:: Features Archive :: 2010
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Turkey is part of Europe. Fear keeps it out of the EU
When on his recent visit to Turkey President Obama called for Turkish entry into the European Union, he put his finger on a strategic and cultural sore spot. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking for the majority position in Europe, was quick to respond:
Find out moreTurkey may one day enjoy a privileged relationship with the EU, but full membership is out of the question. Turkey is not European – geographically or culturally…. The Turkish question rarely figures in the foreground of European debate today, yet its spectre hovers over discussions of ‘European identity’, ‘immigration’ and the ‘Muslim question’.
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Debunking a scaremongering YouTube hit
WA big YouTube hit makes startling predictions about the ‘Islamification’ of Europe over the next few decades and has been viewed more than 10 million times. But can anyone even believe what it says?
Find out moreThis seven-and-a-half minute video titled Muslim Demographics uses slick graphics, punctuated with dramatic music, to make some surprising and scaremongering claims, asserting that much of Europe will be majority Muslim in just a few decades. It says that in the past two decades, 90% of all population growth in Europe has been through Muslim immigration… .
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World news in visuals
Cant be bothered to read anything but still want to catch up with world news? The online version of The Independent newspaper has an extensive photo gallery displaying the past seven days in photographs from around the world.
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Cyberkids abandon social networking sites
From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception.
Find out moreThe proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom.
The sites, once the virtual streetcorners, pubs and clubs for millions of 15- to 24-year-olds, have now been over-run by 25- to 34-year-olds whose presence is driving their younger peers away.
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