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H1  New York Times Jobs Down for 5th Month; Oil’s Rise Adds to Gloom  Recent hopes that the U.S. might yet skirt a recession sank swiftly in the face of indications that the economy is gripped by a slowdown and pressured by record fuel prices.

 

Iraq Govt Wants to Restrict Movement of GIs

 

Washington Post Editorial Mr. Obama's Middle East After all, he doesn't see the region much differently than President Bush does.

 

Ha’aretz  U.S.: We will address Iran nuclear threat diplomatically White House makes statement after Kadima minister Mofaz says Israeli strike on Iran seems 'unavoidable.'

 

 Jerusalem Report The Battle for the Golan Can Syria be lured away from its radical axis?

 

IHT  A more tranquil season

By PATRICK SEALE Is peace breaking out in the Middle East? Can the journalists and diplomats go home? Unfortunately, no.

 

Wielding a small stickBy STANLEY A. WEISS As Bush considers his next moves on Iran, he should be under no illusion that Europe shares his determination to avert a nuclear Iran - no matter what the cost.

 

Russia and Georgia take a softer tone Medvedev and the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said their two countries could work out their differences, including a longstanding conflict over the separatist region of Abkhazia, without international assistance

 

McClatchy McCain's free ride is over; did he use the time well?

For nearly three months now, as Democrats quibbled and quarreled in their quest for a presidential nominee, Republican John McCain had a luxury rare in politics: time. To unite a party, to sketch a vision, to hone attacks, to raise money. Did he use it well?

 

Time At Odds Over Iraqi Sovereignty

 

Carnegie Does the World Believe in Democracy?

“To Protect or to Project? Iraqi Kurds and Their Future” — Joost Hilterman, ICG

 

American Conservative The Road to Kuwait By Lawrence Korb: The Iraq exit is clearly marked.

 

Guardian Talking to the Taliban Nushin Arbabzadah: Afghan politicians increasingly believe negotiations with the ousted Taliban regime are the key to peace

 

Israeli threatens to attack Iran

Military action to be coordinated with Washington if Tehran able to manufacture atomic bombs

 

Get Ready for the Oil-Price Drop By: Alan Reynolds | New York Post The price of crude oil has jumped as high as $135 lately, up from $87 in early February. The news encouraged some Wall Street analysts to suggest oil might approach $200 before long. In fact, that's quite impossible: The world economy can't handle current energy prices, much less a big increase.

 

Iraq says it will not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement

 

Whose Iraq Is it, Anyway? By: Steve Chapman | Reason
All indications are that Iraqis can unite behind only one proposition: Yankee, go home! If that's the case—or even if it's not—how can we justify not letting them express their preference?

 

Assad: Israel Insisting that Negotiations Restart Without Previous Concessions

 

The Democrats Rebuff Mrs. Clinton - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

 

Ma’ariv Source Says Israel "Will Have to Attack Iran"; Alliance With US "Tightens"

 

Robert Kagan: Why Should Democracy Be Shy?

Daniel Pipes said in an interview posted Wednesday at National Review Online, that if Barack Obama is elected, George Bush would attack Iran in the remaining ten weeks of his term.

MESH Iran’s strategy in the Levant

Guardian Sarkozy plan for European military HQ  French moves to create operational headquarters in Brussels threaten to precipitate row with UK

 

Wanted: plan C Editorial: If the Lisbon treaty falls in Ireland it will fall everywhere, turning

 

Poll: Dems want Obama-Clinton ticket  —

 

CNN Poll: McCain and Obama locked in a dead heat

FT High prices and the appetite for oilWhile fears over supply push crude to record levels, is demand starting to slacken in some quarters?

Al Awsat Negotiations on Iraqi-US Agreements Continuing

Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent politicians, businessmen

 

Speculation about Obama, Clinton attending Bilderberger meeting

 

Forward: "The Operator: The Double Life of a Military Strategist."  Edward Luttwak is a public intellectual who also carries out field operations, extraditions, arrests, interrogations, military consulting and counterterrorism training for different U.S. agencies, foreign governments and private interests  By Laura Rozen

 

An Israel-Syria Deal Is Strategically Vital for Both By: Schlomo Ben-Ami | The Daily Star The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel's lame-duck prime minister. Nor are the talks a Syrian ploy to avoid facing a Lebanese-international tribunal on the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri

 

USIP Report: Why We Should Still Study the Cuban Missile Crisis

H2 WSJ Michael Rubin Turkey's Putin Deserves to Go Erdogan's government wiretaps citizens and has seized much of the press.
 

