Turkey Must Take Mosul by Scott Sullivan

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SABAH Newspaper English Edition - National - A new concept for the South East

"Kurdish expansion by Baykal

Baykal stated that 'an operation is not the only solution,' and offered a new concept for South Eastern Anatolia. Baykal gave some hints about this new concept: 'Turkey's problems can not be solved by only military operations. They need to be considered in the long term.'"

Positive Kurdish Reaction To Baykal’s Initiative

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A new poll shows that 81% of Turks favor invading northern Iraq

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 İlnur Çevik We should thank Gul and Erdogan on Saudi policy

İhsan Dağı How to understand new activism in Turkish foreign policy

 

Turkish Press Scanner

Municipality's grand tour of Budapest A municipal commission from the city of Kocaeli, 100 kilometers east of Istanbul, comprising 100 people, including district mayors, flew to the Hungarian capital Budapest on a private plane to finalize a sister-municipality project between the Greater Kocaeli Municipality and Budapest Municipality, reported daily Akşam yesterday. An agreement will also be signed with regard to a planned culture center in Kocaeli's Seka Park that will be named after Hungarian King Tökeli İmre. Hungarian authorities will pay for accommodation and food costs. Visa and transport costs including the use of a private plane will be met from the Greater Kocaeli Municipality's.........

 

DTP shouldn't be closed down, but...

Mehmet Ali Birand

The DTP is playing smart

Cüneyt ÜLSEVER

 

Turkish Press Scanner

Data deficit counts Turkey out of occupational diseaseData on occupational illness in Turkey shows that according to the European Union average Turkey has a good occupational health conditions. However, experts argue that the positive data and reality are miles apart, because there is no regular research on occupational diseases in Turkey and the diseases due to occupations are not registered as occupational illnesses, reported daily Radikal yesterday.The greatest problem is that there are no health units in most of the country's workplaces, emphasized the report. Only 2 percent of the workplaces have a sanitation unit and in the rest there is not one person among the personn

Erdoğan opposes closure of pro-Kurdish party

The prime minister opposed the closure of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Saturday and called on those using terrorism in politics to shift to democratic means. “The path of...

Turks, Jews and Arabs

[Originally published in Turkish Daily News] In the year 1454, Rabbi Yitzhak Sarfati of the Ottoman city of Edirne sent a letter to his co-religionists in Europe who were suffering under the persecutions of medieval anti-Semites. “Leave the torments you endure in Christendom,” the Rabbi suggested, “and seek safety and prosperity in Turkey.”

 

What is the judiciary up to?

The latest lawsuit for the closure of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) indicates that the Turkish judiciary remains among the most conservative of the state apparatus, with an unchanged attitude toward social and political dissent.

Who wants the DTP banned?

The Democratic Society Party (DTP), founded in 2005, is the most recent edition in a line of pro-Kurdish parties that have appeared on the Turkish political scene since the early 1990s, all previous ones having been banned by the Constitutional Court for alleged links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

 

DTP’s political strategy

Turkey’s star is in ascendancy in international politics owing to its recent diplomatic moves; it brought Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas together and the Saudi king, who hasn’t been to Turkey in decades, paid two visits in the same year.

 

Turkey’s new policy on Middle East

While listening to the historic speeches delivered by the leaders of Palestine and Israel this week in the Turkish Parliament, I recalled a meeting I had attended with a German politician in İstanbul.

 

How to understand new activism in Turkish foreign policy

Domestic quarrels notwithstanding, Turkey’s regional and global weight is on the rise. We should, however, neither misjudge its basis nor be misguided by excessive self confidence.

 

Turkey’s role in the Middle East today by GÖKHAN BACIK

Turkey’s priority in the post-Cold War period is to determine new spheres of opportunity to maximize its interests.

[CIVIL SOCIETY VERSUS KURDISH SEPARATISM] How to deal with the neo-Kurdish separatismby MEHMET KALYONCU

by MEHMET KALYONCU*

The long-awaited meeting between US President George W. Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took place on Nov. 5 in Washington.

 

Who will resolve the Kurdish issue? by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which has adopted a hawkish stance vis-à-vis the Kurdish question in the past, has recently made an attempt quite consistent with this political line.

News, Ankara, Annapolis

News is the reconstruction of reality. Reality varies from one person to the next depending on the background, culture, ideology and perceptions of the person perceiving. But the success of news depends on its closeness to reality without regard to who is speaking or writing.

 

Erdoğan’s stance on DTP closure hailed

Turkey is concentrated on the issue of shutting down the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) as a legal case was filed last Friday calling for its closure, spurred by the party’s alleged links to the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

It would be a fault to close the DTP

by TAHA AKYOL, MİLLİYET

Doubtlessly, the Democratic Society Party (DTP) is the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Democracy paves the path for the closure of such problematic political parties.

Press Roundup

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis inaugurate the Greek-Turkish natural gas pipeline that went into operation on Sunday in twin ceremonies held at İpsala in Edirne, Turkey, and at Peplos in Evros, on the Greek side of the border.

A Parliament or a cemetery of parties?

by MAHMUT ÖVÜR, SABAH

Everybody was aware that a Parliament with deputies from the DTP would be difficult to handle.

 

Politicization of law (in reverse)

by GÜLAY GÖKTÜRK, BUGÜN

It is a thorny issue indeed. The closure of the DTP may not be politically beneficial. But what shall we do if it is legally necessary?

 

The DTP case and game theory

by ESER KARAKAŞ, STAR

The attempt to close the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and the way paving the path for its closure has turned into a game.

 

 Consequences of a Turkish Invasion into Southern Kurdistan
Kurdish Aspect

How to erode Kurdish terror To reduce attacks, Turkey must treat its Kurds better. By Didem Cakmakli