"NRO: Michael Rubin on Armenian Genocide -it's amateur hour in the US Congress
Iraq seeks talks on Turkey threat
Baghdad calls for urgent talks with Turkey after Ankara threatens a cross-border raid into northern Iraq.
Oil holds record levels above $86
Oil prices remain at record levels above $86 a barrel amid tensions in northern Iraq and concerns over output levels.
Profile: PKK rebel group
The BBC's Pam O'Toole profiles the Kurdish rebel group that has been waging an armed struggle against Turkey since 1984.
Şahin Alpay What has the House Committee achieved?
NOTA: Turquia bombardea Wall Street
by Francisco Veiga
Diplomacia al borde del abismo
by Francisco Veiga
Turkey's War on the Truth
by Richard Cohen
It goes without saying that the House resolution condemning Turkey for the "genocide" of Armenians from 1915 to 1923 will serve no earthly purpose and that it will, to say the least, complicate if not severely strain U.S.-Turkey relations. It goes without saying, also, that the Turks are extremely sensitive on the topic and, since they are helpful in the war in Iraq and are a friend to Israel, that their feelings ought to be taken into account. All of this is true, but I would feel a lot better about condemning this resolution if the argument wasn't so much about how we need Turkey and not at all about the truthfulness of the matter. Well, what is truth?
Map of Kurdish-populated areas in Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Turkey has told Iraq to crack down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq or face the consequences, as Baghdad called for urgent talks over Ankara's threat of a military incursion.(AFP Graphic)
Iraq incursion not inevitable - Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, said that securing parliament's permission to launch a major attack on Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq did not necessarily mean a military incursion was imminent...Why Turkey's 'Islamists' are the West's best friends
Turkey's AKP party is generally defined in the Western press as "Islamist", while its military opponents are "secular", writes Grenville Byford in an article published in the autumn 2007 issue of Europe's World. However, this does not imply that the AKP is any "less in tune" with the West, as the reality is precisely the opposite, he argues.
NRO: Michael Rubin on Armenian Genocide -it's amateur hour in the US Congress
A Turkish soldier guards the Habur border crossing into Iraq in 2003. Turkey has warned Iraq that its patience has run out over the handling of Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, ahead of a parliamentary vote that could authorize cross-border strikes.(AFP/File)
Article 301 tales
Cengiz AKTAR
Top general: US shot itself in the foot
At a time when the United States is engaged in efforts to ease the strain on bilateral ties, Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt has warned U.S.-Turkish military ties will never be the sameMutafyan against genocide resolution
Patriarch of Turkish Armenians Mesrob Mutafyan II spoke against the resolution on the alleged “Armenian...Une résolution très politicienne aux Etats-Unis
by acturca
SDA - Service de base français (Suisse)
Turkey loses Jewish vote
Last week's congressional panel vote in favor of an "Armenian genocide" resolution has also underlined Turkey's failure to win the backing of the committee's Jewish members despite Ankara's
Turkey's new President Abdullah Gul (L) talks with Turkish Chief of Staff General Yasar Buyukanit during a graduation ceremony for 965 cadets at the Air Force war academy in Istanbul August 31, 2007. Buyukanit said on Sunday that if the U.S. Congress approved a bill branding the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide ties between the NATO allies would never be the same again. REUTERS/Fatih Saribas
Génocide arménien : l’armée turque met en garde Washington
by acturca
Le Monde (France)
Bayram toll hits 97
The death toll from road accidents reached 97 and 461 people were injured during this Ramazan Bayramı, the three-day holiday marking the end of the month of Ramadan, which started last Friday.¿Controversia o instrumento?
