"Turkey PM in 'decisive' US talks
Turkey PM in 'decisive' US talks
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to meet George Bush for talks on tackling Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
Bush needs to convince Erdoğan
VAN – While perhaps ordinary Americans couldn't care less, not only in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other larger cities of Turkey, but in this remote eastern Anatolian city as well, people attach great importance to the meeting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be having with President George W. Bush at the White House. Will Bush take out some rabbits from his hat that would convince Erdoğan to give yet another final chance to diplomacy before resorting to the military option? Or, will he ask Bush: “What the U.S. would do, if a neighboring country of the U.S. was under occupation of another country and an American separatist terrorist group was using the territory....
Talking Turkey in Washington
by Metin
Time Magazine says, "the visit by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on November 5 marks an important test of the relationship between America and its best ally in the Muslim world," in an article aptly titled 'Talking Turkey in Washington.'
"In Erdogan, the U.S. has a friend who is that rarest of rarities: a democratically-elected, democratically-minded, economically liberal Islamist — an important bridge between the Muslim world and the secular west. The U.S. needs Erdogan as much as Erdogan needs Washington's cooperation in a recent slew of crises.
Erdoğan at the White House, EU on hold...
Mehmet Ali Birand
Kurdistan's Hope for Talks
by Nechirvan Barzani
When President Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet today to discuss ongoing conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkey, we in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) will be...Turkish Press Scanner
Suspects of provocative video face imprisonment - Yeni ŞafakThe lyrics writer, Arif Şirin, the singer of a song, Ismail Türüt, titled “Plan yapmayın plan” (Do not make plans) and Hakan Öztekin, who made a video for the song, which praised O.S., the teenager who murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and Y.H., one of the inciters behind the assassination face 7.5 years of imprisonment, reported daily Yeni Şafak yesterday.The video was posted on the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube in September, creating a controversy in Turkey, as many branded it as ultra-nationalist hate propaganda.In the indictment, the video's creators are accused of violating articles 26 and 28 of the...
Many Faces of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
by M.A.M
Manoeuvres internationales contre une intervention turque en Irak du Nord
Libération (France), 3 novembre 2007 samedi, Pg. 9
Marc Semo
« Ankara sous pression »
L’Express (France), 1 Novembre 2007, N°. 2939, Pg. 64
Propos recueillis par Nükte V. Ortaq
Trois questions à Can Paker, président du centre d’analyse Tesev, la Fondation turque des études économiques et sociales.
Turkey’s Kurdish tightrope , Safa A Hussein
An Iraqi friend in Turkey said recently that he can smell war out there. This comes after the major attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on 7 October 2007, which killed thirteen soldiers near a town in Sirnak province, about thirty kilometres inside the Turkish border. Turkey has moved about 100,000 troops with heavy equipment to its borders with Iraq. On 17 October, the Turkish parliament authorised a military raid into Iraq in an attempt to eliminate bases used by Kurdish militants.
Turkey and the Kurds: everybody's problem, Soner Cagaptay
Turkey wants to border a prosperous Iraq that is at peace with its neighborsby PRESIDENT ABDULLAH GÜL
Approximately five years ago, the foreign ministers of the countries neighboring Iraq came together for the first time in these halls [Çırağan Palace], upon a proposal that I made as the prime minister of Turkey.
Hopes high for Erdoğan-Bush meeting
Following an international conference on Iraq that took place in İstanbul on Saturday wherein Turkey was given promises of action by the Iraqi administration against the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which launches attacks into Turkey from bases in northern Iraq, all eyes have turned to a meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President George W. Bush to be held today at the White House.
15 crucial points for Turks and Kurds
by HASAN CEMAL, MİLLİYET
The Kurdish problem has always been a fundamental problem for Turkey. We should all realize that the PKK is an extension of this problem.
Comments
Erkan,
Thanks for the mention.
Unfortunately, as is always the case, the Pakistani developments have overtaken the news here in the U.S.
The only mere mention of Erdogan is seen when Bush answers questions about what to do with Musharraf, the 'former' poster child of U.S. interests, until Benazir Bhutto came back in the picture.
Posted by: metin | November 6, 2007 02:00 AM