Axis of Turkey and new routes of Turkish Airlines!
13 November 2010
It is no secret that Washington is the capital where debate on Turkey?s axis is hottest, particularly after Turkey?s ?no? vote at the UN Security Council and the Mavi Marmara incident. This confusion, amplified especially by contributions from Israel?s friends in the US political arena and media biz, is said to rule in Congress.
UK still cheerleader of Turkey’s EU bid
Readers consider Turkey unwelcome in the EU | Reader Response | Deutsche Welle | 12.11.2010
"Even our ultra-nationalists in #Turkey are more civilized than the openly racist MP Geert #Wilders", says editorial of Hürriyet Daily News
— Marc Guillet (@MarcGuillet1) November 13, 2010
A Counterpoint to the Ubiquitous Turk-bashing in Germany
Austrian press likens Turkish envoy to debated German figure
Turkey undecided over NATO missile defense shield on its soil – Turkish PM | World | RIA Novosti
it irritates me that #Turkey is portraying itself always as the eternal victim of the #EU and other #foreign powers http://bit.ly/awMne9
— Marc Guillet (@MarcGuillet1) November 14, 2010
Turkey, Between Rocks and Hard Places – Maha Atal – Foreign Exchange – Forbes
By MAHA ATAL
I?ve been preoccupied lately with stories about Turkey: about the crackdown on YouTube!, about dramatic economic growth ; about the ongoing fallout of its clash with Israel over the Gaza aid flotilla this summer; about renewed debate inside the EU over Turkish accession; and about NATO?s plan to shift its defense shield from Eastern Europe to Turkey. All of this was percolating in the back of my mind until a week ago, when the Kurdish separatist PKK set off a bomb in Istanbul. By coincidence, my mother was in Istanbul at the time, and so the story jumped out from the usual barrage of bomb blast accounts in my daily news feed. [Don’t worry, she’s fine.]”
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