061808f - FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ‘Relevant news, views, comments and analyses for informed debate’ Compiled by Şanlı Bahadır Koç U.S. / Britain / Turkey / Magazines / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports - Subscribe to FPR FPR Table - H4 NYT WP GU H7 ME Isr H10 CSM IHT Eur FSU Asia H13 Times WSJ FT LAT H16 USP DT Ind H19 Mil Int Ter Wonk H21 Misc

H1 New York Times THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Iraq: Still Inscrutable What we do next in Iraq — how and why — is barely getting discussed in the presidential campaign. It might be useful to start talking about it. At Least 51 Are Killed in Blast at Baghdad Market A car bomb exploded during the busiest time of day in a Shiite neighborhood. It was the deadliest attack in Baghdad in more than three months. CEPS The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic, and Energy Perspectives Download PDF for free Guardian Israel and Hamas agree on ceasefire Egypt gets Hamas to agree to halt all attacks out of Gaza in return of Israel halting its military strikes Iraq insists on right to veto US army Baghdad and Washington in talks on future status of troops, as Iraq sees biggest bomb in weeks Succession at House of Saud: The Men Who Would Be King By: Anne Penketh | The Independent King Abdullah created a council to choose his successor and avoid a bloody feud. But will the Saudi princes allow it to? Washington Post Candidates Clash on Terrorism In Sharp Exchange, Each Side Calls Other's Position a Risk Editorial Mr. Zebari's Message Iraq's foreign minister has a chat with Barack Obama. Mr. Obama should take this opportunity to refresh his badly outdated plan for Iraq. Iraqi Official: Security Pact Altered Change Aimed at Bypassing Need for Congressional Approval France's Whirlwind of Change By Jim Hoagland, Nicolas Sarkozy is giving France, and its allies, change they should believe in and actively support. Learning From the Oil Shock By Robert J. Samuelson, High oil prices may be here to stay. Will Americans adapt accordingly? CFR Media Conference Call: Political and Security Developments in Iraq (Audio) Text of Nuclear Package Deal Offered to Iran Nuclear Dangers Rise With Oil Costs By: David R. Sands | The Washington Times The rush of countries seeking to obtain nuclear power as the price of oil soars is going to make U.S. efforts to contain nuclear proliferation and keep terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction even harder, the Energy Department's top intelligence chief warned Monday Daily Star Iran has made plenty of points, and now it's time to cash in Some success and much American failure By Rami G. Khouri Why Iran Will Get Nuclear Weapons - Amir Taheri What Iraq Needs Next - Amir Taheri, New York Post opinion The Times France: Aux Armes Sarkozy outlines his new strategic vision Old Ties Exist Between Iran and Lebanon's Shiites By: Sadegh Zibakalam | The Daily Star Contrary to common perceptions, Iranian involvement in Lebanon did not begin with the Islamic Revolution in 1979. First contact between Iranian Shiites and Lebanese Shiites was established at the beginning of the 16th century when some of the senior Lebanese Shiite ulama, or clergy, were invited to Iran by the newly established and powerful Safavid dynasty. Ha’aretz ANALYSIS / Cease-fire deal means Hamas is in charge Israel won't be able to monitor Rafah crossing; release of abducted soldier Shalit won't be part of truce ElBaradei: Syria lacks skills, fuel for nuclear facility Financial Times Saudi Arabia should ditch its dollar peg The inflation problem in the Gulf region, which is hitting low-income workers, is exacerbated by the fixed exchange rate policy, writes Martin Feldstein How global imbalances led to both credit crunch and inflation Martin Wolf explains the combination of a ‘credit crunch’ in the US with soaring commodity prices and rising inflation across the globe France to push ahead with EU plans The French government says Europe ‘did not stop’ with the Irish No as it sets out an action-packed agenda for its six-month EU presidency that begins in July Syria sees benefits of liberalisation