by Francisco Veiga
Ömer Taşpınar: The perfect storm
The approval of the Armenian genocide resolution by the House Committee on Foreign Relations was always going to be difficult to digest for Turkish public opinion. Yet, the manner in which events unfolded made things much worse.Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi Do Armenian Halfocaust
by M.A.M
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul's daughter Kubra Gul and bridegroom Mehmet Sarimermer pose during their wedding ceremony in Istanbul October 14, 2007. POOL REUTERS/Kayhan Ozer
Turkey turns up diplomatic heat in genocide row with US
by mirdifderya
Armenians Who Need Help Today
by Fred Hiatt
Imagine what the Armenian diaspora might have accomplished had it worked as hard for democracy in Armenia as it did for congressional recognition of the genocide Armenians suffered nearly a century ago. It's even possible that modern Armenia would be as democratic as modern Turkey.Responsibility is with the government
The Deputy Chief of General Staff General Ergin Saygun said the “process” was underway and the military would not comment on outbursts by some pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) deputies or by “some other people, including some writers” against a possible Turkish cross-border operation into the northern Iraq hideouts of the separatist terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) gang.The “process” the general was referring to was the government's motion to Parliament seeking authorization to send Turkish troops on an anti-terror mission to northern Iraq. Despite earlier expectations that the government would complete writing the motion during the three-day holiday period, while we were...
As the cross-border motion is being voted on
Cüneyt ÜLSEVER...
The rope which got thinner
Ariana Ferentinou 
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (2nd L), his wife Hayrunnisa Gul (L), Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R) and his wife Emine Erdogan (R) pose with Gul's daughter Kubra Gul (3rd L) during her wedding with Mehmet Sarimermer in Istanbul October 14, 2007. POOL REUTERS/Kayhan Ozer
Good for Turkish democracy?
Months after an April 12 public demand by the top general of the country that Turkey needed to strike the separatist terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) dens in northern Iraq, the government is finally preparing to present Parliament with a motion requesting authorization for a one-year period to order Turkish troops to undertake operations outside Turkish territory this week. Although the government is stressing nowadays that it is prepared to pay any cost for the security of Turkish citizens and hinting that it could even defy expressed opposition from the U.S. and order Turkish troops into northern Iraq, it is no secret that it has come to this point as a result of the public outcry...
MHP's Aktan: Shut down İncirlik base
With bilateral ties with Washington already under severe strain over the Armenian “genocide” resolution and the situation in northern Iraq, a senior parliamentarian of the Nationalist MovementTurkey-US military ties under threat
Turkey's most senior general warned that military ties with the US would be severely damaged if the House of Representatives adopted a resolution labelling the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocideİlnur Çevik Turkish-US ties must endure public pressure
Turkey in the crosshairs - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
Turkey has to prove that it is not bluffing
Ankara denies permission for Erbil flights to use Turkish airspace - Hürriyet
Justanothercoverup.com — Politics, The State of our Nation, and the Importance of Disaster Preparedness
Philip Giraldi: Nancy Pelosi and the Armenians - Politics on The Huffington Post
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians
EJP | News | Eastern Europe | New Israeli ambassador to Turkey on the genocide issue: ‘lobbying has limits’
Ali Ettefagh at PostGlobal: PostGlobal on washingtonpost.com
Where is Turkey Heading?
Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi (seen here in March 2007) has arrived in Turkey for talks. Turkey has told Iraq to crack down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq or face the consequences, as Baghdad called for urgent talks over Ankara's threat of a military incursion.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)
Labeling genocide won't halt it - Los Angeles Times
A WARNING TO U.S.: Turkey, an ally, disputes genocide
xymphora: Who's behind the Armenian genocide resolution?
WHO TV - Des Moines: Turkish general warns of irreversible damage to US ties if genocide resolution passes
Future of the PKK terror
Orhan KİLERCİOĞLU
Clinton touches upon Greek-Turkish disputes in Athens
Ariana FERENTINOU
Yusuf Kanlı: Adamancy is dangerous
Almost the entire Islamist columnists --even those who are considered to be very close to the prime minister-- have realized that the Oct. 21 referendum on a package of constitutional amendments will trigger an unprecedented new crisis in the country and thus must be avoided, but the prime minister remains obsessed with an “I said so, it will be held... .” attitudeTo what urgent need will the package serve? The Parliament is in its first few weeks. The president was elected only last Aug. 28. The government making efforts to write a “new” constitution, or to undertake a comprehensive constitutional amendment. If nothing will be solved with the referendum but a crisis will be trigge
Make no mistake my republic has no sequence number
Mehmet Ali Birand
The Islamic case for a secular state -III-
Mustafa AKYOL
More secular than thou
Frank WHITE
İhsan Dağı Democratization or securitization?
