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H1 New York Times Obama Expected to Hit Milestone in Tuesday’s Votes Barack Obama is poised to have a majority of pledged delegates after balloting in Kentucky and Oregon, but the situation is delicate as he tries to unify his party.

 

CRS “The National Security Council: An Organizational Assessment,” updated April 21, 2008.

  

 Who's The Real Appeaser? - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek This administration's few successes have come when it's agreed to engage with adversaries

 

IDF Intelligence Briefing - Ari Shavit (Ha'aretz)

 

Christian Science Monitor The heart of Lebanon's strife Violence is rooted in the flawed 1943 power-sharing pact. By Mohamad Bazzi

 

Bush's Nazi-Iran Analogy Makes Attack Seem More Likely  by Jim Lobe

 

Will Jewish Votes Cost Obama the White House? - Mike Madden, Salon

 

WSJ Obama and the Jews By Bret Stephens Global View: Does he really believe he understands Israel better than Israelis themselves?

 

Jerusalem Post Obama's unique appeasement style

[ CAROLINE GLICK

 

Self-made Nakba [ BARRY RUBIN

 

Financial Times Irrelevance, Europe’s logical choice Europe’s political leaders are forever swearing to turn a united Europe into a new superpower. But European citizens seem unconvinced. Being a superpower can be a burdensome and bloody business and many Europeans want to keep their heads down, writes Gideon Rachman 

 

US begins to break foreign oil ‘addiction’ High prices, more efficient cars and the use of ethanol significantly cut the share of oil imported into the US for the first time since 1977 

 

A transatlantic opportunity for Britain  Philip Stephens sees a chance to review ties 

 

US, Russia among least peaceful nations Iceland ranks first on the Global Peace Index, an annual study analysing countries in terms of international policy and domestic conditions

 

Running on empty? Even oil executives are voicing concern over future output levels. Yet high prices could bring compensating changes

 

Need for Religion in Foreign Policy - Adrian Wooldridge, World Affairs

 

Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead: Findings from an International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007
Source: RAND Corporation Full Document (PDF; 839 KB)

 

Wall Street Journal The Democrats' Dangerous Trade Games
By C. Fred Bergsten Nancy Pelosi has damaged the credibility of the U.S. .

 

Los Angeles Times Food crisis creates an opening for Muslim fundamentalists

In the Middle East, Islamist charity programs fill a gap by feeding the hungry as prices soar - and their political allies gain ground

 

Sons of Iraq? Or Baghdad's Sopranos?

Working with a U.S.-funded Sunni guard force can be a lot like dealing with the mob. Some of the armed men act like the dons of their neighborhood

 

Bush criticizes Arab nations for repression

 The president wraps up his five-day trip by calling on Middle East nations to embrace economic reforms and women's rights

 

Save Us From the Rescuers By: David Rieff | Los Angeles Times
We should be skeptical of the aid agencies' claims that, without their intervention, an earthquake or cyclone will be followed by an additional disaster of equal scope because of disease and hunger. The fact is that populations in disaster zones tend to be much more resilient than foreign aid groups often make them out to be. And though the claim that only they can prevent a second catastrophe is unprovable, it serves the agencies' institutional interests -- such interventions are, after all, the reason they exist in the first place.

 

IHT  Israel's 'American problem' By JEFFREY GOLDBERG

U.S. political leaders and American Jews need to rethink what it means to be pro-Israel.

 

Obama and Israel By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The notion that a President Barack Obama would have a desire to walk away from America's bipartisan consensus on Arab-Israeli peace is ludicrous.

 

France acknowledges contacts with Hamas Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner emphasized that there were no negotiations with Hamas, labeled a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union

 

As China opens up, it keeps a wary eye on the former U.S.S.R.

By PHILIP TAUBMAN

China's Communist Party has long worried about losing power and having the country split up like the former Soviet Union. With openness about earthquake coverage, the comparison is more pressing.

 

Shaping a Nuclear Iran By: Ray Takeyh | The Washington Post
If Washington is going to mitigate the Iranian nuclear danger, it must discard the formula of exchanging commercial contracts for nuclear rights and seek more imaginative solutions.

 

Asia Times The mythical post-American era There is increasing talk of the decline of the United States and what the post-American world will look like. The ground realities are that the US's economic dominance will be challenged, notably by China and India. But there is no conclusive evidence that America's decline is "inevitable", or even that a new world is emerging with power centers that are capable of counterbalancing the United States. - Ehsan Ahrari

 

SPENGLER The monster and the sausages Call it the missing "link" in deciphering German President Horst Koehler's denouncement of the world financial market as a monster for making "massive leveraged investments with minimal capital". Think of a sausage: the gross parts of a pig are ground into an appetizing package. Just don't blame the sausage-maker, Koehler, when it is time for financial heartburn.

