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January 27, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
French bill on genocide denial null and void for Turkey, PM Erdoğan says
NEWS DIPLOMACY
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a bill recently approved by the French Senate which criminalizes denial of the World War I killing of Armenians as genocide is null and void for Turkey, terming the bill "discriminatory and racist."
Intellectuals file complaint against Gen. Özel over political remarks
A group of Turkish journalists, writers and academics have recently filed a complaint against Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel, accusing him of “stepping into the political sphere” in an interview he gave to a Turkish daily this month.
23 January 2012/ 15:53/ TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL 2
High court denies appeal for release by Dink killer
The Supreme Court of Appeals has turned down a request for release filed by Ogün Samast, the hitman who killed Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, on the grounds that Samast’s pretrial detention did not exceed reasonable time limits.
23 January 2012/ 18:07/ TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL 0
Syria denounces Arab League for telling Assad to quit
Syria on Monday rebuffed an Arab League call for President Bashar al-Assad step down in favour of a unity government as interference in its affairs, underlining its determination to defeat a 10-month-old uprising seeking Assad's overthrow.
23 January 2012/ 12:44/ REUTERS, BEIRUT 1
Report: Russia to deliver jets to Syria
Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown.
23 January 2012/ 15:34/ AP, MOSCOW 0
Gunmen open fire at restaurant in Eskişehir
A 23-year-old waiter was shot in the left eye when three gunmen opened fire outside the Eskişehir branch of the Leman Kültür restaurant on Sunday night.
23 January 2012/ 13:42/ TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL 1
Novelist Pamuk denies relationship with Fişekçi, warns her on remarks
LIFE
Turkey's Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has denied he is in a romantic relationship with artist Karolin Fişekçi, sending»»
İshak Alaton tells story of his little-known brother
NEWS National
In an interview with the Radikal daily, İshak Alaton, a prominent Jewish businessman born and raised in Turkey, spoke of»»
British child born of scandal has never visited Turkish father
NEWS National
Sarah Cook, an underage teenager in 1996, whose scandalous affair with Musa Kömeağaç 15 years ago nearly upset»»
Heidi Klum, Seal call it quits
Supermodel and "Project Runway" TV host Heidi Klum and British singer Seal are separating after seven years of marriage,»»
23 January 2012/ 13:48 / REUTERS, 0
ArtIst Elvan Alpay creates an epic world with ‘thorny’ figures
Nature is not as far from us as we think. It is within the geometric flying patterns of flocks of birds; it is hidden in»»
23 January 2012/ 17:36 / HATİCE AHSEN UTKU, İSTANBUL 0
Jaga Jazzist enchants Tamirane audience with eclectic sound
As Jaga Jazzist took to the Tamirane stage at the Santralİstanbul arts complex on Saturday, one couldn’t help imagining»»
23 January 2012/ 17:37 / WILLIAM GALLMEYER, İSTANBUL 0
Çavuşoğlu hands over seat at PACE
NEWS Diplomacy
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Antalya deputy Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who had been serving as the president»»
Erdoğan to have final say over 3rd Bosporus bridge
BUSINESS
The government or the private sector? It is now up to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to decide who will pay for the»»
Turks lose All-Star game in Trabzon
SPORTS
The Turkish team comprising the best domestic players in the men’s Beko Turkish Basketball League (TBL) lost to their»»
Lions extend unbeaten streak to 13 games but miss new record
SPORTS
Leader Galatasaray could only manage a 0-0 away draw with Eskişehirspor -- aka Es Es -- in week 21 of the Spor Toto Super»»
The US policy of ‘containment’: Iraq versus Iran
by Marianna Charountaki*
23 January 2012/ 17:42/ ,
Iran and Iraq have preoccupied US foreign policy since the 1970s. The US administration contained Iraq in favor of Iran until the end of the 1970s, when it began supporting Iraq’s empowerment at Iranian expense in the 1980s, switching to confront Iraq during the 1990s and has finally ended up containing Iran again vis-à-vis the US embargo on Iran’s nuclear program.
Eager for new alliances, Assad's opponents look to Iraqi Kurdistan
23 January 2012/ 13:14/ ABDULLA HAWEZ*,
Lately, Iraqi Kurdistan has seen a surge in political activity, from the visit of Burhan Ghalioun, chairman of the Syrian National Council (SNC), to Walid Jumblatt, a prominent Lebanese Druze leader, to Samir Geagea, from the Lebanese opposition bloc, to Turkey's Deputy Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
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Turkey’ Mission to Prevent Conflicts in the Middle East
by Ramazan Gözen*
23 January 2012 / 17:46/ ,
Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamists have changed their worldview
23 January 2012 / 15:17/ OLIVIER ROY*,
Arab intifadas: The wall of fear is gone
by Hajrudin Somun*
22 January 2012 / 12:17/ ,
How to create a depression
22 January 2012 / 12:52/ MARTIN FELDSTEIN , SUNDAY’S ZAMAN
Counterterrorism laws in US and future of American freedom
20 January 2012 / 16:30/ AYDOĞAN VATANDAŞ*,
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Damascus’s “Persian Style” Trick: AK Party Government Desired to Be Stopped From Inside, Not From Outside
10 January 2012 / 12:18/ ÇETINER ÇETIN, ORSAM
Bashar Assad, who took over the Presidency of Syria following the death of his father Hafez Assad, excited both the Syrian people and the foreign public opinion. The Cold War years passed. The USSR, which was the biggest partner of Syria, was gone and Bashar Assad was facing new world order.
Envisioning the Asia-Pacific Century: Turkey between the United States and China
09 December 2011 / 10:52/ GÖKHAN BACIK, GMF ON TURKEY
In her Foreign Policy article, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued that “the Asia-Pacific has become a key driver of global politics.”
Greater Alignment, Yet Separate Paths?
09 December 2011 / 11:02/ EMILIANO ALESSANDRI, GMF ON TURKEY
Despite the almost complete deadlock in membership talks — 2011 marked one of the most disappointing years in terms of opened chapters of negotiation since the accession process started in 2005 — Turkey and EU countries have continued to engage in wide-ranging dialogue and bilateral and transatlantic cooperation on key issues.
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