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H1 Bush to replace top commander Fallon? Esquire says Bush seeks commander more 'pliable' to war with Iran.

 

How to Negotiate With Iran By: John W. Limbert | Foreign Policy
It may only be a matter of time before the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran sit down for serious negotiations. But how can these two implacable foes get to “yes”? Herewith, a brief how-to guide.

 

Washington Post  Melman: Forget Annapolis: Nine Steps to Peace

 

Zakaria: Democrats' Dangerous Rhetoric

 

POST-ABC POLL Both Obama And Clinton Hold Edge Over McCain

 

Turkey Resumes Strikes in Iraq's North

 

Editorial A Long March Tuesday's primary results extend the Democratic campaign -- and add time for needed clarification

 

Financial Times Energy: Europe needs to make up its mind With the US, China and Russia all vying for energy resources, EU weakness is compounded by its lack of a single voice, writes Josu Jon Imaz

 

Ceasefire for Gaza The US, helped by the mediation of its Arab allies such as Egypt or Saudi Arabia, should seek an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel’s siege

 

Between the lines: Medvedev’s chance for a ceasefire The ability of Russia and Ukraine to reach a compromise in the coming weeks will be seen as a first test of the president-elect’s leadership, writes Quentin Peel

 

US under fire over Iran N-plan report A US intelligence report into Iran’s nuclear arms programme was subjected to strong criticism by a senior UK diplomat

 

EDM SOUTH STREAM GAS PROJECT DEFEATING NABUCCO BY DEFAULT

 

ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Blood on the streets  Post-election violence has killed eight people in Armenia

 

Christian Science Monitor

Armenia crackdown: an ex-Soviet pattern? A state of emergency remains in place, after protesters alleging election fraud were dispersed last week.

 

Dependence on Russian gas worries some – but not all – European countries Gazprom rattled the European Union by cutting – then restoring –Ukraine's

 

A Day in the Future: Accelerating Solutions to Security Threats EastWest Institute A 20-page paper assessing the future global security environment

  

Ha’aretz  PM: Talks with Syria to be seriously considered Israel also planning diplomatic effort in order to reach agreement with Egypt over Gaza-Sinai border

 

Study: Gaza humanitarian situation worst since 1967 Report says more than 1 million Gazans dependent on food aid; Defense Ministry blames Hamas

 

Prospect China's new intelligentsia  Mark Leonard
Despite the global interest in the rise of China, no one is paying much attention to its ideas and who produces them. Yet China has a surprisingly lively intellectual class whose ideas may prove a serious challenge to western liberal hegemony

 

WINEP Who Represents the Iraqi Sunnis?

 

EurasiaNet Armenia: The United States is Muted on the Armenian Political Crisis BY JOSHUA KUCERA The continuing political crisis Armenia stemming from the March 1 violence in Yerevan has unfolded with little comment from the United States, either from the US government or from influential Armenian-American lobbying groups.

 

Bush Admin: Congress Irrelevant on Iraq

 

White House Says Can Stay in Iraq Even After UN Mandate Expires

 

Democracy in Retreat By: Larry Diamond | Foreign Affairs  The third wave of global democratization has stopped and begun to recede. Better governance is the key to a fourth.

 

New York Times  Clinton Success Alters Delegate Race’s Dynamic  After Tuesday’s primary victories for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, her focus is momentum; for her Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, it is math.

 

President Fails to Budge OPEC on Production  Record oil prices are suddenly creating the sharpest tensions in years between the oil cartel and the U.S.