 

Guardian Free trade escapes US onslaught Bill Emmott: Fears of a protectionist backlash by economic nationalists have proved unfounded on both sides of the Atlantic

 

Past Problems Threaten Future Russian-Indian Arms Deals By: Richard Weitz | World Politics Review  Russian defense firms have been counting on continuing orders from India to help cushion the decreasing opportunities in China. Although the Indian market appears to have some growth potential, major problems with past deals could lead New Delhi to decrease its future purchase of Russian weapons.

Bring on the Foreign Policy Debate By: John R. Bolton | The Wall Street Journal The Obama view of negotiations as the alpha and the omega of U.S. foreign policy highlights a fundamental conceptual divide between the major parties and their putative presidential nominees. This divide also opened in 2004, when John Kerry insisted that our foreign policy pass a "global test" to be considered legitimate.

Round One to the Dove with the Dodgy Name By: Michael Tomasky | The Guardian Republicans used to beat Democrats on foreign policy every time. But now Obama is changing the nature of the fight.

U.N.: Six million children in Ethiopia face malnutrition risk

 

RFE/RLPresidential Summit To Explore Gas Options

Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov comes to Azerbaijan for the first visit by a sitting Turkmen president in more than a decade, highlighting recent fence mending and shared interests

H2   Turkey's AK Party expects to be closed - sources

  

AKP'li bir bakan: Bizi kapatacaklar

 

ALİ H. ASLAN - ABD'nin, çileden çıkaran Türkiye politikası

 

ÖMER TAŞPINAR  Türkiye ABD'nin gündeminde değil

 

WSJ We Are Making Progress in Iraq
By Nechirvan Barzani The oil law is moving in parliament

 

Barzani Rice ve CIA Direktörü ile görüştü

 

Israeli Source Says USA Asked Turkey to Assist Syrian-Israeli Talks

 

 Rubin fights the ‘dark side’ in his ‘wonderland’: bad advice on Turkey for the US administrationby ŞABAN KARDAŞ*

 

Newsweek: Türkiye'de siyasi durum istikrarsızlaştı

 

EDM FIGHTING THEM ON THE BEACHES: TURKISH SECULARISTS AND ISLAMISTS PREPARE FOR THE VACATION SEASON

 

Babacan planning to visit Washington early next month

 

US companies battle for Turkish helicopter project

 

‘Foreign companies can’t comprehend the closure case’

 

Israeli arrested in Turkey after gun found in suitcase Ha'aretz

 

Zeit: Laikler son direnişe girişti

 

Turkish Ambassador to US Calls Iran "a threat to Turkey as well as ...

 

Energy prices to push Turkey c/a gap wider in 2008

 

Turkey rushes to ratify ‘Kyoto’ before Parliament breaks

 

Hedef, Türkiye'nin demokrasi ülkesi olmasını engellemek

 

Emerging Turkey extends economic reach globally

 

Turkey, Smoking Nation, Tries Out Ban New York Times

 

Turkey: Bleak future prospects as youth mark their day

 

İstanbul favori şehrim

 

Parasını verelim arşivleri açın

 

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

 

Kuzey Irak'a mesaj verdi: PKK'ya karşı somut adımlar gelirse, diyaloğumuz derinleşir

 

Iraqi Kurdish prime minister visits US

 

Cevdet Aşkın Talabani'den PKK'ya barışçıl çözüm, Ankara'dan Erbil'e yakın takip

 

Savaş Süzal Washington'da PKK değerlendirmesi

 

Article 140 and the Future of Iraq
Kurdish Globe

 

Baathist turns focus to Kurdish north

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 18 May 08

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 17 May 08

 

Turkey warns against imposing change in Middle East

 

Turkish FM stresses tangible measures against PKK

 

Hüsnü Mahalli Bush’un İran sevdası

 

Lübnan krizi  NURAY MERT

 

K. Irak yönetimiyle temaslara devam

President Barzani expresses support of Baghdad

 

Bush, Türk demokrasisini örnek gösterdi

 

Young Civilians spend nights with poor Kurdish families on Youth Day

 

Middle East musings (By Tulin Daloglu)

 Zana, İngiltere parlamentosunda Kürdçe konuşma yaptı

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Artık Kürd sorununun siyasi çözümünden söz eden yok

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

Kürd sorununa kalıcı çözüm” ve “Ateşkes” oylanacak

 

Bilgiler geçici olarak kullanılabilir değil.

