The death penalty was removed from peacetime law in August 2002, and in May 2004 Turkey amended its constitution in order to remove capital punishment in all circumstances.

The longest earthquake ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault ( 1857, 1906 ), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey ( 1939 ) and the Denali Fault in Alaska ( 2002 ), are about half to one third as long as the lengths along subducting plate margins, and those along normal faults are even shorter.

The Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi ) ( AKP ) headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held power in Turkey since 2002.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

This includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Australia 4, Austria 6, Bangladesh 1, Belgium 3, Bulgaria 19, Canada 2, China 16, Croatia 14, Cuba 1, Cyprus 7, Denmark 3, Estonia 5, Finland 1, Germany 54, Greece 627, Hong Kong 12, Iceland 3, India 10, Iran 2, Israel 26, Italy 36, Japan 2, Latvia 24, Lebanon 6, Monaco 29, Netherlands 10, Nigeria 2, Norway 43, Poland 29, Portugal 2, Romania 15, Russia 85, Saudi Arabia 1, Slovenia 2, South Korea 5, Spain 1, Switzerland 54, Syria 4, Turkey 84, Ukraine 25, United Arab Emirates 3, United Kingdom 4, United States 10 ( 2002 est.

On July 11, 2002, Turkey became a Level 3 partner of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) development program.

* Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected as Prime Minister of Turkey in 2002.

From 2001 to 2004, two full series were produced, along with three one-off hour-long specials ; Gay ( retitled and issued as Absolutely Fabulous in New York for the United States ) in 2002, Cold Turkey, a Christmas special in 2003, and White Box ( which included the tying-up of loose-ends and past semi-regular characters appearing in cameos in what seemed an ironic finale for Saffy, Patsy, and Edina ), which aired in 2004.

* At the 2002 World Cup, three games were decided by a golden goal-Senegal over Sweden and South Korea over Italy in the last 16, and Turkey over Senegal in the quarter-final.

The Turkey Point Light Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

By 2002 Red Wing Sand and Gravel of East Fishkill, New York had bought two large parcels in the northern part of the Milan ( on Turkey Hill Road and on Academy Hill Road ) with a view to operating two large-scale mines.

* Three natural gas power plants in Turkey completed in 2002

The particular Grand Prix at which he broke this record has been disputed, as he technically did not start some races, such as the 2002 Spanish Grand Prix, but Barrichello and Honda chose Turkey to be the location of the official celebrations.

Despite such tight security, an incident occurred on November 17, 2002 in which a man apparently slipped through airport security at Ben Gurion Airport with a pocketknife and attempted to storm the cockpit of El Al Flight 581 en route from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, Turkey.

In 2002, BMC ( Turkey ), a Turkish commercial vehicle builder, originally set up by the British Motor Corporation to build their designs under licence in the 1950s, began exporting its vehicles to Britain.

Out of five contestants, they were chosen to represent Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with a song called Leylaklar soldu kalbinde.

He has played a key role in the success of the Turkish national squad, and it was at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where Turkey finished third, that his performances saw him selected for the tournament's all-star team.

Turkey finished third in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, with Rüştü one of the impressing players making his way into the " Team of the Tournament ".

Overall, Iran's Human development Index rating has climbed significantly from 0. 569 in 1980 to 0. 732 in 2002, on par with neighbour Turkey.

In the international front, Bodiroga, as the team's undisputed leader, helped Yugoslavia win the 2001 European Championship in Turkey and the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis.

While the Astra F finished production in Germany in 1998, Polish-built Astras remained on offer in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Turkey, with the name Astra Classic from 1998 to 2002.

With these results, 112 candidates ( 13 of these MPs are DSP affiliates ) were elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from the CHP electoral sheet compared to 178 in 2002.

As a result of bilateral negotiations, a readmission agreement was signed between Turkey and Greece in November 2001 and went into effect in April 2002.

Additionally, Greece ( since 2002 ), Poland ( 2003 ), Italy ( 2009 ) and also Turkey ( 2002 ) ( non members of the EU ) have pledged to contribute personnel to the staff.

some foreign ships register in the Cayman Islands as a flag of convenience ; includes ships from 11 countries among which are: Greece 15, US 5, UK 5, Cyprus 2, Denmark 2, Norway 3 ( 2002 est.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece ( 2002 )

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Germany 1, Greece 1, Ukraine 1 ( 2002 est.

