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H1 International Crisis Group

After Gaza

 

New York Times   Gates Offers Blunt Review of Progress in Iraq

 

IraqSlogger US Papers Fri: Gates Blunt on Iraqi Politics

 

From The American Interest, Francis Fukuyama on The Kings and I.

 

Guardian Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled Jonathan Steele: The panic and distraction of the security crisis should not be used as cover for handing Iraq's wealth to foreigners.

 

Washington Post Maliki's Impact Blunted By Own Party's Fears Hussein-Era Secrecy Persists, Analysts Say

 

Another Tour Ends Without Solid Plans On Mideast Peace Rice 'Encouraged' by Interest in Meeting

 

Asia Times Iran feels chill of cold war tactics Just as the United States armed its authoritarian, at times bloodthirsty, allies in the name of anti-communism during the Cold War, the same logic now operates in the name of containing Iran. There is no doubt that Tehran feels strategically threatened, making it certain that it will not concede an inch in its talks with Washington over stabilizing Iraq. - Kaveh L Afrasiabi

 

U.S. Has Lose-Lose Dilemma in Iraq By: Michael Schwartz | Asia Times From the way violence simply floods into areas just beyond the reach of new U.S. combat brigades to the perilously long supply lines on bomb-planted roads, a military "solution" to the Iraqi situation is worse than impossible: it guarantees the country's instability will be prolonged, with no end in sight.

  

Ha’aretz  PlayStation Palestine Aluf Benn: Israel basing peace plans on imaginary reality The Israeli partner is also weak, and in the absence of a leadership that can force its policy on the operative level, the peace process will continue to be conducted like a virtual exercise in diplomatic conferences and dinners.

 

Hurrah! The Saudis are coming!

 

Guest: The thinly veiled anti-Semitism of American elite circles

 

The Times Leaving now is not the way out of Iraq Colonel HR McMaster insists that stability is possible – eventually

 

Christian Science Monitor 

Shifting politics bring Arabs and Israelis closer The possibility that Israel and Saudi Arabia may sit at the negotiating table together distinguishes this new chapter in peacemaking efforts from the failures of the past.

 

Financial Times Europe warns US on Iran sanctions European governments are warning Congress that US legislation aimed at Iran could hit European energy groups, undermine transatlantic unity on Tehran’s nuclear programme and provoke a dispute at the World Trade Organisation.

 

Leader Making Iran pay the nuclear price The world needs to be much more serious about sanctions – all the more so because the measures imposed to date have yet to impel Iran to change course. 

COMMENT: The general and the west: how Pakistan is being lost When Musharraf took power eight years ago, many dared hope for an end to decades of misrule. How naive that now seems, writes David Gardner

COMMENT: The case for a top-down approach The time may have come for a degree of joint management of world monetary demand without new bureaucracy, writes Samuel Brittan

ANALYSIS: Welcome to the club Washington is being accused of undermining non-proliferation in its efforts to cement a partnership with India

The Economist America in the Middle East Arming its friends and talking peace 

Iraq  A winning goal, then back to war 

 

Victor Davis Hanson: Back to the Future in the Middle East

 

National Review THE EDITORS: Ultimately, reconciliation between the Sunnis and the Shiites is crucial. But it wasn’t going to happen in the next two months, whether the Iraqi parliament stayed in session or not. Vacationing in Iraq

 

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Middle East ought to grow up. Their Western Ways

 

Daily Star Editorial By attending peace talks, Saudi Arabia will be putting its credibility on the line

 

The Strait of Hormuz and the Threat of an Oil Shock (PDF; 469 KB)
Source: Congress of the United States, Joint Economic Committee

 

America's Last Successful Mideast War  by William S. Lind

 

Onward – Into Waziristan!  by Pat Buchanan

 

CSM In Iraq, death tolls often in dispute

Disparities between official and eyewitness tallies lead some Iraqis to charge the government with downplaying attacks

 

CSIS Facing the Hard Truths About Energy

 

US China Relations Carla A. Hills

 

UN Security Council Resolution 1769, Darfur

Weapons of mass consequence, Paul Rogers

 

O'Hanlon & Pollack: Guilty of Rose Colored Glasses?

 

Foreign Service Pessimism vs. Brookings Optimism

 

World Without the West symposium

H2 CSIS A Stronger Second Mandate for Erdogan and the JDP

 

Soner Cagaptay Congressional Testimony Turkey after July 2007 Elections: Domestic Politics and International Relations

 

Yasemin CONGAR 'PKK liderlerinin kellesi hedefti'

Stratfor Iraq: The United States and Turkey Put Iraq's Kurds Under Pressure

 

ABD ve Türkiye Kürdlere baskı yapıyor

 

PKK'ya yönelik operasyonu engellediği için memnuniyet duyacak

 

Robert D. Novak The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in WashingtonAugust 02, 2007Watch | Streaming MP3 | Save MP3 | Details

 

The Economist After Turkey's election General displeasure The army refuses to retreat

 

Buttonwood Cold Turkey  The carry trade has also allowed some countries to get away with economic policies that they might never have dreamed of in the 1980s or early 1990s.