Damascus is making up for falling oil revenue with the establishment of private banks and cuts in taxes and duties that have boosted investment, trade and non-oil exports EU faces fresh Lisbon delay Leaders meeting for summit talks in Brussels on Thursday are braced for more delays in the ratification of the treaty after its rejection last week by Irish voters UK must stay the course in Iraq The withdrawal timetable should be genuinely dictated, as officials claim it is, by facts on the ground – and not by domestic political considerations Slate The Taliban Are Back. What Now? The long road to fixing Afghanistan winds through Pakistan. Fred Kaplan Carnegie Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: Restoring Credibility Is the League of Democracies a good idea? Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia The Costs of Relying on Aging Dictators - American Enterprise Institute Saliba Sarsar and David B. Strohmetz, The Economics of Democracy in Muslim Countries What do GDP and military expenditures say about democracy? Wall Street JournalLord, Make Me Conservative, But Not Yet By Thomas Frank The Tilting Yard: A philosophy of government is discredited. Death of U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Another Blow to Bush Legacy By: Adam Wolfe | World Politics Review In March 2006, President Bush signed a nuclear agreement in New Delhi designed to pull the world's largest democracy closer to the world's last superpower and dramatically alter Asia's balance of power. But the deal, President Bush's last, best chance for a positive legacy in international affairs, seems to have gone out with a whimper. Talkin’ ’bout my generation: The economic impact of aging U.S. Baby Boomers Source: McKinsey & Company Download in sections or as full report. (PDF; 3.9 MB) + Slide show (PDF; 686 KB) + Related video Free registration required Christian Science Monitor How to silence that Iran war drumbeat War is not inevitable. Bold, transparent diplomacy can work. IHT More than Just Talk By: Ban Ki Moon | International Herald Tribune Detractors often call the United Nations a "talking shop" of 192 nations where, it has memorably been said, "no issue is too small to be debated endlessly." But the real UN, almost invisible to the general public, is the action-oriented UN. Foreign Policy The List: Five Reasons to Love $4 Gas Cobban Washington: Concealing SOFA plans since November 2003 Newsweek The Gap Between Obama’s Promise, Washington’s Ways Bush's Iran Rhetoric vs. Policies - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Are the Taliban Making a Comeback? - Aryn Baker, Time Independent Robert Fisk: Snapshots of life in Baghdad The dangerous face of ordinary life has been captured by Iraqis on their mobile phones – reaching the places Western photographers can no longer go. The Big Question: What is the new French defence strategy, and should we follow suit? Russia Insists on Treating Sevastapol as an Open Question By: Pavel K. Baev | Eurasia Daily Monitor There is certainly far more to the Sevastopol problem than just the physical difficulty of moving the fleet, and Russian politicians, from Dmitri Rogozin to Yuri Luzhkov to Sergei Ivanov, have been arguing passionately during the last couple of months that there is not only no place but also no need to abandon the base at Sevastopol Asia Times Myth-makers caught in oil speculation As consumers demand to know why they are paying more at the pump speculators are being singled out as the bogeymen in the fuel markets. Their culpability is only one of the myths surrounding the doubling of oil prices over the past year. The slippery facts point elsewhere, while above all lies the cruel reality that it is hard to keep an unsubstitutable commodity down for long. - R M Cutler Nuclear find raises the ante against Iran There is no evidence that Iran has got hold of electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon recently found on computers belonging to the proliferation network once run by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan. All the same, the discovery of the blueprints comes at a bad time for Iran as it gives the United States