CSIS Turkey's Shifting Dynamics  (pdf)

 

“To Protect or to Project? Iraqi Kurds and Their Future” — Joost Hilterman, ICG

 

AB 'yeni anayasa lâzım' diyor

 

Türban için Anayasa değiştirmek yanlıştı

 

AB: Türban Türkiye'nin Sorunu

 

Turkish gov't scolds high court on head scarf ban

 

Turkish ruling party condemns court ruling

 

'Yeni Stratejik Yapılanma' Washington’da, Uluslararası ve Stratejik Araştırmlar Merkezi, Türk – Amerikan ilişkilerini geliştirme amacıyla yeni bir girişim başlattı

 

Angst in Ankara: Turkey Steers into a Dangerous Identity Crisis - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

 

AB büyükelçileri suskunluğu seçti

 

"Judicial Coup" Threatens Turkish Democracy

 

AKP – "Creeping Islamization" or Muslim Democracy?

Turkey: Snap Elections and the Power Struggle | Stratfor

 

Öcalan: Benim buraya teslim edilmemde Türkiye'nin rolü çok azdır

 

En başa döndük

 

EDM TURKISH MILITARY RALLIES BEHIND JUDICIARY IN HEADSCARF CASE

 

BBC  Turkey headscarf ruling attacked

 

Turkish press divided over ruling

 

Turkey faces tense summer

 

EU urges respect for freedoms in headscarf debate

 

Rice hopes Turkey will solve issues through democracy

 

Türkiye ve İran ordusu haberleşiyor

 

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Analysis: Are Armenian-Turkish Relations Headed For Breakthrough -- Or Breakdown?

 

Saygun'dan Avrupa'ya sert terör uyarısı

 

İslami demokrasi sözü büyük hata

ABD kapatma davasını yakından takip ediyor

 

SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk: 'Football is Faster than Words'

 

Amerikan yönetimi, kapatma davasını yakından izliyor

 

Dünya basını: Karar, hükümete darbe Türkiye'nin geleceği de etkilenecek

 

ABD’ye ’gece aklı’ vereceğiz

 

Laikler büyük bir muharebe kazandı

 

Condoleezza Rice: Erdoğan hükümetiyle mükemmel ilişkilerimiz var

 

Türkiye’ye İran uzmanı büyükelci

'Kosova'daki eğitim projesini Türkiye engelledi'

 

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

 

 “To Protect or to Project? Iraqi Kurds and Their Future” — Joost Hilterman, ICG

 

Kurdish Writer Argues Necessity of Iraq-US Long-Term Security Agreement

 

Cevdet Aşkın Öcalan: Bırakın halka konuşayım, yüzde 90'ı desteklemezse beni asın

Kerkük’ü Türkmenler bırakamazlar

 

An article, the state of mind, and poverty of the Kurdish ... intelligentsia Kurdish Globe

 

Iran finds two methods of entrance into Kurdistan

 

ALİ BULAÇ - Diyaloğun siyaseti

 

French Embassy opens office in Erbil

 

Saygun: "Ortadoğu'daki çatışmalar İslam'a zarar veriyor"

 

PUK celebrates 33rd anniversary

 

Is American media becoming less biased? Kurdish Aspect

 

Beril Dedeoğlu Gradual fight against terrorism

 

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

 

"Türkiye'ye yeni bir anayasa lazım"

 

'Türkiye konusunda sizi anlıyorum'

 

"Lefkoşa'da artık kapılar açılmalı"

 

McCain or Obama: What is the Turkish bet? Barçın YİNANÇ

 

Ankara'dan Rum-İngiliz mutabakatına sert tepki

 

‘Türkiye’yi hedef alan referandum bir hata’

 

‘Türkiye büyük ülke, ama...'

 

 

Analysis: Are Armenian-Turkish Relations Headed For Breakthrough ... RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

 

Babacan, Bilderberg ve tarihe kayıt sözler

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Cuma ve bayram namazlarına kadınlar da gelsin

 

MGK’nın etnik raporu dosyada

 

Telekulağa karşı komutanlara şifreli cep telefonu

 

 

Sultanhamam’a geçince krallığa ilk adımı attım

 

Rahibi bıçaklayan zanlı serbest

 

Cengiz Çandar Cenevre'deyiz, Euro 2008'de Orhan Pamuk da yanımızda

 

SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk: 'Football is Faster than Words'

 

Hasan Cemal Top, Türkiye’ye ihanet edecek mi?

 

Mustafa Sarıgül eşinden boşandı

 

Doğan Grubu gazeteleri de abonelik sistemine geçti

 

Harvard'ı birincilikle bitiren Türk

 

Kamhi’yi tehdit soruşturmasında gazeteciye sorgu

 

İzleme haberlerini yapan muhabirlerin ifadesi alındı