Turkey‘s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) attend a news conference after the Friends of Syria meeting in Istanbul April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Osman Orsal Top US diplomat meets Palestinian President Abbas in Istanbul to push Mideast peace from Hurriyet Daily News U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met … Read more
The Tulip Trap from NYT > Turkey by By ANDREW FINKEL While Istanbul celebrates its favorite flower, it is destroying its few remaining natural habitats. Turkish PM resents project ?ruining? Istanbul?s silhouette from Hurriyet Daily News Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again excoriated developers.. Art Sold at Controversial Istanbul Auction Comes Partially … Read more
Thanks to Syria, it seems that Turkey and Israel can finally alleviate tension… The EU?s non-negotiations with Turkey (Opinion) from EurActiv.com The EU?s negotiations, or rather non-negotiations with Turkey, turned out to be tricks, jeopardising the EU?s reputation and respectability. What the Germans and others don?t seem to realise is that they expect more from … Read more
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Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul (L) admires paintings during a visit to the Amsterdam Museum in Amsterdam April 17, 2012. Gul is in the Netherlands for a three-day state visit. REUTERS/Peter Dejong Triumphalist Turkey can?t go it alone from FT.com – World, Europe For all the talk about Chinese rates of growth, the success of the … Read more
Offshore drilling spat sours EU-Turkey relations from EurActiv.com Ankara threatened to send its navy yesterday (15 September) to intervene in a dispute involving oil and gas exploration around Cyprus, an EU member state whose northern territory is occupied by the Turkish military. EurActiv Turkey reports. Turkey to freeze EU ties if Cyprus gets presidency … Read more
more photos here. Turkey’s prime minister to meet with Egypt’s leaders from Yahoo news Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lands in Egypt for talks as both nations are experiencing rifts with Israel over its military actions and the Palestinian issue. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to meet with Egyptian leaders Tuesday … Read more
Tel Aviv rally (Photo: Moti Kimchi) via Israeli demonstrators protest cost of living from Hurriyet Dailynews by TEL AVIV – Agence France-Presse More than 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other places across the country late on Saturday in fresh protests against the spiraling cost of living, media reports said. Why isn?t the … Read more
A Simple/simplistic short guide to the current wave of popular protests in Israel via Some Israelis simply couldn’t bear it no more. People of the self-designated “only democracy in the Middle East” looked around them and lo and behold: Arabs are coming out to the streets, risk their lives for the sake of regime-change, and … Read more
Thinking strategically: Libya from Ideas on Europe by European Geostrategy By James Rogers and Luis Simón US sees Gaddafi going, going… nowhere by Mark Mardell (the Reporters) President Barack Obama has said repeatedly that Col Muammar Gaddafi should go, now his top adviser on intelligence has said the Libyan ruler will probably win his … Read more
Galip Hoca also recommend his article for this post, E.S. as the globalization of capitalist-world-economy gained impetus in the last few decades, the role of the levante, mesopotamia, maghreeb, saheel, arabia and persia, or to put in another term, the oil rich muslim countries, in the process has been reduced in rapid gradation almost exclusively … Read more
The Mavi Marmara UN Report from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White Hugh Pope writes about the UN report on the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, and links directly to the report. Click here for Pope?s full essay. An excerpt: UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis ?Executed? US Citizen Furkan Dogan from tabsir.net by tabsir Furkan Dogan, a … Read more
EU ministers discuss relationship with Turkey European Union foreign ministers met Saturday to discuss their vexed relationship with Turkey, a nation that is becoming a key player on the global stage even as talks to join the bloc languish. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) takes part in a family photo with European Union and … Read more
Jewish gene, Muslim brains talk tarnishes Bundesbank from Hurriyet Dailynews by HDN Migrants from countries such as Turkey and Morocco depend on the state and are making the country ‘dumber,’ Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin claims. Berlin launch: Anti-islam book by German bank exec Thilo Sarrazin from cafebabel.com by eurotopics The former politician launched his … Read more
Israeli Penetration of the American Media: Documents Released from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte Internal documents from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, finding that millions of dollars from Israel were used to plant stories in the U.S. media, especially The Atlantic Magazine. These documents were released to … Read more