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H1 New York Times Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back  Four Western oil companies are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service the country’s largest fields.

 

Washington Post The Right Iraq Footprint By David Ignatius,  We may be entering into a period of transitional diplomacy in Iraq

 

Iran on Its Heels In Tehran's Setbacks, an Opportunity in Iraq By Vali Nasr, Tehran's setbacks offer an opportunity in Iraq.

 

Foreign Policy's Best Hope By David S. Broder, Joe Biden and Richard Lugar offer a promising partnership on American foreign policy.

 

Editorial Truce in Gaza A Middle East conflict is postponed

 

Boston Globe What's next for Iraq? THE MONTH OF May saw the lowest US casualties in Iraq since early 2004. But counterinsurgencies are not won on points, otherwise Algeria would be part of France and South Vietnam would be an independent country. Progress in Iraq can only be judged by a close examination of political trends, indeed of whether the US strategy in Iraq is producing ... (By Barry R. Posen)

 

MESH ‘A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East’

 

Saudis, oil, and US elections

  

 Wall Street Journal Israel's Truce With Hamas Is a Victory for Iran
By Michael B. Oren Moderate Palestinians are losers too.

 

Pivoting to Victory
By James Taranto Is Barack Obama preparing to sell out Democrats who crave defeat in Iraq

 

Obama, McCain Divide on a Key Strategy Point by Eli Lake

 

Independent  Hamish McRae: Happy birthday to the euro – but the real test for the currency lies ahead

 

Adrian Hamilton: This meeting in Saudi Arabia won't solve oil prices

 

Leading article: An uncertain step towards peace

 

RFERL Washington's Dilemma -- To Negotiate Or Not? One of the most hotly debated issues in the current U.S. presidential campaign has been how to deal with Tehran. We asked two leading U.S. analysts about the options

 

Guardian Instead of bullying the Irish, Europe should be working on plan D - and E Timothy Garton Ash: As Britain moves to ratify the Lisbon treaty, EU politicians are wrong to threaten Ireland. We're all in the same boat

 

Europe holds the key to Iran Ilan Berman: If Europe is serious about preventing a nuclear Iran, it should put its money where its mouth is

 

Rare opportunity to talk Editorial: The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is good news from a theatre of war that rarely fails to produce the bad variety

 

Dividends of truce Ian Black: Only a foolhardy observer would predict peace is about to break out in the Middle East

 

Expanding American Oil Production - President George W. Bush

 

Ha’aretz ANALYSIS / For truce architect, Israel chose lesser of two evils Top Israeli negotiator Gilad thinks face-off with Hamas is inevitable, but Israel must exhaust other options

 

Jerusalem Post Final stage of Gaza truce may include multinational Arab force

'Post' learns Israel not opposed to idea since it could lead to Arab countries taking responsibility for Gaza, Fatah regaining control.

 

'Israel-Syria direct talks not far away' Olmert tells French paper negotiations could open once precise agenda, issues to discuss decided on

 

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Proof Syria built reactor' Le Monde reports IAEA has evidence proving Damascus was developing nuclear reactor

 

Financial Times What dream will Europe dream now? The French, Dutch and Irish voted No to Europe because they have no other means to express displeasure with the way it is being run. European citizens would be less cynical if they were regularly invited to choose the people who run its affairs, says Charles Wyplosz

 

French defence: knowledge is key

The French do not change their national security strategy often but, when they do, they change it in radical ways, writes François Heisbourg

 

Saudi Arabia faces an oil dilemma

Investment in Middle East refineries is needed. But, with Riyadh fearful that would lead to a price collapse, do not expect relief soon

 

Time to focus on Europe’s success Enlargement has been a success story. If that positive story is not told, there is a danger of a backlash that will tie the region up in nationalist knots

 

Bloc urged to show it still has muscle France will call on the EU to back measures against rising oil and food costs and show citizens its capacity for action in spite of Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon treaty

 

Christian Science Monitor

Hamas, Israel truce greeted with skepticism and hope The temporary cease-fire deal bids to end attacks from Gaza militants and the Israeli army and improve life in the impoverished coastal strip

 

Asia Times Attacking Iran: The last resort The wrong questions are being asked in the debate over whether to undertake "preventive" military action against Iran's nuclear program, according to a new report by a Washington think-tank. And should the correct questions be asked, the United States would then need to get the international community firmly on board, the report says. - David Isenberg

 

Egypt’s Muslim Brothers: Confrontation or Integration?,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group

 

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes "There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," retired Army Major Gen. Antonio Taguba wrote in a new report on medical evidence that U.S. troops abused prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."

 

MEMRI The Iranian Roots of Hizbullah - Nimrod Raphaeli

 

Understanding the Correlation between Oil Prices and the Falling ... - Council on Foreign Relations

 

Movement in Middle East Peace Talks - Council on Foreign Relations

 

Joseph A. Palermo: John McCain and the "Project for a New American Century"

 

McCain on Iran: Bush all over again An alarmist John McCain is using Iran as a political weapon against Barack Obama -- even as he misjudges our Middle East adversary.
By Hooman Majd

 

Rising Risk of a Military Confrontation between Israel and Iran?

H2 Newsweek Commentary: Is Turkey Headed for a Coup? All Turks want is peace and prosperity, but they may soon have to stand up to the generals by Grenville Byford

 

WSJ Turkish Regress
An experiment in liberal Muslim democracy goes awry. 

