by the Turkish press.
On 26 August 1996, Israel agreed to undertake the refurbishment of 54 Turkish F-4 Phantoms, a deal amounting to 600 million US-Dollars.[4] In the same month Israel and Turkey decided to engage in joint naval manoeuvres on a regular basis, the first one carried out in January 1997.[5] There have also been trade-related agreements. In December 1996, the Turkish-Israeli Business Council met in Istanbul and on 26 December Israel and Turkey signed a customs agreement lowering tariffs for goods traded between them.[6] In January 1997, the Turkish parliament's Industry and Foreign Affairs committees ratified the Turkey-Israel Free Trade Accord which has already been signed in March 1996.[7]
The year of 1997 also saw a never experienced intensity of mutual visits between high ranking officials: Turkey's chief of General Staff, Ismail Hakki Karadayi visited Israel from 24-28 February 1997; from 8-10 April Israel's Foreign Minister David Levy visited Ankara and met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ciller and Prime Minister Erbakan; Turkish Defense Minister Turhan Tayan met with president Weizmann and prime minister Netanyahu during his visit in Israel from 30 April to 2 May.[8]
These agreements and bilateral visits were carried out in a new atmosphere of publicly displayed friendship. The fact that all of them took place at a time when Turkey's government was led by an Islamist party and a prime minister who was overtly hostile to Zionism, appears to be an extra-ordinate contradiction and hence requires a in-depth look upon the matter.
The domestic motives behind the Turkish-Israeli Rapprochement.
To contain radical Islam and the government of Necmettin Erbakan has been part of a broader set of domestic motives behind the strategic alignment of Turkey and Israel in the mid 1990s.
Since the beginning of his political career in the late 1960s, Erbakan has posed a severe challenge to the secularist establishment of the Turkish Republic, and especially the military who regarded itself as the guardian of Turkey's secular, pro Western orientation. In 1969 Erbakan founded the Mili Görus or National View Movement, whose core tenant was to blame Western influence for the Muslim's world decline.[9] Since 1970 he established a series of Islamist parties connected to this movement, which were repeatedly banned by Turkey's secularist authorities. In 1987 he became the leader of the Refah partesi (RP) or Welfare Party, which won the 1995 December by obtaining 21,4 percent of the vote.[10] In June 1996 he became the prime minister of a coalition government until he was forced to resign by the military on June 30, 1997. Before coming to power, his party pledged to cancel Turkey's military arrangements with Israel and on taking office, Abduallah Gül, then foreign-policy advisor of Erbakan and later foreign minister and president, promised that there would be no further agreements with Israel.[11]
However, by the mid 1990s, the RP was the only significant party left which overtly agitated against Israel. At he beginning of the 1990s the two major social-democratic parties changed their previous anti-Israeli agitation and even the ultra-nationalist party supported better relations.[12] Bülent Aras links this development to the Arab-Israeli peace making efforts and suggests that "the peace process has created new prospects to improve Israeli-Turkish relations."[13]
However, it was the Turkish military that played the major role in forging the Turkish-Israeli alignment. And the army's considerations were after all not based on the advancement of the peace process, but on Turkish threat perceptions, which have changed significantly after the end of the cold war. Instead of an outside aggressor (Soviet Union), the Turkish military during the 1990s was preoccupied with internal threats, specifically Kurdish separatism and fundamental Islam.[14] The strategic alignment with Israel contributed to a solution of both of these domestic concerns.
According to Bengio, the formative year for the February 1996-agreement was 1994, when Turkish and Israeli army generals secretly established close ties.[15] This has been motivated by Turkey's demand for expertise and modern weaponry in the fight against the PKK, which intensified its attacks against Turkish targets in the beginning of the 1990s. However, the US and the EU were unwilling to sign arms deals with Turkey, the latter even showing sympathy for the national cause of the Kurdish people.[16] The Turkish chief of general staff, Ismail Hakki Karadayi stated in the Turkish media in February 1997 that the common interest with Israel was the fight against "international terrorism" and two months later that "Syria and Iran were headquarters of terrorism" that threatened both Turkey and Israel.[17] At that time, Syria was the most important supporter of the PKK, providing shelter for Kurdish militants to infiltrate into Turkey and stage hit-and-run attacks on civil or military targets.[18]
As a result of the Turkish-Israeli alignment, Turkey adopted a similar security system on its border with Iraq as is used along Israel's borders, including fences, sensors, armed patrols and mines.[19] On the Israeli side, the air force profited from new training opportunities in the vast airspace of Turkey and the opportunity to gather intelligence on its border with Iran and Syria.[20] From the Turkish point of view, the military cooperation with Israel was intended to increase the army's ability to combat the PKK, while at the same time sending a strong signal to its supporters in Damaskus and Teheran. The new openness with which this alignment was communicated can be interpreted as an attempt to increase the pressure on Syria to stop its support of the PKK, in particular hiding its leader, Abdullah Öcalan.
The Turkish-Israeli alignment became also a battleground for the domestic struggle between the Turkish military and radical Islam. After being banned twice in his political career, Islamist leader Erbakan started to know the limits of the Turkish constitution and thought foreign policy as one resort where he could pursue his religious agenda more openly.[21] During his term as a prime minister, he declined an invitation to a EU summit, opposing any membership in a Christian club, while he created the D-8, a group of the most populous Muslim countries as a counterweight to the G-7.[22] Erbakan travelled to the Arab world and Iran with which he signed several gas, trade and security agreements in 1996.[23] However, one of his main rhetoric targets remained Israel, serving as the perfect tool for securing the support of his followers.
This inevitably led to a sincere clash with the Turkish military, as the army establishment was the driving force behind the Turkish-Israeli alignment. Erbakans targeting of this alliance came close to a declaration of war on the military and its decisive role in Turkish foreign policy. In defence of the 1996 agreement, deputy chief of the general staff, Cevik Bir stated that "Turkey and Israel are two democratic countries, and we must show the region that democracies can work together".[24]
This could be also seen as a warning signal to Erbakan and his party member to change their agitation. Indeed Erbakan softened it during his premiership and signed a further, more far-reaching military agreement in August 1996, at the instance of which he even met with Israeli foreign minister David Levy. Various literature on this subject suggests that such behaviour was not conducted voluntarily, but the result of strong pressure by the military. By continuing to expand the alignment with Israel against the will of the highest elected civil authority in Turkey, the prime minister, the military strengthened its domestic power and reinforced its position of a guardian of the pro-Western nature of the Turkish state.
To summarize, domestic concerns of the Turkish military contributed significantly to the alignment between Turkey and Israel during the 1990s, in particular in regard to the speed of the rapprochement and the publicity is was granted by the Turkish authorities. These domestic concerns were the fight against the separatist PKK and the power struggle with radical Islam which gathered significant support of the Turkish voters in that time.
One should not forget that the new Turkish-Israeli friendship of the 1990s consisted of more than just military agreements and also had economic implications. For example, Israeli tourists emerged as a major source of income for the Turkish tourist industry, making up the second largest visitor group after the US.[25]
However, the stability of this then new and rapid alignment between Turkey and Israel has been questioned from early on by Turkish and Israeli scholars alike. One of them is Bülent Aras, who already in 1998 asked "whether the Turkish administration will continue its present foreign policy towards Israel without undermining its domestic support and external balance."[26]
"Israel's friendship with Turkey is over"[27]
More than ten years later, Bülent Aras' question has found an answer, as the good relations between Turkey and Israel sharply declined in only two years. Crucial to this development has been the internal shift of power within Turkey under the government of the Muslim-conservative Justice and Welfare Party (AKP).
Following its victory in Turkish general elections 2002, the AKP party under prime minister Erdogan continued friendly relations and close military cooperation with Israel during its first years in government. Frequent bilateral visits took place between 2002 and 2006. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom visited Ankara on April 13th 2003 and again in November. Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met with his Turkish counterpart to discuss Iran's nuclear program, anti-terror cooperation and joint defence projects in May 2003, Israel's president Moshe Katsav visited Ankara in July. Israel and Turkey signed a security and cooperation agreement in Ankara on December 12th, 2003.[28] While Israeli visits to Turkey were inspired by common military and economic interests, the visits of Turkish officials in Israel increasingly centred on the Arab-Israeli peace process.
Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gül made his first official visit to Israel in January 2005, where he expressed his willingness to mediate talks between Israel and the Arab countries.[29] Israel's decision to disengage from Gaza sparked a series of visits by high ranking Turkish officials. Including the so far only visit by prime minister Erdogan on 1 May 2005, where he signed a research and development cooperation agreement with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. It was also decided to set up a direct hot-line between the two offices.[30]
