May 1, 2007 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events part of the Peabody Collection. Firefighters are attempting to Protests in Turkey over Sahara. salvage some of these items. Presidential candidate •General Sir Richard Dannatt, the Hundreds of head of the British Army, confirms DC Fire and EMS dispatched units thousands of Turks that Prince Harry will deploy with at approximately 12:30 p.m. on rallied on Sunday the Blues and Royals regiment on April 30, 2007 to a report of smoke to protest Abdullah a six-month tour of duty in Iraq. in the building. The first arriving Gül's presidential fire fighters reported heavy smoke candidacy, which they fear would •The Governor of Virginia Timothy and began an initial attack. Fire threaten Turkey's separation Kaine tightens gun laws after the fighters were soon pulled out of the between religious and state Virginia Tech massacre. building because of fears that the affairs. Prime Minister Erdoğan in •Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is building might collapse. a national television address on criticised in a high-level report for Monday called for national unity. taking Israel to war in Lebanon The fire has been upgraded to a 3rd last year "hastily". alarm fire with numerous fire Stephen McNeil becomes apparatus responding. The fire has •A smoking ban comes into effect leader of the Nova Scotia been largely knocked down as of in Northern Ireland, three years Liberals 1:45 p.m., though many units after the Republic of Ireland; this Stephen McNeil, MLA remain on the scene. for Annapolis, was now means the entire island of Ireland is smoke-free. voted the new leader Traffic on Wisconsin Avenue and of the Nova Scotia •A meeting of the other area streets is being detoured Liberal Party at the Intergovernmental Panel on around the fire area. leadership convention Climate Change starts in Bangkok on Saturday. to discuss approaches to climate Protests in Turkey over change. Presidential candidate Featured story Hundreds of thousands of Turks •The US-led Coalition claims to rallied again in the capital Istanbul Report claims that Pakistani have killed scores of Taliban forces on Sunday to protest Abdullah Gül's cricket coach Bob Woolmer in Afghanistan. presidential candidacy, which they was poisoned •Five men arrested in 2004 as part fear would threaten Turkey's Woolmer, who was of Operation Crevice are convicted separation between religious and found dead in his at the Old Bailey of a plot to state affairs. hotel room after explode fertiliser bombs in the UK. Pakistan's shock- defeat to Ireland, was poisoned before being Historic Georgetown library on strangled, according to a TV fire report due to be broadcast on the The Georgetown branch of the BBC News programme Panorama. District of Columbia library is currently on fire in Washington, DC. Wikipedia Current Events In addition to books, the National symbols were prominently •Morrocco and the Polisario Front Georgetown Public Library has a present during the rally. agree to United Nations sponsored large collection of historic Credit: Michel talks about the future of Western documents and paintings that are If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 The "Çağlayan Demonstration for directly by the parliament, and Gül point, it's enough that we protect the Republic" was centered around failed to get elected in the first the environment of stability, it's the Çağlayan Square. While round of the elections, when enough that we protect the security forces estimated the opposition lawmakers boycotted the environment of peace. Enough that number of demonstrators at 700 vote. The opposition also appealed we don't harm the environment of 000, estimates around 1 million to the Constitutional Court to confidence we have worked so hard and more are reported in the declare the process unlawful. A to attain." Turkish media. second round is to be held on Wednesday, and a third one on May In reaction to the ongoing The scene of the previous "Protect 9. uncertainty, the E.U. enlargement your Republic" demonstration was commissioner warned the Turkish repeated, with uncountable Turkish Gül's wife Hayrunisa wears a head Army about interfering: “It is flags and many posters of Atatürk, scarf and has appealed to the important that the military leaves founder of the modern Turkish European Court of Human Rights to the remit of democracy to the state. The protesters shouted be allowed to wear it at a democratically-elected government slogans like: "Turkey is secular and university. But secular Turks want and this is the test case if the will remain secular!". to keep the current ban on wearing Turkish armed forces respect such scarves in public places. democratic secularism and the democratic arrangement of civil- military