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing its new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

a flag of convenience registry ; includes the ships of People's Republic of China 1, Cyprus 1, Denmark 9, Germany 70, Greece 54, Hong Kong 2, Japan 4, Monaco 8, Netherlands 8, United Kingdom 3, United States 87, and Uruguay 1 ( 2002 est.

These are Verbotene Liebe ( Germany, 1995 – ); Skilda världar ( Sweden, 1996 – 2002 ); Apagorevmeni agapi ( Greece, 1998 ); Cuori Rubati ( Italy, 2002 – 2003 ) Zabranjena ljubav ( Croatia, 2004 – 2008 ).

Greece did not enter the eurozone until 2001 and was not able to start minting coins as early as the other eleven member states, so a number of coins circulated in 2002 were not minted in Athens but in Finland (€ 1 and € 2 – mint mark S ), France ( 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c and 50c – mint mark F ) and Spain ( 20c – mint mark E ).

Switzerland was known for its private finishing schools, such as Institut Alpin Videmanette ( now closed ), which Diana, Princess of Wales attended ; Mon Fertile, where the Duchess of Cornwall was partly educated ; Institut Le Mesnil, which Queen Anne-Marie of Greece attended ; and Institut Château Beau-Cedre, which closed in 2002.

Other former cases at international courts between Belgium and other countries are — in chronological order — the Oscar Chinn Case of 1934 ( with the United Kingdom, the Borghgrave Case of ( 1937 ), the cases of the electricity company of Sofia ( with Bulgaria ) and of the " société commerciale de Belgique " ( with Greece ) of 1939, the case concerning the Barcelona Traction Company of 1970 ( with Spain ), the arrest warrant case of 2002 ( with the Democratic Republic of the Congo ) and the case concerning legality of use of force of 2004 ( with Serbia and Montenegro ).

* Greek electronic game ban: The bill 3037 / 2002, a controversial attempt to fight illegal gambling, is declared a law in Greece.

In the second half of the 1990s, Telenor became involved in mobile operations in a number of countries: Russia ( 1994 ), Bangladesh, Greece, Ireland, Germany and Austria ( 1997 ), Ukraine ( 1998 ), Malaysia ( 1999 ), Denmark and Thailand ( 2000 ), Hungary ( 2002 ), Montenegro ( 2004 ), Pakistan ( 2004 ), Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia ( 2006 ).

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing their new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

* Clogg, Richard ( 2002 ): Minorities in Greece: Aspect of a Plural Society.

* Moraitis, Thanassis ( 2002 ): Anthology of Arvanitika songs of Greece.

* Odyssey of the Gods: An Alien History of Ancient Greece ( Vega books, 2002 ) ISBN 978-1-84333-558-0

Groups from the No Border network have been involved in organising a number of protest camps ( called " No Border Camps " or sometimes " Border Camps "), e. g. in Strasbourg, France ( 2002 ), in Frassanito, Italy ( 2003 ), Gatwick Airport ( 2007 ), United Kingdom, at Patras, Greece, in Calais, France ( 2009 ),

The Individualization of Death and Euthanasia, Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, Committee of Bioethics, Scientific Conference on Euthanasia ( Athens, May 17 – 18, 2002 ), retrieved on February 27, 2009.

In Proceedings of the Third Mediterranean Conference and Exhibition on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion, November 2002, Athens Greece.

After a long legal battle with Denmark, which produced a cheese under the same name using artificially blanched cow's milk, the term " feta " has been a protected designation of origin ( PDO ) since July 2002, which limits the term within the European Union to feta made exclusively of sheep's / goat's milk in Greece.

The Aktio-Preveza Immersed Tunnel, the first and so far only undersea tunnel in Greece, was completed in 2002 and connects Preveza to Aktio in western Acarnania in the region of Aetolia-Acarnania.

In 2002 he moved to Greece with his wife and three children, this to further his career.

He served as Director of the National Library of Serbia ( 1983 – 1988 ), Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Greece, Yugoslavia's Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1995 – 1998 ), and as President of Serbia from 1997 until 2002.