Friendly relations continued after a change of government in Israel. Zipi Livni paid her first official foreign visit to Turkey in May 2006, stressing the importance of the Turkish-Israeli relations to Israel. Gül returned the visit two months later, meeting with prime minister Ehud Olmert and with families of three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbollah.[31] Turkey remained engaged in the Arab-Israeli peace making, negotiating the Ankara Forum Agreement for economic cooperation between Israel, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority in 2007 and brokering four rounds of unofficial talks between Israel and Syria in 2008. The last official visit by a representative of the Turkish government was the one of Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül in October 2008, discussing joint defence projects and the delivery of Herons with his Israeli counterpart.[32]
Turkish-Israeli relation also experienced several downs, already in 2004 when Erdogan referred to Israel's policy of targeted killing as an "act of terrorism". A meeting between a Hamas leader and Turkish officials at AKP headquarters on February 16, 2006 created further concern in Israel.[33] However, the decisive blow to Turkish-Israeli relations came after Operation Cast Lead. On January 29, 2009 The Turkish prime minister walked off stage at Davos Economic Forum over President Peres remarks on Israel's Gaza operation, symbolizing his country's renunciation of close ties with Israel. Subsequently, Turkey vetoed the participation of Israel's Air Force in a joint NATO drill and a Turkish TV series depicted IDF soldiers as murderers of innocent children.[34] When on May 31st, 2010 the Israeli naval forces launched an operation on a Turkish flotilla aimed to break the blockade of Gaza and killed eight Turkish citizens and one American citizen of Turkish origin, Turkey responded with outrage, Erdogan calling the incident a "bloody massacre". As a consequence Turkey withdrew its Ambassador, which despite tremendous diplomatic effort to solve the dispute has not yet returned.[35]
The return of Islam in Turkish domestic policies
Ofra Bengio and other scholar subscribe the ups and downs of Turkish-Israeli relations under the Erdogan government to its increased correlation with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.[36] However, I will argue that one can only fully understand the rapid turn in the relations when realizing the complex development that took place in Turkey's domestic policies after the AKP's ascendance to power.
Crucial to my understanding is the fact, that the domestic struggle between the secularist establishment and the AKP government is the literal revival of the struggle between the military and the Islamist RP of the 1990s. In fact the AKP was not the "new democratic, pro-market and globally integrated force"[37] in Turkish policies, as it was seen by many in the West, but its party members and "new" officials were the same old cadres of the RP party. Foreign minister Gül and prime minister Erdogan are the most prominent examples, both of which were among the closest associates of Welfare leader Erbakan. Their statements between 1994 and 1997 leave no doubt that they shared his ideal of an Islamic state. For example, Erdogan declared while he was a member of the RP: "It is impossible for one who says 'I am Muslim', to say 'I am also secular'. Why? Because Muslims' creator Allah has absolute domination. (Atatürk's) saying 'sovereignty belongs to the nation unconditionally' is a big fat lie! Sovereignty belongs to Allah unconditionally.[38] Beken Saatcioglu argues that these party cadres have "learned their lesson well" from the repeated closing of preceding Islamist parties, and that they only instrumentally adopted a pro-democracy and pro-secularisation rhetoric.[39]
In this regard the close alignment with the EU and the West proofed to be a guarantor of non-interference by the secularist establishment as it always considered itself an ally of the West. And indeed the AKP government initiated a massive democratic reform process in order to meet the EU's Copenhagen criteria for full membership. It passed a variety of pro-democratic laws expanding the scope of political rights and freedoms, abolishing the death penalty, civilizing politics and promoting minority rights, just to mention a few.[40] This contributed to the image of the AKP as a moderate Islamic party in the West, which at times embraced the party's concept as a role model to contain the rise of fundamental Islam.[41]
However, Jung suggests that the AKP's endorsement of EU membership was not motivated by democratic ideals but rather by the necessity to protect the party's own identity against the secular state establishment in the beginning of its governance.[42] Suspicion about a hidden Islamist agenda of the AKP grew when the reform of the Penal Code included a provision on criminalizing adultery. Erdogan defended the measure by stating that "family is a sacred institution for us" and that "Turkey did not have to apply 'imperfect' Western morals",[43] however he withdrew the proposed law after severe domestic criticism and pressure from the European Commission.
Saatcioglu marks the increase of political power vis-a-vis the military as the key incentive behind the AKP's reform agenda during its first years in power; since the government favoured reforms which thought to advance Islamism (i.e. civilization of politics, increased freedom of expression and religion) over "neutral" ones (i.e. women's rights, economic and social rights, judicial independence), it lacked to implement those "neutral" reforms and it slowed down the outstanding reform process in the fall 2004, parallel to a rise in Euroscepticism among Turkish voters.
During this first phase of transformation in the Turkish political system, the relations with Israel continued to be close and overtly friendly, both on the military and political level. The AKP did not (yet) want to challenge the military over its relations with the Jewish State, even though foreign minister Gül already in 1996 stated his rejection to any further agreements with Israel.
In 2004 Erdogan for the first time returned to a rhetoric on Israel that has been used by the Islamist RP under prime minister Erbakan. He referred to Israel's policy in the Gaza strip as "state sponsored terrorism" and condemned the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as an "act of terror".[44] However, friendly relations could be restored due to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza strip one year later.
Parallel to the AKP's policy of using the EU accession process to contain the military's role in politics, a personnel turnover within the military also contributed to its restraint. In August 2002, general Hilmi Özkök was appointed to the post of chief of staff; someone, who was known for a more liberal approach than his predecessor and who firmly believed that the Turkish military should keep its distance from day-to-day politics.[45]
This allowed the AKP to more overtly challenge the rules and norms of the Kemalist republic, cumulating in the nomination of Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül for presidential election in 2007. The secularist and nationalist opposition was outraged with this appointment, as it would be the first time in modern Turkish history that the wife of a president wore a headscarf.[46] Subsequently, the opposition boycotted the presidential election in the parliament and brought the case to the Constitutional court. This time the military did not sit by quietly, it published a statement on the website of the Turkish General staff, which read: "If necessary, the Turkish Armed Forces will not hesitate to make their position … abundantly clear as the absolute defenders of secularism."[47] This warning has been deemed an e-coup by the Turkish media. As a result, the AKP government called early elections for 22 July 2007, which they won by a landslide of 46,6 percent. In the aftermath Gül was elected as a president with the vote of the AKP and the nationalist MHP.
This meant that the AKP has gained a decisive domestic victory against the military, limiting its ability to interfere in Turkish policy.
Based on its new power the AKP quickly went ahead with one of its promises during the 2007 election campaign, the removal of the headscarf ban, one of the most controversial issues in Turkish policy. On February 7, 2008, the Turkish Parliament passed an amendment to the constitution, allowing women to wear the headscarf in Turkish universities. This time the challenge to the secularist state authorities was too big. In response to the lift of the headscarf-ban, the chief prosecutor of Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya called for the disbanding of the AKP on the grounds of "anti-secular activities".[48] A 162-page indictment accused the AKP to use democracy as a vehicle for imposing a religious political system and asked the Court to apply a five-year ban on more than seventy AKP members, including Erdogan and Gül.[49] The outcome of this trial had severe consequences for Turkey's relations with Israel.
On July 31, 2008, he Constitutional Court ruled by a vote of 10 to 1 that the AKP was guilty of violating the country's secular principles. The verdict cut the party's public financing in half, but more importantly, the court almost voted for an outright closure of the party (just one short of the seven required voted in favour of it). This was meant as a warning message to the AKP on its domestic activities.
As a consequence of this backlash, the AKP needed to find a new outlet for its pro-Islamic agenda which was meant to secure the votes of former Erbakan followers who by then had already established a new Islamic rival party to the AKP. And agitation against Israel, especially after Operation Cast Lead, offered an opportunity to win "the hearts and minds" of the Turkish public while also meeting the demands of the Islamist electorate.
Taking this domestic development into account, one can better understand the difference in Turkish reactions to the Gaza operation compared to a similar one in Lebanon in April 1996. During Operation Grapes of Wrath, Turkey stated that Israel had every right to strike militarily at the "terrorists in neighbouring states",[50] while Israel's assault on Gaza 2008 was deemed as "savagery" by the Turkish prime minister who added that this "will be punished by God".[51] Not only Western observers were surprised by the furious Turkish response to the Gaza war, which even exceeded the condemnations by Arab leaders. The German quality newspaper Sueddeutsche was quick to analyse the consequences of Erdogan's rhetoric as "derogating Turkey's regional influence".[52]
