Kourou

ESA's XMM-Newton observatory was launched in December 1999 from Kourou, French Guiana.

It follows a "successful" seven-minute-long, hot-fire test on the vehicle's main engine at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Mr. Erdogan has been a pioneer in tapping the power of women in grass-roots politics in Turkey, said Nur Sinem Kourou, a professor at Istanbul Kultur University who has studied his party’s women’s groups.

“We have to protect him,” Ms. Kourou said, summarizing their views.

“The fact that the women’s branches are on the ground every week, every day means that they analyze society very well,” Ms. Kourou said.