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H1  Washington Post Deterring the Undeterrable By Charles Krauthammer There are four ways to deal with rogue states going nuclear. In the long run, only one works

 

The Economist Food The silent tsunami Food prices are causing misery and strife around the world. Radical solutions are needed

 

CFR Piontkovsky: Russia Nearing End of ‘Confrontational Cycle’ with West

  

The BRIC Globalizers By: Harold James | The Moscow Times
The winners of the great globalization push of the 1990s were small states, such as New Zealand, Chile, Dubai, Finland, Ireland, the Baltic countries, Slovenia and Slovakia. The East Asian tigers that pushed themselves onto the world economy's center stage were small units, and in some cases -- Singapore, Taiwan, or Hong Kong -- were not even treated as states

 

Guardian In praise of ... Jimmy Carter Leader: He says Middle East peace will eventually require talks with Syria and talks with Hamas. That is no more than the truth

 

Oil prices 'headed toward $125/barrel'...

 

Daily Star Financial innovation: a case of aspirin or amphetamines?
   
By Dani Rodrik

 

Ha’aretz  Report: Assad says Syria preparing for possible war with Israel

 

Rice: Syria 'most certainly an issue in nuclear proliferation'

 

The Times Medvedev's votes 'were rigged' Up to a third of votes cast for Dmitri Medvedev to be Russia's next President were likely to have been rigged, a study finds

 

Asia Times My militia is more untouchable than yours Iraq, transfixed by no less than 28 militias, is burning - again. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has made a lot of noise about an ongoing government crackdown on these groups. But some militias are more untouchable than others: the Kurdish Peshmergas fall under the radar, while Muqtada al-Sadr's are bang in the line of fire. - Pepe Escobar

 

 A diplomatic shuffle on Iran
The meeting of heavyweight nations in China over Iran's nuclear program, while not surprisingly failing to produce any startling breakthrough, has set the stage for a mini-breakthrough on the chessboard of this international crisis. This game is inextricably linked to a bigger chessboard, the one involving Iraq, over which the United States and Iran - despite their rhetoric - share the common interest of the country's stabilization. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Arab Opinion: A wide-ranging poll conducted by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings examined Arab opinion on a number of pressing political issues. The results are available here (PDF).

The Economist Muslim opinion Just what do they dislike, and why? 

 

Christian Science Monitor

 How to ease the squeeze on food access Rich nations must act to ensure supply, experts say.

 

Financial Times Self-styled saviour is symptom of Italy’s ills Silvio Berlusconi owns three TV stations, two newspapers and a publishing empire. Try to imagine Angela Merkel or Gordon Brown doubling as media tycoons: impossible. It should be impossible in Italy, writes Philip Stephens 

 

Echoes of 1930s in Russia’s sweeping annexation The west’s political autism is irresponsible. It must awake and unite, not to oppose Russia or support Georgia, but to stand up for its ideals, writes Mart Laar

 

FT REPORT - RUSSIA 2008: Determined to flex muscles

 

Balkan blackspots Prime responsibility for cleaning up Romania and Bulgaria rests not with Brussels but with Bucharest and Sofia

 

The Problems with 'Strategic Patience' - Abu Aardvark

 

New York Times Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger  Global food prices are spiraling out of reach, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments.

 

Superdelegates Unswayed by Clinton’s Attacks

H2  AB, Nabucco'da Türkiye'nin geçiş ücretiyle yetinmesini istiyor

 

Ali H Aslan Turkey’s American prosecutors

 

The Economist Iraq and the United Nations A Kurdish conundrum Can the United Nations help solve a perennially bitter territorial dispute?

 

ISN Turkey's secular-democratic tightrope

 

Nagehan Alçı Şahinlerin Türkiye planı gerçekleşiyor mu?

 

Toward a New Era in Turkish-Iraqi Relations Regarding the PKK
Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 

Turkey: The Defence Industry

 

IHT Tremors in Turkey

Turkey's national interest lies in compromise between the country's governing Islamists and its secular elite.

 

Iraq oil list disappoints Turks

 

The biggest threat to Turkey is 'independence' Mustafa AKYOL

 

Washington'da Kapatma Davası Tartışıldı

 

Turkey to purchase US helicopters and air defense systems

 

Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development

 

Condoleeza Rice delivered remarks during the American-Turkish Council’s annual conference  click here.   Video

 

Savaş Süzal Rice, AKP'yi üzdü

 

Türkiye'den ABD'ye silah ambargosu

 

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası  Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit      

 

 

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

 

 Cevdet Aşkın ABD'den Erbil'e PKK'ya çözümde merkezi rol

 

DTP içinde çatlak mı yaşanıyor?

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Kürt devleti oluşumunun Türkiye'deki Kürtler açısından yararlı olmayacağını düşünmekteyim

 

Kandil'in karşısına büyük sevkiyat

PKK clashes leave 1 soldier dead, 13 more wounded

 

Iran, Turkey sign memorandum to deepen cooperation against terror

 

Iran: Turkey’s next door, but far-away, neighbor (2) by MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ*

 

PKK'ya karşı 6 ilde 'Kılıç' operasyonu

 

Güler Kömürcü Hangi gündem sizi cezbediyor?

