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H1 Los Angeles Times Pentagon, GAO mixed on Iraq Two new reports point to security improvements but are pessimistic about political and economic progress.

 

Iran's 'Nightmare Scenarios' Mulled by Eli Lake American Intelligence Analysts Work Overtime as Israel Sends Signals

 

Washington Post E.U. Backs Sanctions on Iran, Freezes Bank Assets Travel Ban Is Imposed For Some in Government

 

Terror Strike Would Help McCain, Top Adviser Says

 

GAO Report Faults Post-'Surge' Planning Lack of Comprehensive Strategy Cited, but Pentagon Study Sees Gains in Iraq

 

Jerusalem Post US military head to arrive this week on surprise visit Exclusive: Mullen to meet with IDF chief Gabi Ashkenazi; US Navy chief to 'Post': Iran naval conduct in Gulf irresponsible, provocative.

 

French White Paper on Defence and National Security  White Paper (3.7 MB PDF)

 

They're Dictators and Terrorists But What Clean Streets! by Barry Rubin

 

New York Times Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration’s Measures of Progress in Iraq

 

Democrats in Senate Seek to Block Deals for Iraqi Oil

 

As US military buildup in Iraq ends, what next?

 

German Intelligence: Bombed Syrian Reactor Was for Iranian A-Bomb Development (AFP)

 

Ha’aretz  Amir Oren: Israel may conclude that it's time to hit Iran by autumn

 

European Union Approves New Iran Sanctions

 

GERMANY-U.S.: German officials are calling for the United States to remove all U.S. nuclear weapons (Deutsche Welle) from Germany following a report indicating security shortfalls at U.S. nuclear facilities in Europe.

 

Asia Times SPENGLER Worst of times for Iran Despite a surge in oil revenues, Iran's kleptocracy has pushed conditions in the country to the point of Dickensian poverty. The prices of ordinary goods are soaring out of people's reach, property values in Tehran are equal to those of Paris, and prostitutes and profiteers are everywhere. And the disappearance of half the country's oil revenues from the books makes President Mahmud Adhmadinejad's tenure the worst of times for Iran

  

 U.S. missile defense system may be delayed beyond 2013

 

Carnegie The Future of Missile Defense in US Strategy and Policy

 

David Whitford / Fortune:
The evolution of John McCain

 

MESH ‘Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf’, MESH

 

Syria Nuclear Allegations Fuel New Cold War

 

Analysis: Middle East nuclear renaissance? Middle East Times

 

CFR The Fight between Iran’s Neoconservatives and Conservatives

 

Christian Science Monitor New findings about U.S. religious life Practices do not always line up as theologians may expect, a Pew Forum survey finds.  Complete survey results  here

 

IHT German parties press U.S. to withdraw nuclear arms The Social Democrats, who belong to the governing coalition, along with German opposition parties issued their calls after a report found that safety standards at most sites for nuclear weapons in Europe fall well short of Pentagon requirements.

 

A chance for Europe to face the New Truth By JOHN VINOCUR

The fact is, jolts like the Irish no, coming after French and Dutch ones in 2005 referendums, consolidate a pattern indicating that national self-interest will consistently trump the EU's formation of unified policy

 

Financial Times  Begging the SaudisGideon Rachman’s blog: What can oil producers gain from Gordon Brown’s proposal for them to invest in alternative energy projects in oil-consuming countries?

 

Susan Page / USA Today:

Poll: Obama has edge over McCain 

 

In "Iraq Report 9: The Battle For Basra," published by the Institute for the Study of War in conjunction with The Weekly Standard, Marisa Cochrane (no relation) discusses the forces that enabled militias to control Basra, why Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki initiated "Operation Knight's Charge" to secure Basra, and the continuing dangers ahead.

 

“A longer status report on Iraq, the latest in a long line by the Government Accountability Office, provides more details on the security successes brought about by the surge and continuing failures of the Iraqi government  (pdf)

 

WSJ Iran Continues to Support Shiites  A Pentagon report called Iran the leading threat to Iraq. The quarterly assessment accused Tehran of continuing to funnel weapons and money to Shiite militants in Iraq, despite a promise to curtail the flow of arms

H2 International Crisis Group Reunifying Cyprus: The Best Chance Yet    full report

 

WSJ Unexpected Peace
By Hugh Pope State of the Union: The EU's chance to seal a deal between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

 

Kıbrıs İçin İyimser Rapor

 

COMMENT: The coming Turkish turmoil Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation

 

Le Figaro Türkiye'nin benzersizliği

 

Gül, Köşk'teki fikir sofrasında Obama'yı sordu

The National Can Turkey's Erdogan Stay in Power?

