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H1  New York Times Attack Iran, With Words By REUEL MARC GERECHT The Bush administration should advocate direct, unconditional talks between Washington and Tehran.

 

Pakistan Victors Want Dialogue With Militants  The winners of the parliamentary elections said that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants.

 

U.S. Ponders Next Steps in Pakistan After Election Results

 

Wisconsin Hands Obama a Victory, the Ninth in a Row  Barack Obama cut into Hillary Rodham Clinton’s long-held support among women, union members and middle-aged voters in Tuesday’s primary.

 

Los Angeles Times Analysis: Is Wisconsin the beginning of the end for Clinton? |

 

CFR Grare: Pakistan Facing Period of ‘Governmental Instability’

 

Financial Times History’s hurdle for the Democrats The Reagan coalition of libertarians, hawks and the religious right is cracking up but it is not clear this will help the Democrats, argues Michael Lind

 

US risks mother of all meltdowns The link between the bursting housing bubble and the fragile financial system has created huge dangers for the US and the world, writes Martin Wolf

 

Jerusalem Post Israel, US discuss deploying NATO troops in West Bank Plan spearheaded by Gen. James Jones has Israel worried whether the IDF will retain operational freedom in W. Bank in such case

  

Ringing in the Asian Century By: Kishore Mahbubani | Los Angeles Times  The West needs to get used to the end of its era of world domination.

 

Out of the Shadows: Former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy explains why he advocates talks with Hamas.

 

Atlantic Monthly March 2008

 

Independent  Revealed: the first draft of dossier that took Britain to war

 

Top 9 Political Risks for 2008

 

CFR Media Conference Call: Pakistan's Parliamentary Election (Audio)

William Arkin Pakistan: Still The World's Most Dangerous Country

 

The Iraq War has been everyone’s loss, whatever side you were on. For many Iraqis it was a chance for a decent life, says George Packer. So often, that chance ended in death... more»

 

Al-Jazeera reports that more than seventy foreign firms have registered with the Iraqi government to compete for Iraq’s oil resources, despite the fact that the country has yet to settle on an oil revenue-sharing plan.

 

CRS “Congressional Oversight and Related Issues Concerning the Prospective Security Agreement Between the United States and Iraq,”

 

Wall Street Journal Pakistan and the Bush Doctrine
The election results are being billed as a repudiation of Musharraf and Bush. Vindication is a better word.

 

Separation Anxiety By THOMAS DE WAAL

 

Our Economic Dilemma
By Martin Feldstein This time around, there's not much the Fed can do.

 

Beyond Musharraf
By Husain Haqqani Good news for everyone worried about an Islamist takeover.

 

49 Years of Fidel The ailing communist dictator passed the torch yesterday. It's not a sufficient condition for Cuban freedom, but a necessary one.

Balkanized Europe

 

Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq, and Afghanistan - American Enterprise Institute By Frederick W. Kagan, Danielle Pletka, Kimberly Kagan

 

Guardian Blair's plan to lead Europe hits fierce opposition Tony Blair's EU track record and Iraq seen as obstacles to getting new post of president

 

The voice of a country Leader: For once, the voice of the people of Pakistan has been loud and clear

 

Saving Sarkozy Dominique Moisi  President Sarkozy's popularity has plunged in France, endangering his prized reform agenda. Can he recover?

 

Ex-Mossad Chief: Kill Terror-Supporting Heads of State

 

Out of the Shadows: Former Israeli intelligence chief Efraim Halevy explains why he advocates talks with Hamas.

 

Stratfor Hezbollah Retribution: Beware the Ides of March

 

Ha’aretz  Abbas aide: PA should mull unilaterally declaring independence Negotiator Abed Rabbo: Palestinians should take Kosovo's lead if talks fail, settlement activities go on

 

Guardian The end of multilateralism? Ian Bancroft Recognition of Kosovo's independence will erode two fundamental international pillars, sovereign equality and the inviolability of borders

 

For Palestinians, the power of mass non-violence would be undeniable

Jonathan Freedland: An unarmed resistance modelled on Martin Luther King's civil rights movement could be the way to wake the world

 

If Kosovo Can Be Free, Why Not Palestine? Arab News

 

The Recession Felt Around the World Foreign Policy By Nouriel Roubini

Kosovo has taken a historic step
GulfNews -  by Amir Taheri

 

 

H2  [Fbis] OSC: Barzani Criticizes Iraqi Govt, Turkey's Attacks, Says 'Patience' Not Unlimited  

 

Turkish FM: ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq remains an option - International Herald Tribune  

 

US urges Turkey, Iraq to cooperate to fight against PKK

 

Eurasia Group-Political Risks for 2008 -Risk 8: Turkey

 

27th Annual Conference On U.S.-Turkish Relations

 

IHT Much ado about head scarves

Secularists and observant Muslims would be wise to stop obsessing over head scarves - and start cooperating on the reforms Turkey needs.

