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H1  The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek It's true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world, it has not lost the ability to lead

 

New York Times How to See This Mission Accomplished Nine experts on military affairs identified a significant challenge facing the American and Iraqi leadership and proposed one step to help overcome that challenge

 

Washington Post Iraq Says It Has Proof Of Iranian Meddling

Tehran Funneling Weapons, Officials Say

In Southern Iraq, an Upgrade for U.S. Facilities

 

Here's How America Looks to the World By Josef Joffe, When security is at stake, there is no limit to fear or fortification

 

An Enemy on the Run In Afghanistan, the Challenge Beyond al-Qaeda By David Ignatius,  It's losing ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now on to Pakistan.

 

War of the Rockets By Jackson Diehl, No defense against Iran's missile-to-media attacks in Gaza and Sadr City.

 

Wright And Ridiculous By Sebastian Mallaby, It would be a travesty if Obama's campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher.

 

Taking Back The Frontier By Ahmed Rashid, Almost every global terrorist plot traces back to Pakistan's tribal areas.

 

Bush's Rescuers By Jim Hoagland, The Democrats and their pet policies are making the president look good.

 

TOP CLASS They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings. By David Rothkopf,  We didn't elect them. We can't throw them out. And they're getting more powerful every day.

 

Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan

 

Georgian Planes Downed Over Breakaway Region

Food Politics The old ways no longer cut it.

 

NYT Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say  An American official said the account of Hezbollah’s role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Who Will Tell the People? We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country

 

Poll Shows Most Voters Unaffected by Wright  A majority of American voters say the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama.

Complete Poll Results (pdf) | How the Poll Was Conducted

 

Sunday Times United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp

 

 Christian Science Monitor

 Iraq increasingly finds itself caught between U.S. and Iran

The US military in Iraq says Iran continues to aid militants, but Iraqis now say that they want their own evidence.

 

Guardian Clinton accused over Iran rhetoric Democratic rivals level criticism at one another over foreign policy on competing television networks

 

Financial Times Europe has much to offer the US The European Union has a rare opportunity after the US elections to present to the White House a comprehensive offer of co-operation, writes Wolfgang Ischinger

Promoting healthy globalisation US international economic policy needs to focus on issues in which the largest number of Americans have the greatest stake, says Lawrence Summers

Clinton is the bigger gamble   Are wavering Democrats right to be moving to Hillary Clinton? Would she be a more effective opponent against John McCain? I think not. The unelected super-delegates backing Mr Obama are doing what is best for the Democrats, even if they do not realise it, writes Clive Crook

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Mideast mediation needs new dynamic  It is no good the Quartet just making the usual noises. The choice, for Israel and the US, has never been clearer: settlements or peace - 

 

 

The Times US bolsters force in Afghanistan America plans to send 7,000 extra troops to combat a resurgent Taleban as other Nato members appear unwilling to contribute

 

Americans take up Great Game in Afghanistan Learning firepower alone is not enough to win over locals, troops have become tribal experts, linguists and aid workers

 

Wall Street Journal Iran Must Finally Pay a Price By Fouad Ajami
Why are the mullahs allowed to kill American soldiers with impunity?

 

 


H2 Erdoğan ‘We Are Not Rooted In Religion’ | Newsweek International Edition.

 

The Observer  Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey  Jason Burke

 

FT Turkey spending to rise ahead of new IMF deal Ankara said it was revising some key budget targets between 2008 and 2012 to release about YTL 17bn for investment in infrastructure and to boost agricultural production

 

NYT Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Islam  Turkish educators are offering an alternative approach to religious schools that could reduce extremists’ influence Slide Show: Sowing Seeds of a Moderate Islam

 

Brookings Righting the Course: The Future of the U.S.-Turkish Relationship

 

Turkish Raid May Have Killed PKK Chief Karayilan, Hurriyet Says

 

PKK denies any fighters killed in Turk air strikes

 

IRAQ: The Kurds struggle; inside a tent city Los Angeles Times

 

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

 

More than 150 Kurdish rebels killed in Iraq raids: Turkish army

 

Kurds dispute toll in Turkey's airstrikes in Iraq

 

Neighbors at the Table
New York Times

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

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

 

 

 

Turkey supports Macedonia's NATO membership

 

 

EBRD says Turkey has applied to be country of operation

 

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

H3

 

Milliyet Son Dakika

 

 

Cengiz Çandar

 

Ahmet Taşgetiren

 

Ruşen - Çakır

 

Taha Akyol

 

Fikret Bila

 

Hasan Cemal

 

Murat Yetkin

 

İsmet Berkan

 

Fehmi Koru

 

Taha Kıvanç

 

Şamil Tayyar

 

Ali Bayramoğlu

 

Yasemin Çongar

 

Ertuğrul Özkök

 

 

Ahmet Hakan

 

M Ali Birand

 

Cüneyt Ülsever

 

Enis Berberoğlu

 

Oktay Ekşi

 

Özdemir İnce

 

Mehmet Y Yılmaz

 

MUHARREM SARIKAYA

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK

 

ENGİN ARDIÇ

 

ERGUN BABAHAN

 