 

Kürtçe yayına çok dilli formül

 

Becoming stronger and stronger
Kurdish Globe

 

Kerkük'te 51 kişi öldü

 

"Terörist diye TSK arıcıları vurdu"

 

Türk: DTP’nin Kürt partisi kimliğinden sıyrılması gerek

Şırnak şehidine Kürtçe ağıt

 

Dağdaki fotoğraf davasını kaybetti

Makyajlı bombacıya 22 yıl

 

Forty-five people were killed in bomb attacks on a funeral procession (al-Jazeera) in northern Iraq, the latest in a spate of attacks in the northern part of the country.

 

Türkmen bölgesinde intihar saldırısı: 50 ölü

 

Hakan Aygün DTP, CHP'nin çatısına girmeli...

 

The Yezidis of Iraq say Kurds oppressing them and forcing them to flee

 

‘Nevruz komisyonu’ tansiyonu yükseltti

 

Kurds Undermining Assyrian National Interests in Iraq

 

Baydemir'e 1.5 ay hapis

 

DTP'den Dağlıca için yazılı savunma

 

Iraqi MP's call for disbanding of Peshmerga

 

MOSSAD'ın ağındaki nükleerci

 

Yüksek yargının DTP'lileri kızdıran vetosu -

 

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

 

TULû GÜMÜŞTEKİN AB hedef olmaktan çıkmıştır

 

Rauf Denktaş Çözümsüzlük çözüm mü?

Cengiz Aktar Az laf çok iş

 

Denktaş, Perinçek'e kefil

 

Ferai Tınç AKP Avrupa’da CHP nerede?

 

Zeynel Lüle Brüksel'de bıyık ve aşk sohbeti

 

Avrupa Konseyi bildiri kararı aldığında biz Türkiye'deydik

A criticism of Elekdağ, who berated Barroso

 

Fatih Karaosmanoğlu ABD'nin güvenlik partneri olarak Türkiye

 

Turkish Defense Minister Addresses Meeting On Turkey-US Relations

 

PACE report on party closure case stirs debate

 

Almanya’da bir Türkün evinde yangın: 2 ölü

 

 

US official issues call for Turkish investment

Karar dünyaya yanıt olacak

 

"Bildiri kabul edilemez"

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Çavuşoğlu: "Bildiri talep etmedik"

Egemenlik devrine hazır mıyız?

 

AKP'li Ergün: Avrupa'da bizi gammazlayanlar var

 

Kapatma davası AKPM gündeminde

 

AB�ye girdiğimiz gün bıyığımı keseceğim

 

Talat ve Hristofyas 7 Mayıs’ta bir araya gelecek

 

TURKS RECEIVE A GEOGRAPHY LESSON AS AKP SCRAMBLES FOR SUPPORT IN THE UN

 

What Mr. Barroso notes
ORHAN KİLERCİOĞLU

 

Kıbrıs Görüşmeleri İçin Hazırlıklar Başladı

 

Türkiye bastırdı Glock'lar iptal

 

Rumlar'dan Alman heyete 'gelmeyin' resti

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Türban tribünü

 

Türklerin yüzde 40'ı obez çıktı

 

General Staff applies for national radio station

 

President Turgut Özal remembered on 15th anniversary of his death

 

Commission on Dink case to hear from gendarmerie officers

 

Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development BY NICHOLAS BIRCH As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important -- a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet

 

Hikmet Kıvılcımlı'nın arşivi kurtuldu

 

Küçük'ün inkar ettiği foto gerçekmiş

 

18 Nisan 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 B planı: Erken seçim

 

'Sosyal Güvenlik Reformu' tamam

 

Anayasa Mahkemesi üyelerini Oramiral Karahanoğlu mu etkiledi?

23 Nisan protestosu

 

Bildiriyi yayımlama düsüncesi bana ait

 

İşte Danıştay bağlantısı

 

Bildiri savunması

 

Türban raporu 50 gündür yok

AK Partili Kapusuz: 29 Haziran'da erken seçime gidelim

 

Atabeyler davası, Ergenekon

 

Askerden ince ayar

 

Milliyet Son Dakika

 

Trabzon’daki jandarmadan sonra İstanbul polisinin Dink raporu da düzmece çıktı

Komutanlar da katılmayacak

Köşk'ün 23 Nisan yemeğine Baykal dışında Komutanlar da katılmayacak

 

Atabey dosyası Ergenekon'da

 

Albay Öz komisyona ifade vermeyi kabul etti

 

Başbakan'a rest: Getirirlerse imzalamam

 

Komisyona konuşacak

Antalya’yı ‘temizlik’ kararı karıştırmış

 

AKP'nin 1 Mayıs teklifi: Bırak Taksim'i, al tatili

 

AKP Milli Görüş gömleğini çıkaramaz

 

Show TV'nin yüzde 17'si TMSF'ye geçti

 

TMSF Çağlar’ın izini sürdü, altından Karamehmet çıktı

Aydın Ayaydın Karamehmet: Karar ile ilgili detaylı bilgim yok