 

Iraq in Talks With American and European Companies to Develop 5 New Oil Fields

 

Guardian Sanctions causing Gaza to 'implode' Palestinians are living through worst humanitarian crisis since the 1967 war says rights group

 

Fears of Iran still working on nuclear weapon British government believes Tehran could still be developing a nuclear weapon

 

Hamas' uncritical friends

Petra Marquardt-Bigman: While Islamist militants are increasingly criticised in the Middle East, it seems they can count on a hard core of western admirers who blindly applaud them

 

The crude fact  Jeremy Leggett: Peak oil is no academic debate: the $100 barrel is a harbinger of the energy shortage to come

 

Failure to launch Daniel Levy: Condoleezza Rice's Middle East trip won't be enough to salvage the peace process unless the US changes its approach to Hamas

 

Don't abandon Afghanistan

Daniel Korski The international coalition's efforts have been hampered by internal tension and a lack of strategy, but all is not lost – yet

 

Gunboat diplomacy James Denselow Washington's latest gambit in the Lebanese stalemate harks back to colonial power politics of the crudest kind

 

Nato warns over cyber warfare threat Online espionage and internet-based terrorism taken as seriously as a missile strike, says senior

 

What's behind record oil prices?

 

Obama's Real Mideast Problem - Amir Taheri, New York Post

Stratfor Geopolitical Diary: Hezbollah as an Iranian-Israeli Flash Point ...

 

Iraq: Iranians Arrive for a Fourth Round of Talks With U.S. ...

 

Walker's World: Fearing the unknown y MARTIN WALKER (UPI) -- The most dangerous feature of the subprime crisis is that nobody knows how big the losses could be.

 

Joseph Stiglitz: THE $3 TRILLION IRAQ WAR HAS UNDERMINED AMERICAN SECURITY AND LED TO RECESSION

 

H2 Washington Post   Turkey Resumes Strikes in Iraq's North

 

ABD'li çuvalcı generalden şok sözler: PKK ile müzakere edilebilir

 

'Teröristlerle Görüşmüyoruz'

 

'Çuvalcı' komutan: Baskı görsün ki PKK ile görüşelim

 

A Real Kurdish Solution  By Dr. Günes Murat Tezcür Turkey and other regional states with sizeable Kurdish populations need to extend full recognition to Kurdish demands for greater cultural and political rights. In turn, Kurdish nationalism needs to recognize the geopolitical reality by eschewing the goal of rewriting the prevailing borders and denouncing armed struggle

  

Iraqi Official Reports Turk Air Attack

 

'Kürt endişelerini konuştuk'

 

Presenter: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman of ... “…when I was in Ankara last week, we talked a great deal about the importance of accompanying the security measures to go after these terrorists, the PKK terrorists, with efforts to try and address some of the civilian concerns among the Kurdish population, where they recruit people, where the PKK recruits people. And I think that both President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan have both put forward proposals in the cultural, economic and political arenas to begin doing that.”

 

Washington Times Success of Iraq incursion questioned Confusing signals from the Turkish military cast doubt on the success of the eight-day incursion into Iraq amid signs that a new similar action is planned, according to diplomatic reports

 

Helikopterler yine bombaladı iddiası

 

Dili mi sürçtü baklayı mı çıkardı

 

İncirlik Üssü 6 hafta kapalı kalacak


 

FM Livni briefs visiting Turkish journalists

 

A question of sovereignty GulfNews

 

Turkey Refuses to Close Bases in Northern Iraq, Vatan Says

 

 Turkey strikes northern Iraq: PKK spokesman

 

 TURKEY WIDENS TRADE TIES WITH IRAN Eurasia Daily Monitor

Oxford Rektörü Patten’e Sabancı'dan “Türkiye” dersi

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak  BBC Monitoring

 

Iraklı Kürtler, operasyon ve medya METE ÇUBUKÇU

 

Semih İdiz Talabani’nin Irak Cumhurbaşkanı olduğunu unutmayın

 

Necati Doğru

Kürt kardeşim; sana Türk ufku bana Kürt bakışı!

 

PM Barzani on the PKK and Turkey
Kurdish Globe –

 

'Çözüm federal sisteme geçmek'

 

Ahmet Zeki Okcuoglu Kurdish Globe

 

Naci Kutlay Sivil çözüme şans tanımalıyız

 

[Yorum - Bejan Matur] Annelerin kalbini kaybetmek

 

Güneş'e gölge düşmesin

 

  Çuvalcı Paşa'dan en acı PKK itirafı

 

Cevdet Aşkın PKK: Zagros bölgesine kara harekâtı başladı

 

Bir zamanlar peşmergeydi yarın Camlı Köşk’te

 

PKK’dan imam oyunu

 

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Abant Platformu 'Kürd Sorunu' için toplantı düzenliyor

 

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Kitaplı Bir Toplum Düşünmek!

