"We will determinedly embrace the process launched by our leader (Ocalan)," he declared in a statement carried by the pro-PKK Firat news agency.
Like John Hughes did in the 80s, he has created a distinct and much-copied template (often described as "bromance", due to the ever-present male friendships) and, in the process, launched a young group of unknown actors to the top of the A-list.
The process, launched in Britain back in the 1800s thanks to the slave trade and the industrial revolution, really took off, Pollan reckons, after the second world war, when we "emerged from years of rationing - so ready to binge on sugar, meat, white flour - just as industry was converting from making bombs to making fertiliser, and nerve gases to pesticides".
Two months later, in the midterm elections, Democrats, although they managed to cling to the Senate, lost the House by the widest margin since the midterms of 1946; Gingrich was elected Speaker on the strength of his "Contract with America," which made a number of promises that were impossible to keep, and in the process launched an era of rabid partisanship.
The Go-Go's, of course, dominated the early part of the decade with their first two albums, "Beauty and the Beat" and "Vacation," and in the process launched a thousand high-energy all-female rock-and-roll groups, the Bangles among them.
The service, which promises to protect websites from security threats and helps speed up loading times in the process, launched a little riff on the rumors around its valuation today – and is making some fun of Instagram in the process – by launching Instaflare.
Her new show, in which Dave chases 21st-century fashions in comedy and has a breakdown in the process, launches a London run.
An acclaimed journalist explores the "wildness and strangeness" lurking under the placid, rational surfaces of Chekhov's work (mostly the stories), in the process launching a fierce assault on the genre of literary travelogue.
We've chosen 15 of the region's best early-stage startups to compete head-to-head and — in the process — launch their companies to the world.
This impressive cohort of innovators, makers and technology entrepreneurs will compete head-to-head and, in the process, launch their companies to the world.
History is packed with the experiences of those leaders who, having withdrawn from the day-to-day vagaries of life, could observe what ails humanity with deep clarity, and come up with an approach to solving these ills, and in the process launch the next big revolution.