 

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Meğer büyük bir savaş son anda engellenmiş!

 

PKK'da sevgili huzursuzluğu

 

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

 

Avrupa'da yükselen sağ, AB üyeliğini tehdit ediyor

 

Türkmenistan Devlet Başkanı Bakü'de

 

Bakü'de Nabucco için umut doğdu

 

Türkiye’den gelecek barış suyuna Rumlardan geçit yok

CHP, anti-AB'ci imajından kurtulmak için atağa geçiyor

 

Kıbrıs gezisinin düşündürdükleri
ERDAL GÜVEN

 

Common Security Concerns Kept US And Turkey Together , Yalcindag

 

Armenian Lobby In US Submits New Bill Against Turkey

 

 'AKP'li mi olmalıyız?'

 

Xenophobia across Europe threatens Turks, Turkey’s EU accession ...

 

Turkey's top business association releases Armenian bill report

 

Brussels reaffirms Med union won’t affect Turkey

 

George Bush'un Türkiye'yi örnek göstermesi normal

 

Cem Özdemir: Kıbrıs ’ta başarı sağlanamazsa bölünme olur

 

Türkiye, AB’nin Taklit Mallar Listesinde

 

APden 1 Mayıs uyarısı geliyor

 

Yaman Törüner Yine Gümrük Birliği

 

İngiltere’den ‘Ankara Anlaşması’yla ilk izin

 

FİKRET ERTAN - Medvedev'in Kazakistan ziyareti

 

İngiliz’in döneminde bile kutladık

 

Türkiye’ye bir Obama lazım...

 

Laiklik kaygılarına daha hassas olmalıyız

 

ATHENS — Greece and Turkey have concluded a rare military exercise.

 

Turkey approved to become full member of EBRD

 

Orhan KİLERCİOĞLU Is solution possible in Cyprus?

 

Albright onuruna yemek

 

Turkish society’s perception of Christianity (1)by Kudret Bülbül*

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Guardian Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul

Ben Quinn follows the Nobel-prizewinning writer's guide to the city

 

Bale yapsanız o kadar insan ölmez

Açık lise sınavında türbanlı yokmuş!

 

Turkey, Smoking Nation, Tries Out Ban New York Times

 

Reluctant Turks prepare for smoking ban

 

3 çocuk ısrarının sırrı

 

Turkey rushes to ratify ‘Kyoto’ before Parliament breaks

 

Ali Rıza Efendi ile Zübeyde Hanım evliliğinin trajik hikáyesi

 

İlanda Baykal neden yok?

 

Güngör Uras THY, 75 yaşında dünya ölçüsünde başarılı bir KİT

 

Serdar Turgut Kötülük insanın içinde

Sigara yasağı tiryakileri kapı önüne çıkardı

 

İstihbaratta ihmal

 

Kaza değil resmen cinayet

 

Başbayanlar arasında hassas dengeler Gül’ün Cumhurbaşkanı seçilmesinin ardından Hayrünnisa Hanım ile Emine Hanım’ın resmi programlarda bir elin parmaklarını geçmeyecek kadar az bir araya gelmeleri neyle açıklanabilir?

 

25 percent of İstanbul water wasted or stolen

Atatürk,20. yüzyılın en büyük lideri

 

Gözünde bulaşıcı iltihap var

 

‘Pasha supports the Turkish “Fuelless Motored Machine”’

 

Başkanın temiz dediği suya bakanlık pis dedi

 

'Dağdan mı geldiniz?'

Şarkıcı Demet Akalın, Bodrum konserinde alkışlamayan seyirciye "Dağdan mı geldiniz, Diyarbakır'dan mı? İnsan bir tempo tutar" dedi.

 

Terim: Vekil çok, ben tekim Sakık: O vekilleri halk seçti

 

20 Mayıs 2008 Basın Özeti

H3 Denizde kum Ankara'da senaryo

 

AKP kulisleri karıştı!

 

Kimse fitne fesat çıkarmasın

 

Olay aynı, tanıklar aynı anlatılanlar farklı farklı

 

More than 80 percent of Turks against coups d'état

 

Toptan: Türkiye ’Oh’lu bir imkánı aramazsa yazık olur

 

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ HABERTURK.COM'DA

 

Baykal'ın aklında erken seçim var

 

Kanadoğlu: "Laikliğin evrensel tanımı yoktur"

 

Mumcu'dan Köşk'e mektup var

 

Bakan Aydın ’dan
tartışılacak 'TRT' yanıtı

 

Vatan gazetesine Dolmabahçe cezası!

 

"AKP yanlış yolu tercih etti"

 

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