However, the result was the opposite. Not only did Erdogan's harsh criticism find the approval of the Turkish public — the prime minister was welcomed like a hero on his return from Davos — but also contributed to its realignment with former enemies like Iran and Syria under the "zero problem" foreign policy doctrine of Ahmet Devatoglu, who became Turkey's new foreign minister on 1 May 2009.[53] The fact that Gul and Erdogan were among the first foreign leaders to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his June 2009 election victory, ignoring mass demonstrations and concern of Western leaders over the legitimacy of the election results, is a strong sign for Turkey's new approach towards Iran.[54] However, the zero problem strategy towards Iran, Syria and even Hamas, who Erdogan sees as the legitimate elected government of Gaza, further deteriorated the once Turkish-Israeli friendship. The Gaza-flotilla incident of last summer marks another peak in the downfall of diplomatic relations between the two countries. By recalling its Ambassador from Israel, Turkey set its relations back to where they were in the beginning of the 1990s.
However, in realization that the new hostility towards Israel is not enough to secure durable support of the Turkish voter's, the AKP again resorts to populist and controversial policies on the domestic front. The premise of a "hidden agenda" has turned into the fear of "Islamization" in the wake of a series of new strict alcohol laws[55] or suggestions to women by about the least number of children (three). The government's assault on oppositional media[56] and its role in the ongoing Ergenekon trials[57] — with currently 68 journalists being arrested on the grounds of their involvement in an alleged coup d'etat — have raised doubts among Western politicians whether the AKP is as truly committed to the values of democracy as it pretended to be when it came into power. The recent adoption of a highly critical report by the European parliament is an indicator of this change in attitude towards the AKP government.[58]
After eight years in power, the AKP government has significantly changed the political landscape in Turkey. Not only has it ended a unstable period of coalition governments, achieved astonishing economic progress and political reforms, but it managed for the first time in Turkey's post-Atatürk history to question the military's role as the guardian of the Kemalist state and put forward with a (moderate) Islamization of its politics. Israel was the first country to feel the consequences of this shift in domestic power. However, it is not the only country that subscribes Turkey's new approach to the Middle East as a result of Islamization. The US Ambassador writes in an uncovered cable by Wikileaks:
"Levy [the Israeli Ambassador] dismissed political calculation as a motivator for Erdogan's hostility, arguing the prime minster's party had not gained a single point in the polls from his bashing of Israel. Instead, Levy attributed Erdogan's harshness to deep-seated emotion: 'He's a fundamentalist. He hates us religiously' and his hatred is spreading. Levy cited a perceived anti-Israeli shift in Turkish foreign policy, including the GoT's recent elevation of its relations with Syria and its quest for observer status in the Arab League.
Our discussions with contacts both inside and outside of the Turkish government on Turkey's deteriorating relations with Israel tend to confirm Levy's thesis that Erdogan simply hates Israel. xxxxx discusses contributing reasons for Erdogan's tilt on Iran/Middle East isues, but antipathy towards Israel is a factor."[59]
During the governments of prime minister Erbakan and Erdogan, Israel's relations with Turkey were strongly affected by domestic policy issues in Turkey, in particular by the power struggle between the rising force of political Islam and the defenders of the secularist state, the military.
While in the 1990s the friendly relations between the two countries were the result of the military having the upper hand in this internal conflict, the dramatic decline of the Turkish-Israeli alignment is the result of a shift in this domestic balance towards the civilian representatives of the state. The complex interrelation of Turkey's foreign policy with progress or setbacks in the domestic Islamization efforts of the AKP government may explain the suddenness of the decline in relations. It does not, however, provide for a very positive outlook on the future of these relations.
Florian Druckenthaner is a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service and currently pursues a M.A. in Security and Diplomacy Studies from Tel Aviv University. Florian holds an undergraduate degree in European Media Studies from the University of Potsdam, where he won the award of best B.A. thesis 2009 for his investigation into the representation of Arabs participants in Israeli reality TV. He has been working for the Anne Frank Foundation in Berlin and the European Parliament in Brussels, where he further developed his interest for the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His fields of research include Turkish-Israeli relations; the Iranian nuclear threat; terrorism and mass media as well as the use of social media in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
[1] Alon Liel quoted by Ofra, Bengio (2004), "The Turkish-Israeli Relationship: Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders", N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan. Pg. 93
[2] Ibid., Pg. 109.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Olson, Robert W. (2001), "Turkey's relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia, 1991-2000", Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers. Pg. 126.
[5] Ibid., Pg. 127.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Ibid., Pg. 128.
[8] Liel, Alon and Yirik, Can (2010), "Turkish-Israeli relations, 1949-2010", Istanbul: Istanbul Kültür University.
[9] Wall Street Journal, URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703933404576170411237540224.html (last retrieved on 7/2/2011).
[10] Makovsky, Alan (1997), "How To Deal With Erbakan", Middle East Quarterly (March).
[11] Ibid.
[12] Bengio (2004), Pg. 83.
[13] Aras, Bülent (1998), "Palestinian Israeli peace process and Turkey", Commack, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers.
[14] Bengio (2004), Pg. 81.
[15] Ibid., Pg. 106.
[16] Bengio (2004), Pg. 82-83.
[17] Olson, Pg. 131.
[18] Bengio (2004), Pg. 83.
[19] Ibid., Pg. 106.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Makovsky.
[22] Wall Street Journal, URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703933404576170411237540224.html (retrieved on 7/2/2011).
[23] Olson, Pg. 127.
[24] Pomfret, John (1996) "Some Neighbourly Advice", The Washington Post-National Weekly Edition, 10-16 June.
[25] In the first half of 1997, 150,000 Israeli tourists visited Turkey, an increase of 15 percent compared to 1996. (Olson, Pg. 132).
[26] Aras (1998), Pg. 134.
[27] Turkish president Abdullah Gül in an interview with euronews on 3 December 2010 (URL: http://www.euronews.net/2010/12/03/israel-s-friendship-with-turkey-is-over-gul/, (retrieved on 14/2/2011).
[28] Liel and Yirik, Pg. 180.
[29] Ibid., Pg. 183.
[30] Ibid., Pg. 187.
[31] Ibid., Pg. 202.
[32] Ibid., Pg. 214.
[33] The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2006), "Timeline of Turkish-Israeli Relations, 1949–2006" URL: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/documents/44edf1a5d337f.pdf (retrieved on 20/3/2011).
[34] Liel and Yirik, Pg. 217.
[35] Ibid., 225.
[36] Bengio (2010), "Israel and Turkey: Friends for Life?", Pg. 61.
[37] Gordon, Philip H. and Taspinar, Omer (2008), "Winning Turkey: How America, Europe and Turkey Can Revive a Fading Partnership", Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
[38] Quoted in Miliyet, August 21, 2001; translated by Saatcioglu.
[39] Saatcioglu, Beken (2009), "Understanding Moderate Political Islam: What Can the Case of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) Tell us?", Paper delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association's 67th Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2-5.
[40] Ibid.
[41] Tepe, Sultan (2005), "Turkey's AKP. A model 'Muslim-Democratic' party?", Journal of Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 3.
[42] Jung, Dietrich (2008), "Secularism – A key to Turkish policies?" in Jung and Raudvere (ed.), "Religion, Politics and Turkey's EU Accession", N.Y.; Palgreve Macmillan. Pg. 124.
[43] Hale, William (2005), "Christian Democracy and the AKP: Parallels and Contrasts", Turkish Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2., Pg. 304.
[44] The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
[45] Saatcioglu.
[46] Gordon and Taspinar, Pg. 7.
[47] Ibid, Pg. 8.
[48] Gordon and Taspinar, Pg. 10.
[49] Ibid.
[50] Olson, 128.
[51] Strittmatter, Kai; "Erdogan uses Gaza-War for election campaign" published in sueddeutsche.de on 15/1/2009, URL: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/tuerkei-kritisiert-israel-erdogan-benutzt-gaza-krieg-fuer-wahlkampf-1.372785 (in German, retrieved on 10/2/2011).
[52] Ibid.
[53] Aras, Bülent (2009), "The Devatoglu Era in Turkish Foreign Policy", Insight Turkey, Vol. 11, No. 3.
[54] Hürriyet Daily News, "West Treats Iran Unfairly", 26/10/2009 URL: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=erdogan-west-treats-iran-unfairly-2009-10-26 (retrieved on 10/3/2011).
[55] BBC, "Turkey alcohol curbs raise secular fears", 12/1/2011, URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12174905 (retrieved on 14/3/2011).
[56] Freedom House, "Journalists' Arrests Signal Growing Press Freedom Backslide in Turkey", URL: http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=70&release=1357 (retrieved on 14/3/2010).
[57] "Ergenekon is an alleged terrorist organization formed by retired generals, intellectuals, former bureaucrats, academic, etc. which supposedly aims for the realization of a military coup to overthrow the AKP government. Many in Turkey argue that the Ergenekon trials are (…) politicized proceedings." (Saatcioglu).
[58] Hürriyet Daily News, "European Parliament adopts critical report on Turkey", 9/3/2011, URL: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=toughest-report-ever-says-chps-brussels-chief-2011-03-09 (retrieved on 14/3/2011).
[59] James A. Jeffrey (2009), US Ambassador to Turkey, in a classified cable, Subject: "Israeli Ambassador Traces His Problems to Erdogan", US Embassy in Ankara, 27.10.2009.


