It sure makes you wonder what’s really going on – both in and behind the power structures. Let me give you an example. We recently spent some time in Turkey talking to people from the Former Soviet Union who are expressing the desire of many Turkic minorities there to become independent… A few days after our short and rather innocuous conference, the Russian Consulate protested to Turkey, asking them to ban reporting on the conference. Is Turkey a partner with Russia in a struggle against its own Democratically-minded Muslim brothers? http://www.rferl.org/section/TatarAnaBashkortostan/166.html