A principled constitution: Political will and the liberal recession
David MERAHN
Referendum, a web of discrepancies
Cüneyt ÜLSEVER
[MONDAY TALK] Fight terrorism, not terrorists
by YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN
Ekrem Dumanlı: The Washington Post has to apologize to the Jewish community
It doesn’t seem possible! The Turkish Jewish community gives an ad to The Washington Post, but the newspaper doesn’t publish it the day they requested.
A comprehensive solution model for allegations on Armenian genocide by DR. KEMAL ÇİÇEK
At the session on Oct. 10, 2007, the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs endorsed the resolution proposed by California Representative Mr. Schiff and his colleagues on Jan. 30, 2007, by 27 against 21.
Policy of 1915 by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE
The rise of an incident that occurred nearly a century ago as one of the most important problems of Turkish foreign policy is very unusual. To formulate a law in regards to events that took place during World War I is a rather interesting decision for the US Congress, especially considering what took place during World War II and the Cold War, both of which stand between then and now. There is a pretty unusual situation here.
[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] Racism didn’t have a place in Turkish or Ottoman history
I am an American and I feel very strongly about what the House in the US did and wish to submit this letter.
Turkey being dragged into Iraqi swamp
A motion authorizing the Turkish army to conduct a cross-border offensive into northern Iraq to crush the militants of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is expected to pass in Parliament this week; however, the success of such an operation in eradicating PKK terrorism seems not to be very high.
Challenging the world
by TAHA AKYOL, MİLLİYET
A powerful Turkey certainly scares some: a few of our neighbors who have an eye on our lands, or some fanatical groups operating in our neighbor’s territory.
Can we turn a crisis into an opportunity?
by ESER KARAKAŞ, STAR
Turkey has been going through difficult days recently in international politics due to issues it has been unable to resolve or even discuss for about 80 years.
New Erdoğan
by İSMAİL KÜÇÜKKAYA, AKŞAM
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent statements about terrorism, his warnings aimed at the Democratic Society Party (DTP), his bringing a motion to enter Iraq to the agenda, his subsequent speeches and his remarks about the US government -- read carefully -- all of his statements and his approach to these crucial issues reflect approaches of not only a reasonable majority but also those of the state.
Whose message does the PKK bear?
by YASİN AKTAY, YENİ ŞAFAK
We know that the PKK has so far failed to show even the smallest traces of an organization that has a rationality or ideological values and claims.
Turkey-US relations crumbling
The passage of a resolution labeling the deaths of Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as “genocide” by a US congressional committee last week dealt another blow to Turkish-US relations, which had already been damaged by US inaction over Turkey’s fight with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Against ‘seven states’
by HASAN CEMAL, MİLLİYET
O my people, rise and walk! Let’s enter northern Iraq and pound the mountains and valleys with roaring cannons! Who the heck is the United States?
‘No’ would be best
by SOLİ ÖZEL, SABAH
Next Sunday, if Parliament doesn’t cancel it, Turkey will conduct an unnecessary referendum out of simple spite. This referendum shouldn’t be conducted.
Judiciary the biggest problem
by ESER KARAKAŞ, STAR
Turkey has many problems. The biggest of them all is the overall structure of the state, which hasn’t yet proved its willingness to become democratized and to embrace a state of law.
Army means business this time
by MUSTAFA ÜNAL, ZAMAN
It is wrong to think that a cross-border operation is the remedy to all our troubles. Thinking that any such operation would root out terrorism will give rise to frustration.
If 301 is allowed to live, the AK Party may not
by ESER KARAKAŞ, STAR
The issue of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) has become a prerequisite for the state of law to take root and the EU process to continue.
Who turned Article 301 into a brand?
by FERAİ TINÇ, HÜRRİYET
I appreciated the expression uttered by Foreign Minister Ali Babacan with regard to the controversial Turkish Penal Code (TCK) article. “Article 301 has become a world brand like Levi’s 501 or glue 4040, and it is stuck to us.”