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—Dr. L. A. H., aged 35, married, was admitted to Hope Hospital May 24, 1907.
—Grandmother died of cancer. One aunt died of consumption, and an uncle had "white swelling." Aside from children's diseases, the patient had had an attack of pneumonia in 1886, followed by empyema for which a rib was resected and drainage instituted. Complete recovery followed but the diseased chest still remained considerably contracted. Drank excessively whole of 1903, but is a total abstainer now. In December, 1906 (six months before admission), after a full meal of sausage, he was taken with severe abdominal cramps and vomiting, for relief from which he took ⅜ gr. of morphin hypodermatically. The pain was worse in the lower abdomen, and especially on the right side, and some tenderness, localized over the painful area, followed. This attack caused him to quit work for one day. Six weeks later he
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The Town of Holden Beach received a letter of reprimand Friday from the Local Government Commission finance division of the Department of the State Treasurer.
The letter resulted from LGC analysis of the town's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008.
The letter, dated May 18, was addressed to the mayor. Holden Beach Commissioners saw it after it arrived this week.
In her opinion column this week on page 5A, Beacon staff writer Caroline Curran reflects on her past three years with this newspaper and shares some of the things she's learned along her journey.
One of the points she makes is that every person has a story. What a joy it is for editors when their writers embrace that notion! In community newspapers like The Brunswick Beacon, we focus on telling the life stories of people who live, work and grow up in this community.
North Brunswick advanced to the fourth round of the Class 2-A baseball playoffs by beating First Flight 5-0 Friday. North played at Fairmont on Tuesday, with the winner advancing to the Eastern Regional.
North Brunswick (22-4) scored twice in the second inning and another in the third. The Scorpions added runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
Trey Watson was the winning pitcher. Randall Rabon and Frank Walsh were 2-for-3.
North Brunswick beat Clinton 8-5 May 19 in the second round in Leland.
Norman Horne won two titles in the North-South Skirmish Association spring nationals, which concluded May 17 in Winchester, Va.
Horne finished first in the 50-yard carbine and first in carbine aggregate. He also was seventh in the 100-yard carbine.
Horne and other competitors with the 23rd North Carolina State Troops had two second-place finishes.
The cannon team of Joe Newman, Buck Buchan, Mike Roberts, Patti McLaughlin, Graham King and Horne finished second in its class. Newman, Buchan, Roberts and Horne are from Brunswick County.
The 2009 Brunswick County Gator Senior Games had 240 participants in 80 athletic and artistic events. The top-three finishers in each age category, male and female, qualified to compete in the state finals in the fall.
The Brunswick County Gator Senior Games began April 8 with opening ceremonies at Town Creek Park and ended May 11 with a celebration social and medals ceremony at the Cooperative Extension Building in the county government center.
Giving something back to Brunswick County, Ocean City Chevrolet announced it is becoming partners with Shallotte Dixie Youth to provide the league's players and coaches equipment, instructional clinics and a chance to raise $10,000 for the 2009 season. The program demonstrates Chevrolet and its dealerships as America's brand, bringing together America's pastime.
In support of the Shallotte youth baseball program, Ocean City Chevrolet will provide the league kits filled with equipment bags, ball buckets, coaches' clipboards and T-shirts.
West Brunswick's baseball team lit sparklers from the start, but in the fourth inning the Trojans set off a string of firecrackers.
West scored10 runs in that frame and went on to trounce Wilson Fike 16-4 Friday night in the third round of the state playoffs.
It took the Trojans just 4½ innings to record the win, as the game was called short due to the 10-run rule.
West led Wilson Fike 6-3 after three innings, but the outcome certainly wasn't secure.
West Brunswick beat D.H. Conley 7-6 May 19 night in the second round of the Class 3-A state baseball playoffs.
West (19-5) led 6-0 after two innings but Conley (15-10) rallied and in the seventh inning and had the tying run at second base with two outs before Brock Holmes ended the game with a strikeout.
This second-round playoff game Friday night between the D.H. Conley and West Brunswick softball teams had no score and few hits in the first five innings as both pitchers dominated the hitters.
Then the dreaded sixth inning hit the Lady Trojans in an eventual 5-0 loss.
"We played defense right there with them (Conley) all game," West coach Joe Noble said, "and that fifth and sixth inning has been the inning that about 90 percent of the runs have been scored against us. We knew we had to get through the fifth and sixth. That is key for us. "
The Brunswick County Grand Jury under the direction of Judge Ola Lewis with prosecutor Rex Gore and courtroom clerk Kay Fowler returned the following indictments during a Superior Court session on May 4:
Keith T. Bruce, 46, of 2201 Pine Straw Road, Bolivia; felony worthless check, felony accessing computers.
Lee Roy Combs, 64, of 2706 Maiden Lane, Supply; felony second-degree sexual offense.
Tony Terrell Gore, 40, of 390 Little Macedonia Road, Supply; seven counts felony uttering forged instrument.
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If you were unable to register for the Children's Library's MoMA Tour offered on Tuesday, April 15th, feel free to borrow a MoMA Pass to visit on your own. Want to reserve a pass? Here's how!
The passes circulate for one week, in periods that run from Tuesday to the following Monday. For example, the first borrowing period will be between Tuesday, September 24 and Monday, September 30. Rather than placing them on hold like a book, you will reserve them for a specific week, which should make it easier to plan your visit. Passes can be reserved in person at the Welcome Desk, or over the phone (203-669-5239). At this time, passes can only be reserved by residents, members who work in Darien, and Friends of the Library at the $300 annual level or above.