Pukmedia: PKK not terrorist, says Barzani once again

AP: "Kerkük referandumu sorunu çözmez, büyütür"

Mavi Boncuk: Turkish Embassy in Washington DC Launches Podcast Series  --- Turkish Embassy Podcasts - Web Site Ambassador Nabi Sensoy on the PKK issue and its effects on Turkish politics

Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey on the U.S.-Turkish relationship

Professor Michael Rubin on the threat of PKK terrorism

Congressman Robert Wexler on the U.S.-Turkish relationship

The Campagna-Kerven Lecture Series on Modern Turkey

 

Coming war against Iran: Increasing Anglo-American pressure on Turkey

 

Prospect Intellectuals—the results

 

Tom Nuttall traces the campaign that propelled Fethullah Gülen to victory

Ehsan Masood on Gülen, the modern face of the Sufi Ottoman tradition

 

Kerim Balcı Mockery of popular vote

 

PARTY CLOSURES AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS MAY ALL OCCUR IN FALL Eurasia Daily Monitor

 

Türkiye aleyhindeki değişikliğe ret

 

AKPM kapatma davasından endişeli Türkiye 'denetim' listesine girebilir

 

Saban Kardas Turkey under the Justice and Development Party: Between Transformation of 'Islamism' and Democratic Consolidation?

 

Turkey not prepared for global food crisis, says report

 

Türban takmak çıkartmaktan kolaydır!

 

Michael Rubin: Kapatma davası meşru

 

Kurtlar ABD’ye ders verecek

 

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

 

Pukmedia: PKK not terrorist, says Barzani once again

 

Mesud Barzani: PKK, terör örgütü değil

 

Barzani: Kirkuk is Part of Kurdistan, PKK is Not Terrorist

 

Once More...Iranian Artillery Bombards Kurdistan Region’s Border Areas

 

Başsavcı bugün son sözünü söyleyecek

Westward migration of Kurds slows down, statistics show

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 23 Jun 08

 

Iraqi Kurdistan Region Minister, UK Delegation Discuss Developments - Paper

 

Cevdet Aşkın PKK'da Kandil / Avrupa ayrışması, Barzani'de ABD planı rahatlığı

 

HAKAN ALBAYRAK

“Biji Serok Tayyip”te ne fenalık var Allah aşkına?

 

[Yorum - Bejan Matur] Devlete inanmak

 

'Cumhuriyet Tarihinin En Büyük Projesi'

 

AP: "Kerkük referandumu sorunu çözmez, büyütür"

 

Iraq's provincial elections could be delayed over Kirkuk row

 

DTP proposes a ‘people’s defender’ for Turkey

 

Turk prosecutor to make his verbal statement in DTP case

 

Iraqi PM Urges "Iron Fist" Against Militias; Kirkuk Issue Discussed; Roundup

 

Raids hit EU 'people-smugglers' A pan-Europe police operation has led to the arrest of 75 people suspected of trafficking Iraqi Kurdish migrants to northern Europe

 

Barzani ağız değiştirdi

 

 

 

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

 

 Kriz Grubu: "Adada birleşme için son şans olabilir"

 

Energy: Nabucco Chief Eyes Iranian, Russian Gas Despite US Objections RadioFreeEurope/ RadioLiberty

 

No legal ground for isolation of Turkish Cypriots Sylvia TİRYAKİ

 

PACE reminds Constitutional Court of European norms

 

Kıbrıs'ta barış fırsatı kaçırılmamalı

 

Akdeniz Birliği bir hayal

SEYİD VELED ABAH

 

"Dava Avrupa'yı endişelendiriyor"

 

Fransa Senatosu'ndan Sarkozy'e Türkiye tokadı

 

Conference to address Black Sea security

 

Drought-stricken Cyprus to get drinking water The National

 

Barçın Yinanç Hamsiköy Avrupa Birliği'ni şaşırttı

 

Scandals may prove to be a watershed in Greek politics
Ariana FERENTINOU

 

Greek Cypriots bemoan lack of progress or EU role in peace talks

 

Homage to Cypriot giant is sent to mountains A 10-metre statue of Archbishop Makarios III is being removed from central Nicosia after being described as an eyesore

 

Closure case to be evaluated based on Copenhagen criteria

 

 

Hedo Okur Tuncay Nihat Altintop

 

Turkey's miracle worker sets his sights on toppling a Goliath

 

Turkey's 'mole' spills the beans on Germany's Bayern five

 

Dünyanın en iyi 100 oteli arasında 17 Türk oteli var

 

Bilim adamları kenenin biyolojik silah olarak kullanıldığına inanmıyor

 

Serdar Turgut Futbol ve siyaset bağlantısı

 

Gülen 'Yaşayan En Büyük 100 Entelektüel' anketinde birinci

 

Tek gündem futbol

 

‘Hayata Dönüş’ün sonu adaletten kaçış oldu

Ağustos celbinde her beş polisten biri askere gidecek

 

 

Turkey not prepared for global food crisis, says report

 

Fethullah Gülen voted world’s top living public intellectual

 

Polislere 'askerlik' şoku

 

Kışlada patlama: Bir şehit, 14 yaralı

 

Herkes kendi güvenliğini kendi sağlamalı!

 

Özyeğin, Finansbank tecrübesini üniversiteye aktarıyor

 

Risk-prone tankers threaten straits

 

Özyeğin’den avangard bir üniversite

 

Serpil Yılmaz Girişimci üniversite

 

Büyükanıt’ın ‘gizli’ fotoğrafı

 

Askerlik tecil süreleri uzadı

 

Serdar Turgut Zayıflanacak, zayıfla!

 

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