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Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay has said the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) had appointed trustees to 1,004 companies across 42 provinces as of Oct. 25 over their alleged links to the Gülen movement under a crackdown that began following a coup attempt in July 2016, Turkish media reports said on Wednesday.Speaking in the Turkish Parliament about the presidency budget, Oktay said the value of assets of the seized companies as of Sept. 30 was TL 55.74 billion, while their total turnover was TL 21.95 billion, total owned resources TL 21.05 billion and period income TL 1.53 billion.The government...

Campaign 2004: Kucinich urges spiritual reclamation for America Posted: January 24, 2004 - 11:55am EST by: Brenda Norrell / Correspondent / Indian Country Today FARMINGTON, N.M. - Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich received a personal blessing from an esteemed Navajo medicine man, after another leading Navajo medicine man sang the Blessing Way chant, at the "Healing the Uranium Legacy" convention organized by grassroots Navajo. Deeply moved, Ohio Rep. Kucinich said he felt the connection to the land and universe as was shared in the Blessing Way chant and the philosophy of living a life of beauty, in harmony with...