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text: Posted 30 Dec 2012 It's pretty obvious that many on this board have never managed or run a company. This organization had a losing mentality that needed to e removed. It's not quite as simple as just making changes. This team has improved this year in a way most can't see. You obviously dont remember what John Fox did in 2 years, with Jake Delhomme, and in my opinion less talent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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What Makes a Food 'Organic'? continued...
When buying organic, look for the following regulated terms on food labels:
- Food labeled "100% organic" has no synthetic ingredients and can legally use the USDA organic seal.
- Food labeled "organic" has a minimum of 95% organic ingredients. It is eligible to use the USDA organic seal.
- Food labeled "made with organic ingredients" must contain at least 70% organic ingredients. It is not eligible for the USDA seal.
- Meat, eggs, poultry, and dairy labeled "organic" must come from animals that have never received antibiotics or growth hormones. "It is almost impossible to get organic meat," Nestle notes.
It should be noted the USDA has yet to set standards for organic seafood or cosmetics. Most cosmetics are blends, including ingredients that may or may not be organic.
Experts recommend spending most of your organic food dollars on produce, as it is most likely to contain pesticides.
Organic Food and Your Health
The USDA makes no claims that organic foods are safer, healthier, or more nutritious than conventional foods. There is also little research on the health outcomes of people who eat primarily organic diets.
Government limits do establish the safe amount of pesticides that can be used in growing and processing foods, and the amount of pesticide residue allowable on foods.
According to the EPA web site, because kids' immune systems are not fully developed, they may be at greater risk from some pesticides than adults. The web site also notes that the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act set tougher standards to protect infants and children from pesticide risks.
The Price of Buying Organic Food
Just how much more expensive is it to go organic? You can expect to pay 50%-100% more for organic foods. That's because, in general, it is more labor-intensive, and without the help of pesticides, the yield is not always as favorable.
To maximize your organic food dollar, the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., recommends going organic on the "dirty dozen" -- types of produce that are most susceptible to pesticide residue:
- Peaches
- Apples
- Sweet bell peppers
- Celery
- Nectarines
- Strawberries
- Cherries
- Pears
- Grapes (imported)
- Spinach
- Lettuce
- Potatoes


