"Turkish Prime Minister warns US: we will attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq
Turkish Prime Minister warns US: we will attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq - Times Online
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, front left, his deputy Hayati Yazici, front right, his minister Kursad Tuzmen, rear left, and Zafer Caglayan raise their hands in the Parliament to vote on a government motion on a military operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, in Ankara, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. Turkey's Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a possible cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, although the government appears willing to give more time to diplomatic pressure on the U.S. backed Iraqi administration.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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A very good round up by Onnik Krikorian; an outline of positions....
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In these respects, what remains uncertain in Turkey after the elections is the nature and future of Turkish democracy, whether its discriminatory and repressive characteristics will be removed by stages or, on the contrary, will be now reinforced by a harsh and unpopular renewal of military activism.
A very good journalistic work. 50 most important persons around Mr. Erdoğan. Click 
One of the notable results of the July 22 election is its ability to create a more representative parliamentary composition.
“We have to give up 
Egemen Bagis said the US must appreciate that Turkey was prepared to go into Iraq. 
The Turkish people have clearly taken the side of democracy and do not want the army interfere with the presidency, said Andrew Duff, a member of the European Parliament for the East of England and vice president of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
When a participant in the Galatasaray University İstanbul European Conference in fall 2005 (where I had the pleasure of giving a panel presentation) asked me how I would evaluate the Turkish EU accession process, I answered that my personal belief is that Turkey will be ready for EU membership long before the EU itself would be....
The resounding electoral victory of the Islamic Justice and Development Party bodes a conservative turn with Muslim undertones in Turkey. Since Atatürk's reforms in the 1920s, Turkey has been held by a corset of modernisation along Western lines. Long-established elites have fostered nepotism and a general dumbing down. Yet this corset has also had a healing effect, failing which the AKP's victory would look very different indeed. By Zafer Senocak
Legendary Anatolian rocker (left) ends up supporting the Nationalist Action Party (MHP). A significant example of "politics makes strange bed fellows" frequently seen in Turkish politics recently... 
Just announced. 
Nimet Çubukçu. The only female minister in the current government. She is in charge of Women and Family Affairs. There are rumors that she might be the next president...