 

McClatchy   Genocide issue may cloud Armenia envoy nominee's hearing

 

Semih İdiz AKP’yi kapatma kararı AİHM’den döner

AB’den bekle gör yaklaşımı

 

Jamestown PJAK Intensifies Its Struggle for Iranian Kurdistan

 

Pentagon'un son senaryosu: Asker darbe yaparsa...

 

'TSK ve İçişleri Arasında Çekişme Var'

 

‘‘İlişkiler bozulmasın diye ‘soykırım’ demiyoruz’’

 

'Soykırım Sözcüğünü Tercih Etmiyoruz'

 

Türkiye ile mevcut sınırı tanı

 

House Committee on Foreign Affairs The Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts and Closed Borders  The Honorable Howard L. Berman , The Honorable Daniel Fried  Webcast

 

Şükrü Küçükşahin Dışişleri gizli Bakanlığı

 

EDM  TURKISH GENERAL PILLORIED BY THE FUNDAMENTALIST PRESS

 

Fransa'da Türkiye'ye Destek

 

Fransa da ‘iç mesele’ diyor

 

 

Fransa: "Erdoğan jest talep ederse inceleriz"

 

Iraq Kurdish PM Appeals to Khamene'I to Stop Iranian Shelling of Border Areas

 

Türkiye’de gerçek demokrasi yok CEVAT EL BEŞİTİ

 

 

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

 

PKK’nın asimetrik avantajı bitiyor

 

Talabani ve Barzani, maksimumu elde etmek konusunda korkunç bir baskı altındalar

 

Zebari Rice'la Görüş

 

[YORUM - DR. HÜSEYİN YAYMAN] GAP Paketi çözüm olabilir mi?

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 18 Jun 08

 

Oytun Orhan İsrail-Suriye Barış Görüşmelerinin Geleceği

 

Arif Keskin İran-AB İlişkileri Gerginleşebilir

 

Islamic states welcome Turkey-brokered peace talks

 

Cevdet Aşkın

 

Analysis: Future of Kirkuk field unknown

 

İbrahim Kalın Target Iran!

 

Sami Kohen İyi haber bombardımanı

 

Turkish troops fight PKK in east -sources

 

3 PKK'lı öldü 8'i teslim oldu

 

Kirkuk field production stymied by Baghdad-Erbil fight and unclear ...
Iraq Oil Report

 

Türkiye'nin BM Güvenlik Konseyi geçici üyeliğine İKÖ'den destek

 

BBC Kurdish child singers face prison Members of a Kurdish children's choir go on trial in Turkey for allegedly spreading rebel propaganda.

 

Independent Transsexual singer faces jail after questioning Turkey's military

TAMER KORKMAZ

 

Ardan Zentürk ‘Avrasya savaşı’ öncesi Pentagon’da...

 

Irak'ta yasadışı ilan edilen Halkın Mücahitleri, BM'den yardım istedi

 

Fikret Ertan Sürdürülemez statükonun getirdiği ateşkes

 

 

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

 

SOLİ ÖZEL AB'de yol kazası

 

Seyfettin Gürsel Referandum laneti

 

Türkiye masaya yatırılacak ama Bakan Babacan katılamayacak

Suat Kınıklıoğlu Sarkozy’s Turcophobia

 

AB krizdeyken Türkiye adım atmalı

 

Yüksek petrol fiyatları BTC'ye uğramıyor

Fransa Başbakanı ‘yüzde 5’e karşı

 

Babacan unlikely to attend key PACE meeting on Turkey

 

AB üyeliğinde zorluk çıakrtan Fransa'nın kaderi Türkiye'nin elinde.

 

UN confident Cyprus peace process will achieve reunification

 

Athens to appeal ECHR ruling in favor of Turkish minority

 

Bahadır Koç Başkan Bush’un Avrupa Gezisi ve Transatlantik İlişkileri

 

Fillon: Türkiye’ye referandum doğru değil

 

Mesut Yılmaz: Kapatma iptidai bir ceza; ama Türkiye'de olmalı

 

KKTC ve Rum liderleri gelecek hafta görüşecek

 

Erdoğan Putin Türkiye Rusya değil

 

Türkiye karşıtlarına başbakandan 'rest'

 

'Türk derneği' ismi temyize gidiyor

 

Obama'nın 'soykırım' tavrı aynı

 

Ermeni Patrikliği için küresel diplomasi

 

Rauf Denktaş  Tarafsızlık mı?

 

Yunanistan, 'Türk' kelimesini kabul etmemekte direniyor

 

CHP ile DSP, Avrupa Birliği üyelik sürecinde aktif rol alacak

 

Ermeni iddialarına desteğini yineledi

 

Fillon, Türkiye teklifine tepkili

 

Ms. Zeyno Baran OIL, OLIGARCHS, AND OPPORTUNITY: ENERGY FROM CENTRAL ASIA TO EUROPE

 

Kıbrıs’ta ’Denizler bizim’ tatbikatı

 

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Derin işlere girmediğim için huzurevindeyim! -

 

TSK’dan Q, W, X’e hayır

 

Tayyip Erdoğan ile Fatih Terim Türkiye'ye aynı gözlükten bakıyor

 

Jandarma'ya göre Hrant Dink cinayeti terör değil asayiş olayı

 

Chingiz Aitmatov: Leading novelist of Central Asia writer

 

19 Haziran 2008 Basın Özeti

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