EMRE AKÖZ

 

Umur Talu

 

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

 

NAZLI ILICAK

 

MEHMET BARLAS

 

MAHMUT ÖVÜR

 

YAVUZ DONAT

 

 

 

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

 

Ercan Kumcu

 

Erdal Sağlam

 

Turkey Cuts Budget Goals to Spend on Jobs and Dams (Update1)

 

Turkey cuts primary surplus target to 3.5 percent

 

Turkey's banking authority vetoes ABN Amro handover

 

WB loans $203 mln to Turkey's Cadastre Modernization

H4 New York Times How to See This Mission Accomplished Nine experts on military affairs identified a significant challenge facing the American and Iraqi leadership and proposed one step to help overcome that challenge

 

Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials Say  An American official said the account of Hezbollah’s role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Who Will Tell the People? We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country

 

Poll Shows Most Voters Unaffected by Wright  A majority of American voters say the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama.

 

Complete Poll Results (pdf) | How the Poll Was Conducted

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF A Prison of Shame, and It’s Ours It would take an exceptional enemy to damage America’s image and interests as much as President Bush and Dick Cheney already have with Guantánamo.

 

A Fault Line That Haunts the Democrats  A new test for a coalition of blacks and working-class whites that has been fragile for four decades.

 

For Democrats, Instincts Differ on Economics  The candidates have taken different approaches to the gas tax, the mortgage crisis and retirement savings

 

Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Islam  Turkish educators are offering an alternative approach to religious schools that could reduce extremists’ influence

A Turkmen Dismantles Reminders of Old Ruler

 Israeli Political Crisis Overshadows Rice’s Trip

 

Memo From Moscow: Reactions to a New Yeltsin Memorial, as to His Legacy, Are Mixed

 

Iraqi President’s Wife Not Hurt by a Roadside Bomb

 

Police and Army Officers Tied to Attempt on Karzai’s Life

 

Iran Seems to Reject West’s Offer

 

Seeing Grit and Ruthlessness in Clinton’s Love of the Fight  Hillary Rodham Clinton has cast herself as a warrior, but her pugilistic imagery also evokes her political baggage.

 

News Analysis A Step Back for Microsoft  Microsoft walked away from a Yahoo deal still looking for an answer to its fundamental problem: its time-tested recipe for success isn’t working against Google

Palestinians Seek Support on Borders

FRANK RICH The All-White Elephant in the Room If we’re to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates we must judge white politicians by the same yardstick

MAUREEN DOWD This Bud’s for You Why does Barack Obama, raised by a single mother who was on food stamps, seem so forced when he mingles with the common folk?

Editorial Missing Records John McCain’s age and his survival of skin cancer impose on him a larger duty than usual to provide detailed, timely disclosure about his health.
Clinton at the Crossroads

By PORTER SHREVE Although Indiana catches grief from left-wing, secular types, I’ve never lived in a place with such neighborly and decent-seeming people.

 

H5 Washington Post Iraq Says It Has Proof Of Iranian Meddling

Tehran Funneling Weapons, Officials Say

 

In Southern Iraq, an Upgrade for U.S. Facilities

 

 

Editorial Coming Clean on Torture

What Congress should do next

 

Here's How America Looks to the World By Josef Joffe, When security is at stake, there is no limit to fear or fortification

 

An Enemy on the Run In Afghanistan, the Challenge Beyond al-Qaeda By David Ignatius, 

It's losing ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now on to Pakistan.

 

War of the Rockets By Jackson Diehl, No defense against Iran's missile-to-media attacks in Gaza and Sadr City.

 

Wright And Ridiculous By Sebastian Mallaby, It would be a travesty if Obama's campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher.

 

Taking Back The Frontier By Ahmed Rashid, Almost every global terrorist plot traces back to Pakistan's tribal areas.

 

Bush's Rescuers By Jim Hoagland, The Democrats and their pet policies are making the president look good.

 

TOP CLASS They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings. By David Rothkopf,  We didn't elect them. We can't throw them out. And they're getting more powerful every day.

 

Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan

 

Clinton's Tough Path By David S. Broder, Here's how her camp sees her winning the nomination.

 

Georgian Planes Downed Over Breakaway Region

Food Politics The old ways no longer cut it.

 

The Truman Transformation

By George F. Will, There was a time when conservatives feared concentrations of unchecked power.

 

Dueling Appeals On Taxes From Obama, Clinton He Calls for More Rebates As She Defends Gas Proposal

 

The Heart Of A Conservative

The conservative icon wanted government out of the boardroom -- and the bedroom. Reviewed by Lou Cannon,  FLYING HIGH Remembering Barry Goldwater By William F. Buckley Jr.

 

Conservative Camelot A liberal historian reconsiders Ronald Reagan's legacy. By Reviewed by Kevin Phillips,  THE AGE OF REAGAN A History, 1974-2008 By Sean Wilentz

 

Why We Need a Shield Law

By Arlen Specter, Page A17

Protecting our free press protects the public more than the journalists.

 

The Facets Of Chinese Nationalism

By Yang Jianli,  Olympic participation must be predicated on establishing minimum human rights standards

 

H6 Guardian