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June 3, 2010
NL Game 52
Twins (Advocare Children's Medical) 14
Marlins (Emily M Travel) 2
In National League play tonight the Twins came out on top of the Marlins thanks to the tremendous showing Mike Hussey put forth by going 2 for 2 with two Grand Slams. Both teams are looking forward to the playoffs.
The Twins played error free baseball and when they do that they are a team to be reckoned with!


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Blue Team Tops Red in Public Scimmage at UIC Pavilion
Oct. 29, 2010
CHICAGO - In one of its final tune-ups prior to the exhibition season, UIC's Blue team topped the Red squad, 49-29, in a 30-minute public scrimmage at the UIC Pavilion Friday night. Senior guards Dipanjot Singh and Robo Kreps captured the individual titles in the ensuing three-point shooting and dunk contests.
The Blue team, comprised of seniors Paul Carter, Brad Birton, K.C. Robbins, Jimmy Harding and Singh, along with juniors Daniel Barnes and sophomore Corey Gray, was led by Carter's 14 points and seven rebounds. Birton, Robbins and Gray each chipped in eight points, while Barnes scored seven. The squad shot 52.8 percent (19-36) from the field, and drilled four three-pointers, including two from Gray.
The Red team was led by Kreps' 10 points. He was joined by junior Zavion Neely (7), freshman Eddie Denard (4), and juniors Darrin Williams, Matt Bush and Dorian Tyler, along with sophomores Anthony Kelley and Arman Rasul, who all chipped in two points. Denard led the Red squad in rebounding with seven caroms.
The teams played a full 20-minute first half, with the Blue team racing out to a 34-22 lead at the break. The second half was an abbreviated 10 minutes in length, and the Blue squad out-scored the Red team, 15-7. The Red squad scored 16 of its 29 points in the paint.
Gray, Kreps, Singh, Bush, Harding and Barnes all competed in the three-point contest, with each player receiving 40 seconds to knock down as many threes as possible. Singh impressed the crowd by converting a team-high 10 field goals, while Gray and Bush each hit five threes.
In the ensuing dunk contest, Birton, Tyler, Kreps, Carter, Kelley, Robbins and Neely all competed, receiving three attempts to show their creativity above the rim. Kreps sealed the win with an alley-oop, one-handed dunk - he corralled the ball half-way between the free throw line and the rim, and finished with a flush as his teammates all stood to cheer the 6-foot-1 guard on. The dunk came on his third and final attempt.
The UIC men's basketball team, under the leadership of first-year head coach Howard Moore, returns nine letterwinners, including three starters and its top-two scorers (Kreps and Neely) from the 2009-10 campaign. The Flames will play their lone exhibition game next Wednesday (Nov. 3), taking on Illinois-Springfield at the UIC Pavilion beginning at 7:30 p.m.
To purchase individual game tickets, call Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000, or visit ticketmaster.com. Fans wishing to purchase a season ticket plan, flex plan or learn more about youth basketball opportunities at Flames games are encouraged to contact a UIC ticket representative by calling 312-413-UIC1 (8421).


