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H1  New York Times No Rushing Talks on Pact With U.S., Iraqis Say

 

Financial Times Solana’s gambit Sooner or later, Iran must grasp the international community’s offer on the table, otherwise it will become clear what its ulterior motives really are

 

Europe’s rocky roadThe Irish rebuke on the Lisbon treaty will make it difficult to justify a second referendum any time soon

 

EU leaders scramble to solve treaty crisis The heads of European Union states will seek to salvage something from the wreckage of the Lisbon pact after Ireland’s rejection of the agreement last week

 

Wolfgang Münchau: Europe’s plan B Once 26 countries have ratified, the pressure on Ireland will become unbearable, writes Wolfgang Münchau

 

Iran shows interest in nuclear compromise Diplomats recorded an unexpectedly positive reaction from Tehran when the international community offered to help Iran develop a civil nuclear energy programme if it halted uranium enrichment

 

Saudis eye large boost to oil output capacity The kingdom is considering increasing production to its highest level in more than 25 years to bring down record prices and ease political pressure from developed countries

 

Israeli plan threatens peace talks, says Rice The US secretary of state warns that a proposal to build hundreds of homes in an occupied West Bank settlement might hurt already fragile negotiations with the Palestinians 

 

Iraq to dominate Bush and Brown dialogue Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, yesterday sought to play down trans-atlantic tensions over British troop withdrawals from Iraq ahead of an informal dinner with...

 

Rising power of Hamas worries PA and Israel A year into its rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist group has consolidated its authority and retained popular support in spite of food shortages and power cuts

 

The Fed, the dollar and wider price concerns Congress and the White House should help resolve the financial crisis as it has become too great a burden for the Federal Reserve to handle alone, writes David Hale

 

McClatchy Iraqi PM: US May Be Asked to Leave

 

Washington Post Editorial A Partnership With Iraq The Shiite government signals a desire for an alliance with the United States. Shouldn't that be welcomed?

 

Iran Rejects Proposal Offered by 6 Nations The country says the package of incentives is "out of the question" because it includes a demand for a halt to uranium enrichment.

 

Rice Urges Israel to Desist on Settlements Despite Expansion, Secretary Sees 'Chance' For Peace Deal in '08

 

Powerful Iraqi Cleric Recalibrates Strategy The movement of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that it would not take part in provincial elections this year, one day after it formed a new paramilitary group to fight U.S. troops.

 

Aides to Sadr Refine Stance On Elections

 

Can Pakistan Prove It? By Jackson Diehl, A democracy can fight terrorism as well as a dicatorship can

 

A Fix-It List for The Spies By David Ignatius,  VERGENNES, Vermont -- If the U.S. intelligence community were a business, it would be obvious that there's something wrong: It's in the middle of a misguided reorganization that makes the AOL-Time Warner merger look good

 

In Europe, a Slide Toward Irrelevance By Robert Kagan BRUSSELS -- A mere two years ago, the British author and thinker Mark Leonard published a book titled "Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century." Today, one wonders to what degree Europe will even participate in the 21st century

 

REPRISE OF THE VULCANS What Will the Pillars of His Foreign Policy Be? By James Mann,  Don't assume that the Republican bickering will end when President Bush steps down

 

WSJ Russia Outflanks EU's Pipeline Plan Europe is seeking to build a pipeline to help ease the Continent's dependence on Russian gas. Moscow has proposed a pipeline of its own.

 

Sunday Times No 10 admits EU treaty is finished

 

Bush arrives in Britain with Bin Laden demand  As US president takes tea with the Queen, he enlists British special forces in final attempt to capture al-Qaeda leader

 

Brookings The U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Relationship and Nuclear Safety/Security

Stephen P. Cohen,

 

Guardian In this new age of warfare we need clearer rules on when to cross borders Philip Bobbitt: The threat from armed groups and states set on mass killing gives fresh urgency to calls for global criteria on intervention

 

Christian Science Monitor

A year later: Hamas still defiant, but Gazans continue to struggle

The Islamist militant group has controlled the coastal strip for a year now and says it will not relent to international pressure

 

Independent  Saudi King: 'We will pump more oil' Saudi Arabia will raise oil production to record levels in an attempt to avert an escalation of social and political unrest around the world.