 

EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - On Election Day, Turkey Outweighs Politics in Border Village  

   

Armenia’s election: the waiting game, Vicken Cheterian

 

Sargsyan on track to win election in Armenia; opposition cries foul. With ballots from more than 10 percent of precincts counted, Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan had 53 percent of votes. Levon Ter-Petrosian, with, 11 percent of votes, said there were "hundreds, thousands of violations" at the polls.

 

EDM TURKISH MILITARY SET TO WARN AKP OVER HEADSCARF

 

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect  BBC Monitoring

 

Askerden kara harekatı sinyali

 

ABD Savunma Bakanı Gates, Türkiye'yi de kapsayacak

 

[Fbis] OSC: Barzani Criticizes Iraqi Govt, Turkey's Attacks, Says 'Patience' Not Unlimited  

 

Tension high in Diyarbakır one year ahead of local elections

 

Turkey weighing land operation vs PKK in Iraq

 

Article 140 must be implemented in within specified period

 

Cevdet Aşkın Kara harekâtı gün sayıyor, Kerkük Barzani'yi geriyor

 

Taha Kıvanç: Amerikan belgelerinde Kürtçe

 

New Turkish university to boost Turkey-N. Iraq ties

 

Scarf, secularism and Kurdish mobilization in Turkey by Mehmet Kalyoncu*

Sadi Somuncuoğlu Bir dil, bir millet ve bağımsızlık

Bağımsız Kosova, KKTC'ye mi yoksa Kürdistan'a mı örnek teşkil eder?

 

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Türk Dışişleri Bakanından, Federe Kürdistan’a geniş çaplı kara saldırısı tehdidi

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Bağdat'taki merkezi hükümetin, Kürd konsolosluklarındaki çalışmalara karışma hakkı yok

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

AP Üyesi Anna Gomez: ”Kürdistan bölgesi, AB’nin etkili olması için uygun bir yer”

 

DTP'li Ayna: Eğer bir milletvekilimizin can güvenliği yoksa, Başbakanın da yoktur

Kurds Mull Case Vs Iraqi Oil Min Over Opposition To Oil Deals

 

"Ben teröristim sayın Savcım!"

 

ROJ TV'de panik

PKK�nın medyadaki sesi ROJ TV�ye her an kilit vurabilir. Gerekçe ise çok ilginç. Görmek için tıklayın

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

 

Turkey says hopes for fresh Cyprus peace drive

 

Ermeni seçiminin galibi Sarkisyan

 

 France says rows must not hurt Turkey economic ties

 

Cyprus breaks new ground: Moderates to lead both sides

 

Yavuz Baydar ‘Denktaşopoulos is gone’

 

Beril Dedeoğlu The tripartite summit

 

Amanda Akçakoca An independent but dependent Kosovo

 

Papadopulos, ikinci tur seçimler için tutum belirlemeyecek

 

'Annan Planı geri gelmeyecek' sözü

 

TURKEY THROWS ITS WEIGHT BEHIND NABUCCO - Eurasia Daily Monitor

 

İlyas Kamalov Putin'in Kosova-KKTC kıyaslaması anlamlı mı?

 

Türkiye ve Kosova
Türkiye neden Kosova'yı ilk tanıyan ülkeler arasında?

 

Metin MÜNİR Kıbrıs'taki seçimin anlamı

 

Duvara ‘nefret’ yazıp yine kundakladılar

Turkey and EU meet in Brussels on terrorism

 

Armenian elections clouded by Kosovo independence

 

Eser Karakaş Ortak sahtekarlık ve yalancılık

 

Mensur Akgün Milliyetçilik, kristalleşme ve körleşme

 

Ermenistan'da birinci turun galibi Sarkisyan

 

Turkish man beaten by German police near death

 

Council adopts a revised Accession Partnership with Turkey

 

Turkey Says Tensions With France Weigh On Economic Ties - AFP

 

EU outlines new priorities for Turkey's accession_a

 

Ousted Cyprus president refuses to endorse runoff candidates

 

EDEK to support Christofias in run off Cyprus presidential elections

 

Ray of Hope in Cyprus By: Yusuf Kanli | Turkish Daily News With incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos' electoral defeat, we have two finalists who both want talks on reuniting the divided island and pledge a more conciliatory approach toward Turkish Cypriots in the North.

 

Hadi Uluengin Rumeli’nden Kosova’ya

 

Belçika’ya başkentinde terör destekçisi suçlaması

 

Bağımsız Kosova'ya Ankara'dan üç adım

 

'Türkiye ile artık eskisi gibi olmaz'