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On this morning's Today Katie Couric and Matt Lauer heartily promoted Jimmy Buffett's latest project, a new environmentalist movie aimed at kids called Hoot. Apparently the movie, based off the liberal Carl Hiaasen's book, features <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archi... vandalizing a construction site. However Matt and Katie simply pitched it as a "movie with a message," about, "some young people who come together to help save an endangered species." Couric also endorsed the book in wishing Buffett good luck: "Yeah good luck with Hoot I loved the book I can't wait to see the movie." The following conversation came at 8:31am, conveniently preceeded by an ad for Hoot in the previous commercial break:

Matt Lauer: "But a few minutes ago I mentioned Jimmy Buffett and that's his cue to walk right up to my left here."

Katie Couric: "Come to momma."

Lauer: "Mr. Buffett is here. He's been awfully busy these days. Hey Jimmy. He's not only one of the producers of a movie, a new movie called Hoot he also makes a cameo appearance and recorded the soundtrack for the film. Hey Jimmy good to see you."

Jimmy Buffett: "How are you doing Mr. Lauer?"

Lauer: "I'm doing fine."

Buffett: "Hello Katie."

Couric: "Hello darling. Obviously this book must be near and dear to your heart. First of all it was written by Carl Hiaasen who's one of my favorites and a great friend of yours and it takes place in Florida so it seems like a no-brainer, right?"

[Graphic: Giving A Hoot, Jimmy Buffett Goes Hollywood]

Buffett: "It was, it was a no-brainer and then it kinda worked out. It was, I hate, I hate to say easy to do. It was and I think we kind of held to script. And it's fun."

Lauer: "Well tell people a little bit about the story. It's about some young people who come together to help save an endangered species."

Buffett: "Little owls in Florida, burrowing owls which are all over Florida. We actually had, actual owls in the movie. We didn't have a budget for high computer graphics so we used the owls and, and actually Carl plays a part in it, Luke Wilson, Robert Wagner makes an appearance. We got great kid actors and they actually had fun and kinda came about, you know, the idea of preserving these owls and what it meant to kids to do that and it's something as a parent I wanted to try to make a film that I could actually watch when I went to the movies with my kids and not sleep so we, we I think we accomplished that."

Couric: "Well yeah that's true. It's like a movie with a message and it does appeal, appeal to adults and children and obviously you lent a hand musically. Tell us about that."

[Picture of CD featured]

After a brief conversation about Buffett's music Lauer and Couric wished Buffett and his liberal flick well:

Lauer: "Jimmy good luck with it."

Buffett: "Thanks Matt.

Couric: "Yeah good luck with Hoot I loved the book I can't wait to see the movie."

Buffett: "Alright darling. Okay."

Couric: "Bye Jimmy."

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Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks
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It wouldn't be the Fourth of July in New York City without the annual Macy's fireworks show, which made its debut in 1976 to commemorate the nation's bicentennial. The iconic display will return to the East River this year; fireworks will be set off from the Brooklyn Bridge and from barges in the water below. The best viewing spots will be from Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and along the east side of Lower Manhattan. If you plan on heading to where the action is, arrive by 5pm to snag a good spot (the light show starts at 9pm).


