Blogs: Filling the EU's communication gap?
Blogs: Filling the EU's communication gap?
In order to 'reconnect with citizens', Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström began communicating via an internet 'blog' in 2005, prompting colleagues to follow her example. But will blogs really lead the way to more European debate?....
Dammit. I am not listed there:)
Marc Chagall, La Danse. VIA
A Test for The West In Turkey
This month's elections in Turkey have been described as a battle for the soul of the nation. But far from being a battle between secularism and Islam, as some would have us believe, this is really a conflict between the forces of freedom and democracy on the one hand and authoritarianism on the other.......
Terror fight 'may take 15 years'
The UK's new security minister says beating radicalisation in the fight against terror could take at least 15 years.Bird flu reappears in western Europe!!!
As the highly pathogenic form of avian influenza virus H5N1 has been confirmed in three EU countries over the last three weeks, member states are raising their alert levels and starting to apply measures to protect poultry....
Turkish Kurds: some back the state
Though embattled, not all Kurds support the militant Kurdistan Workers Party...
By Scott Peterson
Sirnak, Turkey - He may be a Turkish Kurd, but Mehmet Gungor says he has every reason to 'hate' the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Twenty years ago, armed Kurdish separatists visited his uncle's house, asking the extended family to provide food and one or two children as PKK recruits. Citing their poverty in remote southeast Turkey, the family refused."
"Erdogan Struggles With Generals for Ultimate Power in Turkey
By Mark Bentley
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- When Turkey's army decided to block Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-leaning presidential candidate in April, it didn't have to roll tanks into the streets. All it had to do was post a late-night notice on its Web site."...
