Yearbook 2001 Turkey. The year was marked by Turkey’s difficult economic crisis. The stock index collapsed in February after President Ahmet Necdet Sezer accused Prime Minister B邦lent Ecevit of protecting three corruption-suspected ministers in...
Yearbook 2001 Thailand. The January election gave a grand victory to the newly formed party Thai straight Thai (Thais love Thais). By merging with the Liberal Democratic Party Seritham, Thai got straight Thai’s own...
Yearbook 2001 Tajikistan. After another year of drought, the Red Cross warned in August that one million people could die of starvation if they did not receive food aid. The situation was reported to...
Yearbook 2001 Taiwan. Taiwan’s stubborn relationship with China, as before, had its mark on the country’s international relations. Politically, the two arch enemies were on a collision course, but economically one was approaching. The...
Yearbook 2001 Syria. Thirteen of the country’s leading regime critics were arrested in August and September accused of trying in various ways to counter the country’s leadership. Among those arrested were Mamun al-Humsi and...
Yearbook 2001 Sri Lanka. The 18-year war between the army and the guerrilla Tamil Eelam’s liberation tigers, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), continued without significant changes to the front lines. Norwegian mediation attempts...
Yearbook 2001 South Korea. The approach to North Korea encountered obstacles. During President Kim Dae Jung’s visit to the United States in March, US President George W. Bush made it clear that the US...
Yearbook 2001 Singapore. Politically, this year was dominated by the weak opposition’s attempt to break the ruling party’s PAP power holdings and the effective, often criticized, methods of the government to respond to these....
Yearbook 2001 Saudi Arabia. Two weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, Saudi Arabia severed its diplomatic ties with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and gave the United States full...
Yearbook 2001 Qatar. Qatar’s border dispute with Bahrain was resolved on March 16, when the International Court of Justice in The Hague granted Qatar sovereignty over the city of az-Zubara and a land strip...