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Kirkham's No 1 sprinter, Lucy Mansfield and Taegan O'Hara were the star performers of the penultimate track and field meeting of the season when both athletes won two events at the Stanley Park Arena, last weekend.
Lucy held off a determined challenge from her Carr Hill schoolmate, Katy Wyper, to win the under 17 womens 100m.sprint title in a time of 12.9 seconds to Wyper's 13.0 secs but was a clear winner in the 200m. where Mansfield clocked 25.8 secs to Wyper's 26.8 secs with Claire Owens making a clean sweep for Blackpool in the 100m with 14.5 secs for third place.
Competing in the under 15 girls division, Taegan O'Hara won a hotly contested long jump event with a leap of 4.42m and then went on to win the 70m hurdles in 12.5 secs - an exceptional time for a youngster in such a technical event.
The mighty Myerscough family from Over Wyre were the toast of the senior mens division with youngtest son, Grant, winning the shot putt with a throw of 12.17m from his father, Dave, who was runner-up with 10.19m.
Meanwhile, Matt Wright continued his seasons good form by winning the pole vault event with a clearance of 4.00m.
For the senior women, Nia Rutter was again a double winner, despite the absence of her favourite event, the triple jump - winning the 100m sprint in 13.80 secs followed by the 100m hurdles in 16.20 secs.
In the under 17 mens division, Greg Nash took the 400m title in 62.1 secs and Marcus Quarmby, the 800m with a strong performance of 2 mins 04.7 secs whilst Declan O'Hara came 2nd in the pole vault with a splendid personal best of 3.80m and Greg Nash was runner-up in the 800m in 2 mins 23.7 secs.
Jamie Thomson was the busiest athlete for the under 15 boys, taking 2nd.place in the shot putt with 9.00m followed by 5th in the 800m in 2 mins 28.3 secs and 6th in the 200m in 26.8 secs Joe Gigli ran a strong 800m to finish runner-up in 2 mins 15.2 secs with good support coming from Alex Nash who clocked 2 mins 22.1 secs for 4th place.
In the 1500m blue ribband event, Adam Weightman tantallisingly missed the 5 minute barrier by 1/10th second for third place and Matt Walker took 4th place in the pole vault with a clearance of 2.30m.
Chloe Needham won a closely contested under 15 girls pole vault event, on countback, from her teammate, Becci Ferguson, with both girls clearing the same height of 2.10m Loryn McCudden and Tanya Wright completed a clean sweep for BWFAC in this event with clearances of 1.80m and 1.40m respectively for 3rd and 4th spots.
In the sprint events, Alicia Johnston was runner-up in the 100m in 13.6 secs narrowly beating her training partner, Bethany Towers(13.7).
Lydia Critchley was also a runner-up in the 200m in a fine 26.6 secs with Alicia Johnston taking 3rd place in 27.0 secs.
These positions were duplicated in the 75m hurdles with Bethany Towers taking 2nd place in 12.1 secs and Natasha Johnson 3rd in 13.3 secs.
Bethany was again in action in the shot putt event where she came 3rd with a throw of 8.62m.
In the under 13 boys category, Ben Everson continued his seasons unbeaten run by taking the 800m in 2 mins 24.3 secs followed home by Bradley Yates in 2.32.6.
Luis Blyth took the long jump title with 4.47m and followed up with 2nd place in the 200m in 29.5 secs ahead of teammate Ashley Hails in 3rd place in 30.3 secs.
Finn Walker also had a good day taking 3rd place in the 100m (14.3) and 2nd place in long jump(4.19).
Rebecca Todd was a clear winner in the shot putt event with a throw of 8.00m.ahead of traing partner, Lindsay O'Brien in 3rd place(7.18).
However Tash Gardner was surprisingly beaten in the under 13 girls 100m by Maxine Mieju of Lancaster and Morecambe AC who recorded 13.6 secs to Gardner's 13.7 secs and Jodie Ferguson ran strongly to take the runners-up spot in the 800m in 2 mins 30.1 secs.
In the under 11 category, Dominic Lavelle took 2nd place in the long jump with 3.69m against Bethany Everson's 3rd place with 3.52m whilst Bethany did one better by taking 2nd place in the 600m in 1 mins 58.4 secs just outsprinting Amelia Betmead who was third in 1.58.7.
Other results at Stanley Park: Under 15 girls Kassidy Knight 4th.100m 14.0 secs; Katie Wood 4th shot putt 8.55m and 4th hammer throw 21.37m.
Under 13 boys Ashley Hails 4th 800m 2.46.5; Under 13 girls.
Tash Gardner 4th shot putt 6.96m; Under 11 boys. Ciaran Jognson 5th 600m. 2.01.7. Under 9 girls 1200m 4th Megan Gair 2.31.3.


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Billboard sites worth an estimated €100m are being handed over by the council in return for 450 bicycles.
The bikes, which will not be available for another year, will be provided free of charge to members of the public for short journeys through the city.
Labour's Sean Kenny, who is chair of the council's transport committee, said he would like to see more transparency surrounding the deal.
"I know there is commercial sensitivity but I sometimes do not buy that line. I would be in favour of the information being made available to the public," Mr Kenny said.
But he said a priority should also be getting the bike scheme up and running.
"It has been a success in Paris and Barcelona. There is a need for it. I would like to see that moving forwards quickly," he said.
Stuart Fogarty, of AFA O'Meara, Ireland's largest advertising agency, has questions about the deal.
"They will be the most expensive bicycles in the world. Those advertising sites are worth at least €100m and we are swapping them for a few hundred bicycles, a few advertising panels and some signage for tourists," he said.
"There are too few bicycles to make any real impact on traffic, so what's in it for Dublin?"
His reservations have been echoed by An Taisce, the Dublin City Business Association, the National Council for the Blind in Ireland, popular architectural website Archiseek and a number of city councillors.
In exchange for 450 bicycles, Decaux has been given 72 lucrative advertising billboards, which have already sprouted up around the city.
Labour's Andrew Montague, who is chair of the council's Cycle Forum, agreed with Mr Kenny that the agreement should be made public.
"The terms of the deal are not public. All we know is that there were five companies that put in a tender. (JC Decaux) was the best tender so it seems like it was a good deal. If it was such a bad deal why would someone else not have had a better deal?" he said.
Comparisons have been made with another city with a similar bicycle scheme.
As part of the Velov scheme in Lyon, JC Decaux has provided 3,000 bikes in exchange for exclusive advertising opportunities in the city centre at 350 sites. Mr Montague said the French city's initiative has had a positive impact on traffic.
"Their scheme started with 2,000 bikes and there are now 3,000, which is testament to its success. It's disappointing that we will begin with just 450," he said.
His Labour colleague Emer Costello said: "We're paying too high a price. We're selling our streets for a few hundred bikes and we have no idea how much JC Decaux is making."
She accused the council of failing to carry out a cost-benefit analysis.
"The project was brought in through a strategic policy committee but it was never voted on by the entire council," said Ms Costello.
"The unsightly signage has been placed disproportionately in the north inner city but its local area committee was never consulted."
The council has said the JC Decaux deal was the best on offer after competitive bidding. It said it will carry out a cost-benefit analysis once the bicycles arrive.