Once again, Mr. Erdogan, with his words, has pushed Turkey's culture wars to the fore, underscoring deep divisions between the secular and the religious, and prompting the sort of controversy many even within his own party had hoped to avoid in the aftermath of the protests and just before Turkey enters an election cycle.
Certainly mistakes would have been avoided in the aftermath of war if policy had not been driven by the Republican right's easy confidence that nothing more was necessary than to accept the gratitude of the Iraqi people.
While the attention of many economists has focused on what people are avoiding in the aftermath of last month's terrorist attacks and the first waves of retaliatory bombings in Afghanistan -- traveling on airplanes, making luxury purchases, going to expensive restaurants -- executives and store data suggest a pattern of what people are doing instead.
Many of those who say the trial should take place in Libya nevertheless recognise that Iraq's proceedings against Saddam circumvented many of his greatest crimes and came to an expedited conclusion, and wonder whether sham, local justice can ever be avoided in the aftermath of a bloody conflict.
Due to its relative isolation from global financial markets, Iran was initially able to avoid recession in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.
The Obama administration is determined to avoid a repeat of the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq.
As the executive editor of George magazine, I asked staffers to avoid the press in the aftermath of John's death because I'd been told that Caroline Kennedy had requested our silence.
The most sweeping change will give businesses the ability to negotiate reduced working hours and wages during economic slowdowns, an idea borrowed from Germany, which used a similar system of shortened work hours to avoid massive layoffs in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
He resigned after eight months to avoid becoming entangled in the aftermath of an uprising in Minas Gerais, in which one of his relatives had been involved.
Furthermore, there is the legacy of corporate debt and excess capacity in former lead sectors that resulted as a consequence of policies implemented to avoid a hard landing in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