 

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Türk askeri üsleri F.Kürdistan Bölgesin'den çıkmalı...

 

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Sınır içi harekât

 

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CHP 'Kürtçe televizyon olmalı' diyor

 

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Genelkurmay ilk kez hedefte

 

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ABD Korgenerali’nden çağrı: ''Bir noktada pazarlık etmeye başlanmalı''

 

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Kuzey Kürdistan İzlenimleri

 

 

Talabani resmi karşılama istedi

 

The Iraqi Turkmens

 

GES Komutanı ‘emekliliğini istedi’ iddiası

Tatbikatı yeni harekat zannettiler

Türk helikopterleri Sidekanı vurduiddiası

CSM Iraqi Christians cling to last, waning refuges Al Qaeda-linked militants and Kurdish ultranationalists are both pressuring Iraq's largest Christian enclave.

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık

 

Solution in Cyprus possible now?
Orhan KİLERCİOĞLU

 

Talat: Kıbrıs 2009'a kadar çözülecek

 

Yusuf KANLI
Cyprus plane is taking off again

 

Sarkozy'nin Türkiye karşıtı tavrı tüm Avrupa'ya zarar Marc Bernardın

 

Azeri-Ermeni cephesinde tansiyon yükseldi: 12 Ermeni, 3 Azeri asker öldü

 

NATO'nun gündemi genişleme

Rumların yeni lideri Hristofyas Atina’da

 

MAHMUT ÖVÜR Almanya'nın "Avrupa İslam'ı" projesi

 

 An interview with Bernard-Henri Levy on Jews and the recognition of the Armenian genocide.

 

ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Blood on the streets  Post-election violence has killed eight people in Armenia

 

Ermenistan: Hem uzak hem yakın

 

Kosova soslu Karabağ çatışması

 

Kadınlar AB’ye çıkarma yaptı

 

AB mücadelesine kadın eli değdi Funda Özkan -

 

Queen to visit Turkey for first time since 1971 The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are to make their first visit to Turkey in almost 40 years, Buckingham Palace says

 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cyprus must overcome challenges and set up a partnership state

 

Ermenistan'a 'Basın Özgürlüğü' Eleştirisi

 

Bartholomeos Papa ile bugün görüşecek

 

 

 

Ergenekon A.Ş.

 

Alevilik İmam Hatip'te

 

Türbana 'mini' destek

 

Doktorlar full time çalışmalı

 

Malatya davasında mahkemeye suçlama

 

Ahmet Çakar'ın bikini çarkı

 

Biliyorum konutta dansöz oynatıldı

 

Meclis’e hassas güvenlik sistemi

 

‘Konsomatris değilim’ ‘Terbiyesiz, haddini bil’

 

İncirlik Üssü, uçuşa kapatılıyor

 

İsmail Türüt, cinayeti övmekten yargılandı

 

TTNet'ten bedava kablosuz internet

 

MTA’nın 1400 YTL maaşlı mühendisi holding kuracaktı

 

Üzerine yıldırım düşen 4 milyon dolarlık radar, çürümeye terk edildi

 

İşte dünyanın en zenginleri

 

ASELSAN’da 4. intihar

 

6 Mart 2008 Basın Özeti


H3 Taha Akyol Orduya baskı yapmak

 

Fikret Bila Hain ve seviyesiz sözleri kabul edilemez

 

Milliyet Son Dakika

 

Mustafa Karaalioğlu Muhalefet-asker çatışmasının anlamı nedir?

 

Tarihi kırılma

 

Anayasa Mahkemesi CHP'nin başvurusunu kabul etti

 

Gerilim tırmanıyor

 

CHP: Asker hakaret etti

 

Muhalefetten askere jet yanıt