cause to intensify its brinkmanship against the country. - Ehsan Ahrari The great land grab At the core of the George W Bush administration's negotiations with Baghdad over the US's long-term presence in Iraq is the issue of bases. Over the past few years they have surged to over 100 in number at the cost of many billions of dollars. Whatever the outcome of the talks, the bases will still be there when the next administration hits Washington, whether the Iraqis like it or not. - Tom Engelhardt An exit strategy for Iraq The buildup to the war in Iraq was masterfully orchestrated by the George W Bush administration, think-tanks and lobbies. An equally masterful show of institutional and ideological forces will be necessary to bring about a withdrawal from the error and misallocation of resources the war has become. This is the challenge that would face Barack Obama as president of the United States. - Brian M Downing

H2 SEN. OBAMA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO U.S. ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION "Soykırım" iddiasını yineledi Middle East Progress Bolstering Turkey’s Faltering Democracy Arming for the 21st Century: Turkey and Asymmetric Warfare İran'la ilgili 6 Ortadoğu senaryosu Guardian Democratic downturn Inayat Bunglawala: Turkey and Indonesia are two Muslim countries where democracy looks promising - or it did, until recently EDM THE BLACK SEA OIL FIELDS MAY MAKE TURKEY ENERGY INDEPENDENT Abdülhamit Bilici Washington'daki yanlış Türkiye hesabı (2) Hearings In July on Turkey's Ruling Party Turkey "Neutralizes" PKK Group In Northern Iraq Turkey and the long decade with the IMF (Bretton Woods Project) Ambassador Wilson’s Remarks to the ABFT Innovation Conference, Istanbul Jack Straw En büyük gururum Türkiye'dir * Israel, Syria "Extremely Satisfied" With Peace Talks - Turkish FM OxAn TURKEY: Food prices rise despite thriving agriculture 'Dava sonrası Türkiye'yi inceleyeceğiz' Headscarves and Helmets 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 Atatürk'e sunulan Gizli Şark Raporu Turkey kills 21 PKK rebels DTP grubu yine toplanamadı Erdoğan'dan GAP genelgesi Cevdet Aşkın Genelkurmay sınıra bakıyor, ABD 'ince hesap' yapıyor Paksüt ve Başbuğ doğruladı Sınırda toplanan PKK'lılara bomba Military: Turkish units kill several rebel Kurds Turkish Kurdish party threatened The National Sadi Somuncuoğlu Türkiye'nin arabuluculuğu Irak – Türkiye sınırı iki Kürt partisinin istihbarat dairesimi oldu acaba ? 'Türkiye'nin arabuluculuğu memnuniyet verici' Iraq's Khurmala oil field sees national struggle again It's in Kurdistan, period," KRG Minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami said Turist Amerikalılar Kürt köylerinde KRG’s Head of Foreign Relations meets UK ministers in London Prime Minister Barzani celebrates civil society's achievements Iraq Says Ready to Include Turkey in Energy Tenders Iraqi president at Mayo Clinic for medical check Halkın mücahitleri'ne Irak'tan yasaklama Dear Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani Mayınlı arazi ihaleyle temizlenecek Zana'ya savunma davası Sızmaya çalışan terörist gruba, gece baskını ABD ile İran’ın Irak savaşı Beril Dedeoğlu The impasse in Maliki-Bush relations Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri Günlük Haftalık Turkey Has a Big Problem Called 'Sarkozy' By: Mehmet Ali Birand | Turkish Daily News Turkey has an issue called Nicolas Sarkozy. He is some sort of obsession. The French president is trying to prevent Turkey's accession to the European Union and prioritizing policies to suppress Turkey to a secondary membership in the EU Babacan, AB sürecinden endişeli Başbuğ: Tarihi ziyaret Hırvatistan: 20 Türkiye: 8 Babacan urges French fairness in EU talks Dönem Başkanı: Bize kalsa 10 başlık açardık Fransa, NATO�nun �komutası�na girecek Sami Kohen “Hayır”a çare ne? Yunan komutan 3 yıl rötarla misafirimiz Ankara’da bir ilk daha Türkiye’yi Sarkozy ile konuşacağım 'Lizbon anlaşmazlığı süreci etkilemez' Rauf Denktaş Açıklanmıştır... Ergin Yıldızoğlu Obama Kazandı Çok [U]mutluyuz Amanda Akçakoca A shaken EU Beril Dedeoğlu İrlanda’nın ‘Hayır’ı Greek commander in Ankara, marking first visit