relations,” commissioner Olli Rehn said. Erdoğan and Gül support Turkey's efforts to join the European Union. The Turkish stock market lost 4,01 per cent on Monday, which analysts attribute to the current political crisis. Between 700 000 and 1,2 million Turks are reported to have demonstrated near the Çağlayan Square. Credit: Michel Ex-CIA Director George Tenet's memoir published File photo of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Former Director of the The demonstrators fear that Credit: Bertil Videt current Foreign Minister Abdullah Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet Gül, the presidential candidate of Prime Minister Erdoğan in a the ruling AK Party of Prime has released his national television address on memoir, At the Center Minister Erdoğan, will allow Islamic Monday called for national unity: influences in Turkey to become of the Storm: My Years "Unity, togetherness, solidarity, at the CIA. more powerful. The party officially these are the things we need most. George Tenet denies having such a hidden We can overcome many problems agenda. The book outlines Tenet's version of so long as we treat each other with 9/11, the War on Terrorism, the love." The army, traditionally loyal to the 2001 War in Afghanistan, the run- Turkish pro-secular side, accused up to the 2003 Iraq war, rough "Even four and a half years ago, interrogation and other events. the government on Friday of this country was riven by serious tolerating radical Islam. But Gül problems, which thank goodness replied: "It is out of the question to Tenet spoke about his memoir on have been overcome one by one," 60 Minutes yesterday, outlining the withdraw my candidacy." In 1997 the Prime Minister said, referring to the democratically elected Islamic- contents of his book including the many reforms his government allegations that are contrary to the oriented President Necmettin has implemented since it came into Erbakan was removed from office George W. Bush administration power. He also pointed out Turkey's positions. by the army, with public support. steady growth rate during the last years. To maintain this, he asked In Turkey, the president is elected Tenet faced accusations of the nation for stability: "At this hypocrisy from former espionage If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 officials on the book's release date, released in June, and will be an Stephen McNeil becomes for not speaking out earlier against alternative to Adobe Creative Suite leader of the Nova Scotia the White House's push to invade 3 (CS3). Liberals Iraq. Stephen McNeil, Iranian Supreme Leader seeks Member of the An error was found in the book worker justice Legislative where a key conversation with then Leader of the Islamic Revolution Assembly (MLA) for Pentagon advisor Richard Perle on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave a Annapolis County, September 12, 2001, in which public address before Labor Day Nova Scotia in Tenet claims Perle told him that wherein he commended the Canada, is now the "Iraq had to pay for the attack" workforce for its contribution to the head of an even could not have occurred as Perle economic growth of the Islamic bigger family. was stranded in Paris and didn't Republic of Iran. The address Neil makes his acceptance speech return to Washington, D.C. until ensued the Minister of Labor McNeil, the 12th of Saturday, at the three days later. Mohammad Jahromi presentation of Dartmouth 17 children, was an economic report. Sportplex, after voted the new Microsoft Silverlight released winning on the leader of the Nova into first test phase Khamenei affirmed that the Islamic second ballot. Scotia Liberal Party Microsoft has System is superior to the at the leadership convention on finally materialistic ones of the West that Saturday. released its trample upon workers' rights when long awaited he indicated that the "West-linked "For the people who said Liberalism "Silverlight" establishments has shown in in Nova Scotia is on life support, I into Alpha practice they hold no mercy for say look at this room," said McNeil. Testing for the workers". In fact, the "The Tory [Conservative] general public. "concentration and accumulation of government in Nova Scotia is on "It's the wealth and maximization of profit" life support." biggest is deplored in Iran's Constitution. challenge for Microsoft right now," Moreover, he emphasized that "We know with your support we can said Brent Thill, an analyst from solutions must be sought within the be the next government of Nova Citigroup. This is the most direct framework of Islam. In the Islamic Scotia," he said. threat to date, that Microsoft has school of economy, "respect of posed to Adobe (makers of the investor comes along respect of Just under 1400 delegates came popular Flash platform).