Biden, Turkish PM to discuss Syria, extradition of Gülen U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will discuss issues regarding Syria and the extradition of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen during Biden’s visit to Turkey, Yıldırım has said Syrian war: Turkey to play more active role BBC News | Europe | World … Read more
Everybody Loves Wikileaks! Now it is our time to leak into the night life of Taksim on saturday, 4th of December 19.30 @ Ekvator Cafe! Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses a global security summit seminar on regional security cooperation Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, in Manama, Bahrain. Senior political and military officials from Arab states, … Read more
WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M 2010-12-04: Cablegate: Roundtable discussions 2010-12-04: New York Times T Magazine: Julian Assange: The Gift of Information 2010-12-03: Rep. Ron Paul defends WikiLeaks 2010-12-03: TIME: Cover story WikiLeaks founder Assange ought to be hiding from America from washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Charles Krauthammer Let the world … Read more
Amazon Bans WikiLeaks From Its Servers from Mashable! by Ben Parr MAIN FOCUS: Wikileaks creates a global public sphere | 01/12/2010 from euro|topics China is blocking Wikileaks‘ websites, states fear for their data security and the world learns of a planned coup d’état against Pakistan’s president. While the daily disclosures of further US dispatches are … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the opening of a new security office in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Erdogan reacted furiously to claims in a leaked U.S. State Department memo that he has money in Swiss bank accounts and said U.S. diplomats should be punished for allegations he branded as lies … Read more
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Turkish PM threatens to sue US diplomats over leaked claims Hurriyet Daily News Ergenekon is the name of an alleged gang accused of plotting to overthrow the government in 2003 and 2004. ?One billion dollars Turkey PM slams US diplomacy over WikiLeaks from Yahoo news Turkey’s prime minister accused US envoys today of slander after … Read more
Interpol issues “Red Notice” for arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange over “sex crime” from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin The Arab press downplays WikiLeaks from FP Passport by Max Strasser The L.A. Times‘ Babylon and Beyond blog reports that unlike in most of the world, the WikiLeaks dump of U.S. diplomatic cables isn’t getting that … Read more
The long twilight of the U.S.-Turkey alliance – By David Kenner from FP Passport by David Kenner When Barack Obama took the podium before Turkey’s parliament in April 2009, in his first overseas trip as president, he delivered a speech that echoed much of the happy talk that has characterized U.S. rhetoric toward Turkey over … Read more
From Ankara to Moscow: Reading World Leaders’ Reactions to WikiLeaks – TIME WikiLeaks and the Art of Diplomacy Wall Street Journal Turkey, it turns out, is the diplomatic listening post that ranked first in the volume of the cable traffic sent to Washington WikiLeaks: a strange interlude by ANDREW FINKEL I?ve never actually seen a … Read more
Cables show undiplomatic US take on world leaders from Hurriyet Dailynews Diplomats are known for the niceties of their public statements, but documents leaked Sunday show US officials can be merciless behind closed doors. US dubbed Russian leaders as ‘Batman and Robin,’ according to WikiLeaks from Hurriyet Dailynews Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ‘plays Robin’ to … Read more