 

PostGlobal : What Would Ataturk Do?

Nikos Konstandaras

 

PostGlobal : Mideast Needs Consensus Islamists Daoud Kuttab

 

PostGlobal : Turkey's Election a Loss for Secularism? Natalie Ahn

 

Secular or Islamist still on Turks' minds: Interview with Prof. Barry Rubin

 

Making an Iraq of Kurdistan
American Spectator By James G. Poulos

 

Three Wise Men: The PKK and Iraq's Kurds

 

PKK and American policy By Peter Stitt

 

Why the military didn't lose Turkey's election David MERAHN

 

Boston Globe Editorial A genocide not to be denied THE ANTI-DEFAMATION League is caught in a controversy not of its making. Still, as an organization concerned about human rights, it ought to acknowledge the genocide against the Armenian people during World War I, and criticize Turkish attempts to repress the memory of this historical reality.

 

Turkey: New Men in Town By: Ben Judah | ISN Security Watch
As a new conservative class of Anatolian entrepreneurs slowly displaces the older secular elites in a rapidly westernizing society, the Turkish military will no longer be able to set the rules of the game.

 

Turkey's Continued Polarization is Biggest Challenge for New ...
World Politics Review

 

EDM REELECTED TURKISH PM SEEKS NEW, “EUROPEAN STYLE” CONSTITUTION

 

Understanding AKP: Perceptions and Misperceptions in America Nick ...
Journal of Turkish Weekly

 

Turkey: Things are not what they seem : Mail & Guardian Online

 

Qantara.de - Elections in Turkey - Beyond Kemalism

 

Cigdem Cidamli, "Turkish Elections and After"

 

New Statesman - Not quite a delight

 

American Chronicle: How to oust Erdogan and his gang of Islamists

 

Turkey rations water as cities hit by drought

 

CSM Islamic creationist group launches glitzy, global blitz A household name in Turkey, the 'Foundation for Scientific Research' is now distributing its books - published in 59 languages including Chinese and Swahili - to 80 countries

 

An ambivalent message from Turkey
International Herald Tribune  - Jul 25, 2007 By William Pfaff 

 

Empty-hearted secularism
Al-Ahram Weekly

 

 Türkiye'deki İslamcılardan çekinin
Barry Rubin

 

Target Priorities for Turkey’s Secular Establishment
American Chronicle,

   

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect  BBC Monitoring

 

PKK: DTP düzen partisi

 

Sakık ‘Kürt sorunu üniter yapı içinde çözülmeli’

 

YASİN DOĞAN DTP'nin açmazları…

 

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL PKK'ya silah sağlayan Türkler kim?

 

Kürt vekiller Türkiye için büyük şans FEVZİ EL ATRUŞİ

 

DTP prepares for party congress

 

Derya SAZAK DTP'nin sınavı

 

Baykal calls for talks with Iraqi Kurdish leaders

 

Biden: Kürtler bağımsız olursa Türkiye beklemez

 

Referandum yaklaşırken 'Kürt oyunu'

 

Tunceli'de PKK'ya karşı 5 bin asker

 

Tunceli'de 6 terörist öldürüldü silahları yine M-16

 

Tunceli operasyonunda PKK'ya 'üst düzey' darbe

 

Ferai Tınç Irak’a bir nafile çözüm daha "yumuşak bölünme"

 

MAHMUT ÖVÜR 'Düz ovada siyaset' şansı

İlnur Çevik Maliki coming to Ankara, Turkish expectations too high

 

Profile of New Head of Iraqi Commission on Normalization of Kirkuk Status

 

Iraqi President Urge Bolstering Kurdish-Turkoman Ties

 

Paper Scrutinizes PUK MPs Walkout From Kurdish Parliament Over Oil Bill Debate

 

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 2 Aug 07

 

KRG makes movement on oil law

 

American Kurdish Friendship League

 

Sami KOHEN Kurulu düzen mi, demokrasi mi?

 

‘Kurdish state would trigger regional war’

 

Türkiye'deki Son Seçimler ve Anlaşılmak İstenmeyenler!

 

Turkish 'Nation-State' and the Kurdish 'National Identity'

 

Akdeniz Birliği Projesi'ne bir destek de Mısır'dan

 

Atina, tartışmalı tarih kitabını değiştiriyor

 

Sebahat Tuncel için karar 11 Ekim’de

Yine o karanlık silahlar

 

Iraklı işadamları İstanbul'a akın ediyor...

