Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy to End

The controversial policy mandated openly gay and bisexual military service members to be discharged from the Armed Forces.

Turkish gays and the military

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Military service is mandatory in Turkey, and its policy on homosexuals serving in the military is quite different from the recently repealed US policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell”. Turkey’s armed forces consider gays ineligible to serve. From Istanbul, Matthew Brunwasser reports on Turkey’s policy of “will ask, must tell.” Download MP3

Reviewing don’t ask, don’t tell

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The World’s Katy Clark reports on Pentagon’s decision to launch a year-long study on how it would lift the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning gays from serving openly in the US military.

Pentagon still kicking out linguists, Ukraine’s Soviet names, and a banquet of foreign idioms

In the lastest podcast, the Obama Administration is moving to boost foreign language speakers at the State Department and the CIA. But at the Pentagon there’s a problem: the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy has resulted in early discharge for more than 300 linguists, including 60 Arabic speakers. Also today, Ukraine wants to change the names of cities named after Soviet heroes, many of them Russian. And a conversation with Jag Bhalla, collector of foreign language idioms. Listen to The World in Words Podcast

Don’t ask, don’t tell policy

The World’s Katy Clark reports on how the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is costing the US vital national security skills of gay service members.Listen