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The Turks, they think, will fatalistically accept any snub.

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It was a disgraceful snub for donor nations that had invested time and capital in supporting Ethiopia s democratic transition.

The Turks, they think, will fatalistically accept any snub. But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey s geo political position.

With the Presidential Elections on the horizon, Mauritanians are anticipating what the days hold for them. A wide spectrum of the opposition is planning to snub the ballot penciled for June 21.

Lyon was the first to describe the Bornean white bearded gibbon ( Hylobates albibarbis ), the Gansu pika ( Ochotona cansus ), the Sumatran porcupine ( Hystrix sumatrae ), the shadowy broad nosed bat ( Platyrrhinus umbratus ), and two species of slow loris from Borneo, Nycticebus bancanus and Nycticebus borneanus .

Key military figures tacit backing for the Turkish Parliament s refusal to endorse the March 2003 US led invasion of Iraq suggests that Turkish nationalism could unite the AKP s rank and file MPs with their otherwise implacable foes in the secular camp. If the EU were to snub Turkey openly over membership, or if America were to seem too lax on the Kurdish problem in Northern Iraq, a huge swathe of the two camps could well unite.