 

Sean Farrell: Regimes play power games with supplies

 

Leading article: The oil era reaches its desperate endgame

 

H2 Rob Hughes EURO 2008 - TURKEY 3, CZECH REPUBLIC 2; Turkey Advances With a Stunning Late Rally 

  

Iraqi Kurdish PM Insists on Autonomy, Says Not Responsible for PKK Attacks

 

[NEWS ANALYSIS]
Turkey spends more on defense

 

Private Turkish airliner starts regular flights to northern Iraq

 

 Turkish Agency Quotes Syrian Minister on Joint Oil, Gas, Nuclear Power Plans

 

SOLİ ÖZEL  Stratejik tercihler

 

Semih İdiz İrlanda referandumunun sonuçları Türkiye’ye yarar

 

Arif Keskin 'ABD İran’a saldırmayacak!'

 

ÖMER TAŞPINAR ABD'nin İran açmazı

 

Fethullah Gulen: Threat, Benefactor, or Both?

 

Ha’aretz Syria and Israel aiming for direct peace talks by next month  Senior Turkish source familiar with the talks said still no talk of a possible Olmert-Assad summit

 

Kuzey Irak'a tarifeli uçak seferleri başlıyor

 

Rand: AK Party closure will deepen divide

 

Pentagon'a sunulan AK Parti raporu

 

Ardan Zentürk ‘Kapatma’ ve ‘Amerikan görüşü...’

Diaspora'ya tokat gibi yanıt !

Ermeni diasporasının 'soykırım' iddialarını yalanlayan belgeler ortaya çıktı

 

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

 

Barzani sees better relations with Turkey

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights (in Arabic) 12 Jun 08

 

Operasyonlar genişledi sınıra zırhlı araç takviyesi

 

Cevdet Aşkın Öcalan: Perinçek ABD'ye hizmet ediyor

 

AK Party closure case pushes DTP case off agenda, agitating Kurdish voters

 

İmzalar atılıyor, TPAO Suriye'de petrol avına çıkıyor

 

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

 

Kıbrıs'ta 'tek millet' projesi tutmaz

 

Rauf Denktaş İngiltere yine yanlışta  Adalet deyince

Ömer Taşpınar Quo vadis Europe?

 

Mensur Akgün Akdeniz Birliği'ne katılmasak ne olur

 

İhsan Dağı Deceiving the Americans

 

Avrupa Birliği yolunda iki yeni adım

 

Talat: İngiltere, Kıbrıs'ta taraflar arasındaki güvenin altını oydu

 

Türkmenistan ve Azerbaycan'dan bağımsız enerji politikası hamlesi

 

Etnik temizliği Ermeniler yaptı

 

Hüseyin Macit Yusuf Hristo - fiyasko...

 

A challenging Summer awaits the Western Balkansby HAJRUDIN SOMUN*

 

Unshackled and flush, Russians venture abroad One of the most enduring changes in the lives of Russians in recent years has occurred not in Russia itself but in places like Turkey where they vacation.

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Nihat works Turkey's miracle Turkey snatched a quarter-final slot from the Czech Republic with an amazing three-goal comeback

 

Mustafa Sarıgül'ü ve ayrılığı anlattı

Aylin Kotil evliliklerinin nasıl sonlandığını anlattı.

 

Report: Only 2 Tuzla shipyards comply with safety rules

 

Küresel ısınma reçetesi, Türkiye'ye 5,7 milyar dolara mal olabilir

 

Turkish teachers remind me of fictional characters in novelsby CHINGIZ AITMATOV*

 

15 Haziran 2008 Basın Özeti

 

16 Haziran 2008 Basın Özeti

H3

AKP 'sinsice' İslamlaştırırsa AB süreci aksar!

 

Ergenekon operasyonunda Hrant Dink cinayeti niye yok?

 

3. Aleviler oy vermezse CHP baraja takılır!

 

Profesör Zühtü Arslan: Parlamento üzerinde vesayet var

 

1960 darbesi, Türkiye'nin Kerbela'sı Adnan Menderes ise Hz. Hüseyin'i

 

EZBER BOZAN ÇIKIŞ ! Servetlerinin alınmasından korkuyorlar

 

Türkiye’de artık parti kapatılmasın

 

 

Genelkurmay'ın muhtıra verdiği gazeteci...

 

Büyük Kulüp, İlker Paşa'yı soruşturup almış!

 

Bakanlık'tan çağrıya yanıt

 

Newspapers forced to self-censor on Ergenekon coverage

 

 

Son Dakika Milliyet Hürriyet Zaman

 

 

Cengiz Çandar

 

Ahmet Taşgetiren Sizi görüyoruz baylar!

 

Ruşen - Çakır

 

Nuh Gönültaş Paşa'nın genelkurmay başkanı olması önlenemeyeceğine göre