Obama here talks to PM Erdoğan about the crisis in Syria. Turks try to understand what this pose means.
White House releases statement on ‘baseball bat’ photo
from Hurriyet Daily News
The White House released a statement today to end the debate on U.S. President Barack Obama’s pose holding a baseball bat while speaking on the phone with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
A roundup:
IHT Rendezvous: Inside Turkey, Concern Over ‘Kurdish Phobia’ Around Syria
from Yahoo news
Fears of a takeover of Syrian Kurdistan by allies of Turkey’s separatist Kurdish movement have prompted alarm in Ankara and the dispatch of troops to the Syrian border.
New mediator hoping to fix Turkey-Israel relations
from Hurriyet Daily News
The United Kingdom is stepping forward as a mediating force between Israel and Turkey.
Turkey must work with Syria’s Kurds | Ranj Alaaldin
from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Ranj Alaaldin
While Turkey may be threatened by Kurdish gains in Syria, there’s little it can do to prevent an autonomous Syrian Kurdistan
Turkey’s support for the uprising against Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has been challenged during the last week or so as Kurds in the north-east of Syria have taken control of several towns and cities.
Turkey: For Ankara, Fears of a Kurdistan Rising | EurasiaNet.org
Obama, Erdoğan mull post-Assad action plan
from Hurriyet Daily News
US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a lengthy telephone conversation
Kurds in Syria ?want to become semi-autonomous?
from Hurriyet Daily News
A prominent Mideast expert at the University of Michigan, Professor Juan Cole, has said the Syrian Kurds
Syrian Kurdistan and Turkish Kurdophobia
from Hurriyet Daily News
In the last decade, there was a popular joke among the Iraqi Kurds: A young girl, who was named ?Kurdistan?
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