 

A new method for economic research: A product of Kurdistan

 

Human rights violations in Iranian Kurdistan

 

Rebuilding Kurdistan

 

KRG Oil Law Moving Forward

 

Barzani is involved in the sale of State Railways' land in Hatay ...

 

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

 

Report: Sarkozy to call off Turkey referendum

 

Zeynel Lüle CHP'nin Avrupa vizyonsuzluğu

 

Lagendijk: Sarkozy, AB adına konuşamaz

 

Lagendijk: "AKP sorumluluğunun farkında"

 

Turkey-Greece gas pipeline launch delayed

 

'Büyükanıt lütfen politika yapma'

 

Serge Sargsyan: Armenia open for talks with Turkey

 

Greece revises school history book after protests from Orthodox church

 

Greece's new press law angers Turkey

Yiğit Bulut Bizi buraya “Avrupa Birliği senaryosu” getirmedi...

Ruhat Mengi Avrupa Birliği “Teokratik Türkiye”yi tartışıyor!

 

Avrupa'nın Müslüman Türkiye sınavı

 

Turkey's Euro court candidates officially confirmed

 

İsviçre'de Yaşarken Milletvekili Seçildi

 

Turkey backs RWE for Nabucco project

 

Türkleri 'iyi' gösteren ders kitabı değişti

 

 

Prison population in Turkey breaks record, tops 80,000

 

'Antonov'un hayatını M. Ali Ağca mahvetti'

 

İki kadın yazar arasında düello

 

Güngör URAS Bizim 'Murdoch' WSJ'ı da satın aldı

 

Komuta kademesi arasına iki 'Aslan' general katıldı

 

TSK'dan 'Kitap Kurdu' komutan da ayrılıyor

 

Kadınlar tartışıp anlaşmak istiyor

 

Ankara'da 'su tatili'

 

Bahçeşehir’e varoş yasağı

 

Interview: Norman Stone has both entered history and written it Independent

 

3 Ağustos 2007 Basın Özeti

H3 Şamil Tayyar İşte o kritik gün

 

AKP'de zor hafta

 

AKP'nin son dakika jokeri Başesgioğlu

İkinci Gül krizi

 

Gül aday olacak mı?

 

Ankara yine bunaldı Murat Yetkin


Cengiz Çandar  Abdullah Gül’e karşı “kuzu postunda kurt” manevrası...

 

A post-Kemalist constitution?
Mustafa Akyol

 

Tekstilde 600 bin kişi işsiz kalacak ihracat yüzde 20 düşecek

 Taha AKYOL Kürtlerde değişimin yönü

PKK: DTP düzen partisi

 

Sakık ‘Kürt sorunu üniter yapı içinde çözülmeli’

 

YASİN DOĞAN DTP'nin açmazları…

 

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL PKK'ya silah sağlayan Türkler kim?

 

Kürt vekiller Türkiye için büyük şans FEVZİ EL ATRUŞİ

 

DTP prepares for party congress

 

Derya SAZAK DTP'nin sınavı

 

Baykal'ın Köşk formülü: Ya uzlaşma ya çatışma!

 

Bıraktığı yerden devam ediyor: Uzlaşma olmazsa çatışma çıkar

 

Report: Sarkozy to call off Turkey referendum

 

 İnce ayar zirveleri

 

Şükrü Küçükşahin Mümtazcığım salon işini ağırdan al

 

Tamer Korkmaz İtirafname!

 

Dedikodular ABD'ye uzandı
DYP ile Anavatan'ın birleşme projesinin niçin olmadığıyla ilgili tartışmalar sürerken Ankara kulisleri Fethullah Gülen'i işaret ediyor.

 

CHP'den başka herkes suçlu

 

CHP’ye göre AKP 6’lısı

 

'İmamlar kaybettirdi'
MYK raporuna göre seçimdeki başarısızlıkta CHP yönetimi dışında herkesin payı var. AB'den tarikatlara, RTÜK'ten aşiretlere kadar her kesim CHP'nin aleyhinde çalışmış

Bilal Çetin CHP neyi tartışıyor?

 

YAŞ’ta 2010’un komuta kademesi

 

3 paşa emekli oldu

AKP'de yol ayrımı son 48 saat

 

Savaş Süzal Atatürk yüzde kaç oy alırdı

 

Sebahattin Önkibar Erdoğan, muhtırayı çok aday formülü ile geçiştirecek!

 

Erol Mütercimler YAŞ'IN FARKLI ANLAMI

 

Ahmet Kekeç CHP’nin de halkla uzlaşması gerekmiyor mu?